Affordable Learning Grant
Congratulations on receiving an Affordable Learning Grant from Oregon State University! The Open Educational Resources Unit (OERU) will support you in adopting, adapting, or authoring an openly licensed textbook or other course materials.
Our services include:
- Locating existing open educational resources (OER) you can adopt or adapt.
- Creating or modifying images or graphs for an OER publication.
- Support for H5P, LaTeX, and Hypothes.is.
- Managing the copy-editing services (for authoring).
- Managing the peer-review process (for authoring).
- Creation and maintenance of your text in Pressbooks.
Our staff:
- Stefanie Buck, Director (stefanie.buck@oregonstate.edu)
- Mark Lane, Production Manager and student supervisor (mark.lane@oregonstate.edu)
- Student support team
What this manual is about
This manual is a guide designed to assist you in adopting, adapting, or authoring an openly-licensed textbook. This manual accompanies the five required workshops for all grant recipients. The workshops are:
| Workshops | The corresponding section in the manual |
| 1. Writing an open textbook | 1. Before you begin writing/What is a textbook? |
| 2. Images, graphs, charts, and other media | 2. Images, graphs, charts, and tables |
| 3. Accessibility and culturally responsive writing | 3. Accessibility and culturally responsive writing |
| 4. Preparing your manuscript | 4. Authoring text |
| 5. Citing your sources |
This manual will be updated and expanded regularly. Please always see the online edition at https://open.oregonstate.education/osufacultyguide/ for the latest updates.
Taking an existing OER and using it as is in your course. For example, you might adopt a textbook from OpenStax.
Taking one or more OER resources and merging or rearranging these to make a new OER. Adapting can be as simple as rearranging chapters in an existing OER textbook or combining chapters from several OER.
