Commercial publishers actively promote their texts, include ancillary materials, and provide support that makes adoption as easy as possible. By contrast, professors who adopt OER must search for texts; adapt materials for use on their LMS; and, often, create their own slides, test banks, and exercises. New requirements for accessibility compliance add to the challenge of adopting OER. Publishers like OpenStax attempt to fill this gap but can fall short. We report on recent efforts in the College of Business at Shepherd University to improve discovery of external and internal OER; adapt existing OER; and package internally-created OER for distribution. Our panel includes two professors who adopted OER for the first time in their classes; a professor working with students to create OER in the capstone course; and a professor creating text and video content from scratch using open source software. We welcome your questions on anything from the big picture of OER adoption to the technical details of formatting and content packaging.
