Introduction to Open Educational Resources & Textbook Affordability

Open Educational resources (OER) are free and openly licensed course materials that can be used to support teaching and learning. In this session, we’ll discuss what we know about how course material costs impact students at UO and the ways faculty can help lower these costs, which include adopting OER. We’ll discuss why some faculty use OER and what they see as the benefits, along with examples from UO faculty OER adopters and authors. Participants will have the opportunity to explore OER relevant to their discipline, and will learn more about current OER opportunities at UO, including our Pressbooks pilot and available funding to support lowering course costs.