Whittemore Library: Open Publishing @ FSU: Open Publishing Initiatives

Open Educational Resource (OER) Publishing @ FSU

OER is any form of educational material (text, video, audio, images, units, entire course, question sets, exam questions, etc.) designed for teaching, learning and research, that is

available online
no cost
openly-licensed with one of four Creative Commons open licenses or in the public domain (no longer protected by copyright law)

FSU faculty have created and published OER, some solo, and some with the support of ROTEL grant funding.

Find FSU OER at the following sites:

Open Massachusetts: A Public Higher Education Repository @ OER Commons

The Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens (ROTEL) Repository @ Pressbooks

Recent Faculty OER Publications

College Algebra Textbook by Ben Atchison
Publication Date: 2020
College Algebra Textbook with chapters about Linears, Systems, Quadratics, and Functions.
Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students by Patricia Lynne
Publication Date: 2023
"...provides students with guidelines for understanding writing tasks as intellectual work using Bloom’s Taxonomy and for treating the writing process as a set of variable activities that move along a trajectory from idea or assignment to a finished product."
Statistics Through An Equity Lens by Yvonne Anthony
Publication Date: 2023
"...encourages further inspection of the ways in which data is collected, interpreted, and analyzed on a variety of social justice issues, such as health disparities, hunger and food insecurity, homelessness, behavioral health (mental health and substance use), and incarceration of males of color."

Got Questions? Contact the Whittemore Library OER Liaison

Please contact Scholarly Communications Librarian Rebecca Dowgiert with any questions you may have about OER and Open Publishing at FSU.

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Open Educational Resources
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