Open Education Resources Are Here to Stay: Are Texas Schools Ready?

As defined by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Open Education encompasses resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment. Open Education Resources (OER) are free to use and access, but the logistics of acquiring, managing, implementing access to, and defining OER is challenging for academic libraries. The objective of my capstone project is to facilitate better understanding of the issues and challenges surrounding OER, measure OER readiness among Texas colleges and universities, and develop resources that will assist Texas academic libraries of the Texas Digital Library consortium start and sustain implementation of OER on their campuses.