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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April 21st, 2021

Julliana Probst added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 21, 02:03pm

Julliana Probst added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 21, 02:01pm

Julliana Probst added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 21, 01:44pm

Julliana Probst added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 21, 01:37pm

Jeff Graveline added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 21, 11:27am

Charlotte Ford added Additional CC Resources for Spanish Speakers

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 21, 11:00am

Julliana Probst added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 21, 09:32am

April 18th, 2021

Julie Jones added Introduction to Evidence-Based Clinical Reasoning

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 18, 01:15pm

April 16th, 2021

Nancy Adams added CREATIVE COMMONS by Nancy Adams on Prezi Next

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 16, 01:26pm

Nancy Adams added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 16, 01:13pm

Adrian Scott added CC Certificate_Final Project_Adrian Scott_Whats the Buzz About Creative Commons and OER_Spring 2021.pptx

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 16, 10:52am

Lisa Vardaman added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 16, 10:29am

Paul Blackmon added Lesson

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 16, 08:39am

April 12th, 2021

Carly Johnson added Digital Press Kit Assignment

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 12, 06:24pm

Lesson was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 12, 01:13pm

Rebecca Whitten added Creative Commons For Academic Librarians

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 12, 01:11pm

Rebecca Whitten added Using CC Licenses & CC Licensed Works

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 12, 01:01pm

Rebecca Whitten added Creative Commons Licenses & Public Domain Tools

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 12, 12:41pm

Rebecca Whitten added Case Study: United Kingdom (UK)

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 12, 12:18pm

April 08th, 2021

DaNean Pound removed Lesson

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Apr 08, 10:14am