Open Access Book

Marking Open and Affordable Courses

Marking Open and Affordable Courses: Best Practices and Case Studies is a peer-reviewed book designed to help institutions communicate with students about course material costs so they can make informed enrollment decisions. It was collaboratively authored using open source tools and open processes. Read the backstory in “Making Marking“ from Rebus Community Reports by Donna Langille.

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What People Are Saying About Marking

This project is emblematic of what open education leadership is: identifying a challenge, taking action to address that challenge, then engaging collaborators and the community to broaden the impact—leveraging effective open educational practices in the process.
― Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC

Marking Open and Affordable Courses: Best Practices and Case Studies has been widely heralded since its publication this summer and will have enormous utility to educators across the country.
― Dr. Rebecca Karoff, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Texas System

Selected Publications

Creating Learning Opportunities in Open Education

This chapter published in OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians explores open education’s connection to information literacy and librarians’ long history of teaching within higher education. Get Full Text

Experiential Learning and Open Education

This chapter presents the results of an open textbook accessibility evaluation project undertaken during a Disability Studies internship at the University of Texas at Arlington. Get Full Text

Image of Research

This chapter published in Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian presents lessons learned from a multidisciplinary competition designed to celebrate undergraduate contributions to research. Get Full Text

Noun Project Icons [color adjusted]: Open by priyanka is CC BY; Screen reader by Mark Caron is in the public domain; Research by Adrien Coquet is CC BY