- Lower costs for courses and course materials.
- Increased access to materials over a longer period of time.
- Greater pedagogical flexibility by mixing and matching content for specific courses.
- Materials tailored for certain course or curricula.
- The ability to update and supplement materials as needed.
- Learn more about Open Educational Practices
UNT offers two programs to support the use of OER in the classroom:
- OER Grantsare offered to support UNT faculty in using or adapting existing open textbooks or other OER in UNT courses.
- UNT Open Textsis a collaboration between the UNT Press and UNT Libraries for publishing new open textbooks for use in UNT courses.