Open Touro is Touro University's Open Education Resources (OER) initiative. With this project, we aim to reduce the cost of textbooks for our students and increase student retention and success, raise awareness of OER, and assist faculty in selecting, adopting, adapting, and creating open textbooks for their courses.
According to OER Commons, "Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others." An OER gives you the five rights below:
image by Kirk Snyder CC BY 4.0
These interactive modules from SUNY will introduce you to the basics of open educational resources, including finding OER for your courses and understanding copyright and licensing relevant to OER.
FROM SACRAMENTO'S COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE:
Cosumnes River College’s Zero Textbook Cost and Open Educational Resources Program seeks to create an entire degree pathway that is Zero Textbook Cost/OER, where students can complete a degree having spent $0 on textbooks and course materials. They have so far saved their students over $1 million in only one semester. So far, more than 40% of full-time professors have made their classes free textbook classes and Bush is hoping that more than half of CRC professors will have made the switch by the end of the fall 2022 semester and eventually make CRC a campus that only provides free textbooks.
Read the full article here.
For archived OER in the News posts, see: https://bit.ly/oernews
Myth #1: Open simply means free. Fact: Open means the permission to freely download, edit, and share materials to better serve all students
Myth #2: All OER are digital. Fact: OER take many formats, including print, digital, audio, and more
Myth #3: “You get what you pay for.” Fact: OER can be produced to the same quality standards as traditional textbooks
Myth #4: Copyright for OER is complicated. Fact: Open licensing makes OER easy to freely and legally use
Myth #5: OER are not sustainable. Fact: Models are evolving to support the sustainability and continuous improvement of OER
Myth #6: Open textbooks lack ancillaries. Fact: Open textbooks often come with ancillaries, and when they do not, existing OER can provide additional support
Myth #7: My institution is not ready for OER. Fact: Any institution can start with small steps toward OER that make an impact for students
Source: OER Mythbusting from SPARC
This guide was created by librarians at Touro College and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If you re-use, remix or link to this guide, it would be appreciated if you could notify our staff.
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