Open Educational Resources (OER)

Available to TCC faculty only. Search this portal and request a book to be used in your class. VIVA will purchase the book on your behalf.

Collection of curated OER adopted, adapted, and/or created by faculty and higher education professionals at Virginia institutions. Through the VIVA course mapping project, Virginia faculty are invited to review OER for the quality of explanation of the subject matter, comprehensiveness, and cultural relevance in consideration for the courses they have been mapped to.

Every year, VIVA provides two OER grant opportunities open to all higher education faculty in Virginia. With Adopt Grants, faculty receive $2000 to adopt an OER textbook and create ancillary material. With VIVA Create grants, faculty are funded up to $30,000 to create open material within their discipline.