Open Educational Resources (OER)

Openly licensed textbooks and other educational material are bringing unprecedented opportunities to the higher education classroom: students can now readily access quality and affordable course material, while instructors can adapt the content as they wish and make updates whenever they feel the need.

Lyryx is strengthening OER by developing a sustainable model for the development, maintenance, adaptation, and distribution of quality open materials. Our editorial group works with subject matter experts, students and educators to create, adapt and maintain OER which are then made freely available to all. To support this mission, we develop and provide value-added services at affordable cost: high-quality online homework, instructor and student support, technical support, and editorial services.

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You will find below some selected links for further information on OER, including where to find them, which organizations are supporting them, some key research on OER, and some meetings and conferences where you will find Lyryx!

Repositories: Where to find OER materials

Open Textbook Library: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
BCcampus Open Textbook Project: https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/
OpenStax: https://openstax.org/
OER Commons: https://www.oercommons.org
Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative: http://openedmb.ca/
eCampus Ontario: https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/
Alberta OER Repository: http://albertaoer.com/content/repository?page=1
MERLOT: http://www.merlot.org
Saylor Books: http://www.saylor.org/books
LibreTexts: https://libretexts.org/
Open Up Resources (K-12): http://openupresources.org/

Organizations and Initiatives: Who is supporting OER

Alberta OER: http://albertaoer.com/
Bccampus: https://bccampus.ca/
eCampus Ontario: https://www.ecampusontario.ca/
SPARC: https://sparcopen.org/
Campus Manitoba: http://campusmanitoba.ca/
Lumen Learning: https://www.lumenlearning.com/
Open Education Consortium: http://www.oeconsortium.org/
Creative Commons Canada: https://ca.creativecommons.org/
Rebus Community: https://about.rebus.community/
Textbook Broke: follow #textbookbroke
US Department of Education, #GoOpen States: https://tech.ed.gov/open/states/

Research and Information on OER

OER Awareness and Adoption on the Rise, By Nicole Allen: https://sparcopen.org/news/2019/oer-awareness-adoption-rise/
Babson Study Research Group, Open Educational Resources: 2018 National Higher Education ReportFreeing the Textbook: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2018: https://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html
Made with Creative Commons: A guide to sharing your knowledge and creativity with the world, and sustaining your operation while you do. By P. Stacey and S. Hinchliff Pearson 2017: https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/made-with-cc/
Incentivizing the Production and Use of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education Institutions by David Annand and Tilly Jensen (Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University) IRRODL, Vol 18 No 4 (2017): Special Issue: Outcomes of Openness: Empirical Reports on the Implementation of OER: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3009

Events – Come and meet Lyryx!

Open Education Conference, Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2019, Anaheim, CA.
Canadian Academic Accounting Association Conference, May 31 – June 1, 2019, Ottawa, CA.
MAA MathFest – Mathematics Association of America, July 31 – Aug 3, 2019, Cincinnati, OH.
American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, August 10 – 14, 2019, San Francisco, CA.
Joint Mathematics Meeting, January 16-19, 2019, Baltimore, MD.
AMATYC, November 15 – 17, 2018, Orlando, FL.
MathFest 2018, August 1 – 4, 2018, Denver CO.
Creative Commons Global Summit, April 13 – 15, 2018, Toronto, ON.
Open Ed Global, November 11 – 13, 2017.
AMATYC, November 9 – 12, 2017, San Diego, CA.
Open Education Conference, October 11 – 13, 2017, Anaheim CA.

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Repositories: Where to find OER materials

Organizations and Initiatives: Who is supporting OER

Research and Information on OER

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