An NC LIVE Initiative

Bringing high-quality, open textbooks to North Carolina

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Open Education North Carolina is an initiative that aims to reduce the cost of higher education for North Carolina students by providing free, open e-textbooks for 30 of the most frequently-taught courses across North Carolina’s 2 and 4-year colleges and universities. Learn more about the program at nclive.org/oenc.

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Open Education North Carolina is coordinated by NC LIVE, North Carolina's library cooperative of UNC system, NC Independent Colleges and Universities, NC Community Colleges, and public libraries across the state. OENC is supported in part by grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (IMLS grant number LS-00-18-0034-18).

OER Tutorials

Open Author

Get started using our OER authoring tool, Open Author. This video walks you through how to author and remix; including how to add and format content, import and attach resources, embed media, add co-authors, check for accessibility, describe your resource, select a license, align to standards, publish, and download.

Created by ISKME. Licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

 

Create a Profile in OER Commons

Learn how to create a login and profile for OER Commons.

Created by ISKME. Licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

 

Search OER Commons

An OER Commons user demonstrates how to search OER Commons.

 

OER Librarian Leadership & Practice Rubric

The rubric is designed to guide our practice in supporting and evaluating effective school librarian leadership development within this project. The components of the rubric are called elements  -- the building blocks that this project deems as necessary to support school librarians to co-lead and promote high-quality STEM learning experiences that take advantage of rich information, openly accessible resources, and useful technologies, and as they collaborate with STEM teachers to integrate text-focused inquiry and literacy into the curriculum.

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Permissions Guide For Educators

This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is intended to support teachers, librarians, curriculum experts and others in identifying the terms of use for digital resources, so that the resources may be appropriately (and legally) used as part of lessons and instruction. The guide also helps educators and curriculum experts in approaching the task of securing permission to use copyrighted materials in their classrooms, collections, libraries or elsewhere in new ways and with fewer restrictions than fair use potentially offers. The guide was created as part of ISKME's Primary Source Project, and is the result of collaboration with copyright holders, intellectual property experts, and educators.

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