Open Educational Resources (OER): SB - 810, 85th Texas Legislature

• Encourage faculty to adopt and develop courses that use only open educational resources
• Require institutions of higher education to include in their documentation whether or not textbooks are open educational resources
• Provide a searchable list of courses and sections of courses that require or recommend only open educational resources and
• Increase transparency about textbook costs (including the adoption of no-cost textbooks) and allow students to make more informed course selections based on this information.

The Higher Education Coordinating Board must conduct a feasibility study on a state repository of OER.

• A university's course schedule must include information about required course textbooks, including retail price, author, publisher, copyright date, ISBN, and whether the textbook is an open educational resource (OER);
• University or bookstore textbook lists which include a search feature must support searches for courses and sections requiring only OER materials;
• Universities must disseminate information to students regarding the availability of courses and sections requiring only OER (as well as available institutional programs for textbook rental, used textbook purchasing, textbook buyback programs, alternative delivery of textbook content, and any other available institutional textbook cost-savings strategies); 
•  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) must establish a grant program to encourage faculty to adopt OER and redesign courses to exclusively use OER;