About PA-ADOPT

The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT) is made up

of four participating institutions from Pennsylvania State System of Higher

Education (PASSHE) that are all regional and primarily undergraduate

institutions, situated in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The PA-ADOPT project

addresses gaps in the open eTextbook marketplace, improves student learning,

and mitigates rising student costs. PA-ADOPT was made possible by the US

Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot Program.

About OER

Open Educational Resources (OER) are instructional, learning and research

materials, digital or non, that are open-source and in the public domain or that

are licensed so that users have free and perpetual permission to engage in the

following activities:

•Retain: the right to make, own, and control copies of the content

•Reuse: the right to use the content in a wide range of ways

•Revise: the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself

•Remix: the right to combine the original or revised content with other open

content to create something new

•Redistribute: the right to share copies of the original content, revisions, and

remixes with others.

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