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Free Resources

Open Education Trailblazers: Reusable Mini-Lessons

Explore individual Open Education Trailblazers mini-lessons designed to make open education concepts approachable and actionable. Discover, reuse, and integrate focused learning activities into courses, workshops, and professional development programs.

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Educators, librarians, instructional designers, professional development facilitators, and OER advocates.

OER Research Tracker: A Reusable Exploration Template

A reusable spreadsheet template for discovering, evaluating, and documenting open educational resources. Organize repository searches, track potential resources, examine licensing and accessibility, and record citations, annotations, and implementation ideas.

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Faculty, librarians, instructional designers, OER researchers, and educators exploring resource adoption or adaptation.

Open Education Trailblazers: Import the Canvas Course

Bring Open Education Trailblazers to your institution. Access the shareable Canvas course with mini-lessons, learning resources, and digital badges designed to support open education professional development. Import and adapt the course to fit your institutional context.

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Faculty development teams, librarians, instructional designers, Canvas administrators, and institutional OER program leaders.

Open Education Trailblazers: Explore the Full Course

Explore the Open Education Trailblazers course, featuring self-paced mini-lessons, open education resources, and practical activities designed to build foundational knowledge and support meaningful engagement with open educational practices.

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Educators, faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and anyone exploring open education.

Open Practice Program Readiness & Needs Assessment Framework

A free, 10-domain assessment framework to help organizations evaluate program readiness, identify gaps, and strengthen the structures that support meaningful participation. Examine everything from entry points and stakeholder needs to funding, evaluation, documentation, and sustainability.

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OER program leaders, educators, librarians, nonprofits, small businesses, community organizations, and mission-driven teams.

Open Education in Practice Curriculum

Open Education in Practice is a comprehensive, openly licensed curriculum designed to help educators, librarians, and institutional leaders understand and implement open education. It combines foundational knowledge with practical guidance on OER discovery, licensing, copyright, adoption, adaptation, accessibility, and open pedagogy. Through examples, activities, and reflection, readers can develop informed, sustainable open practices suited to their own educational contexts.

Best For:

OER program leaders, librarians, instructional designers, faculty developers, teaching and learning staff, open education advocates

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