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OER Basics Course

This course is a self-paced version of the ASCCC OERI Introduction to OER Course. Topics covered include open licensing, open pedagogy, accessibility, curation of resources, and research about how OER affects student success. 

At the end of this course successful participants will be able to:

  1. Properly identify the Creative Commons (CC) license on a resource and describe how this resource can and cannot be used.
  2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open resources using current research in the field as evidence.
  3. Research, analyze, and review repositories of open resources.
  4. Effectively search for open resources and post reviews in an OER repository.
  5. Create an open resource by remixing multiple existing resources and designate a license to this new resource based on the licenses of multiple resources use.

Course Content

  1. What Is OER?
    • Defining OER
    • The 5Rs of Open
    • Why Use OER
    • Equity and OER
    • History of OER
    • Open in Other Contexts
  2. Licensing and Copyright
    • Copyright, Fair Use, Public Domain, and Creative Commons
    • What Is Creative Commons and Why Do We Need It?
    • Creative Commons Licenses
    • Attributing Creative Commons Licenses
    • Licensing Your Own Work
  3. Finding OER
    • Searching OER Repositories and Collections
    • Strategies for Searching OER Repositories and Collections
    • Discipline-Specific Searching
    • Using Library Materials
  4. Curating, Adapting, and Creating OER
    • Remixing/Adapting, Collecting, and More
    • Adapting or Curating an OER
    • Backward Design and Course Development
    • Gathering and Organizing Your Resources
    • Combining Licenses When Adapting
    • Resources for Building OER: Microsoft Word, Google Docs, PDFs, and Pressbooks
  5. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Open Educational Practices (OEP)
    • Accessibility
    • Accessibility Checkers
    • Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
    • Open Educational Practices (OEP)
    • Teaching With Wikipedia

Grading and Completion

Each unit of the course consists of at least one multiple-choice quiz that can be taken as many times as necessary to earn a perfect score. Earning 100% on the quiz will unlock the next module. The last module will contain a cumulative test. Like all the other assessments, you must earn 100% and have multiple attempts. Completion of this test will earn the Into to OER Course Badge.

Participants can expect to spend at least 20 hours on the course content to compete the badge requirements.

Contact Information:

Suzanne Wakim

  • wakimsu@butte.edu
  • ASCCC OERI Project Facilitator
  • Butte Community College: Coordinator for OER, DE, and SLO; Biology faculty
  • @ONE Facilitator for: 10-10-10 Communications that Matter; Creating Accessible Course Content; and Assessment in Digital Learning.
  • Creative Commons Course Facilitator

Licensing

You can find a copy of this class in Canvas Commons.


ASCCC OERI — OER Basics by Rachel Arteaga and Suzanne Wakim is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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