Tag oer

Best practices (tips), Teaching Tips

Why should we care about OER?

Around 65% of your students may not purchase your textbook due to cost. This can have a significant impact on their success in your course. Using free and open education resources (OER) can ameliorate expenses for students and help make higher education more equitable for all students.

UAF eCampus Staff
July 5, 2021

#facdev Session or Workshop, Presentations and Agendas

Course Spotlight – BIOL 103

Edited Recording from June 12, 2020 As the instructor for a non-major GER science course, Anja Kade has a lot of students that come with apprehensions about doing well in a lab course, especially a distance lab course. Her…

UAF eCampus Staff
June 8, 2020

Emerging ideas (tips), OEP-OER, Teaching Tips

Students and learning in the “open”

A girl in a brimmed hat, riding in a car, flashing a peace sign with her fingers while parked on a beach

Turning your course open with Open Education resources, practices, and pedagogy can have profound impacts on how students relate to the materials, to you, to their learning and their positioning relative to that learning. Ready to get started?

Emerging ideas (tips), OEP-OER, Teaching Tips

Finding and creating Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of media that is free and available for educators and students to use, reuse, repurpose, and sometimes modify for educational purposes. OER can help your students save money and can help you think about how you can teach outside typical textbook constraints. But how do you go about finding good OER? In this Teaching Tip, we will discuss methods for locating and evaluating resources.

UAF eCampus Staff
May 1, 2018

Designer Perspectives, Emerging ideas (tips), Favorites (tips), OEP-OER, Teaching Tips

A Brief Guide to Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of media that is free and publicly available for educators and students to use, reuse, repurpose, and sometimes modify for educational purposes (1, 2). The idea of OER has been around for a…

Emerging ideas (tips), Teaching Tips

Open books

Learn more about Open Education Resources, specifically open textbooks, peer-reviewed materials and materials shared under a Creative Commons license. Your students (and you!) don't have to spend money to obtain current, peer-reviewed data.

UAF eCampus Staff
March 3, 2014