Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens Project (ROTEL Project) preceded CA-ROTEL Project as a four-year U.S. Department of Education funded grant whose purpose was to promote textbook affordability and create culturally relevant open educational resources (OER) for high enrollment general education courses and career and professional courses at six Massachusetts public higher education institutions. Grant participants received stipends to create an OER textbook or adapt an existing OER. Participants were supported by a grant-funded publishing team who provided professional editorial services and H5P activities. All ROTEL OERs are published with open licenses on Pressbooks. Stipends were also available for OER revisions by the original authors, for ROTEL OER peer reviewers, or for the adoption of a ROTEL OER by interested faculty across the Commonwealth. From the Fall of 2023 through Spring of 2025, an assessment plan examined enrollment and grade outcomes, as well as student perceptions of the newly developed OER. Upon its completion, the grant supported the completion of 26 OER Textbooks with 13 Revised Editions, supporting over 1000 students.

The Open Textbooks of the ROTEL Project were developed under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, the contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.