We make high-level, ready-to-teach, Open Educational Resources (OER) available for everyone. No sharing restrictions. No editing restrictions.
What we do
Nearpod is an OpenStax Ally sharing the mission to improve access to affordable educational materials that instructors use to facilitate learning in their courses. Together, we created 350 ancillary materials openly licensed (CC BY 4.0) and available for free in a publicly accessible Commons. Every lesson is ready to teach and is professionally built to maximize learning outcomes.
How we do it
Contribute: To help advance the awareness, improvement, and distribution of OER, Nearpod partners with OpenStax to create ancillary materials that align to their most popular higher education open textbooks. Together, we created 350 openly licensed ancillary materials available for free.
Attribute: We attribute each lesson to the creator to ensure all those involved receive the proper credit for their contributions. This practice encourages contributions from the OER community and is a key innovation of OER materials.
Release: Every lesson is available at no cost for anyone to access through our open Commons. Aside from attribution, there are no restrictions on editing or distributing any of the content. Additionally, all lessons exist in the Nearpod platform. Create a free Nearpod Silver account for additional instruction, engagement, and assessment tools that are pre-built into each lesson.
Empower: Inclusivity and diversity of learners are two characteristics that make Nearpod successful. We transform traditional course materials into engaging lessons that give every student a chance to show what they know. This includes real-time checks for understanding that have built-in accessibility features, like audio responses and Microsoft Immersive Reader.
