Glossary

A work based upon the Work, or upon the Work and other pre-existing works, such as a translation, adaptation, derivative work, arrangement of music or other alterations of a literary or artistic work, or phonogram or performance and includes cinematographic adaptations or any other form in which the Work may be recast, transformed, or adapted including in any form recognizably derived from the original…

OER and No Cost grants provided by the UTSA Libraries to advance OER at UTSA.

ANDI (Accessible Name and Description Inspector) is a free accessibility testing tool that provide automated detection of accessibility issues, reveals what a screen reader should say for interactive elements (the accessible name computation), and gives practical suggestions to improve accessibility and check 508 compliance.

Giving credit to the original creator of the work, fulfilling the the BY license component. Attribution is the minimum requirement of all CC-licenses.

Completely asynchronous UTSA Blackboard course for UTSA faculty awarded an OER Adoption grant. OER Certificate Courses are a collaboration between UTSA Libraries and UTSA Academic Innovation.

Completely asynchronous UTSA Blackboard course for UTSA faculty awarded an OER Design grant. OER Certificate Courses are a collaboration between UTSA Libraries and UTSA Academic Innovation.

A book that has very minor surface changes from the original. For example, the book cover is different, but the rest of the content remains unchanged from the original.

Final report for an Adopt a Free Textbook Grant that includes: final syllabus; assessment; anonymous data on grades, including drop, fail, and withdraw rates; analysis and future textbook plans; student evaluations of the free textbook(s)

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Type of Adopt a Free Textbook Grant that requires grant recipients to work with other instructors to adopt free textbooks by adopting free textbooks in all applicants' sections of a course, in all applicants' courses department-wide, or in all course sections taught department-wide.

A type of Adopt a Free Textbook grant that requires the instructor to adopt free textbooks in one more sections of a course.

A filter in the UTSA Course Schedules that filters for courses with total learning materials cost of $40 or less.

Adoption of library e-book(s) or other learning materials in the course(s) that are completely free for students that may not be openly licensed.

Adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) as course learning materials that are completely free for students and Creative Commons licensed.

This grant tier is for extensive modification of existing Open Educational Resources (OER) that may involve creation of new OER to be used as the primary course learning materials in the course. The final OER created as a deliverable must be completely free for students and Creative Commons licensed.

Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or that have been released under an intellectual property license that allows for free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others, including full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. OER textbooks from OpenStax and Open Textbook Library are examples: they are free and have Creative Commons licenses.

While the exact meaning may vary, but a common idea of an open license is one that requires attribution but otherwise lets people use the content in any way, including commercially, only requiring them to share their modifications under the same license. Creative Commons Wiki, Creative Commons, https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Open_license, CC-BY.

An OER repository of OER across all PressbooksEDU networks. The beauty of these OER is they can be easily cloned on the UTSA Open Textbook network, depending on the level of Creative Commons licensing, and can also be tailored for a course.

Runner Research Press is an online repository of scholarly and creative work produced at UTSA that stimulates research, discovery and learning with the goal of engaging and transforming our diverse communities through open, inclusive access. Runner Research is administered and maintained by the Scholarly Communication Librarian at UTSA Libraries.