1. Open Educational Resources
Library Services
Hudson Valley Community College
June 11, 2019
OER Logo 2012 J. Mello, used under a Creative Commons license CC-BY
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
2. OER Human Resources
Brenda Hazard, Library Director
b.hazard@hvcc.edu
Sarah Romeo, Online Media Specialist
s.romeo@hvcc.edu
Val Waldin, Associate Professor, Library
v.waldin@hvcc.edu
OER Review Committee
OERReview@hvcc.edu
3. What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
• Educational materials
written by experts
• Free or low-cost
• Available to use with the 5Rs
• In the public domain or
assigned Creative Commons
or other licenses as an
alternative to traditional
copyright
https://opentextbc.ca/studenttoolkit/chapter/step-one-what-are-oer/
BCcampus OER Student Toolkit
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
4. Important OER Concepts to UnderstandOERs are teaching, learning or research resources that reside in the public domain or have been
released under and intellectual property license that permits repurposing by others.
Public Domain
Not restricted by copyright
Do not require a license or fee to
use
Titles, names, short phrases and slogans, familiar
symbols, numbers
Ideas and facts (e.g., the date of the Gettysburg
Address)
Copyright has expired
Government works and documents
Creative Commons
Copyright holder has granted the
public permission to use and share
their works
Certain conditions
7. To begin searching for OER, start at
HVCC’s OER Guide.
https://hvcc.libguides.com/oer
Here you will learn about SUNY
initiatives, Creative Commons
licensing and searching for OER.
Many formats for various purposes:
Open textbooks
Open courseware
Course materials
Modules or lessons
Videos and images
Tests and in-class activities
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12. American Government is
licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0
International (CC BY)
license, which means that
you can distribute, remix,
and build upon the
content, as long as you
provide attribution to
OpenStax and its content
contributors.
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18. OER and Library Resources
The SUNY definition of an OER
course that, "the majority of
material reside in the public
domain or have been released
under an intellectual property
license that permits
repurposing by others" was in
part designed to allow faculty to
(re)discover library resources
that could be utilized as course
resources/materials.
