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McLennan Community College OER Essentials PD Class: Resource Project Assignment

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This is an assignment/project for an introductory-level OER Professional Development course for faculty, staff, and student workers at a two-year community college. The course consists of four in-person class meetings, each about 2 hours in length. Meetings include an overview of OER, including major OER platforms (OERTX and OER Commons), copyright, remixing, assessment, and authoring. Guest speakers are also incorporated to address applying for grants, authoring/revising resources, and engaging in professional training outside the college. The project involves 3 - 5 hours of work outside of class. Participants create and share a resource (course assignment, slides, podcast, training document, etc.) in the OERTX or OER Commons platforms, which must include an appropriate Copyright license (ideally CC BY) and a permalink.Image from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY)

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson

Author: Jessica Zbeida

The OER Starter Kit Workbook

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The OER Starter Kit Workbook is a remix of the OER Starter Kit to include worksheets to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, use, or even create open educational resources (OER). We welcome instructors, librarians, instructional designers, administrators, and anyone else interested in OER to explore the OER Starter Kit Workbook.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Textbook

Authors: Abbey Elder, Stacy Katz

English 1301 (Comp. I) - Rhetoric and the Workplace

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This resource is an assignment for English 1301 (Composition 1) focused on the role of rhetoric in workplace writing. For this assignment, students prepare a job application packet consisting of a resume and cover letter. To do this, students must find an actual job advertisement posted online (or a job description) to include with their assignment. Students use their knowledge of the rhetorical situation and models of appropriate workplace writing (available from most college and university Career Centers, as well as from the Purdue OWL and UNC Writing Center websites online) to prepare an application packet tailored to the position they want. This assignment provides students with an opportunity to apply what they've learned in class toward a concrete, meaningful goal, and most students respond positively to it.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Jessica Zbeida

OER Action Planning Worksheet.

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Your action plan is an internal planning document for how you will convince key internal and external constituents to support for the work that you are doing. It is intended as a living document that you can revisit as you review the results of your advocacy activities and refine your advocacy strategy. Think of it as a skeleton you can work to fill in.

Material Type: Module

Author: SPARC

Marking Open and Affordable Courses: Best Practices and Case Studies

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This collaboratively authored guide helps institutions navigate the uncharted waters of tagging course material as open educational resources (OER) or under a low-cost threshold by summarizing relevant state legislation, providing tips for working with stakeholders, and analyzing technological and process considerations. The first half of the book provides high-level analysis of the technology, legislation, and cultural change needed to operationalize course markings. The second half features case studies by Alexis Clifton, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Michael Daly, Juville Dario-Becker, Tony DeFranco, Cindy Domaika, Ann Fiddler, Andrea Gillaspy Steinhilper, Rajiv Jhangiani, Brian Lindshield, Andrew McKinney, Nathan Smith, and Heather White.

Material Type: Case Study

Authors: Abbey Elder, Jennifer Raye, Jessica Dai, John Schoppert, Joy Perrin, Kris Helge, Liz Thompson, Michelle Reed, Nicole Allen, Sarah Hare

APEX Calculus

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APEX Calculus is a calculus textbook written for traditional college/university calculus courses. It has the look and feel of the calculus book you likely use right now (Stewart, Thomas & Finney, etc.). The explanations of new concepts is clear, written for someone who does not yet know calculus. Each section ends with an exercise set with ample problems to practice & test skills (odd answers are in the back).

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Brian Heinold, Dimplekumar Chalishajar, Gregory Hartman, Troy Siemers

Making Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Students by Students

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This book will introduce you to the idea of Open Educational Resources (OER), where to find them, why we recommend using them, and how to go about creating your own.

Material Type: Student Guide

Authors: Anas Al-Chalabi, Ashlyne O'Neil, Brandon Mailloux, Chris Nardone, Dave Cormier, Devin Wacheski, Elijah Annoh-Waithe, Ghanem Ghanem, Jykee Pavo, Kamaal Kusow, Kristen Swiatoschik, Lawrence Villacorte, Lorenzo Pernasilici, Marianne Kantati, Mikayla Bornais, Mitchel Macmillan, Mohamed Eldabagh, Norman Ha, Patrick Carnevale, Rana Kilani, Steven Shlimoon, Tariq Al-Rfouh, Zain Raza

Marketing OER Programs to Students

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OER programs provide an opportunity for students to earn a certificate or associates degree without incurring the cost of textbooks for their courses. This can dramatically reduce the cost of attendance and has been estimated at 25% or more savings*. Most OER programs are developed to serve the neediest students who may otherwise have to defer college or take fewer courses due to prohibitive cost. Reaching the students who could most benefit most from enrolling in OER courses can prove to be a challenge in of itself. We will hear from speakers who have developed successful strategies at their colleges to create awareness and encourage underrepresented students to enroll in OER degree programs targeted at their academic success.

Material Type: Lesson

Authors: Lyda Kiser, Mark Haskins

OER Student Toolkit – Open Textbook

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For students, the high cost of educational resources and textbooks can be a serious obstacle to the accessibility and affordability of a post-secondary education. For instructors, traditional educational resources may also present a barrier to innovation in teaching and curriculum design. Fortunately, open educational resources (OER) provide a viable solution to both these issues. OER can be accessed for free online or printed at a fraction of the cost of a traditional textbook, and can be edited to better fit the curricular or pedagogical goals of an instructor.

Material Type: Reading

Authors: Brady Yano, Daniel Munro, Jenna Omassi

Remix

OER Core Elements Academy Fall 2021 Resources

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This resource includes the recordings and practice activities for the OER Core Elements Academy which consists of three synchronous, virtual sessions:Introduction to Open Educational Resources & Practices - Exploration of the what, why, and how of OER, highlighting use cases involving successful adoption and implementation of OER at Texas institutions.Discovery, Evaluation & Curation - Hands-on training aimed at supporting effective search, quality evaluation, and curation strategies to collaboratively identify, evaluate, and organize OER relevant to desired use.Authoring & Remixing - Deep dive into courseware improvement, developing collaborative workflows to utilize authoring tools to design, create and remix resources. Leverage supports for peer-review, reflection, and refinement of resources.Participants will have assignments to complete between synchronous sessions. Two opportunities for office hours with OER experts will also be offered:Office Hours – Option for informal discussion with OER experts.Participants are required to attend 4.5 hours of instruction and complete approximately 7 hours of practice activities to find, curate, publish, and share OER.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Megan Simmons, Michelle Singh, Kylah Torre

Texas Toolkit for OER Course Markings (a living guide)

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A new law requires Texas colleges and universities to share information with students about courses that use open educational resources (OER). Now students should be able to search for courses that use only OER when they are registering for courses. This toolkit is a living document that can help Texas institutions implement course marking solutions. If your state or institution is considering similar policies, this toolkit can help you, too. The toolkit became a collaborative book project in Summer 2018. The open access book, Marking Open and Affordable Courses: Best Practices and Case Studies (co-edited by Sarah Hare, Jessica Kirschner, and Michelle Reed), was published by Mavs Open Press in 2020.

Material Type: Module

Author: Michelle Reed

OpenStax OER Toolkit

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This toolkit provides guidance and considerations regarding an array of OER development and implementation topics.  Key areas of focus include:Open licensesOpportunities and approaches to using third-party images and resourcesResource development planningInclusive, accessible, and equitable resourcesPeer review and revisionFinding and evaluating OERSharing and promoting OER The guide has a detailed table of contents, and is itself openly licensed for reuse and remixing.   

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Anthony Palmiotto

Foundations of Social Work Research

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This textbook was created to provide an introduction to research methods for BSW and MSW students, with particular emphasis on research and practice relevant to students at the University of Texas at Arlington. It provides an introduction to social work students to help evaluate research for evidence-based practice and design social work research projects. It can be used with its companion, A Guidebook for Social Work Literature Reviews and Research Questions by Rebecca L. Mauldin and Matthew DeCarlo, or as a stand-alone textbook.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Rebecca L. Mauldin