Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free educational materials, including textbooks, curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video, and animation. These materials are free of most legal restrictions and can be reused without fear of copyright infringement.
How can the library help you?
Do you want to include zero-cost textbooks in your course?
Library staff can help with the tricky searching to identify free library materials and other alternatives for your course and help you register your course with ZTC.
Do you want to create open course materials (OER) specific for your course?
Library staff can set you up on Pressbooks to author your own ebooks for teaching, including tools for embedding media and H5P exercises.
Do you want to connect your students with OER via your existing course page and syllabus?
Library staff can share options for presenting OER and library materials in your courses.