OER Student Advocate Toolkit

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

Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Statewide Playbook

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

Authors: Peter Musser, Megan Simmons

Best Practices and Case Studies

This collaboratively authored guide helps institutions navigate the uncharted waters of tagging course material as open educational resources (OER) or under a low-cost threshold by summarizing relevant state legislation, providing tips for working with stakeholders, and analyzing technological and process considerations. The first half of the book provides a high-level analysis of the technology, legislation, and cultural change needed to operationalize course markings. The second half features case studies by Alexis Clifton, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Michael Daly, Juville Dario-Becker, Tony DeFranco, Cindy Domaika, Ann Fiddler, Andrea Gillaspy Steinhilper, Rajiv Jhangiani, Brian Lindshield, Andrew McKinney, Nathan Smith, and Heather White.

Material Type: Case Study, Reading

Authors: Abbey Elder, Jennifer Raye, Jessica Dai, John Schoppert, Joy Perrin, Kris Helge, Liz Thompson, Michelle Reed, Nicole Allen, Sarah Hare

Price Transparency: State Approaches to OER/No Cost/Low Cost Course Schedule Designators

The practice of adding either OER or no-cost/low-cost materials designators in course catalogs is on the rise, aiming to give more visibility and transparency to students and administrators as to which courses offer these more affordable options. Few formal reports have been published on the implementation and impact of OER/No Cost/Low Cost designations integrated into course schedules at colleges and universities. This booklet aims to lessen the literature gap by providing written accounts of the course marking drivers, implementation strategies, challenges, and lessons learned presented by panelists at the 16th Annual Open Education Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in October 2019.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Amy Hofer, Ann Fiddler, Boyoung Chae, James Glapa-Grossklag, Jeff Gallant, Kevin Corcoran, Michael Daly, Michelle Reed

Making Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Students by Students

This book will introduce you to the idea of Open Educational Resources (OER), where to find them, why we recommend using them, and how to go about creating your own.

Material Type: Student Guide

Authors: Anas Al-Chalabi, Ashlyne O'Neil, Brandon Mailloux, Chris Nardone, Dave Cormier, Devin Wacheski, Elijah Annoh-Waithe, Ghanem Ghanem, Jykee Pavo, Kamaal Kusow, Kristen Swiatoschik, Lawrence Villacorte, Lorenzo Pernasilici, Marianne Kantati, Mikayla Bornais, Mitchel Macmillan, Mohamed Eldabagh, Norman Ha, Patrick Carnevale, Rana Kilani, Steven Shlimoon, Tariq Al-Rfouh, Zain Raza

The OER Adoption Journey

The OER Adoption Journey is an OER designed to be used as part of a support system for OER adoption in a learning space/course. At its core, this work is about how adopting faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and other supporters think about their approach to OER adoption in support of student learning within a diverse set of learning spaces. It is a model of what integration of multiple OER can look like within learning materials. We created The OER Adoption Journey to support faculty, librarians, and instructional designers working through OER adoption. We invite readers to use the book as is, in support of their OER adoption journey and/or OER adoption initiatives. We invite readers to break our content into modules and sub-modules for your own LMS to support OER adoption on your campus. Then build upon it to meet the needs of your own faculty as they embark on their own OER adoption journey. Modules/chapters within this book are designed for both new and seasoned OER adopters. Use parts as appropriate, revisit parts as appropriate to suit your learning and adopting needs. The content of this OER was originally designed as a course in a learning management system (LMS) to support a group of Millersville University faculty who were adopting OER for the first time. The OER Adoption Journey goes beyond finding and selecting OER course materials. It contains reflection questions to assist the adopter in thinking through integrating OER into their course in a way that is learner centered.

Material Type: Full Course, Textbook

Authors: A Nicole Pfannenstiel, Kimberly Auger, Matthew Fox

Ontario Colleges Libraries' OER Toolkit

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

Author: Colleges Libraries Ontario and the Ontario Colleges Library Service in collaboration with ISKME

Module 9: Why OER Matters

Why do open educational resources matter? What is the point of using OER? Below are some of the benefits of using open educational resources that I have seen while working with OER over the past several years.

Material Type: Module

The OER Starter Kit – Simple Book Publishing

“This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education.” While some of the content included in the handbook is Iowa State University-specific, these examples are few and I have tried to make the text as generalizable as possible. I welcome any comments for potential edits and additions to the text and will add an errata/tracking changes page to the front matter in the future. I especially welcome comments on my Diversity and Inclusion chapter, since I am not the most well-versed on that topic. If you would like to adapt the text for use at your institution, please let me know so I can add links to your adaptations in the future. If you are interested in working with me on a second edition in the future, feel free to reach out! I’d love to make a more advanced version with additional sections for OER program managers and librarians. The OER Starter Kit was originally adapted from the ABOER Starter Kit, but blossomed into a much larger project over the past few months. It includes content from Billy Meinke’s excellent UH OER Training manual, SUNY’s wonderful OER Community Courses, and others, all of which can be found on the kit’s Attribution page and on the footnotes of their corresponding chapters.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Abbey Elder

Faculty OER Toolkit – Open Textbook

The Faculty OER Toolkit is an information resource about and guide to adapting and adopting Open Educational Resources. Included are definitions and examples, information about Creative Commons licensing, and tips on how to adapt and/or adopt OER for classroom use. School Counsellors can benefit from understanding OER.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Shannon Moist

OER at UVA - Explainer Video

These slides were used to create a 2-min explainer video that illustrates what makes Open Educational Resources so ideal, the rewards of engaging in open pedagogical practices, and a few discipline-specific examples. Adapt it and share it!

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration

Author: Hanni Nabahe

Module 2: Understanding OER

We will start the lesson discussing what open educational resources are. Please watch the video first and read through the content. It is important to understand the concept of open educational resources as it will be the base for the rest of the modules.

Material Type: Module

Open Textbook Workshop (Asynchronous)

Based on the Open Textbook Network Workshop, this asynchronous workshop allows educators flexibility to engage with and interact with the materials outside of a traditional in-person workshop using Springshare's LibWizard tutorial platform.  Topics in this workshop include:Introduction to OER (open educational resources)Review of the cost of higher educationReview of the textbook publishing industryIntroduction to efficacy and perceived quality of open textbooksThe attached text file includes the html code. We've also included links to a README document that describes the step-by-step process of recreating this tutorial in LibWizard and the list of in-workshop questions and answers for each section of the workshop. This should be everything you need to recreate the aynchronous workshop.NOTE: Archives of old versions of the html code can be found in this Google Drive folder.

Material Type: Module

Authors: Liz Thompson, Kyle Binaxas

VIVA Open Skills Academy Resources

This resource includes all of the recordings and activities for the different sessions of the VIVA Open Skills Academy: Building Your OER Practice. The first session is An Introduction to Getting Started with VIVA Open on November 10, 2022. The following Academy sessions will be hosted in February, 2023 and will build on the foundational skills and practices of collaborating to curate, evaluate, create, and share Open Educational Resources (OER) to further develop projects to advance OER in your work.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Megan Simmons, Sophie Rondeau, Joanna Schimizzi