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Affordable & Open Educational Resources (A&OER) are resources licensed to be used in the classroom at little or no cost to the student.
Open Education Week 2019
Celebrate and participate in Open Education Week, March 4-8, 2019

Empowering
As a student, I have more learning resources than ever before which feels empowering.

Gives variety to course material
[OER] is free for students, saves time for faculty, and OER provides a variety for the class materials that help me prepare for lectures in the course.

Keeps professors’ options open.
Open Educational Resources doesn’t limit professors to one book and allows them to pull material from different resources, which gives us students broader perspective.

Cost Savings
It was a huge relief when I found out my courses were using OER materials.

By using Affordable & Open Educational Resources in the classroom, UMKC is making education more affordable for students. Below are the numbers for the Fall of 2018. See past figures.
Courses Using<br />A&OER
Students<br />Impacted
Savings<br />Achieved

Faculty across the UM System are utilizing Affordable & Open Educational Resources. See why.


Customized Material
An opportunity for institutions to provide fantastic content at no additional cost to their students.

Active Learning
Gives the ability to enlist students and convert them from passive to active participants in their own learning.

Academic Freedom
It really allows you to customize the textbook in ways that a commercial product just couldn't do.

Change of Pace
For me, it is a welcomed break from the traditional, very expensive textbook.