ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients

The Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) and the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) have a common goal of reducing the cost of college for Alabama’s students. Since textbooks are a major expense for both university and community college students, ACHE and ACCS are co-sponsored a grant program with $50,000 in total awards to encourage faculty members at Alabama’s public institutions of higher education to replace existing expensive traditional textbooks and other costly teaching and learning materials with open educational resources (OER). Open educational resources are teaching and learning materials that instructors and students may freely use and reuse at no cost without asking permission. Unlike traditionally copyrighted resources, OER are developed and posted for public use by the creators who agree to retain few, if any, ownership rights. While the primary purpose of the OER grant program is to reduce students’ textbook costs, additional positive outcomes are expected. Open educational resources are designed to be available to all students on the first day of class, and therefore improve course accessibility for financially-strapped students. And because OER are either created by (or adopted and modified by) the students’ instructor, they are more perfectly aligned with classroom instruction, promoting higher achievement of desired learning outcomes by all students, regardless of socio-economic status.

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June 25th, 2019

Jessica Temple added For the Birds

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:35am

Jessica Temple added Epic Unibrow Sets this Insta-Famous Model Apart From the Rest

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:32am

Jessica Temple added How To Define Sexual Harassment

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:30am

Jessica Temple added Scientists Still Can't Decide How to Define a Tree

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:29am

Jessica Temple added Defining Ethnicity

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:27am

Jessica Temple added Recession, Smartphones, Diversity — What Defines Generation Z, Or The iGeneration?

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:25am

Jessica Temple added Narrative Essay Prompt and Samples

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:21am

Jessica Temple added A Student's Brief Overview of Narrative Essays

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:19am

Jessica Temple added Narrative Writing WriteAlong Videos

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:10am

Jessica Temple added Persuasive Essays (video link)

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 11:02am

Jessica Temple added Graphic Organizers for Personal Narratives

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 10:58am

Jessica Temple added A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 10:56am

Jessica Temple added The Mind's Storehouse: Memory (video link)

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 10:51am

Jessica Temple added The Use of Landmines student persuasive essay (link)

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 10:46am

Jessica Temple added In Defense of Street Art (persuasive article link)

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 25, 10:46am

June 18th, 2019

Tina B. Jones added Biology Labs

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 18, 10:18am

June 12th, 2019

Jody Jones added General Speech - ENG 205

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 12, 05:19pm

Tina B. Jones added Instructor’s Guide to Concepts of Biology

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 12, 03:57pm

June 11th, 2019

YouTube: Piecewise Functions was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 11, 11:48am

June 10th, 2019

Frances Beech added Introduction to Sociology 2e

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 10, 03:26pm