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What Does Open Education Look Like at UVA?

The UVA community is active in Open Education engagement. This collection highlights the initiatives and resources created by our own faculty and staff.

Course and Assignment Design
Updated July 2026
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Bethany Mickel
Instructional Design & OER Librarian
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Open Education - Connecting with the Library

University of Virginia Library

The University of Virginia Library's OER page provides comprehensive information on how to find, use, and create OER, emphasizing affordability, pedagogy, and student experience. It offers practical resources such as consultations, workshops, and publishing tools.

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This UVA Library guide is a one-stop shop for OER support. You'll find practical tools and services like consultations, workshops, and publishing tools, which are incredibly useful for faculty and students with the added bonus of direct contact to helpful librarians well-versed in OER practices.
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Open Education

University of Virginia Library
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The UVA Library supports the creation and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), which are freely available for sharing, adapting, and reuse. Open Educational Resources (OER) can encompass a variety of materials, including textbooks, syllabi, course modules, videos, assessment tools, and more. Our initiative also supports **Open pedagogy**, the practice of leveraging OER to foster active learning experiences that engage students as active creators of information, leading to improved engagement and academic success.

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Open Educational Resources (OER) at UVA

University of Virginia Library

This guide shares how the UVA Library can help support the creation of educational materials that are freely available to use, adapt, share, and reuse.

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Bethany Mickel, Emily Scida

In this UVA Library guide, you will find resources, training, and grant opportunities to support your adoption, adaptation, or creation of OER for your courses.

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Open Educational Resources (OER) at UVA

University of Virginia Library
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A guide to educational material that are freely available to use, adapt, share, and reuse.

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Pressbooks Publications at UVA

University of Virginia Library

UVA's institutional license to Pressbooks provides faculty with the opportunity to create resources for direct integration within Canvas.

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Seeing faculty's open content shared under an open license is what OER is all about. Our ever-growing list of publications provides inspiration for ways to customize your course materials. See also this guidance on creating your own text on UVA's Pressbooks platform.

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Open Educational Resources: A Hands-on Workshop

University of Virginia Library

Deposited in Libra, our institutional repository for open scholarship, this compilation of presentations from a February 2024 event highlights faculty work, state-wide and University initiatives, and includes hands-on OER exploration exercises.

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We appreciate the framing of this workshop hosted by the UVA Library as it encouraged state-wide as well as localized perspectives on OER.

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