Student in classPacific University is putting its shoulder into a longtime effort to make more course material freely available to students. The Open Educational Resources initiative that’s led by the Pacific University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences is accepting faculty applications this spring for a round of grants to help fund the conversion of some textbook material into digital coursework that would be free to use, share, copy and repurpose. “I’m really excited by what’s been happening with OER in the last year or so at Pacific,” said Professor Isaac Gilman, dean of University Libraries, who said he’s been encouraging the use of open educational resources for more than a decade. “It’s been really exciting to see more people coming together and having an interest around this.”
