Welcome

This course serves as an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) providing faculty with new options for selecting textbooks and other resources so they can make the best decisions for their students.

Consisting of webinars and online research, participants will create tangible products based on their learning. At the end of this course successful participants will be able to:

• Properly identify the creative commons (CC) license on a resource and describe how this resource can and cannot be used.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open resources using current research in the field as evidence.
• Research, analyze and review repositories of open resources.
• Effectively search for open resources and post reviews in an OER repository.
• 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.

Quick Links:

• Q&A Forum
• Module: What is OER
• Module: Licensing and Copyright
• Module: Finding OER
• Module: Curating, Adapting, and Creating OER
• Module: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) & Open Educational Practices (OEP)

If you have any questions about this course; you can email us or post them in the Community Forum.

Course authors: Rachel Arteaga and Suzanne Wakim. If you have questions about this content, please email Suzanne Wakim. You can find a copy of this class in Canvas Commons.

Attribution: Introduction to OER by Rachel Arteaga and Suzanne Wakim. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Links to an external site..