Iowa OER
The Iowa Open Education Action Team (Iowa OER) is a statewide group that supports affordable higher education for students in the state of Iowa.
Latest Blog Posts
Promoting OER in the light of Inclusive Access on Campus
By Katelyn Handler, Student Engagement and Instructional Design Librarian, Grand View University The Situation If you work in higher education, you likely realize that the sharply-rising cost of textbooks presents a major challenge for students and…
Manifold: Simpler OER Authoring & Adapting on a Shoestring
by Anne Marie Gruber, University of Northern Iowa (anne.gruber@uni.edu) While textbook access and affordability continue to be challenges for college students, many institutions don’t have extra library staffing to support instructors who want to adapt/author Open…
January 2026 Resource Highlight: OER Beyond the Gen Ed Curriculum
This month’s blog post was contributed by Abbey K. Elder, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian at Iowa State University. Introduction Because many open education programs focus on saving students money, early OER efforts tended to…
November 2025 Resource Highlight: Math Presentations Highlight Communities of Practice
This month’s blog post was contributed by Jenni Breems, Director of Library Services at Dordt University. For the last few years, the Iowa Open Education Action Team has convened annual OER Communities of Practice (CoPs) to…