Open Textbooks and Resources for Faculty

The high cost of textbooks continues to negatively impact student access, success, and completion...

Source:  Florida Virtual Campus, 2018 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey:  Results and Findings

Adapting Course Materials for Equity Faculty Grant

George Washington University Libraries & Academic Innovation (GWLAI) is happy to announce and congratulate it's first year recipients of the Adapting Course Materials for Equity Faculty Grant. This pilot program awarded ($250-$1000) to GW faculty who wanted to adopt and adapt open or zero-cost course materials in undergraduate courses taught between Fall 2022 and Fall 2023. The deadline to apply for a grant this cycle has passed. This page will be updated in the fall with information on grant opportunities for 2023-24. We look forward to all future applications! 

Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) Open Textbook Incentive Program

Faculty at WRLC member institutions (including GW) are eligible to receive a $200 stipend for attending a workshop and writing a review of a textbook in the Open Textbook Library. Find out more at Open@WRLC.

"GW Open Textbooks" by GW Libraries can be reused under the CC BY license

Open Textbooks:

• textbooks that are freely available with nonrestrictive licenses
• cover a wide range of disciplines
• available to download and print in various file formats from several web sites and OER repositories
• range from public domain books to existing textbooks to textbooks created specifically for OER.
• solve the problems of the high cost of textbooks, book shortages, and access to textbooks as well as providing the capacity to better meet local teaching and learning needs.