Alt-Textbook Project
The Alt-Textbook Project empowers faculty to adopt innovative teaching practices while reducing textbook costs for students. We can help you create, remix, or adapt high quality, tailored, educational materials to enhance learning and increase access.
Apply for an Alt-Textbook Grant
Why the Alt-Textbook Project?
Transformative Teaching and Learning
We help you to achieve deeper student engagement, improve learning outcomes, and remove barriers to access, by providing support for developing innovative and transformative teaching and learning practices.
Student Affordability
By using open educational resources (OERs) in your classroom, you help to ensure that cost is not a barrier for your students. All openly licensed content is free.
Customizable Materials
We can help you take control of your course materials by customizing OERs. Once published, these resources are not static: you are able to update and add content as needed.
Community (and Global) Impact
Creating openly-licensed resources adds to the global learning commons and opens up your work to a much broader audience. Students and educators anywhere with internet access can benefit from and utilize your resources.
Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure
When you incorporate open pedagogical practices in the classroom, or take part in creating and improving OER materials, these contributions become part of your professional body of work. Depending on how you engage with it, you can frame your participation through the lens of research, teaching, or service.
Grant Opportunities
We provide grants to support you in developing OERs and adopting open pedagogical approaches, so you can provide transformative teaching and learning experiences.
