By: Amber Covington Rowan Public Library
Feeling
the pressure of purchasing an expensive textbook for a class? Check out the
free resources available to any patron of Rowan Public Library using Open
Educational Resources available through NC Live. The library is a member of NC
Live which is a library consortium that provides shared services among 200
public and academic libraries across the state. Take advantage of these free
services to locate textbooks, scholarly articles, and research information for
your class assignments.
Open
Educational Resources Commons hosts vasts amounts of resources created by
authors across the globe to be shared with others. This website shares not only
textbooks, but also lesson plans, syllabi,
activities, and assessments for all educational grade levels. Subject areas
include science, arts and humanities, business and communication, career and
technical education, education, english language arts, history, law, and
mathematics. From the beginning, Open Education North Carolina has aimed to
provide open textbooks for the most frequently-taught courses across North
Carolina’s two and four year colleges and universities. These classes are
introductory levels of accounting, art, biology, communications, economics,
english, history, math, psychology, and sociology.
Faculty,
instructors, and library staff of North Carolina colleges are encouraged to
apply for an adoption grant to receive funding for offering their textbook
online through NC Live’s Open Education North Carolina. If interested, attend
an upcoming workshop to learn how to adopt an open textbook. Anyone can take
advantage of resources that are currently available online by searching the
content published, free of charge, on Open Education North Carolina at www.oercommons.org/hubs/oenc.
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