Western Libraries is finishing their first year of a grant and support program that provides instructors with funding to use Open Educational Resources. The OER Grant and Support program offers $25,000 each year, providing a maximum of $7,500 to an instructor who wants to create or develop a new open textbook or educational resource for their course. OERs are openly-licensed teaching and learning resources that are freely available and created with intent to use and reuse, according to Emily Carlisle-Johnston, a Western Libraries research and scholarly communications librarian.
