This tool is designed to help you locate openly licensed materials to add to your OER. We'll also review how to incorporate content that is not openly licensed (copyrighted) through the principles of fair use.

What is 'innate behaviour'? Where does it feature in the environment? And how does it compare to 'learned behaviour? Learn about it in this video by The Virtual School.

This book examines the current state of systemic, institutional racism in the United States as compared to baseline data collected in 1969. Using recent findings in the fields of history, economics, education, political science, and public health, the work reveals how systemic racism in the US has and has not been addressed in the past five decades. The book is geared toward college undergraduates and secondary students in grades 10-12.

Suppose you’re designing an online course. How might you use Open Educational Resources (OER)? Let’s take a quick look at a common model for instructional design – the ADDIE model. (There are many others but this one is very common and useful for our discussion.)

Intellectual Gems- Cross-fertilization of Experiences and Exposures is a valuable resource for individuals who embrace the idea of knowledge sharing through Open Educational Practices (OEP).The goal is to raise awareness about the limitless dissemination of experiences and exposures through the culture of open sharing. It encourages a mindset where learning takes precedence over financial considerations, fueled by passion and a vision for a more inclusive education system.

The manual collects all the necessary materials, procedures, theoretical and methodological directions to guide future teachers in repeating the best teaching practices envisaged within the intercultural path.

Intermediate College Writing: Building and Practicing Mindful Writing Skills is an open textbook designed for use in university‐level courses that focus on cultivating study skills alongside effective academic and workplace writing skills. It offers a no‐cost alternative to commercial products, combining practical guidance with interactive exercises and thoughtfully designed writing opportunities.

This textbook’s modular design and ample coverage of topics and genres means that it can be used flexibly over semester‐long or stretch courses, allowing instructors and students to select the chapters that are most relevant for their needs. By blending new material with reviews of key topics, such as academic integrity, the chapters provide fresh perspectives on matters vital to the development of strong writing skills. The book adapts, builds upon, and expands material covered in our first open textbook, Mindful Technical Writing: An Introduction to the Fundamentals (Atkinson & Corbitt, 2021).

Interview protocol used to learn faculty use and perception of OER and the support needed

This collection of lessons represent adapted and remixed instructional content for teaching media literacy and specifically civic online reasoning through distance learning. These lessons take students through the steps necessary to source online content, verify evidence presented, and corroborate claims with other sources.

The original lesson plans are the work of Stanford History Education Group, licensed under CC 4.0. Please refer to the full text lesson plans at Stanford History Education Group’s, Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum for specifics regarding background, research findings, and additional curriculum for teaching media literacy in the twenty-first century.

An introduction to the discipline of logic covering subjects from the structures of arguments, classical and modern logic, categorical and inductive inferences, to informal fallacies.

This is the first module in our training series that will provide participants with an introduction to OER and the value added, highlighting successful use cases from around the world. We have designed these modules to first spark the learner's interest in the topics covered and then dig deeper into the content through presentations, storytelling, and demonstrations of the tools. We will offer opportunities for learners to practice exploring the resources and tools, and reflect on how they might use them in their work.

The materials in this module -- which include PowerPoint slides, two activity worksheets, and a LibGuide -- were developed for a 90-minute "back to basics" professional development workshop for college faculty and staff. The content provides a basic introduction to open educational resources, copyright, and open licenses.

This guide is meant to provide Langara instructors with a brief introduction to open educational resources, or OER, and help get you one your way to incorporating OER into your teaching practice.

Each section will include links to more in-depth resources for those wishing to delve deeper into OER use, adaptation, and creation.

Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This 4-part course is modified from a FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute hosted in 2018. It consists of a syllabus, slides, and instructional strategies designed to introduce open education to novices while also developing a more critical and nuanced understanding of complex issues within open education. Concepts or pieces can be reconfigured or adapted to fit other contexts, including workshops, trainings, and online instruction. The first three days of the course provide a foundation by defining OER and Creative Commons, delineating differences between affordable course material solutions and OER, exploring various OER repositories and evaluation tools, and learning about open pedagogy models. The fourth day of the course uses this foundation to explore and interrogate more complex issues, including labor, technocracy, accessibility, openwashing, and the intersection between privacy and openness. We have structured the content so that anyone with some background in scholarly communication (but perhaps no familiarity with open education) is able to learn from the resources firsthand or efficiently adapt them to teach a Library and Information Science course that covers these topics.

This packet describes the structure of a single-semester introductory economics course with no prerequisites that uses no calculus. The content is primarily constituted of open educational resources (OER). The packet is organized as a 13-week, 26-lecture semester, with problem sets due at the end of each week, midterm exams after lectures 8 and 18, and a final exam at the end of the semester. The included materials correspond to an introductory course taught by the author at Haverford College in the Fall semester of 2020. Instructors may use all or any portion of the included materials that may help them in their own courses.

A community college level textbook that provides non-STEM students with a high-quality and academically rigorous book.

Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises. The result is a meaningful understanding of the discipline, which will serve students in their business careers and real-world experiences.

The materials here were selected for ESOL learners who have intermediate-high intermediate writing skills and are starting more "academic" levels of course work in order to transition into college-level composition courses.

This poster was created and presented at VALA 2024 https://www.vala.org.au/ on Wednesday 10th July 2024.

Find a PDF and PNG version here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YrGe4zhPMHlD2CNmSHdkD0AY7bLOSmwQ?usp=drive_link

Contact oercollective@caul.edu.au for additional formats.