Modern Biology (BIO1320) Texas State University
(View Complete Item Description)These materials were used in an online introductory Biology course for non-majors. They compliment the OpenStax Biology 2e textbook.
Material Type: Full Course
All resources in OER GEER Grantees
US History
(View Complete Item Description)These resources are discussion post prompts designed for use in online classes or for class discussions. Each focuses on a topic from a specific chapter in the OpenStax US History textbook beginning with chapter 17. As such, all topics and themes are designed for the second half of the US History survey course.Each prompt is designed to center on a specific topic from each chapter and then connect it to the context of a theme or idea in modern or contemporary times.In this way history is taught so students can understand that it is relevant to their own lives, rather than merely a series of events surviving in their own insulated past.
Material Type: Assessment
Module 6: Accessibility
(View Complete Item Description)Faculty are required to ensure that the teaching materials we use are accessible to all students. Applying a universal design approach to your curriculum allows you to improve accessibility for all learners.
Material Type: Module
Module 3: Why OER?
(View Complete Item Description)Before we discuss the benefits of OER in detail, please take a few minutes to watch this video from Abbey Elder, Open Access & Scholarly Communications Librarian at Iowa State University. The video reviews the definition of OER but also provides a broad overview of why OER is an effective solution in addressing student barriers to high-quality learning materials. The video also provides examples of how faculty can use OER to enhance their teaching and improve student learning.
Material Type: Module
Module 8: Adapting, Creating & Sharing OER
(View Complete Item Description)In the previous seven modules, you’ve learned a great deal about open educational resources and how they can be used as effective teaching and learning material in your courses. In this module, you will gain experience in applying what you’ve learned to successfully adopt, adapt, and create an OER.
Material Type: Module
Module 10: Final Assessment
(View Complete Item Description)Thank you for taking the time to complete this professional development! We understand that learning about OER and applying open licensing concepts to adapt or create your own work is an incremental process. Please come back to these modules to review at any time. We will keep the links and Texas-related information updated. To receive a certificate of completion for these modules, please complete and submit the final assessment linked below.
Material Type: Assessment, Module
Module 5: Finding & Evaluating OER
(View Complete Item Description)Modules 1-4 provided you with a solid introduction to various aspects of open educational resources such as the benefits to using OER, the 5R Framework, and open licensing. In this module, you will apply what you now know about OER and start finding the variety of open resources available to you. Through this module, you will be exposed to a variety of search strategies used in locating and finding relevant OER, and you will explore some of the more useful online repositories and sites which host OER. This module will also focus on elements of evaluating OER.
Material Type: Module
Module 1: Introduction to This Course
(View Complete Item Description)By the end of this course, you should be able to: -Define Open Educational Resources -Explain the rationale for OER adoption and use -Explain the differences between the six currently available Creative Commons licenses -Identify repositories and other resources for finding relevant OER -Use tools and criteria to evaluate OER -Recognize steps and associated criteria for adapting and creating OER with proper attribution and licensing -Create an open educational resource -Review the current landscape of OER in Texas Higher Education -Recognize different Texas legislation on OER
Material Type: Module
Module 4: Introduction to Open Licensing
(View Complete Item Description)Did you realize these course modules are an OER? Do you want to reuse the content, modify it for your students or colleagues? Guess what … you can, with attribution of course! You’ll learn more about reusing open content and explicit open license permissions, such as attribution, in Module 7. However, understanding what makes it possible for you to reuse, modify, and reshare this work is the first step. These activities are legal because when it was created the author released it with an open license. When discussing open licensing it also is necessary to review definitions of important terms and legal requirements of laws and principles applied to a creator’s work and how it can be used or reused. In addition to introducing and defining open licenses, this module will review and define copyright, fair use, and public domain.
Material Type: Module
Module 9: A Look at OER in Texas
(View Complete Item Description)This module will provide a broad overview of OER across the state. This includes discussion of the results of a recent landscape survey by DigiTex, a snapshot look at recent Texas legislation related to OER, and a variety of examples from colleges and universities who are offering OER Degree pathways and OER courses across their curriculum.
Material Type: Module
Module 7: Creative Commons Licensing In-Depth
(View Complete Item Description)CCBY CCBYSA CCBYNC CCBYNCSA CCBYNCND: No, that wasn’t a typo! The acronyms above are representative of the six different Creative Commons (CC) licenses. In Module 4 you were introduced to open licenses and how they differ from all rights reserved copyright. In this module, you will learn about the different conditions and permissions of these licenses.
Material Type: Module
Module 2: Understanding OER
(View Complete Item Description)The nonprofit organization Creative Commons provides the following definition of open educational resources (OER): “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are either (a) in the public domain or (b) licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities.” In Texas, Senate Bill 810 (SB 810), which was signed into law in June 2017, further defines OER as follows: “‘Open educational resource’ means a teaching, learning, or research resource that is in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual property license that permits the free use, adaptation, and redistribution of the resource by any person. The term may include full course curricula, course materials, modules, textbooks, media, assessments, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques, whether digital or otherwise, used to support access to knowledge.” The key distinguishing factor of this type of educational resource is the copyright status of the material. If course content is under a traditional, all-rights-reserved copyright, then it’s not an OER. If it resides in the public domain or has been licensed for adaptation and distribution, then it is an OER.
Material Type: Module
Lesson Planning
(View Complete Item Description)This is a template to prompt lesson developers to provide thorough Instructor Notes so that future users of the materials understand the intention of the activity.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
OERTX Showcase Panel
(View Complete Item Description)This session showcases how OERTX has contributed to widespread use of OER across the state. Faculty share how they use OERTX and how they have supported the use of OER on their campuses. Explore the features in OERTX and how they can be leveraged for individual and institutional success.
Material Type: Lesson
Marking Open and Affordable Courses: Best Practices and Case Studies
(View Complete Item Description)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
A Guide to OER Creation with Mavs Open Press – Simple Book Publishing
(View Complete Item Description)A Guide to OER Creation with Mavs Open Press presents effective practices and policies for reusing and attributing open content, provides an overview of the OER creation and modification processes, and discusses tools and resources available to support OER use at UTA. It was created using Pressbooks, an open source web-based publishing tool adopted by UTA Libraries for hosting and disseminating OER published by Mavs Open Press.
Material Type: Textbook
ISKME_OER_FacultyQuickStartGuide v1.pdf
(View Complete Item Description)Practical strategies for using OER to build courses in Canvas, the learning management system used by community colleges across California Examples of the ways that OER can be used to meet the requirements of quality online course design, and specifically in alignment with the statewide online course design rubric for California Community Colleges Considerations for using OER to create more accessible, relatable learning experiences for students right from the start—including strategies for leveraging Universal Design for Learning, campus accessibility guidelines, and anti-racism frameworks in the development of OER
Material Type: Primary Source
Remix
Experimentium
(View Complete Item Description)Experimentium is a collection of General Chemistry lab experiments and associated prompts developed by Drs. Eszter Trufan and Elene Bouhoutsos-Brown. Most of the experiments can be performed both in the laboratory and at home, if a student kit is provided. The cost of the kits is estimated at under $50 with most items being reusable.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
PHIL2306 for OERTX: A Collection of Open Education Readings in Philosophical Ethics with Topic Introductions
(View Complete Item Description)Ethics shows students how to engage in the sort of self-reflection that leads to greater personal and social responsibility. What should I do? How should I live? How should I treat others? What is most important? – Having more of our citizens step back and think more about these questions is of service both to employers and to society at large, and likely improves the student’s own chances of living a good life. This is a collection of OER readings in philosophical ethics, intended primarily for the high transfer course (under the tccns) PHIL2306 "Introduction to Ethics", and made possible by a GEER grant from the THECB. The collection aims to be comprehensive enough to suit the different teaching interests of different ethics instructors. The readings are organized according to the general topic area, which are separated by chapters, with several readings per chapter. Each chapter also has an introduction that introduces the general topic and the other readings in the chapter, and which supplements with explanations of points and concepts that are within the topic but are not well covered by the other readings.
Material Type: Reading