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Be The Spark: Institutional Recommendations For Open Educational Resources, Jenni Breems, Christopher Doll Jun 2023

Be The Spark: Institutional Recommendations For Open Educational Resources, Jenni Breems, Christopher Doll

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It began with a conversation in 2018. How could a consortium of private academic libraries in Iowa promote the use of open educational resources (OER) at their institutions? We could see the potential. An OER is defined as “a teaching, learning, or research resource that is offered freely to users in at least one form and that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an open copyright license that allows for its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with attribution” (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, Citation2021). The Iowa Private Academic Libraries consortium (IPAL) has …