Ivy Tech Libraries: Open Educational Resources: Training

Map To success

"Are You Ready to Free the Textbook?"

"Are You Ready to Free the Textbook?" by Michele Howard & Ryan Bernstein is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Policy and Procedure

Tidewater Community College Policies and Procedures
SPEC Kit 351: Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources
"This SPEC Kit explores the degree to which ARL [Association of Research Libraries] member institutions advocate, support, and develop affordable course content and open educational resources (ACC/OER)."

Faculty Training

Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom "This course provides faculty with an introduction to the laws that influence the use, re-use, and distribution of content they may want to use in a course. Activities include finding openly licensed content for use in a class and publishing openly licensed works created by faculty."
Open Washington: How to use Open Educational Resources Techniques to incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) into your teaching practice. The course will cover the fundamental aspects of OER including open licensing and public domain. It focuses on providing practical guidance in locating and applying openly available resources.
Lumen OER Addoption Research Toolkit Comprised of the OER Research Guidebook and several additional resources.

OER: Pedagogy and Practice

Authoring Open Textbooks: A guide for people who want to make open textbooks. By Melissa Falldin, Karen Lauritsen. For faculty authors, librarians, project managers and others who are involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and at the K-12 level. Content includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools.
Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources
Prepared by Neil Butcher for the Commonwealth of Learning & UNESCO.
Curation of Open Pedagogy An open document containing comments, links, Tweets on open pedagogy.
Curation of Posts on Open Pedagogy #YearOfOpen Blog containing a curated list of posts on open pedagogy by Bali Maha
Free to Learn Guide by Hal Plotkin
An Open Educational Resources Policy Development
Guidebook for Community College Governance Officials
Guidelines for open educational resources (OER) in higher education
"Given the potential of OER to improve higher education systems, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) have developed these Guidelines, after broad consultations with stakeholders in all regions of the world, to support governments, higher education institutions/providers, academic staff, student bodies and quality assurance/accreditation and recognition bodies."
Introduction to Open Educational Resources
An online course taught by Judy Baker.
OER Handbook for Educators
"Welcome to the world of Open Educational Resources (OER). This handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom."
Open Ed Group: Open Pedagogy Library List of examples of open pedagogy, including links to the work
Open Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Find open textbooks and other open educational resources
Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN) Videos and Handouts
Open Textbook Proof-of-Concept via Connexions
Baker, J., Thierstein, J., Fletcher, K., Kaur, M., & Emmons, J. (2009). Open Textbook Proof-of-Concept via Connexions. The International Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning, 10(5). Retrieved from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/633/1390
Open Textbooks: Why? What? How? When?
Paper from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
The roles of libraries and information professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives
What Are the Impacts of Adopting OER?
Year of Open: What is Open Pedagogy?

Open Educational Resources

Creating OERs

Printing OERs

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Map To success

Policy and Procedure

Faculty Training

OER: Pedagogy and Practice