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Nursing: Open Educational Textbooks (Nursing)

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

According to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: 

Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”

Open RN Wisconsin

OPEN RN (Wisconsin) - (complete set of free and high quality nursing textbooks)

  • Wisconsin textbooks (Chippewa Valley Technical College as part of the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) consortium)

  • 65 authors and 300 peer reviewers

  • 8 + textbooks

One Project (Texas)

ONE Project (Texas) - (partially complete set of free and high quality nursing textbooks)

  • Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board/ OpenStax

  • 500 nursing faculty, administrators, and advisors involved  (peer reviewed)

  • 8 textbooks