Introduction

About

Open Educational Resources (OER) can be defined as: “learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.” ^[1]

This compilation of OER was curated for teaching staff in the Technological University of the Shannon: Midland and Midwest (TUS), Co. Westmeath, Ireland, by library staff. This book provides a selection of teaching and learning OER, primarily OER published within the last five years, which we deem to be of high quality.

To locate content within this book, users may browse the contents or use the search box located in the top-right of each page. We recommend using this resource in tandem with our OER index, which has been created based on our faculties, for the benefit of our university community.

Purpose

Listen to the audio file to learn more about the purpose of the book, or continue reading.

This pressbook fulfils two aims:

• to support our teaching staff by providing a selection of high quality and timely OER in areas used by our institution to enhance teaching and learning, such as 3D printing, team based learning and lightboard technology.
• to showcase the capabilities of the pressbooks publishing platform, in creating accessible, interactive web books using a variety of media types.

TUS library holds a pressbooks license for our institution, which enables TUS staff and students to create and publish web books and interactive digital learning resources. Contact TUS library to get started using TUS pressbooks or explore the pressbooks directory to learn more.