Open Access & Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$)

The California Open Online Library for Education and is brought to you by the CSU. This is where you can find all the information on the The California College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 (aka AB 798), and most importantly, dozens of real-life examples of how to make Open Educational Resources (OERs) work for you.

The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the human right to access high-quality education. This shift in educational practice is not just about cost savings and easy access to openly licensed content; it’s about participation and co-creation. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.

Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

Real-time federated search for OER content. Like a Google for OER resources.

OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University, and it's our mission to give every student the tools they need to be successful in the classroom

Learning materials available freely online (including lectures, lessons, assignments)

Article in The Atlantic

Keywords: Open access publishing and (college or university)

Cool 4 ED stands for the California Open Online Library for Education and is brought to you by the CSU. This is where you can find all the information on the The California College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 (aka AB 798), and most importantly, dozens of real-life examples of how to make Open Educational Resources (OERs) work for you!

The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, open access, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in online education. JOLT is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December