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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Supporting OER Adoption & Creation

Mission

The mission of the AggieOpen program is to promote a more equitable and culturally relevant educational experience at UC Davis by helping instructors access, adapt, adopt and author openly licensed course materials. 

Through AggieOpen, the university seeks to expand the availability of openly licensed educational content to provide course materials at minimal cost for the benefit of both UC Davis students locally and higher education globally.

AggieOpen encourages instructors to use openly licensed alternatives to commercially available course materials, such as open access or Creative Commons licensed publications, resources in the public domain, and learning objects and texts that instructors create themselves while achieving their pedagogical objectives.

Our goals are to
  • Promote the creation, adaptation, adoption, and curation of openly licensed materials by our instructors and students.
  • Provide support for instructors to incorporate openly licensed educational resources into their curriculum.
  • Improve availability and affordability of course materials.

Get help from the Library to adopt, adapt & author

Library experts can assist instructors with finding, evaluating, and using open education resources (OER).

We provide consultation for instructors developing strategies to identify OER that support their teaching style and course learning outcomes, as well as navigating copyright and open licensing.

We also host OER Discovery workshops where instructors can learn more about the spectrum of openly licensed learning materials and begin exploring available OER in their field.


AggieOpen can help instructors:
  • Find free, openly licensed course materials, including textbooks, streaming media, assessment tools, and dynamic content.
  • Author openly licensed course materials and textbooks using Creative Commons licenses.
  • Foster student engagement in creating openly licensed educational resources.

Open Education Initiatives

Instructor Awards

Open Course Materials Award

The AggieOpen provides support from the Library for instructors to adopt open educational resources (OER) in their undergraduate courses.

Instructors will receive an honorarium from the Library intended to recognize the work involved in identifying, revising, creating, using, and/or sharing OER as alternatives for required commercial textbooks.

Open Textbook Review Award

The UC Davis Library’s AggieOpen program invites faculty and instructors to apply for our Open Textbook Review awards to evaluate and submit a written review of an existing open textbook.

Events & Workshops

Open Education Week Invited Speaker Series

Each Open Education Week, the AggieOpen team will bring distinguished educators to share their research and work to promote a more equitable educational experience for students in higher education through the use of openly licensed learning materials.

OER Discovery Workshops

A workshop on open learning materials is available for all instructors who want to learn more about the diversity of affordable learning materials and relevant instructional approaches.