There are many OER texts faculty can use and access to lesson plans, rubrics, and toolkits through OER Commons for all academic areas. Also, while it is true that affordable materials remove a signifi..
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There are many OER texts faculty can use and access to lesson plans, rubrics, and toolkits through OER Commons for all academic areas. Also, while it is true that affordable materials remove a significant barrier to success through equity and accessibility for all students, an open license does not ensure that the course materials or course design are inclusive of the diverse students in our classrooms. That is why it is important to talk to the ERAU librarians about how OER can work in your specific classroom. Hazy Librarians Laura Pope and Dani Carmack have been instrumental on the topic of OER and OEP on the Prescott campus. One additional but important note: while there are some really amazing quality OER textbooks available through credible resources e.g. Pressbooks, BCcampus, Lumen, OpenStax, it is important to do your research on texts you would like to use. This reason is that OERs may vary in quality, so therefore it is important for instructors to carefully evaluate an OER text before using in their classroom for authorship authority, accuracy, objectivity, coverage of topic, accessibility, license e.g. Creative Commons, and persistence e.g. url links and PDF download capability.
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