Expand the impact of your teaching by incorporating, creating, adapting, and sharing openly licensed course materials with support from the Libraries.
Find and Incorporate OER
Looking to reduce textbook costs for your students and enhance your course with flexible, high-quality resources? The Libraries can help you discover and integrate Open Educational Resources (OER) into your teaching. You can:
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Search OER collections and repositories curated by the Libraries to identify textbooks, course modules, and multimedia materials in your discipline.
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Incorporate OER into your course with support on integrating resources into eCampus, syllabi, and other instructional tools.
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Learn about accessibility and licensing to ensure the materials you adopt meet student needs and comply with best practices.
Adapt, Develop, or Share OER
The Libraries provides support for OER publishing and will help you identify the best ways to make your work widely accessible, from choosing the right platform to maximizing discoverability. You can:
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Access toolkits, templates, and examples that make adapting or creating OER more approachable.
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Find reputable OER publishers and platforms that make your work freely accessible by default.
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Explore open licensing options (such as Creative Commons) to ensure your materials can be reused, remixed, and shared responsibly.
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Submit your OER to the WVU Research Repository, ensuring your materials are openly available and preserved.
Not sure where to start?
Request one-on-one support for identifying or adapting OER for your courses.
Or talk to WVU Libraries Scholarly Communications Librarian Jonah McAllister-Erickson about licensing, accessibility, and best practices in OER publishing.