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If you or your faculty colleagues are using open educational resources (OER) in any general education or high-enrollment courses, please fill out this form to share your course information locally and with SUNY.

SUNY funding is available to support campus initiatives for OER, and funding is based on current OER course offerings and enrollments. I am certain we have many courses that would fit the definition below. Please share this announcement with department chairs or fellow faculty members so that we can get the most accurate and thorough picture of OER usage on our campus.

Course Guidelines

• Courses should be general education in subject and/or high enrollment (such as a required college success course).
• 50 percent of learning materials used in the course should be OER (a definition of OER is provided below).
• Campuses will be allocated $8 for each enrollment for individual sections of a course that are or will be using OER, and $15 per enrollment if ALL sections of a course are using OER.

Definition of OER
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits repurposing by others. A SUNY OER course or section provides students with a cost-effective alternative to traditional textbooks. The majority of materials in this section reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits repurposing by others.