Lowering textbook and course material costs for UT students
This list of faculty and instructors have lowered or eliminated textbook costs through the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and/or other zero-cost options:
-
Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available online through an open Creative Commons license and allow the freedom to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute.
-
Zero-Cost Materials include library collections and subscriptions like eBooks, streaming videos, and online academic journals (purchased in part through student tuition and fees) and/or materials freely accessible via the internet.
Browse the full list of OER and Zero-Cost Material Courses, or click a course area to jump directly to that section.
AE ANTH BIOL BSET COSC ECON EDPY EF ENG ELI ESS GEOG HIEU INSC MATH MUS PHIL PHYS PSYC VMD/VMP
|
|
OER Trailblazer Award Winner |
|
SGA OER Award Winner |
-
AE 351 Compressible Flow with Kenneth Kihm, adopted Fundamentals of Compressible Flow Mechanics
ANTH 511 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology (“Big Data”) with Alex Bentley, adopted Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach
- BIOL 101 Introduction to Biology: Cells, Genetics, and Physiology with Jeremy Chandler and
Stan Guffey, adopted OpenStax Biology - BIOL 102 Introduction to Biology: Biodiversity and Ecology with Jeremy Chandler, Ben Keck, and Stan Guffey, adopted OpenStax Biology
- BIOL 150 Organismal and Ecological Biology with Stan Guffey and Ben Keck, adopted OpenStax Concepts of Biology
- BIOL 160 Cellular and Molecular Biology with Stephanie Madison and Jeremy Chandler, adopted OpenStax Biology
- BSET 326 GIS/GPS Applications in Ag & Environmental Science with Joanne Logan, adopted Essentials of Geographic Information Systems
COSC 311/317 Discrete Structures with Michael Berry and Judy Day, adopted Applied Discrete Structures - COSC 140/302 Data Structures & Algorithms I/II with James Plank, adopted zero-cost materials
- COSC 360 Systems Programming with James Plank, adopted zero-cost materials
- COSC 434/534 Network Security with Max Schuchard, adopted zero-cost materials
- COSC 494 Advanced Programming and Algorithms with James Plank, adopted zero-cost materials
- ECON 201 Introductory Economics: A Survey Course with Donna Bueckman, adopted Principles of Economics
- EDPY 577 Statistics in Applied Fields I with Louis Rocconi, adopted Online Statistics Education: A Multimedia Course of Study
- EF 151/152 Physics for Engineers I/II with Richard Bennett, Betsy White, and Others. moved to a non-textbook model for all EF program courses starting in 2011, adopting resources ranging from The Physics Classroom, OpenStax University Physics, and zero-cost materials available from HyperPhysics.
- EF 230 Computer Solution of Engineering Problems with Will Schleter (see EF 230 Course Website)
- ENG 295 Writing in the Workplace with Mark Tabone, adopted Business Communications for Success
- ELI 110 Fundamentals in Academic English with Charity Davenport, created OER course materials It's All Greek To Me! Using Authentic Readings to Improve Knowledge of the English Language and Western Culture
- ESS 462 Environmental Climatology with Joanne Logan, combined the OER textbook Essentials of Geographic Information Systems with zero-cost resources including National Climate Assessment reports, and Kanopy videos
- GEOG 101 World Geography with Ron Foresta, Madhuri Sharma, Erik Johanson, and GTAs, adopted World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization
- HIEU 241 The Development of Western Civilization: Ancient World to 1715 with Jacob Latham
- INSC 573 Programming for Children and Young Adults with Cindy Welch
- MATH 351 Introduction to Abstract Algebra with Dustin Cartwright, adopted Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications
- MATH 371/475/578 Numerical Algorithms – Multiple Instructors, adopted Holistic Numerical Methods
- MATH 475 Industrial Mathematics with Alexiades Vasilios, adopted zero-cost materials
- MATH 578 Numerical Methods/Partial Differential Equations with Alexiades Vasilios, adopted zero-cost materials
- MUTH 130/140, 230/240 Ear Training and Advanced Ear Training I/II with Barbara Ann Murphy, created an openly available Music Theory site for all materials
- MUTH 310 Form and Analysis with Barbara Ann Murphy, created an openly available Music Theory site
- PHIL 235 Formal Logic with Marlin Sommers, adopted forall x
- PHIL 244 Professional Responsibility with Ryan Windeknecht, adopted Ethics Across the Professions
- PHYS 135/136 Introduction to Physics for Physical Science and Mathematics Majors I with Marianne Breinig and Haidong Zhou, adopted University Physics
- PHYS 221/222 Elements of Physics I/II with Marianne Breinig and others adopted College Physics in combination with additional OER, and Zero-Cost videos, practice problems, tutorials, etc.
- PSYC 110/117 General Psychology with Hardin, Ross-Sheehy, Cooper, and GTAs, adopted Psychology (Published by OpenStax, Rice University)
- PSYC 314 Cognitive Basis of Behavior with Mahadevan Srinivasan
- PSYC 360 Social Psychology with Jeff Larsen. adopted Principles of Social Psychology
- PSYC 400 Advanced Cognitive Psychology with Mahadevan Srinivasan
- PSYC 570 Personality: Personality, Cognition and Affect with Mahadevan Srinivasan
- VMP 814/824 Physiology and Microscopic Anatomy I/II with Kim Newkirk, adopted Veterinary Histology
- VMD 888 Veterinary Medicine, Clinical Pathology with Michael Fry and Deanna Schaefer, adopted Zero-Cost eClinPath
Open Education Portal
This page is part of the Libraries' Open Education Portal. |
Help improve this list!
Please complete this short form if you or someone you know is using OER and/or zero-cost materials.
Want to learn more about OER?
Visit UT Libraries' Open Textbook Home Page for a brief introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER).
Want to lower costs for students?
Connect with your subject librarian to explore OER and other zero-cost options.