Students can use OER materials from then on, without expiration, in accordance with the OER license applied.LTA materials are available to students as soon as the class page of Canvas is made active by the instructor, which should be no later than the first-class day.That will allow the materials to be read in a new section of the course’s Canvas site called “My Textbooks.” ![]() For non-commercial materials (Open Educational Resources, or OER), the instructor can still choose to adopt them through the Co-op’s adoption system, if they choose.Students are opted in to the LTA course materials by default, but can easily opt out to pursue other options as described below. If the instructor selects the LTA version, the course and its students are automatically included in the LTA program.If a non-digital printed version is preferred by the instructor, they will choose the non-LTA version during adoption, same as before.The LTA price is guaranteed to be the lowest commercially available price for the equivalent material.This ISBN is then entered into the same textbook adoption system that has been run by the University Co-op for many years. If an instructor is comfortable using digital course materials, including the textbook if applicable, then the ISBN for the digital LTA version of chosen materials can be obtained from the Co-op or from a publisher’s representative.Faculty members choose, without restriction, their textbook and any related course materials for their classes. ![]() This will allow your OER materials to appear on the “My Textbooks” tab in Canvas with the rest of their textbooks, at no additional cost. You can also adopt them with the Co-op in some cases, as described above. With Open Educational Resource (OER) materials, you can link them from your course’s Canvas page. If you are interested in Open Educational Resources (OER) - free, open, or lower cost alternatives to commercial textbooks, please do the following:Ĭontact the UT Libraries for assistance and information on sources of OER materials and a network of OER users at UT Austin with experience in helping instructors to find such materials.Ĭomplete this form and someone will contact you, or contact the Open Education Librarian. Or (if applicable) contact your departmental assistant or other support staff. If adopting LTA course materials used in a prior semester, you will see the correct ISBN in the Co-op’s adoption tool and can also adopt it that way. Using the correct LTA ISBN number, contact the University Co-op to adopt your course materials.
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