About VIVA Open Grants

VIVA Open Grants focus on reducing the costs of higher education for Virginia students by eliminating course material costs. These grants encourage the use of open and affordable course content, including textbooks, software, and other course materials, by providing funding for instructors to adapt and create course content that can be made available to students for no or very little cost. The VIVA Open Grants hub is where grant recipient cohorts gather to collaborate and deposit their open educational resources.

OER Tutorials

Use Groups on OER Commons

An OER Commons user demonstrates how to use Groups on OER Commons

Create Open Textbooks using Open Author

An OER Commons user demonstrates how to create a textbook with Open Author.

OER Tools

Permissions Guide For Educators

This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is intended to support teachers, librarians, curriculum experts and others in identifying the terms of use for digital resources, so that the resources may be appropriately (and legally) used as part of lessons and instruction. The guide also helps educators and curriculum experts in approaching the task of securing permission to use copyrighted materials in their classrooms, collections, libraries or elsewhere in new ways and with fewer restrictions than fair use potentially offers. The guide was created as part of ISKME's Primary Source Project, and is the result of collaboration with copyright holders, intellectual property experts, and educators.

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Open Educational Practice Rubric

This rubric defines a set of open education practices that help educators to advance a classroom and school culture of open education and to advocate for the potential benefits of open educational resources (OER) in the context of continuous improvement. The rubric is intended to guide educators in working to ensure that every student has the opportunity to engage in learning effectively by accessing, curating, evaluating, and adapting open educational resources in response to students’ particular needs, interests, and contexts, to author and share original or remixed resources, and to disseminate approaches to the implementation of those resources for future OER users to benefit from.

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Open Practice & OER Commons Webinars

Interested in learning more about the tools you can find on OER Commons to help your work in open education? Visit ISKME's OER Training Webinars here to watch recordings of the webinars.

OER Webinars

STEM Inquiry Lesson Authoring Template

This template supports STEM teachers and librarians in working collaboratively to create lessons that build science practice and STEM inquiry skills in alignment with state and national science standards, and that address the Common Core literacy shifts around close reading and building textual evidence.

VIVA Open Grants

About VIVA Open Grants

VIVA Open Grants Course Content

American Literature Anthology

Chemistry Notebooks

Computer Systems Fundamentals

Differential Equations / COMING SOON

Early Childhood Education

Graduate Research Methods in Social Work

Historical Geology

Human Geography

Introductory Biology

Introductory Math

Introductory Python

Microscopy for Geoscience

Music Theory

Pre-Clinical Medicine

Psychology Learning and Cognition

Advanced Conversational Spanish

Cultural Anthropology / COMING SOON

Ethics / COMING SOON

Fish, Fishing and Conservation

Foundations of Education

Human Anatomy and Physiology Learning Guide

Introductory Ecology

Introductory Human Communications

Quantitative Methods in Geography Lab Manual / COMING SOON

Sociological Research Methods / COMING SOON

Undergraduate Hydromechanics

Undergraduate Robotics

Aerospace Structures

Anatomy and Physiology Lab Manual for Nursing and Allied Health Students / COMING SOON

Elementary Statistics / COMING SOON

Ethics / COMING SOON

Family and Community Engagement OER for Teachers / COMING SOON

Introductory Physical Science / COMING SOON

Pre-College Composition for English Language Learners

Principles of Macroeconomics and Microeconomics / COMING SOON

Principles of Management / COMING SOON

Quantitative Reasoning

World Languages Textbook Collaboratory / COMING SOON

Advanced Composition for ESL

Composition for English Language Learners / COMING SOON

Crisis Resource Management / COMING SOON

Sustainable Property Management

Introduction to Special Education / COMING SOON

Music Theory / COMING SOON

Race & Racism in America / COMING SOON

Special Education Case Studies / COMING SOON

A Decolonial Eighteenth Century & Literature of the British Isles / COMING SOON

History of Art: Prehistoric to Gothic / COMING SOON

Instructional Design and Assessment / COMING SOON

Interdisciplinary Engineering, Physics, and Calculus / COMING SOON

Introduction to Anthropology / COMING SOON

Spanish for Medical Professionals / COMING SOON

Principles of Curriculum and Instructional Design / COMING SOON

Open Textbook, Problem Bank, and Assessment Environment for Mechanics of Materials / COMING SOON

Key Themes and Applications in Psychology OER / COMING SOON

Fundamentals of Business Test Bank / COMING SOON

Developmental Psychology: A Topical Approach / COMING SOON

Early Childhood Social and Emotional Development and Learning / COMING SOON

Open Source and Evidence-Based Pedagogy in a Research Methods Course / COMING SOON

Environmental and Energy Sustainability Ancillary Materials / COMING SOON

Exploring Quantitative Analysis with Excel / COMING SOON

Biology 101 Assessments / COMING SOON

Introductory Astronomy Ancillaries / COMING SOON

International Business / COMING SOON

First-Year English Composition / COMING SOON

Precalculus / COMING SOON

OER-Enabled Experiential Learning in Online Course Design and Development / COMING SOON

Foundations of Engineering / COMING SOON

Introduction to Early Childhood Education / COMING SOON

Historical Geology Phase 2 / COMING SOON

World Regional Geography Supplementary Materials / COMING SOON

Principles of Biology Lab I Manual / COMING SOON

Cognitive Psychology / COMING SOON

Dear Computer: An Interactive Programming Languages Textbook / COMING SOON

Introductory Computer Science / COMING SOON

Groups

OER Tutorials