Open Educational Resources Nursing Expansion

The Vendor is required to provide to develop two Open Educational Resources (OER) nursing textbooks and supplementary online test preparation resources.
- supported the development, peer review, and publication of eight openly licensed online nursing textbooks.
- Nationwide, these textbooks have been adopted at more than 100 institutions, directly impacting nearly 8,500 nursing students.
- Through continued stakeholder engagement and feedback, additional needs for freely available or low-cost nursing textbooks and ancillary resources have been identified.
- Collaborate with other stakeholders, advisors, and partners to drive better learning and deeper involvement and support from diverse institutions, professional organizations, licensing boards, and other relevant stakeholders; and
- Assemble and categorize existing OER or other materials that can serve the expanded curriculum and test preparation resources, including materials, multimedia, instructional guidance, best practices, videos, and other elements already developed by state programs (This will include ensuring open copyright of materials.).
- Identify qualified authors for the development of textbooks;
- Overseeing the drafting, revision, and publication of the following two nursing textbooks; Pathophysiology and Pediatric Nursing/Infant and Child Health Nursing
- Ensuring textbooks, ancillary materials, and test preparation resources meet accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 Level AA) and universal design principles; providing an accessibility conformance report (ACR) or a completed voluntary product accessibility template (VPAT) for each textbook;
- Collaborating with stakeholder authors and illustrators/artists in creation of textbook artwork, managing production of artwork creation and incorporation into digital textbooks.
- Manage peer review process of textbooks;
- Collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs) appropriate for each textbook review; and
- Organize and host a one-day event focused on successful adoption and use of materials.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 16, 2026