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Faculty Using OER: Recognition Letter Template

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The following resource was shared by Jonas Lamb at the University of Alaska Southeast.Each year, Faculty Champions are recognized for their efforts to utilize Open Educational Resources (OER) or Affordable Educational Resources (AER) as required materials in their course(s). Increasing the use of OER is a strategic goal for Academics at UAS and use of OER and AER is recognized as as a form of academic leadership which advances innovation in teaching (a component of the UAS Value of Excellence) and learning with impact beyond UAS classrooms. The resources here are sample faculty recognition letter templates used to recognize faculty using OER and how the adoption of OER in their classroom has impacted students. You can learn more on their website. 

Material Type: Case Study

Author: Liliana Diaz

Production of OER Worklow

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This workflow can help you understand the major steps in the production of OER and manage your own progress towards creating OER. Key questions are asked at various points and direction to support from library. We ask faculty and departments authoring open content to engage in this process in order for their OER to be recognized. This work, created by Billy Meinke and University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license - Revisions by Regina Gong at Lansing Community College and OPEN SLCC.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration

Author: Liliana Diaz

Open Educational Resources Network

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Welcome to How to use Open Educational Resources, a self-paced workshop. So, what is this course all about? This course walks you through techniques to incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) into your teaching practice. The course will cover the fundamental aspects of OER including open licensing and public domain. It focuses on providing practical guidance in locating and applying openly available resources. It is expected that upon completion of this course participants will be able to Describe the meaning of open educational resources. Differentiate the concepts of open licensing, public domain, and all rights reserved copyrights. Identify resources that are openly licensed or in the public domain. Distinguish the different types of Creative Commons licenses. License works using a Creative Commons license. Find open educational resources and properly attribute a work offered under a Creative Commons license. This training is not facilitated. It is designed to to be a self-paced course. If you are interested in a facilitated training that will result in an official certificate upon successful completion, visit the SBCTC training website.

Material Type: Module

Author: Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

OER Faculty Workshop

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What is this? This is a free and open course designed to nutshell open-resource philosophy as well as encourage instructors to participate in generating, collecting, licensing, and sharing free and modifiable educational resources. Whew! That was a mouthful. Perhaps a catchier intro is necessary (take your own advice, teacher). Start again. What is this? This is a free and open course designed to let you in on some cutting-edge ideas for improving student learning while actually reducing your long-term workload and keeping your use of materials legal in the information age. Too good to be true? Not at all. With open educational resources, you've got the whole world ready to back you up. Think back on all the times you've thought, "Wow. It would be great if I could just pluck a handout about parallelism out of the ether and use it as I see fit without worrying about getting sued." Now read this: You can with OER, and you don't have to worry about stepping on anyone's copyright toes. Byte: Sometimes you'll see a sentence or two emboldened like this. These "Bytes" are vital points, so read them! Depending on your method of operation and internet connection speed, this course should take somewhere between 2 and 3 hours to complete.

Material Type: Module

Authors: Maricopa Center for Learning and Innovation, Maricopa County Community College District, Matthew Bloom