Open Educational Resources are a growing trend at colleges and universities. This short introduction will help you understand what these resources are and give you a window into some of the materials currently (2018) available.

1. OER
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Danielle Masursky
Day of FiTS – March 3, 2018

2. What is OER?
Open
Educational
Resources

3. What is OER?
"OER are teaching, learning, and research resourcesthat reside in
the public domain or have been released under an intellectual
property license that permits their free use and re-purposing
by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course
materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests,
software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to
support access to knowledge.“
– William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

4. What are open textbooks?
– Open license such as Creative Commons
– Available online
– Can be freelyused by students, teachers and the
public
– Generally distributed as e-books that may be
downloaded or purchased at little or no cost

5. What is SUNY OER Services?
Office which facilitates the creation and
adoption of OER
When the Excelsior Scholarship was established, included
$8M to provide open educational resources, including e-
books, to SUNY and CUNY students

6. What is SUNY Open Textbooks?
Launched in 2012
Funded by $4M in state funds
Open access textbook publishing initiative
Established by State University of New York libraries
Publishes course resources
Engages faculty as authors and peer-reviewers
Utilizes librariesas publishing service and infrastructure

7. Impact of SUNY OER
See the impact:
https://textbooks.opensuny.org/

8. Available textbooks - SUNY OER
https://textbooks.opensuny.org/category/available-now/
https://textbooks.opensuny.org/statistics/

9. OER partners
Lumen Learning
https://lumenlearning.com/
Open Stax
https://cnx.org/

10. OER LibGuide
SUNY ESF LibGuide
http://libguides.esf.edu/c.php?g=166189&p=1090865