This Open Educational Resources & Practices Starter Kit is designed to support educators and librarians begin their OER journey of identifying, evaluating, curating, and authoring/remixing.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona participants are invited to remix this template to share their courses, textbooks, and other OER material on our Hub.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lecture, Lecture Notes, Lesson, Module
The purpose of these standards is to guide faculty who are designing OER for the Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona Project, and they can be used for both a formal and/or informal review. The document includes 7 sections: Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona Grant RequirementsQualityAppropriateness & AlignmentTechnicalOER ReviewSupplemental or Ancillary MaterialsCriteria for Evaluation (for any standard using a 1-5 rating scale)
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
The OER Toolkit aims to improve equitable access to open learning resources and services to college students by providing a province-wide academic support platform for faculty to use while designing courses and assignments. The Toolkit is a one-stop guide to open educational resources, providing faculty and library staff with tools and information to understand, engage with, create, and sustain OER in their work and practice. The Toolkit is designed to be used by anyone involved with OER at an academic institution, whether you are part of a team that is collaborating to create OER, a library staff member who is supporting OER development and use, an advocate for OER at your institution, or an instructor seeking to incorporate OER and open pedagogy in the classroom. The primary purpose of this Toolkit is to support faculty and library staff at Ontario colleges; however, it is openly available for use beyond the Ontario college community.
Material Type: Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy
The Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Statewide Playbook is a resource developed by practitioners and advocates actively involved in the labor of open education to guide new and expanding OER work at institutions of higher education. The Playbook is the result of partnerships between the Division of Digital Learning, the Institution for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) – creators of OER Commons and experts in open education practice and research – and faculty, librarians, staff, and administrators from institutions and systems across Texas. It aims to support institutions as they work to build capacity and drive systems change around OER. It also serves as a guiding document for institutions that have not yet engaged in OER work or taken advantage of existing programs and opportunities. The hope is that the Texas OER Playbook will serve as a companion on the journey towards OER awareness and advocacy at your institution.
Material Type: Reading, Textbook
This toolkit was created by OER student leaders in the CCC and CSU systems. The toolkit's purpose is to motivate students to get involved in OER advocacy and the Open Education movement, as well as make it known that students can make a difference in their education. Education costs can be cut to a fraction of the price with OER, which would allow for more students to be able to access knowledge and higher education. While this toolkit contains some examples and suggestions specific to California institutions, it can still be helpful for all college students. Thanks to the Michelson 20MM Foundation's financial support students were paid for their work and contributions in creating this document, as well as presenting at conferences.
Material Type: Full Course, Primary Source, Reading, Student Guide
We intend this book to act as a guide writ large for would-be champions of OER, that anyone called to action by the example set by our chapter authors might serve as guides themselves. The following chapters tap into the deep experience of practitioners who represent a meaningful cross section of higher education institutions in North America. It is our hope that the examples and discussions presented by our authors will facilitate connections among practitioners, foster the development of best practices for OER adoption and creation, and more importantly, lay a foundation for novel, educational excellence.
Material Type: Reading
This OER campus administrator guide, officially entitled "OER & Online Learning: Administrator Quick Start Guide, Strengthening the Shift to Online Learning in California Community Colleges Through the Use of OER", is an outcome of a project by ISKME, supported by a grant from the Michelson 20MM Foundation, to conduct a study and develop a set of resources to accelerate OER use for distance education, especially the urgent shift to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. The Guide, created in collaboration with a selection of OER and online education champions across California community colleges (CCC), seeks to support community college administrators in California and beyond in more effectively supporting faculty use of OER as they work to address the reality of online learning in response to COVID-19 and future disruptions. The guide provides quick tips and starting points for campus administrators as they work to create the policy and practice environments needed to foster increased OER use for online learning. See the associated OER and Online Learning: Faculty Quick-Start Guide for more in-depth tools and resources targeted to faculty and instructional design support, at: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/oer-online-learning-faculty-quick-start-guide
Material Type: Reading
The Faculty Quick Start Guide is an outcome of a project by ISKME, supported by a grant from the Michelson 20MM Foundation, to conduct a study and develop a set of resources to accelerate OER use for distance education, especially the urgent shift to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. The Guide, created in collaboration with a selection of OER and online education champions across California community colleges (CCC), contains: - Models and approaches to online learning, and to emergency remote learning in the context of COVID-19; - How and to what extent OER fits into these models, and local and state-level supports needed for its integration and sustainability; - Design considerations for integrating OER in online learning, including pedagogical and platform considerations; - Curatorial practices, such as using OER curation tools and aligning curated OER to learning outcomes; and, - Starting points and tips for colleges and faculty who want to initiate OER integration into distance education. Tailored to faculty and campus administrators both in California and beyond, the Guide has the aim is to enable system-wide shifts to meet postsecondary institutions’ long term goals for distance learning, and faculty’s emergency plans for remote learning in response to the COVID-19 and potential future crises. The Guide is also available as a PDF for download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17AXs30dZeLOrGeNBQ-ISc_OJXIxE9xtB/view?usp=sharing. See the companion guide for administrators at: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/iskme-michelson-20mm-oer-campus-administrator-quick-start-guide-public/edit
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
NSCC EDITION Short Description: The NSCC Edition is a revised version of the BC Campus Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition. The goal of this book is to provide resources for each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open textbook—one that is free and accessible for all students. Word Count: 13596 ISBN: 978-1-77420-030-8 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)
Material Type: Textbook
Short Description: 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. Join the community of practice! Long Description: 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. The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers contains seven parts: A Quick Guide to Open Education Building an OER Program Program Management Training and Professional Development Supporting OER Adoption Supporting Open Textbook Creation Collecting and Reporting Data Visit the project homepage to join the community of practice! Word Count: 107835 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)
Material Type: Textbook
Faculty Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER) - includes: 1. OER Explained 2. OER Content 3. OER Reviews 4. Open Pedagogy 5. Research
Material Type: Module
These storytelling activities are intended to support OER Fellows in drafting their stories of impact, and include a warm up core story exercisce and story spine activity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Materials (PPT and Activity) from OER Faculty Workshops.
Material Type: Module
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
There are many benefits to instructors and to students when courses use Open Educational Resources (OER). In addition to cost savings for students, instructors are finding that students read open online textbooks in more locations and more often than previously-purchased textbooks. Instructors can also customize open online content to reflect their students (and their geographic location).
Material Type: Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
The materials in this module -- which include promotional materials, presentation slides, activity options, and supporting videos -- were developed for a 90-minute "back to basics" professional development workshop for college faculty and staff. This workshop was co-led by an Instructional Designer and OER Librarian. The information serves as an introduction to open pedagogy and student-driven assignments, with a particular focus on students sharing, in their own words, how open pedagogy boosted their learning experience.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson, Module, Student Guide
OER Fellows are invited to remix this OER Fellowship Planning Template to articulate a) a plan to assess your institution's current state of OER awareness and implementation b) your goals for OER adoption and use, and their targeted success indicators; c) a plan for building and engaging your OER Coalition, Programs, and Partnerships; d) a plan for the development and roll out of campus-level policies, guidelines, and resolutions in support of OER; d) an OER outreach and advocacy plan; and e) a plan for building capacity of your OER initiative.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This document contains links to all the parts of the Math 105 Term Project. Instructors are welcome to adopt and adapt the project to suit their needs. References to the textbook are referring to “Math in Society: Mathematics for liberal arts majors” by Portland Community College, 2021 edition.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
We dedicate this book to our students. May you have greater ease in paying for college and grow your proficiency and confidence in math.
Material Type: Textbook
