LibGuides: Freely Available Research Resources: Open Educational Resources (OER)

About

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium - digital or otherwise - that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions (https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer)

OER usability:

Suitable for instructors, students, self-learners
Free online resources
They may be reused and/or customized
They often use Creative Commons copyright licenses
They may be accessed via www.oercommons.org

Governed by the principles of:

Universal sharing of information and knowledge
Information sharing for human development

Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons Licenses Creative Commons Licenses provide a way for authors to provide users of their content with the legal permissions to use that content in specific in pre-approved ways under copyright law
6 creative commons license types ; 5Rs in common: Retain Revise, Reuse, Remix, Redistribute
CCZero – creators have given up their copyright
https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/ you apply a CC license or CC0 to your work. CC BY 4.0 license.

OER Rights and Privileges

Rights and Privileges of Use Creative Commons Licenses provide a way for authors to provide users of their content with the legal permissions to use that content in specific in pre-approved ways under copyright law

Find OER Resources

Title	Access	Information
The Open Textbook Library	oercommons	Textbooks, lesson plans, lesson modules, lecture notes and slides, syllabi, assignments, podcasts and videos, training materials. Includes resources across all disciplines with use ratings to guide you.
Teaching Commons	teachingcommons	The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, mulitimedia, and more
OpenStax	openstax	One of OER's leading proponents is OpenStax, a nonprofit corporation based out of Rice University. OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low-cost in print. Searchable via oercommons

Create Teaching Resources and Share

Create Customised Learning Resources

Find and Evaluate OER

There are many rubrics for evaluating OER materials. They are evaluated with the same standards that guide the faculty in selecting teaching and learning materials.

Liaison Librarians are available to assist with finding and evaluating materials. You may also adopt the rubrics below:

ACHIEVE Consolidated Rubric
Achieve has collaborated with educators, state leaders and other organizations to produce two systems for appraising the quality of instructional materials, the Open Educational Resource (OER) Rubrics and the Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products (EQuIP) Rubrics. This guide has been developed to help educators who are interested in determining the quality of instructional materials.