ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients

The Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) and the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) have a common goal of reducing the cost of college for Alabama’s students. Since textbooks are a major expense for both university and community college students, ACHE and ACCS are co-sponsored a grant program with $50,000 in total awards to encourage faculty members at Alabama’s public institutions of higher education to replace existing expensive traditional textbooks and other costly teaching and learning materials with open educational resources (OER). Open educational resources are teaching and learning materials that instructors and students may freely use and reuse at no cost without asking permission. Unlike traditionally copyrighted resources, OER are developed and posted for public use by the creators who agree to retain few, if any, ownership rights. While the primary purpose of the OER grant program is to reduce students’ textbook costs, additional positive outcomes are expected. Open educational resources are designed to be available to all students on the first day of class, and therefore improve course accessibility for financially-strapped students. And because OER are either created by (or adopted and modified by) the students’ instructor, they are more perfectly aligned with classroom instruction, promoting higher achievement of desired learning outcomes by all students, regardless of socio-economic status.

51 members | 87 affiliated resources

June 07th, 2019

Overview of Narrative Essays was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:53am

Graphic Organizers for Personal Narratives was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:53am

Graphic Organizers for Personal Narratives was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:53am

The Mind's Storehouse: Memory was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:52am

The Mind's Storehouse: Memory was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:52am

Argumentative Essay video was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:51am

Argumentative Essay video was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:51am

The Use of Landmines was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:51am

The Use of Landmines was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:51am

In Defense of Street Art was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:51am

In Defense of Street Art was unpublished by the OER Commons

from ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 11:51am

Joshua Lang added Working with Exponents and Scientific Notation

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 07, 12:04am

June 06th, 2019

Julie King added Thomas Paine's The Crisis

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 06, 12:08pm

June 05th, 2019

Jessica Temple added “Plain Geology” by George Otis Smith

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 04:04pm

Jessica Temple added “Plain Geology” by George Otis Smith

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 04:03pm

Jessica Temple added “Millionaire Candidates” by Carl Schurz

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 03:55pm

Jessica Temple added “Millionaire Candidates” by Carl Schurz

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 03:55pm

Jessica Temple added “On Vaccination Against Smallpox” by Edward Anthony Jenner

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 03:44pm

Jessica Temple added “On Vaccination Against Smallpox” by Edward Anthony Jenner

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 03:44pm

Jessica Temple added Engaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic Strips

to ACHE / ACCS OER Grant Recipients - on Jun 05, 02:59pm