Open Educational Resources
OER reduce the cost of college and increase the quality of pedagogy by ensuring that materials, including open textbooks, are freely available for student’s education. OER can be used out of the “box” by discovering applicable open access resources, customized by adapting resources in the public domain, or composed à la carte by assembling course materials from a variety of open access materials.
Apply for an OER Grant
This grant aims to significantly lower or eliminate the cost of required materials to enrolled students. Proposals are accepted throughout the year.
Apply NowApply for an OER Review Grant
This grant aims to empower instructors to evaluate OER and review the findings. Proposals are accepted throughout the year.
Apply NowOER Grant Rubric
This rubric will be the basis for how the Olin Library OER Group will judge and award OER grants.
Read RubricOER at Rollins
Rollins’ professional and academic community members actively collaborate around open education initiatives, with the Olin Library playing a key role as a member of the Open Education Network (OEN) and through our publishing platform, Rollins Digital Press. Through partnership with Rollins instructors, Olin Library strives to diminish financial barriers to education while enriching learning experiences for all students.
Textbook Cost Impact on Rollins Students
Olin asked students at Rollins what they could buy if they did not have to purchase textbooks, below are a few of the recorded responses:
- New phone.
- Food, med(s), gas, rent.
- Food.
- Gas.
- Therapy.
- Healthcare.
- Travel experiences.
- Rent.
- A tank of gas, groceries, new socks.
Publish with the Library
- Rollins Digital PressRollins Digital Press is an online publishing platform for creating free, public, openly licensed books and other open educational resources (OER) created by the Rollins College community.
- Rollins Scholarship OnlineRollins Scholarship Online (RSO) collects and organizes the research and scholarly output of Rollins faculty and students, and makes their work accessible to scholars and researchers worldwide.
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Attributions
Content for this guide was consulted, modified and adapted from the following sources:
- Defining the “Open” in Open Content and Open Educational Resources by David Wiley is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- The Basics - Open Educational Resources - LibGuides at University of North Alabama (una.edu)
- OER Tutorial by Kate Cameron is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- OPEN FL: Adopt or Explore OER
- UC Davis Library Open Educational Resources (OER)