Open Oregon Educational Resources received two grants to develop openly licensed course materials with an equity lens in Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, and Criminal Justice. After almost four years of collaboration with an outstanding team of authors and instructors, we’re announcing the soft launch of our curricula.
Our peer-reviewed textbooks are designed with equity in mind. You will find rich images and multimedia in addition to written content. You will also find interactive reflection prompts and interactive self-check questions aligned with each chapter’s learning objectives. Scroll down each book’s landing page to review the table of contents.
Each textbook has a course pack of integrated course materials where we share ancillaries. We know instructors want relevant and practical resources to support their teaching. We post course content on Google sites to make sharing easy.
Our materials are all collected in OERCommons Groups so that instructors can find links to textbooks and ancillaries at a single link. Community members can contribute relevant openly licensed materials to the group.
What is a soft launch?
Our materials are ready for any Oregon instructor to review. We hope that you will consider adopting or adapting them for the upcoming academic year. The timing of our soft launch aims to accommodate instructors who teach fall courses and use the summer to update syllabi.
Soft launch textbooks:
- All textbook content is imported into Pressbooks
- All textbooks have correct metadata, professionally designed covers, open licenses, and ISBNs
- Some books may still have minor proofreading updates under way
- Some books may not have print on demand editions available yet
Soft launch course packs:
- All ancillary materials are imported into Google Sites
- All textbook links in course materials are correct
- All materials in the course packs are openly licensed
- Some course packs may still have minor proofreading updates under way
Soft launch OERCommons Groups:
- All group sites have a textbook link and course pack site link
- Some group sites may not have community content uploaded yet
Please stay tuned for our official launch announcement in Fall 2025!
Where to find our materials
* Textbooks with learning outcomes that align with Oregon’s statewide course name, number, description, and learning outcomes adopted in 2024. For more information please visit the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s Educator Resources – Common Course Numbering [Website].
Funding
Our grants drew from Governor’s Emergency Education Relief funding and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the U.S. Department of Education (eighty percent of the total cost of the program is funded by FIPSE, with the remaining twenty percent representing in-kind personnel costs funded by Open Oregon Educational Resources).
The contents of this post were developed under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
