Fueled by both exorbitant costs and the pandemic, interest in Open Educational Resources (OER) is at an all time high. In Psychology, high quality OERs exist (OpenStax, NOBA) and are being adopted. However instructors often seek solutions to provide better interaction and availability than static web pages and PDF documents, and may utilize platforms like Pressbooks which then, in an ironic twist, begin charging for the very content that had previously been liberated. Institutions partner with these platforms as well as traditional publishers for these digitized materials under fanciful titles like “inclusive access” with no cost savings passed to students, and lack of customization – the very purposes of OERs in the first place.

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To help institutions transition away from walled gardens and gatekeepers, my colleague and I have not only compiled OER materials, but also built systems to provide scalable availability to students and researchers using free open source software (FOSS). We have developed solutions to fully customizable OER delivered utilizing free tools on infrastructures largely already deployed on campus networks, in plain and simple language non-geeks will understand. Thus a crafty psychology professor, with assistance from their IT department, can realize the dream of OER: No cost, high quality, fully customizable