OERs . . .What are they?

In today's Tech Tuesday, a group of panelists from within and outside of Transy discussed Open Educational Resources (OERs), what OERs are, and why students benefit from faculty using them in addition to and in lieu of a textbook. 

This conversation includes where to find OERs, links to Transy's OER Libguide, and discussions about the labor involved in finding and making OERs. It was a great discussion!

To see the resources that were shared and discussed in this round table, see either the above slideshow or this list:

• EKU’s OER Resource Guide

  • OER Repository 

• Transy Library OER guide (adapted from UPitt, MIT, VT, PCC, ACC libraries) 

• U of Pittsburgh Libraries’ collection of OERs 

• Two OER textbooks created by faculty at EKU

• An institutional model for supporting OERs at SLCC

• Kentucky Affordable Learning Group

• Digital Commons Network 

• External sources for OER grants

• Puget Sound's Music Theory OAR