OER Testimonials
Open Educational Resources (OER) provide the flexibility to customize instructional resources and there’s excellent support at WT for adopting, adapting, and authoring open instructional materials to supplement or replace commercial textbooks.
When professors find and adopt quality Open Educational Resources for their courses, they have the potential to save students hundreds of dollars in textbook costs without sacrificing instructional quality.
With Open Educational Resources (OER) our team was able to create and customize instructional materials that target the fundamental academic skills all first year students need in order to succeed in college. OER are an excellent way to share expertise, best practice, and innovative pedagogy across departments and institutions at no cost to students.
An Interview With Dr. Nick Flynn, the Inaugural Recipient of the Open Educational Resources Educator Award from the WT Student Government Association.
May 2023: Dr. Nick Flynn wins inaugural Open Educational Resources Educator Award from the WT Student Government Association.
Cornette Library wanted to take a moment and congratulate Dr. Nick Flynn, professor of biochemistry, on being awarded the Open Educational Resources Educator Award from the WT Student Government Association.
We contacted Dr. Flynn to ask him for the details of his OER use. These are his answers.
How do you use OER?
I use the OpenStax textbook for my freshman chemistry courses. Also, I provide free study guides to my students, not technically OER, but still fits the intention of it.
Why do you use OER?
Is there anything else that you’d like to say about OER?
There are some excellent OER resources out there for many of the disciplines we teach. I’d encourage our faculty to seek out these resources and include them in their instructional materials.
Thank you, Dr. Flynn, for your fantastic work with OER. We appreciate you.
(Dr. Flynn’s answers were lightly edited for punctuation.)
The OpenStax Chemistry 2nd edition book can be accessed at the OpenStax website.