Open Textbooks, OER & Other Open or Free Resources for Faculty

OER Support Around the College

There are many faculty and staff at Kirkwood who use OER, support faculty adoption of OER, or have the knowledge and expertise to help with specific issues. Ask one of your colleagues about OER today:

Kate Schellberg, Digital Services Librarian, Library Services

• Guidance in the process of shifting from traditional course materials to OER
• Offers KCELT classes on OER adoption
• Support and assistance in locating and curating OERs for all disciplines
• Support in navigating questions of copyright, Creative Commons licensing, and fair use

Sharon Blanchard, Instructional Designer, Adjunct Faculty

• Help in transitioning course materials to OER
• Help incorporating new course materials into Talon

See our faculty OER adopters for more contacts.

Faculty OER Adoption Program

Kirkwood Community College supports faculty adoption of open resources. Open resources benefit students and faculty by providing course materials at no or low cost, and customize materials to suit the needs of students and faculty. To read more about it see the quick summary of requirements, or read the complete program description.

Kirkwood's OER Blog

To see what your fellow faculty OER adopters are talking about, see our OER @ Kirkwood Faculty Blog.

Courses currently available as OER

These previous stipend recipients will make their courses available to other Kirkwood faculty for copying. Contact Kate Schellberg in Library Services:

Arts & Humanities

• Art Appreciation

Business & IT

• Intro to Entrepreneurship
• Principles of Supervision
• Human Resource Management
• Principles of Management

Social Sciences

• Loss, Trauma and Resilience
• Substance Abuse & Treatment
• Fundamentals of Oral Communication
• Intro to Psychology
• Intro to Sociology

Math & Sciences

• Introductory Biology for Non-Majors
• Applied Math post 1 and post 2 (collaborative between 2 faculty)

Talon shells with OER materials already loaded or in the works:

Contact Emily McWorthy to copy

1. Intro to Business (OpenStax)
2. Intro to Sociology (OpenStax)
3. Concepts in Biology (OpenStax)
4. US History (OpenStax)
5. Intro to Psychology (OpenStax)
6. Macroeconomics (OpenStax)
7. Elements of Writing/Comp 1/Comp 2
8. Art Appreciation/Art History
9. Anthropology
10. Business/IT/Management (various)