A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources.

Brief video describing where and how to find Open Educational Resources, including specific repositories and licences to look for.

Brief video describing the benefits that using OER can have for educators. OER empowers teachers to make decisions about the best curriculum for their specific needs, save money and empower students as educational content creators.

Checklist of best practices for creating accessible resources.The Accessibility Checklist is adapted from BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit, CC-BY 4.0 International License.

Participants collaborate in ISKME's OER Design Lab at Maker Faire to brainstorm, prototype, and present new ideas for teaching and learning. Each participant creates an Open Educational Resource (OER) that will be shared on OER Commons and with teachers during the Maker Faire follow up Teachers as Makers Academy.

In this guide you will learn about:What makes an educational resource open; Why OERs are important in the practice of Inclusive Design for Learning; How to find and use OERs; How to jump in and make your own OER.

Single lecture presentation containing tips for using technology to enhance teaching. Uses proven multimedia design principles to enhance learning.

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.)

This resource consists of four mini units on Open Educational Resources (OER). Mini-units are designed to introduce learners to the following questions: (1) What are OER? (2) What is a Creative Commons (CC) license?, (3) How do I locate, evaluate, and use OER?, and (4) How do I create my own OER?

The material was originally designed for a lunch and learn event targeted at faculty members at a Canadian university.

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 slide deck is designed for a 45-60 minute overview of OER and an OER Microsite for educators. Make a copy of the slide deck to customize for your needs.

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.

The School Librarian Program at Granite State College is based on the foundational belief that school librarians are essential, integral and transformational leaders.  The program focuses on preparing school librarians as catalysts for school change and learning for the digital age.  In addition to developing the requisite skill sets and knowledge base needed to perform at top levels, there is a focus on the development of dispositions and attitudes such as initiative, creativity, self-direction, resilience, flexibility and intellectual curiosity which are crucial in assisting learning communities to engage in continuous improvement, innovation and reflective practice.  The program emphasizes the convergence of these dispositions,  skills, knowledge and understandings in order for candidates to achieve and succeed with a strategic plan for schools to ramp up and redesign school library media programs to provide the requisite, robust environment and intentional opportunities for meaningful student engagement with content, ideas, information and technology.This module is intended to be completed over the course of a 12-week semester and is designed to develop understanding about becoming a more effective school library leader within the evolving contexts of the digital age – especially related to the assessment of leadership dispositions and competencies needed to ramp up and redesign school library programs to provide the robust, flexible environments and intentional opportunities for meaningful student and teacher engagement with OER content, ideas, information and technology. The module addresses five areas of focus — preparation (2 weeks), planning (2 weeks), organizational strategy and change (3 weeks), transformational learning (3 weeks) and reflection/synthesis (2 week).

This lesson supports educators in exploring Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons licenses. Educators:1) learn definitions of OER and CC licenses2) explore local connections to OER3) practice their understanding of OER, CC and how this connects to their local experience

This lesson supports educators in exploring Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons licenses. Educators:1) learn definitions of OER and CC licenses2) explore local connections to OER3) practice their understanding of OER, CC and how this connects to their local experience

This lesson supports educators in exploring the different ways that resources can be licensed, including their own resources. Educators:1) compare and contrast different licensing restrictions2) explore local connections to openly licensed resources3) practice their understanding of OER, CC and how this connects to their local experience

During past 20 years, OCW/OER movement has had global impact since the educational resources are shared for free on the Internet. Logically, developing countries like Vietnam should get the best from OCW/OER as they are free to use the high quality and up-to-date materials from well-known universities and research institutions in the developed countries. However, the differences in learning and teaching methodologies as well as the language barrier make it difficult to adopt open resources. Therefore, it is necessary for each OCW/OER adopter to develop a suitable model to fit with specific situations.

Launch into the OER Universe! This course includes eight self-paced online learning modules that serve as an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education. An additional section provides opportunities for further exploration and discovery of OER initiatives in Michigan.

This paper presents the results of collaborative research between open textbook provider OpenStax College (OSC) and the OER Research Hub (OERRH), a Hewlett funded mixed methods open research project examining the impact of open educational resources (OER) on learning and teaching.

The paper focuses primarily on the results of two surveys that were conducted with educators using a range of OSC open textbooks during 2013 and 2014/2015. The results of this research shows that OER such as OSC enables a majority of educators to better respond to student needs whilst often making teaching easier and in some instances changing teaching practices. Although this paper does not focus on the impact of OER on students, a majority of educators surveyed perceive an increase in student satisfaction when using OER such as OSC and believe that OSC are saving students money.