Open Educational Resources (OER) and Affordable Course Content (ACC)

The VIVA Open and Affordable Course Content Initiative investigates and supports sustainable educational resource and access models that enable equitable and inclusive learning, give faculty control over instructional materials, and lower the costs of higher education for Virginia students. The OACC pages detail the tools and resources VIVA uses to meet these objectives.

"This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER."

This toolkit provides information and tools to help faculty and library staff across all publicly funded colleges in Ontario to understand, engage with, and sustain OER in their work and practice.

An open wiki designed to help educators find, use, and share OER.

An OER to learn about OER.

Information about open education from SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition), a non-profit organization that works to enable open sharing of research and educational materials.

A program piloted by the University System of Maryland Student Council in 2013, which provided workshops for faculty, targeting those who taught large intro courses, that trained faculty to develop their own OER for courses.

A listserv that builds community for individuals passionate about open education.

Closed listserv for any VIVA members interested in discussing and learning more about Open Educational Resources. To subscribe to VIVAOER-L, please send a request to be added to the list to viva@gmu.edu.