Open Educational Resources
The UNL Libraries provide resources and consultation for instructors interested in adopting, adapting, and creating Open Educational Resources (OER).
For more information or to request a consultation contact:
Catherine Fraser Riehle
Associate Professor, Teaching & Learning Librarian
What are OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that either reside in the public domain or are licensed in a manner that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Because OER are "open," users may engage in the so-called 5R activities - Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute - which provides useful flexibility and exciting pedagogical possibilities.
Programs and Resources
Funding Support
STAR OER Seed Grants
STAR’s OER seed grants provide funding and consultation for instructors seeking to adapt or create OER to replace traditional textbooks.
Browse the OER Seed Grant Library to read about funded projects.
A 5R Resource
Pressbooks
Pressbooks is an open-source online platform for self-publishing books in a variety of formats. It is widely used in higher education for producing and publishing OER.
View an example of OER created in Pressbooks by UNL authors.
About PressbooksLibraries Consultations
Course Materials Review
Libraries faculty will review course syllabi or reading lists and search for and suggest relevant low(er) cost and more open alternatives for instructors' consideration.
Get started by sharing a syllabus or reading listA 5R Resource
OER in UNL's Digital Commons
There is a growing collection of UNL-affiliated OER in the DigitalCommons.