This resource is a template for redesigning a course to include OER. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023."Education” by Brooke Cagle is licensed under Unsplash License.  

This resource is a template for redesigning a course to include OER. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023.

This resource is a template for redesigning a course to include OER. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023.

This resource is a template for redesigning a course to include OER. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023."Image of Child" by unknown author is licensed  CC BY

This resource is a template for redesigning a course to include OER. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023.

This resource is a template for creating and curating OER ancillary materials. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023.

This is a lecture to accompany a customized version of an OpenStax Biology 2nd edition textbook chapter (Chapter 46 Ecosystems). that I use in my BIOL 1409 classes.

This resource is a template for designing a Professional Learning Series. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023.

This resource is a template for designing an innovative OER project. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023.

This resource is a template for designing an innovative OER project. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023.

This project is an OER-remixed plan for the HIST-2321 World Civilizations course that I teach for dual credit students. In the past, my students have complained about the excessive cost of the school-provided textbook and the poor quality of the content from that textbook. OER materials will mitigate the cost of the textbook for my students and give me more control over the content that is offered to them. Furthermore, as House Bill 8 will likely compel institutions such as Collin College to use OER materials as a condition of state funding, it is prudent to be proactive so that the course materials are done on my terms and in compliance with current state law. Fortunately, as OpenStax and the Collin College library have extensive content available for history instructors, compiling a textbook and assessments will not be excessively time-consuming. I anticipate completing this course by the start of Fall 2023.

This infographic provides an overview of different rubrics and standards used to evaluate the quality of online programs and course design at universities. It lists 7 major rubrics/standards:Quality Matters Rubric - Widely used rubric to improve and certify quality of online courses.Anthology Exemplary Course Program Rubric - Rubric focused on student experience and outcomes.University of Illinois ION Professional Programs Rubric - Rubric tailored for evaluating professional development programs.SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric - Rubric used within SUNY system to review online courses.SHSU Online Course Design Rubrics - Custom rubrics used at Sam Houston State University.Cal State Online Course Rubrics - Custom rubrics used within California State University system.Penn State Online Course Design and Review Rubrics - Custom rubrics used at Penn State.The infographic provides a useful overview of the different standards used to evaluate online course and program quality.

Shifting from ink on paper to digital text suddenly allows us to make perfect copies of our work. Shifting from isolated computers to a globe-spanning network of connected computers suddenly allows us to share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at essentially no cost.
About thirty years ago this kind of free global sharing became something new under the sun. Before that, it would have sounded like a quixotic dream. Digital technologies have created more than one revolution. Let’s call this one the access revolution.

To understand Creative Commons and the licenses you need to have a basic understanding of copyright.

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to a creator preventing others from copying, distributing, publicly performing, adapting, or doing almost anything else except read/view/listen to a work without the copyright holder's expressed permission. Its purpose is to protect the creator’s rights for a certain period and is granted in our constitution. Copyright, in the United States, is automatic from the moment something original is set in a tangible form that can be perceived by other humans or machines, meaning the moment is written down, recorded, performed for others, etc. Copyright lasts a long time and is balanced between a holder's intellectual property rights and public interests. These public interest exceptions are for parody, criticism, and for a disability as well as anything that falls under Fair Use or the TEACH Act. Copyright is also limited since you cannot copyright facts, figures, or ideas - just the expressions of those things. It also doesn't cover intellectual property that is better protected by patent or trademark law (think inventions or branding).

Open Educational Resources (OER) comprise
learning objects and tools that are freely
accessible through an open license, either
through the public domain or Creative Commons
licensing. Since OER are not beholden to rigid
publisher copyright, educators have agency over
their use of these resources. More specifically,
these open resources align with the 5Rs, which
allow users to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and
redistribute OER content (Wiley 2014)

Creative Commons is a free licensing system that allows the author of a work to specify legal permissions for how the work may be used others, while retaining full copyright to it themselves. Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They sit on the shoulders of copyright law, and allow authors to easily modify copyright terms to encourage collaboration and sharing.

The Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Statewide Playbook is a resource developed by practitioners and advocates actively involved in the labor of open education to guide new and expanding OER work at institutions of higher education. The Playbook is the result of partnerships between the Division of Digital Learning, the Institution for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) – creators of OER Commons and experts in open education practice and research – and faculty, librarians, staff, and administrators from institutions and systems across Texas. It aims to support institutions as they work to build capacity and drive systems change around OER. It also serves as a guiding document for institutions that have not yet engaged in OER work or taken advantage of existing programs and opportunities. The hope is that the Texas OER Playbook will serve as a companion on the journey towards OER awareness and advocacy at your institution.

Fleming College faculty and our peers around the world are building a community patchwork of ‘chapters’ into a quasi-textbook about pedagogy for teaching & learning in higher education. Each patch of the quilt/chapter of the book focuses on one pedagogical skill and is completed and published by different individual faculty members from any institution wanting to join in.

Resource is also available in alternative format: https://openfacultypatchbook.org/