Open Educational Resources (OER): A Guide for Faculty: OER Videos

A visual explanation on the basics of Open Educational Resources (OER), based on David Wiley’s 5Rs. Includes an overview on different types of OER and how OER ties in with Creative Commons licensing, as well as an introduction to the key steps on finding and using OER.

Open educational resources are becoming an important tool for teaching and learning. Several higher ed IT leaders share their thoughts on incorporating this tool into the curriculum.

Creative Commons is a set of licenses that enable lawful collaboration to do things like copy, share and remix. Creative Commons is a way to give permission to everyone to freely reuse your creative works. Hundreds of sites use these licenses: Wikipedia, YouTube, Archive.org, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Flickr, Bandcamp, Boundless, Jamendo, TED, Musopen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Free Music Archive, Freesound.

The content contained in this video is available under the Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike License v 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) unless otherwise stated. The work is attributable to: Victor Grigas, Wikimedia Foundation.

"How to Find and Evaluate OER" by Abbey Elder is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/

Evaluation Rubrics:

BCOER. (2015). Faculty guide for evaluating open educational resources. Retrieved from Link

Mcbrarian. (n.d.). iRubric: Evaluating OER rubric. Retrieved from Link

Achieve. (2011). Rubrics for evaluating open educational resource (OER) objects. Retrieved from Link

"Creating Open Educational Resources" by Abbey Elder is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This video contains 5 tips for instructors creating OER for the first time:

1) Determine how your OER will meet your course's needs

2) Check if you've already created something you can use as a base for your OER

3) Evaluate tools and determine where you will build your OER

4) Consider what license you will apply to your OER

5) Decide where and how you want to share your OER

ISU OER Library Guide: http://instr.iastate.libguides.com/OER

In this video, you will learn more about how to search the LibreTexts repository at https://libretexts.org/ for open textbooks.

To learn more about open textbooks and other open educational resources, check out our OER LibGuide at https://utrgv.libguides.com/oer, the UTRGV Textbook Affordability Project website at https://www.utrgv.edu/tap, or email the Open Education Librarian at gabrielle.hernandez@utrgv.edu.

Additional Links: LibreCommons Search Tool: https://commons.libretexts.org/ Request LibreText Instructor Account(s): https://commons.libretexts.org/accoun... LibreTexts YouTube Channel: / libretexts

© 2022 by Natalie Young is licensed under CC BY 4.0

CC BY Marc Daczewitz

In this video, you will learn more about how to search the OER Commons repository at https://www.oercommons.org/ for open textbooks.

Open Educational Resources (OER) represent a subset of Open Access (OA) material.

OER are always Open Access, but not all OA materials are considered OER (License Consideration).

These OER/ZTC pathways provide the opportunity for faculty to experiment with innovative and effective teaching practices. These pathways can also provide access and improve equity for students, regardless of background. This webinar will focus on credit and noncredit OER/ZTC pathways that have improved student success, equity, and completion. Source: https://www.cccoer.org/webinar/the-transformative-power-of-oer-ztc-pathways/