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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September 23rd, 2019

Persuasive Essays was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Sep 23, 02:13pm

Persuasive Essays was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Sep 23, 02:13pm

World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650 was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Sep 23, 02:13pm

Compact Anthology of World Literature I: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Sep 23, 02:13pm

Compact Anthology of World Literature II: Volumes 4, 5, and 6 was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Sep 23, 02:13pm

September 20th, 2019

British Literature I: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Sep 20, 02:19pm

British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Sep 20, 02:19pm

September 05th, 2019

Jessica Temple added "Only Daughter" by Sandra Cisneros

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Sep 05, 01:22pm

August 28th, 2019

American Government was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Aug 28, 02:28pm

July 29th, 2019

Josh Hill removed AuthoredMaterialDraft object (69187)

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed Lesson

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed Principles of Macroeconomics Textbook

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed Lesson

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed AuthoredMaterialDraft object (69059)

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed Lesson

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed Lesson

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed Module 2: Developmental Theories

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed Module 1: Introduction to Lifespan Development

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed Module 3: Prenatal Development

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am

Josh Hill removed Module 4: Infancy

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jul 29, 09:19am