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.

51 members | 88 affiliated resources

June 05th, 2019

Darron Darby added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 12:29pm

Recession, Smartphones, Diversity — What Defines Generation Z, Or The iGeneration? was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 12:02pm

Psychology Textbook was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 11:59am

Epic Unibrow Sets this Insta-Famous Model Apart From the Rest was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 11:25am

Frozen trailer was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 11:25am

For the Birds was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 11:25am

Defining Ethnicity was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 11:24am

Scientists Still Can't Decide How to Define a Tree was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 11:24am

Jessica Temple added Engaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic Strips

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 10:31am

caesar Smith added United States History 1 Textbook

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 09:23am

Darron Darby added European History

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 07:24am

June 04th, 2019

Tina B. Jones added Biology Online DNA Lab: Gel Electrophoresis

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 04, 05:39pm

Lydia Host added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 04, 05:22pm

Tina B. Jones added Boundless Biology Textbook

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 04, 05:03pm

Tina B. Jones added Concepts of Biology instructional videos - Camosun College

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 04, 04:49pm

Tina B. Jones added Concepts of Biology

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 04, 04:47pm

Tina B. Jones added Biology Online Mitosis Lab: Cell Division in Somatic Cells

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 04, 04:42pm

Tina B. Jones added Biology Online Genetics Lab: Genetic Counseling Case Study

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 04, 04:21pm

Tina B. Jones added Biology Online Nutrition Lab: Energy and Macronutrient Intake Online Lab

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 04, 04:08pm

Tina B. Jones added Sample Course Calendar for Biology 101, Introduction to Biology 1

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 04, 03:34pm