Textbook Affordability & Open Educational Resources (OER)
Resources for faculty and course designers on textbook affordability and Open Education Resources at NOVA. Direct comments or questions to OER Librarian Jeff Prater, jprater@nvcc.edu.
Best Places to Search for OER (licensed for revising, remixing, redistributing)
Use these resources when you want to look for open textbooks in your subject area OR when you're looking for resources which you can edit, adapt, embellish, and re-distribute.
A wide-ranging search engine for open educational resources of all kinds (textbooks, images, archival collections...). Best when you're looking for something very precise or narrow.
Here you can peruse the Open Educational Resources (OER) developed at Northern Virginia Community College for the BIO141 (Human Anatomy and Physiology) lab curriculum. These 13 labs are suitable for 100- and 200-level Anatomy and Physiology courses, and 100-level BIO101 courses. Designed for upper level high school and undergraduate students.
Search here for OER created, adapted, and adopted by faculty in Virginia. Includes discipline groups. Note: to search for both OER and library-subscribed materials available to you as faculty in Virginia, please use the Open Textbook site linked above.