Making the most of open and affordable educational resources made easy.
Drive the cultural shift towards a more open and sustainable future
Sylla empowers libraries & centres for teaching and learning to (re)claim their central role. We enable a shift from an expensive and closed ecosystem to a more open and sustainable approach for educational resources.
Your 360 OER View.
Understand how open and affordable educational resources align with how you are teaching today. Sylla runs a personalized analysis for any course, department, and/or the entire institution: painting your local potential based on your syllabi, reading lists or bookstore data. Learn (1) how open educational resources (OER) connect to your teaching or paid-for resources in use today; (2) where the library, education support and/or faculty can make the most of these options - transitioning away from expensive resources to free alternatives for libraries, teachers and students alike.
Find and Assess.
Gain direct access to OER recommendations, matched to any individual resources or course. Sylla helps to identify for which resources in use today —whether textbooks, chapters, journal articles, or monographs— open alternatives are available. Directly connecting you to high-quality OER alternatives. You can seamlessly discover, assess and save potential replacements: identifying the best options that could support a smooth transition from expensive resources to open and high quality alternatives.
Share and Engage.
Easily share these pre-selections with educators and colleagues inviting them to take a closer look at their options. Educators and colleagues can easily engage with the selected options and Sylla streamlines this process by providing key assessment tools, summarizing chapters and subchapters, displaying relevance scores, and more. Minimizing the workload for all while facilitating a personalized approach.
Design and Adopt.
Tailor selected resources to your teaching, design and customize them depending on your local teaching needs or simply adopt them as is. Adopt and export your selections, now ready for teaching in your preferred teaching environment (LMS, VLE or other system)
Towards a more open and sustainable future with Sylla
Sylla is developed in close collaboration with our library partners around the world. Building the next generation of tools that can effectively support them amidst a cultural shift to a more open and sustainable future. There is much more to come and we are committed to shaping this product based on the needs of libraries and educators.