OER

Helping to find a pathway to OER and AI

During Open Ed Week you are invited to share here resources you've come across and found interesting, reflections about topics or ideas you've heard in any of the sessions and even ideas of your own that you'd like to discuss with Equity Unbound folks. We will use this space as a starting point for our community reflection session on Monday, 17 March!

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Will Cross October 24, 2024 Licensing and Copyright

There is an inherent connection between equity, accessibility, and open educational resources (OER).

The overarching goal of the DOERS3 OER Equity Blueprint is to define, unpack, and explain the multiple dimensions of equity and foreground the role of OER in closing equity gaps. The Blueprint is...

I was asked to explain why the introduction of open educational resources into the education ecosystem might in fact be one of the most important things that has happened to education in the last 100 years. I guess in centuries before we might have said that it was the Socratic Method, or the advent of public schooling, or teaching to the agrarian calendar.

There are many ways to begin a discussion of “Open Pedagogy.” Although providing a framing definition might be the obvious place to start, we want to resist that for just a moment to ask a set of r…

High textbook costs continue to prove a barrier to college for some students, with some studies showing that many students skip textbook purchases even ...

A new report from the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, a nonprofit regional organization devoted to advancing cooperation and resource sharing in higher education, advocates for more consistent approaches to determine the savings and benefits of adopting open educational resources.

Alan Levine and Bonni Stachowiak start a conversation about open education as a way of being on episode 405 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

The action of shifting college students from consumers to creators of Open Educational Resources can have positive impacts on student learning.

When Melissa Hardy took over a biology laboratory class at Salt Lake Community College, she inherited a commercial lab manual that left much to be ...

In this session, participants will learn about the richness of openly-licensed educational materials, where to find them, and potential use cases for implementation in their courses. Additionally, a UCF professor will share his story about his journey to OER and how his idea began a chain of events that turned his static text to life for his students.

This guide is intended to help faculty and students at Lane Community College learn about OER, re-purpose existing content, and create new resources to share. OER includes free textbooks, online tutorials, and open media that is free of cost or low cost.

This guide is designed to help PCC faculty find, create and incorporate open educational resources for classes.

The Learning Portal: OER Toolkit: Licensing

Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational material that are freely available for teachers and students to use, adapt, share, and reuse.

OERs have gotten really good over the last few years, and they're totally free, but in order to steer clear of the crap, you have to know where to look.

A guide to exploring open textbook options for faculty.

Since its support for open educational resources (OER) began in 2002, our foundation’s goal has always been to equalize access to knowledge by making high quality educational materials and opportunities more broadly available. OER – freely licensed, remixable learning resources – offer a promising solution to the perennial challenge of delivering high levels of student…

LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OERs): Evaluating OERs

A visual explanation on the basics of Open Educational Resources (OER), based on David Wiley’s 5Rs. Includes an overview on different types of OER and how OER ties in with Creative Commons licensing, as well as an introduction to the key steps on finding and using OER.