Affordable Learning Resources are quality, low- or no-cost educational resources that encourage student success while lowering student costs.
These resources include:
If you'd like help locating library-licensed or open content to use in a class, please contact your department's library liaison.
Make specific library materials easy for your students to access by adding them to physical or electronic reserve.
Reserves
Open Educational Resources are educational materials offered freely and openly for anyone to use. Most licenses allow resources to be shared, remixed or customized for your class. Open educational resources include textbooks, full courses, course materials, modules, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other resources used to support access to knowledge.
Using materials available through CofC Libraries can save your students money. The library offers print materials, e-books, databases, and journals that can be easily linked in OAKS or placed on physical reserve in Addlestone Library.
Free Online Resources are resources that are available online but are not always open, so you may not be allowed to change or revise them to suit your needs. The Open Access Luminos collection from UC Press (below) is a good example.
This category also includes podcasts, YouTube videos, and other streaming media content.
For those resources that do not fall under the public domain, it is best to use them by linking to the resource through OAKS and sending your students to the specific site and not re-posting the information.
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Are you already utilizing course resources that are entirely free for your students? If so, apply to be recognized through PASCAL's statewide program, Professors for Affordable Learning!
