Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Learning Assistance
Content Based OERs
Last updated: 9/26/2023
Khan Academy - "You can learn anything. Expert-created content and resources for every course and level. Always free."
MERLOT- a free curated online tools for learning. There is a specific section of MERLOT for academic support services.
How to Study.org - a free resource site created and maintained by Lucy MacDonald. "Study skills are listed both by the process of studying and by topic. Each topic has a list of handouts, prioritized by importance and interest. "
Open Stax - a multidisciplinary repository from Rice University as an educational initiative, it's our mission to improve educational access and learning for everyone.
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Additional OER Repositories
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/
https://cse.google.com/cse/home?cx=000793406067725335231:fm2ncznoswy
Study Strategies OERs
Last updated: 9/26/2023
Empire State University Academic Support Resources
Assignment Calculator - designed to help students outline a work/time management plan to complete a larger writing assignment.
Thesis Generator - a tool designed to help students begin drafting a thesis statement for their essays.
Creating a Thesis - a guided multimedia tool designed to help students think through the process of developing a thesis for their essays.
Building an Argument - a guided multimedia tool designed to help students to develop their essays.
Concluding your Argument - a guided multimedia tool designed to support students as they develop the conclusions to their essays.
Writing with Sources Series - several guided multimedia resources to help students learn how to avoid plagiarism and accurately cite their sources:
List of all OERs from Academic Support at Empire State University
Creating OERS
Last updated: 9/26/2023
OER Authoring Tools - Empire State University Librarians have put together an open resource on how to design and author OERs including information related to copyright.
Milne Open Textbooks - Formerly SUNY Open Textbooks. An initiative to publish Open Textbooks authored and peer reviewed by SUNY faculty and copy-edited and formatted by SUNY librarians.
Student Success and OERs
Last updated: 9/26/2023
Boosting Student Success with Open Educational Resources (OER) - video of OpenEd Week 2023 presentation for A&M-Commerce by Cheryl (Cuillier) Casey, Open Education Librarian, University of Arizona.
The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics - A 2018 University of Georgia study on the impact of OERs on student success.
The Effects of Open Educational Resource Adoption on Measures of Post-Secondary Student Success - a 2015 dissertation
The 2018 COLTT Conference keynote from Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani, “Serving Access, Equity, and Innovation through Open Educational Practices”, highlights how open education supports pursuits in social justice.
Colvard, N., Watson, C. E., & Park, H. (2018). The impact of open educational resources on various student success metrics (Links to an external site.). International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 30(2).
Data table graphic: “Choosing to Create an Equity-Minded College? The Case for Open Education and Zero Textbook Cost Degrees” by James Glapa-Grossklag, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Links to an external site.)
McKenzie, L. (2018, July 16). Free digital textbooks vs. purchased commercial textbooks (Links to an external site.).