Getting Started — Course Overview

What to expect

Topics in This Self-Paced 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.  The homepage and syllabus outline the topics for the course. You will work through the modules progressively starting with this orientation module. 

You are able to read through the first module without logging in, but will need to enroll in the class to take the first quiz and move to the second module.  To enroll, please be sure you are logged into your home instance of Canvas first, then use the enroll link to access the course. If this doesn't work, try logging into the CVC instance of Canvas. If you have any questions or are not able to enroll, please contact us for assistance.

Each unit of the course ends with multiple-choice quiz that can be taken as many times as necessary to earn a passing score. Passing the quiz will unlock the next module. You can miss one question on each quiz and still pass. The last module will contain a cumulative test.  Like all the other assessments, you can miss one question and have multiple attempts achieve a passing score. Completion of this test will earn the OER Basics Course Badge. If you would like to earn Continuing Education Units, please refer to the syllabus.

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.

Click the Next button below to continue with the orientation module.