Use this guide to deepen your understanding of affordable and open educational resources and to find, evaluate, and integrate A&OER to support student success.
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What are Affordable and Open Educational Resources (A&OER)?
“Affordable” materials include those provided through licensed subscriptions at a low cost or no cost to students.
“Open Educational Resources” are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that are freely available to use, adapt, and redistribute.
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The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University, whose mission it is to give every student the tools they need to be successful in the classroom.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 98 different sources and contains 368,234 records.
The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials.
