Open Educational Resources: Getting Started Toolkit

This Getting Started Toolkit is for Librarians as they create or build their local OER or Affordable Initiatives. It has handouts for you to use. Rubrics for helping faculty to assess available open resources, sample faculty and student surveys (if you'd like to do your own), and sample funding agreements for faculty.

Handouts

Tri-fold brochure "Open Textbooks: The affordable, flexible alternative" with CC BY license:

• Adobe PDF version with CARLI logo. 2nd page is rotated 180 degrees (upside down), so you can print with the settings “Print on both sides of paper” & “Flip on long edge” and the columns should print correctly. Updated March 2024.
• MS Word version that you may customize with local information. (opens in Microsoft Word)

OER Finding and Adopting Guide for Instructors: Worksheet (Adobe PDF version) or editable Worksheet (opens in Microsoft Word) 

Differentiating between Open Access and Open Educational Resources: Handout

Rubrics

• BCcampus Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Education Resources
• DOERS Equity Through OER Rubric "a comprehensive self-assessment tool, designed to guide students, faculty, administrators and other academic practitioners and leaders in not only better understanding, but also acting on the equity dimensions of OER. The rubric is organized by categories, aligned with roles and functions for higher education institutions, units and practitioners. Its overarching goal is to enable users to integrate OER in equitable ways across higher education leading to quality and equitable student access, outcomes and success."

Faculty Surveys

• Faculty Survey (Presentation from Jhangiani & Jhangiani at 2017 Open Textbook Summit, Vancouver)
• OpenStax College Educator Survey

Student Surveys

• Illinois Course Materials Survey: Student Perspective
• Open Education Group Student Survey
• OpenStax College Student Survey
• Florida Virtual Campus Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey: 2016, 2018, & 2022
• Virginia Course Materials Survey

Templates: Faculty Stipend Sample Agreements

• Creative Commons USA, the Rebus Community, and the Open Textbook Network worked together to create an Adaptable OER Publishing Agreement which has a Creative Commons attribution license (CC BY).
• University of Arkansas Libraries Sample Memorandum of Understanding
• Memorandum of Understanding for University Library Funding of OER Projects on the Indiana University Indianapolis Campus
• Memorandum of Understanding Between UI Libraries and OpenHawks Author
• ShareOK Memorandum of understanding template for Open Educational Resources (OER) projects
• Virginia Tech Open Education Initiative Faculty Grants (2019-2020) and (2020-2021)