OER Learning Community Template - Canvas Commons

Members of UT Austin's OER Working Group received a mini grant from our campus' Center for Teaching & Learning to develop an instructor learning community (ILC) focused on OER and affordable course materials as tools for equitable and inclusive teaching practices. The affordable nature of these materials allows students to have immediate access, and open licenses enable instructors to improve cultural responsiveness, accessibility, and innovative pedagogies. Our goals for the ILC were to enable participants to: • Understand the spectrum of affordable learning materials available openly or through campus services, with an emphasis on OER • Search for OER relevant to the courses they teach in repositories and evaluate them using open rubrics • Evaluate course materials for basic accessibility best practices and cultural responsiveness; identify opportunities to enhance these aspects of OER and self-created course materials • Identify and interpret open licenses associated with OER created by others and those they wish to apply to their own materials

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Ashley Morrison, Hannah Chapman Tripp, Lydia Fletcher

Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations

The entire spirit of this book project reflects the editors’ shared belief in the power of an open and inclusive community, of learning, and of collaboration toward innovation. From the outset, the editors knew that this book would be an open project in its own right. It had to be published openly (to practice what we preach), and it would serve as an opportunity to learn the process of creating an open book from start to finish, including, for example, developing review criteria that would ensure rigor, diversity, inclusion, and ingenuity while drawing from the open community to involve both novice and expert OP practitioners both as authors and readers.

Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Textbook

Authors: Alexis Clifton, Kimberly Davies Hoffman

Open Educational Resources Community of Learning

This course is a guide for creating a self-paced community of learning-style curriculum for understanding the basics of Open Educational Resources (OERs). Originally developed in Canvas, this guide includes five learning modules with reflection questions, optional live discussion topics, and quizzes.  The purpose of this OER Community of Learning curriculum is to establish a campus-wide baseline knowledge on the subject of OERs.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Stephanie Towery, Lisa Ancelet, Laura Waugh, Amanda N Price

Building OER Sustainability on Campus

Join us for this webinar to hear how colleges are transitioning from individual faculty OER course adoptions to entire departments and OER degree pathways. OER leaders at colleges who have reached critical mass in their implementation will share best practices for sustaining faculty engagement, student involvement, project funding, and institutional commitment to OER adoption for the enhancement of teaching and learning. Our featured speakers are both longtime community college leaders in the OER movement at regional and district levels. They will engage each other in discussions on the themes mentioned above and invite questions from webinar attendees.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Lisa Young

Growing Open Education in Michigan, Oregon, & California

Open Education Week is an ideal time to hear from our community members who are leading open education initiatives on their campuses and across their states to reduce costs for students and empower faculty to enhance learning in their classrooms. We will hear from two OER librarians and a faculty member who are successfully growing awareness and adoption of open educational resources. They will share the successes and challenges of coordinating statewide efforts and influencing their colleagues to adopt OER in their courses.

Material Type: Lesson

Authors: Amy Hofer, Regina Gong, Vera Kennedy

Creator Fest: OERTX Edition - Continuous Improvement & Community Support

Open educational resources are built for and by a community of educators, librarians, support staff, and advocates who believe that education should and can be accessible, affordable, and equitable. The community doesn’t just make OER, it makes it stronger. In this workshop, Anthony Palmiotto and Sonya Bennett-Brandt of OpenStax will cover how to tap into community support when improving upon your OER and building entirely new resources. They will outline steps to take to set up recurring peer review and how to find feedback and help across the education landscape.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: Liz Tolman

Resource for the Resource Template (Lone Star College-CyFair)

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution. 

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Victoria Brame, Dorrie Scott, Brittany Smith, Rachel Hugenberg, Elizabeth Nebeker, Regina Vitolo

Resource for the Resource Template (Yolander Youngblood, Prairie View A & M University)

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Yolander Youngblood

Resource for the Resource MCC Group

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Jessica Zbeida, Kristen Cook, Yolanda Gonzalez, Mary Sides

Resource for the Resource Template (SMU)

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Spencer Keralis, Rafia Mirza, Jonathan McMichael, Sylvia Jones, Julia Anderson, Elizabeth Killingsworth

University of Houston-Downtown

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution.

Material Type: Student Guide

Authors: Edmund Cueva, Bridget Mueller, Sam Weehunt, Lea Campbell, Elene Bouhoutsos-Brown

Resource for the Resource Template (San Antonio College)

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Amy Gates, Beatrice Canales, Laurie Lopez Coleman, Eileen Oliver

Resource for the Resource Template - Texas A&M University-Commerce

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Sarah Northam, Teresa Bussell

OER Passport Training Program

OER Passport is a professional development program that takes educators through the process of understanding, finding, developing and sharing Open Educational Resources. This course trains teachers and students on OER use, reuse, licensing, creation, and sharing by completing the following tasks. The first three tasks lay a solid foundation and provide teachers with the tools to complete the last three tasks which focus on the use, reuse, production, and innovative teaching practices. Participants can complete the tasks online. There are also files to print/create physical copies of OER Passports that can be used in an offline environment.

Material Type: Full Course

Making Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Students by Students

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

The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers

The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers was created to bring attention to the work that is involved in building and managing an OER program, from learning about open educational practices and soliciting team members to collecting and reporting data on your program’s outcomes. Regardless of your program's scope and your own experience with OER, we hope that the Starter Kit for Program Managers will have some tips to help you along your way.

Material Type: Case Study

Authors: Abbey K. Elder, Apurva Ashok, Jeff Gallant;, Marco Seiferle-Valencia, Stefanie Buck

OER Mythbusting Guide - 2017

The movement for Open Educational Resources (OER) has grown exponentially across North American higher education. Recent studies have found that as much as a third of faculty now have some level of awareness of OER and that the trend toward OER adoption is growing. Yet despite this progress, some myths about OER still remain. Whether it is confusion over the meaning of open versus related concepts such as free or digital, or adherence to folk wisdom such as “you get what you pay for,” there are many common misunderstandings about OER. OER Mythbusting addresses the top seven myths about OER in North American higher education, as voted on my more than 100 faculty, librarians, students and other members of the OER community. This project grew out of a discussion during one of SPARC’s Libraries and OER Forum monthly calls, where a group of librarians from the U.S. and Canada identified a need for better resources to address misconceptions about OER. A team of volunteers developed a poll and distributed it over email lists and social media over a two week period in July 2017. The results were then used to produce this collaboratively written document. While OER Mythbusting is not intended to be a comprehensive catalog of all myths in all contexts, our hope is that it will provide a useful resource for both OER advocates and those seeking to learn more about the topic. We anticipate that this resource will evolve over time, as new myths emerge and old ones fade.

Material Type: Reading

Author: SPARC

Resource for the Resource Template (add your name and institution here)

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Joanna Schimizzi, Liz Tolman, Carrie Gits

Resource for the Resource Template (North American University - Dr. Teta Banks)

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Dr. Teta Banks, Shweta Shroff

Resource for the Resource by Dr. Roshanak Jafari & Dr. Fariba Ansari

Image credit: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries OER Program Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  This template is for use by participants in the Resource for the Resource series to help identify and share ideas for OER implementation at their Instutitution.

Material Type: Unit of Study

Authors: Fariba Ansari, Roshanak Jafari