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KYVL Affordable Learning

Affordable Learning Kentucky is a CPE-sponsored committee working to bring statewide coordination and capacity-building to open and affordable textbook work taking place throughout Kentucky.

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  • Affordable Learning at Kentucky Universities shows other Kentucky campus initiatives with OER, including OER learning guides from universities around the state.
  • Teach with OER provides a professional learning community modular curriculum for librarians, teaching and learning staff, instructional designers, and other professionals looking to incorporate OER in the classroom.
  • A glossary of open education terms presents important concepts and definitions to help build an understanding of OER, providing source material as well as links for further research.

Resources from other KY Universities

Kentucky Community and Technical College System Copyright: FAQ provides resources answers regarding copyright to consider before adding materials to your courses as well as free to use resources.
Eastern Kentucky University Learn how Open Educational Resources, Open Scholarship, and Open Pedagogy benefit faculty, students, and the wider community.
Murray State University Provides information on how they encourage faculty to use library e-books as course textbooks.
Northern Kentucky University This OER program assists NKU instructors with adopting, adapting, and creating OER for the classroom.
University of Kentucky A learning guide provides general information on OER, finding, adopting and creating them.
University of Louisville The university library’s OER initiative seeks to enhance student success by defining, finding and implementing OER.
Western Kentucky University The Affordable Textbook Program makes course materials available at no or low cost to WKU students by incentivizing faculty adoption of library-licensed or Open Educational Resources in place of traditional textbooks.