Best Practices for Driving Adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Education Resources (OER) are learning materials that are freely licensed; they can be shared, accessed, reused, and revised. Often, they are available at no cost and can be one lever for decreasing the cost of higher education. Over the semester, I identified instructors at the University of Texas at Austin currently building or utilizing OER as course materials. I held conversations with those instructors to learn more about their use of OER and documented best practices to be utilized by librarians and instructors at UT. I also conducted research on the role that librarians in other higher education institutions have in driving adoption of OER. The ultimate objective of this initiative is to help drive adoption of OER and other open access materials at UT in the long term.