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Sunday, February 03, 2019

Free College Textbooks Now Available Through Open Education North Carolina



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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