Open Educational Resources (OER)

The VIVA Course Mapping Hub provides a listing of OER selected and aligned to high enrollment courses at select Virginia higher education institutions. The hub was originally labeled the VCCS Transfer Course Mapping Hub because of its focus on curating and mapping OER to VCCS transfer courses through the Transfer Virginia iniaitive. Later project developments included identifying equivalent courses at Virginia public 4-year and private non-profit institutions through the Transfer Virginia search tool, Where Will My Course Transfer, and course tags from a wider range of institutions were added to the OER. Most of the OER have been reviewed by Virginia faculty to determine their suitability for the VCCS transfer courses using three indicators: the quality of the explanation of the subject matter, comprehensiveness, and cultural representation. All faculty reviewed OER are identified with a Faculty Reviewed seal in the item record.

The goal of the VIVA Course Mapping Project is to support the discovery of Open Educational Resources (OER) aligned to Virginia courses. Recognizing that competing demands and time constraints present barriers to OER adoption for many instructors, the Course Mapping Project works to consolidate and align OER for high enrollment courses at Virginia higher education institutions.

The VIVA Faculty Textbook Portal is a catalog to assist Virginia public college and university faculty in finding and selecting open and affordable textbooks for their courses in one place. The Portal is part of a wide-scale Open and Affordable Initiative by VIVA to provide no-cost and barrier-free access to course curriculum resources for students and researchers. The Portal contains over 200,000 titles from VIVA’s shared library collections, open access textbooks, and ebooks available for VIVA to purchase on behalf of public colleges and universities throughout the state. Search the VIVA Faculty Textbook Portal below to explore this resource:

VIVA Open is an OER Commons hosted website that serves as a repository for open educational resources (OER) adopted, adapted, and/or created by faculty and higher education professionals at Virginia institutions, most notably through VIVA Open Grants and VIVA Adopts. To support faculty in the development of OER, the site also contains the VIVA Open Grants Hub. The hub provides a venue for collaboration through subject-specific groups as well as tools and training specific to working with the OER Commons authoring tool, module builder, permissions guide, and more. The VCCS Transfer Course Mapping Hub a listing of OER selected for high enrollment and Transfer Virginia courses. Institutional collections of OER adopted and tagged by the course are shared on the Virginia OER Adoptions hub. Finally, VIVA Open Curated Collections provides a listing of OER in a wide range of subjects.

VIVA Open Publishing is an Open and Affordable initiative providing centralized publishing services and support for VIVA member institution's library publishing programs utilizing the Pressbooks and VIVA Open publishing platforms.

The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is the consortium of nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Members include all of the 39 state-assisted colleges and universities (the six doctoral universities, nine 4-year institutions, and 24 community and two-year branch colleges), as well as 31 of the independent (private, nonprofit) institutions and the Library of Virginia.