Tennessee Open Education Hub

A Statewide Professional Learning Community for Faculty

Inspiration. Ideation. Collaboration.

Learn About the Tennessee Open Education Hub

Open Educational Resources are more than free textbooks. OER empower faculty with the freedom to design and employ the most effective materials for their instructional enterprise. OER enable new ways of teaching, engaging, and connecting with students.

The Tennessee Open Education Hub brings together the intellectual and creative power of faculty throughout the state, providing a place to build and share resources with the common goal of improving student learning outcomes.

For more information about how Tennessee is making college more accessible and equitable, visit Tennessee Open Education.

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freely available or accessible; offered without restriction   

with no restrictions on those allowed to attend or participate               

accessible to new ideas            

make more available or widely known

Cycle 3 OER Grant Recipients Announced!

June 1, 2022, 10:04 a.m.

As part of the Tennessee Board of Regents’ strategic plan to increase equity in access and student success, the offices of academic affairs and organizational effectiveness have awarded grants totaling $650,000.00 to 28 teams comprising 122 faculty, librarians, and instructional designers from 13 colleges and universities to create free Open Educational Resources (OER) for their courses. The Cycle 3 OER Grant RFP generated 59 proposals, which is more than double the number received last year. OER materials developed during the first two years of the program have already saved students $6,666,032.48 on commercially published textbooks and instructional materials. This year, TBR is collaborating with Achieving the Dream and SRI Education to study the effect Open Educational Practices (OEP) have on student learning outcomes. 12 of the 28 grant teams will be participating in the study and will attend the OEP Summer Institute at Chattanooga State Community College in July.

Cycle 3 OER Grant Recipients

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Tennessee Collection

Explore collections of course materials created by colleges and universities in Tennessee

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OER Commons Collection

Explore collections of course materials created by faculty, institutions, and organizations around the world

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OER Working Groups

Register and create a profile, to be able to join your system, college, or university group and begin collaborating to organize, create, and share resources with your colleagues

Getting Started

Open Author

Get started using our OER authoring tool, Open Author. This video walks you through how to author and remix; including how to add and format content, import and attach resources, embed media, add co-authors, check for accessibility, describe your resource, select a license, align to standards, publish, and download.

Created by ISKME. Licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

How to Use Groups on OER Commons

This video tutorial shows users how to create and manage groups on OER Commons, and how to share resources within those groups.

Trainings & Webinars

Tennessee Open Education Introduction

Tennessee Textbook Affordability Taskforce members were invited to get an early look at the soon to be launched Tennessee Open Education Hub - the first of its kind collaborative platform that supports courseware improvement for both public and private colleges and universities in Tennessee. This informative session provided participants with an opportunity to discover tools to identify, curate, design, build, and share high-quality resources to impact teaching and student learning outcomes. We also showcased OER exemplars and use cases from colleges and universities in Tennessee and beyond.

OER First Day of Class

OER First Day of Class

OER First Day of Class

OER First Day of Class

OER First Day of Class

OER First Day of Class

Managing Groups & Sharing OER Training

Tennessee Open Education Hub Group Administrators and Grantees joined us to explore the Hub collaboration and authoring tools and workflows, and develop plans for how to best utilize groups to facilitate engagement and sharing of resources.

Instructions for how to manage groups and author resources

TN Open Education Hub Overview

This webinar was an introduction to the Tennessee Open Education Hub for faculty and librarians interested in accessing high-quality digital resources, connecting and collaborating with others, and sharing resources.