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Open Educational Resources (OER)

This guide provides information to instructors on Open Educational Resources: What they are, how they can be of benefit, and how to find them.

White Papers

Harris, K. D. (2016). White Paper: OER Adoption Study: Using Open Educational Resources in the College Classroom.
Hausman, S. and Rhodes, K. (2017). OER: An Approach for Teachers White Paper. Clarity Innovations.
The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (2008). OER Case Study White Paper - Creating, Doing, and Sustaining OER: Lessons from Six Open Educational Resource Projects. ISKME
Istifci, I., & Goksel, N. (2022). The Relationship between Digital Literacy Skills and Self-Regulated Learning Skills of Open Education Faculty Students. English as a Foreign Language International Journal, 26(1), 63-87.
Pete, J. (2019). Open Education Resources Differentiation: A cross-country study on Differentiation in Access, Use and Sharing of (Open) Educational Resources at Universities in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (2013). White Paper: Open Educational Resources: Breaking the Lockbox on Education. William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Bell, S. (2018). Course materials adoption: A faculty survey and outlook for the OER landscape. Temple University Libraries.

Books

Atenas, J. Havemann, L., Neumann, J. & Stefanelli, C. (2020). Open Education Policies: Guidelines for co-creation. Open Education Policy Lab, London. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4281363
Butcher, N. (2015). A basic guide to open educational resources (OER). Commonwealth of Learning.
Commonwealth of Learning, (2011). Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education. UNESCO Publishing.
Elder, A.K. (2019). The OER Starter Kit. Iowa State University Digital Press.
Hoosen, S. (2012). Survey on governments’ open educational resources (OER) policies. Commonwealth of Learning.
Moist, S. (2018). Faculty OER Toolkit (licensed under CC BY 4.0).
Pitt, R., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., & Weller, M. (2016). Open research. OER Hub.
Suber, P. (2012). Open access overview. MIT Press.
Suber, P. (2016). Knowledge unbound: Selected writings on open access, 2002–2011. MIT Press.
Wesolek, A., Lashley, J., & Langley, A. (2018). OER: A field guide for academic librarians. Pacific University Press.
Elder, A. K. and Katz, S. (2020). The OER Starter Kit Workbook
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The OER Starter Kit Workbook is a remix of the OER Starter Kit to include worksheets to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, use, or even create open educational resources (OER).

Web Sites

Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER)
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) promotes the awareness and adoption of open educational policies, practices, and resources with the belief that these practices will promote equitable access to education, particularly for underserved students while supporting academic freedom and faculty choice of openly licensed curriculum materials.
New England Board of Higher Education: Open Education
A webpage of the New England Board of Higher Education dedicated to staying up to date with the latest research studies in Open Education
OER Hub: Researching Open Education
A leader in researching the impact of open educational resources (OER) on teaching and learning practices. OER Hub's aim is to raise the quality and profile of research in this field.
Open Education Policy Hub
The OE Policy Hub fosters collaborative policymaking by promoting good practices and high-quality resources, and bringing together experts, advocates and organizations from all over the world.
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) -Open Education
SPARC works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education.