What is OER, how have law schools made use of open education resources, and what are some best practices and starting places for faculty and librarians who wish to support this open educational paradigm? Presentation at CALIcon16, Atlanta.
Incorporating information literacy outcomes into your courseKendra Lake
Presented by Jane Lewandoski and Kendra Lake at the St. Clair County Community College Fall 2019 adjunct faculty welcome back event on August 13, 2019.
Discussion outline related to Open Educational Resource Benefits and Challenges to meet Continuing Education requirements of OER online course at SBCT, Washington.
Slides from a presentation given 9 March 2017 at the Digital Education Summit at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Session description: "Open Educational Resources (OER) can be great tools to enhance online courses. But what exactly are they, and how do you find them and put them to use? This session will define and illustrate OER broadly (and open textbooks in particular), highlight key tools for discovering OER, and share examples of how the integration of OER can benefit you and your students."
Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis Through OERNicole Allen
The cost of college textbooks has grown to a point that virtually every campus is now seeking solutions. While many institutions have successfully reduced costs for students through stop-gap measures such as rental programs, lending libraries and licensing deals, the greatest potential for permanently solving the problem lies in Open Educational Resources (OER). Institutions of all kinds have begun to leverage OER to reduce costs for students, expand access to information, and enable faculty to better tailor materials to their courses. This talk will provide an overview of the OER movement to date, including important definitions, major projects, and what the most successful institutions are doing. It will also help frame the opportunity for regional collaboration and provide specific advice for members of the audience to take back to campus.
Incorporating information literacy outcomes into your courseKendra Lake
Presented by Jane Lewandoski and Kendra Lake at the St. Clair County Community College Fall 2019 adjunct faculty welcome back event on August 13, 2019.
Discussion outline related to Open Educational Resource Benefits and Challenges to meet Continuing Education requirements of OER online course at SBCT, Washington.
Slides from a presentation given 9 March 2017 at the Digital Education Summit at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Session description: "Open Educational Resources (OER) can be great tools to enhance online courses. But what exactly are they, and how do you find them and put them to use? This session will define and illustrate OER broadly (and open textbooks in particular), highlight key tools for discovering OER, and share examples of how the integration of OER can benefit you and your students."
Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis Through OERNicole Allen
The cost of college textbooks has grown to a point that virtually every campus is now seeking solutions. While many institutions have successfully reduced costs for students through stop-gap measures such as rental programs, lending libraries and licensing deals, the greatest potential for permanently solving the problem lies in Open Educational Resources (OER). Institutions of all kinds have begun to leverage OER to reduce costs for students, expand access to information, and enable faculty to better tailor materials to their courses. This talk will provide an overview of the OER movement to date, including important definitions, major projects, and what the most successful institutions are doing. It will also help frame the opportunity for regional collaboration and provide specific advice for members of the audience to take back to campus.
Open Education Resilience in Crisis and BeyondUna Daly
Schools, colleges, and universities have closed their campuses and pivoted to remote instruction in a matter of weeks as the COVID-19 threat became a reality. Student’s lives are being disrupted not only by the adjustment to remote instruction but also due to job loss, family responsibilities, and healthcare needs. Commercial publishers are offering faculty and students one-time “free” instruction materials during the crisis in hopes of gaining new customers. Colleges are now facing big questions about their future including maintaining student enrollment, selecting instructional materials, managing faculty and staff costs, and even how the physical campus might be reconfigured.
Join our panelists to hear how open education has made their campuses more resilient and continues to help with student equity including support for underrepresented populations and students with disabilities. You will hear strategies and talking points for helping stakeholders on your campus understand how open educational resources, prudent fair-use, and open educational practices (pedagogy) support both teaching and learning in the crisis and will continue to contain costs, address student needs, and inspire innovation for the future.
When: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Featured Speakers:
Tonja Conerly, San Jacinto Community College, Texas
Meredith Jacob, Creative Commons USA at American University Washington College of Law @meredithjacob
Michael Mills, Montgomery College, Maryland
Suzanne Wakim, Butte Community College, California
Quill West, Pierce College District, Washington
A crash course on open educational resources which covers the 4 'R's of Openness, access based on ALMS analysis, sustainability models and copyright. It further discusses the current state of OER in Asia. The last part provides a case study for reuse of OER in ODL courses.
It's Not Just About the Money: Open Educational Resources and PracticesChristina Hendricks
Slides for a presentation at an event called Open Art Histories at Langara College in Vancouver, BC, Canada in January 2020. They are meant to explain the what, how and why of OER and OEP. Editable power point slides: https://osf.io/x9s5n/.
Open Education Resilience in Crisis and BeyondUna Daly
Schools, colleges, and universities have closed their campuses and pivoted to remote instruction in a matter of weeks as the COVID-19 threat became a reality. Student’s lives are being disrupted not only by the adjustment to remote instruction but also due to job loss, family responsibilities, and healthcare needs. Commercial publishers are offering faculty and students one-time “free” instruction materials during the crisis in hopes of gaining new customers. Colleges are now facing big questions about their future including maintaining student enrollment, selecting instructional materials, managing faculty and staff costs, and even how the physical campus might be reconfigured.
Join our panelists to hear how open education has made their campuses more resilient and continues to help with student equity including support for underrepresented populations and students with disabilities. You will hear strategies and talking points for helping stakeholders on your campus understand how open educational resources, prudent fair-use, and open educational practices (pedagogy) support both teaching and learning in the crisis and will continue to contain costs, address student needs, and inspire innovation for the future.
When: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Featured Speakers:
Tonja Conerly, San Jacinto Community College, Texas
Meredith Jacob, Creative Commons USA at American University Washington College of Law @meredithjacob
Michael Mills, Montgomery College, Maryland
Suzanne Wakim, Butte Community College, California
Quill West, Pierce College District, Washington
A crash course on open educational resources which covers the 4 'R's of Openness, access based on ALMS analysis, sustainability models and copyright. It further discusses the current state of OER in Asia. The last part provides a case study for reuse of OER in ODL courses.
It's Not Just About the Money: Open Educational Resources and PracticesChristina Hendricks
Slides for a presentation at an event called Open Art Histories at Langara College in Vancouver, BC, Canada in January 2020. They are meant to explain the what, how and why of OER and OEP. Editable power point slides: https://osf.io/x9s5n/.
“Combien vaut un clic ? Données, industries culturelles, plateformes”Bodyspacesociety Blog
Slides de la présentation de Geoffrey Delcroix (CNIL) dans le cadre du séminaire EHESS d'Antonio Casilli "Etudier les cultures du numérique" (Ce que les plateformes numériques font au travail) #ecnEHESS 04.01.2016
Material de exposición sobre el Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ. Se presenta información sobre la calidad de revistas acceso abierto, criterios de indexación y sello DOAJ y datos sobre el acervo de revistas de América Latina en DOAJ.
White Paper: Modelos de logística en eCommercePacklink
Es bien sabido que la gestión de la logística puede determinar la rentabilidad y el éxito de muchas operaciones de eCommerce. En este sentido, Packlink PRO es de gran ayuda para encontrar la solución logística que se adapte a las necesidades de cada momento.
The webinar will provide an update on Crossref's Similarity Check service (formerly CrossCheck) and will cover:
-Branding changes
-Current service statistics
-Indexing method upgrade
-Upcoming iThenticate developments
-Q&A
Working Towards Low-Cost Textbooks: Cross-Sector Faculty Collaboration for a ...San Jose State University
St. Edward’s University September 25, 2019 Katherine D. Harris Professor of English Chair, California Open Educational Resources Council San Jose State University California Open Educational Resources Council Presentation by http://icas-ca.org/coerc
I call this "food for thought". I want faculty to understand why it is important to convert their courses, which use a pricey textbook, to open educational resources (zero cost textbook for students). It isn't just about the money saved, it is also about educational equity.
Why should you care about OER is an overview of OER and the California Open Online Library for Education (cool4ed.org) given for faculty at the Porterville College Summer Institute on May 25, 2015.
Una Daly, CCCOER Director (May 2016)
SPARC Webcast: Libraries Leading the Way on Open Educational ResourcesNicole Allen
This webcast features three librarians who have been leading OER projects on their campuses. Each will provide an overview of the project, discuss the impact achieved for students, and provide practical tips and advice for other campuses exploring OER initiatives.
Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. Marilyn coordinates the Open Education Initiative, which has saved students more than $750,000 since 2011 by working with faculty to identify low-cost and free alternatives to expensive textbooks.
Kristi Jensen, Program Development Lead, eLearning Support Initiative, University of Minnesota Libraries. The University of Minnesota has emerged as a national leader through its Open Textbook Library, which is a searchable catalog of more than 100 open textbooks. The Libraries also partnered with other entities on campus for their Digital Course Pack project, which has helped streamline the course pack process and make materials more affordable for students.
Shan Sutton, Associate University Librarian for Research and Scholarly Communication, Oregon State University Libraries. The OSU libraries are partnering with the OSU Press for a pilot program to develop open access textbooks by OSU faculty members. The program issued an RFP in the fall, and recently announced four winning proposals that will be published in 2014-2015.
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
1. OER IN LEGAL EDUCATION
Brian R. Huffman, JD, MLIS
Electronic Services Librarian,
William S. Richardson School of Law,
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
CALIcon16, Atlanta, June 17, 2016
2.
3. OVERVIEW
1. What is OER and why should we
care?
2. Which law schools are using OER?
3. How to get started in OER - A
sample faculty integration model is
proposed
9. Images from Pixabay and Wikipedia
Ideal World: One book for each student; at
no “cost”; openly accessible.
10. “The idea behind Open Educational Resources (OER) is
simple but powerful—educational materials made
freely and legally available on the Internet for anyone
to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute.”
(William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2013)
11. David Wiley’s Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources
The terms "open content" and "open educational resources" describe any copyrightable work (traditionally
excluding software, which is described by other terms like "open source") that is licensed in a manner that
provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities:
1. Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and
manage)
2. Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a
video)
3. Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another
language)
4. Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g.,
incorporate the content into a mashup)
5. Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g.,
give a copy of the content to a friend)
http://opencontent.org/definitio
n/
12. Benefits of OER
Financial Benefit to Student
• Costs can range from $1,100- $2,200 per year
• Avoid Increasing Textbook Costs
• Alarmingly large number of students don’t purchase their books
Pedagogical Impact
• Impact learning and grades
13. Yale reports legal textbooks costing students $1,100 per
year for 2016-17; Louisiana State U. reported them as
$2,200 in 2015-16
14. Textbook costs to University
students increased by 82%
from 2002 to 2012
(GAO Report 13-368)
15. A U.S. Student Public Interest Group (PIRG) Report in January 2014, published a survey
that described the difficulty students are encountering in paying for expensive
textbooks in addition to tuition:
“65% of students had still opted against buying a book because it was too costly –
and 94% of them were concerned that their grade would suffer because of it.”
Students Who Purchase Books
Yes No
16.
17. Not a new topic:
A learning-object aggregator called
MERLOT has been around since 1997, and
the National Science Digital Library was in
large part an experiment in OER
aggregation.
The Organisation for Economic Co-
operation and Development (OECD)
identified open learning resources as a key
component in supporting access to
education. The 2007 report provides an
international context for creating and
adopting OER.
19. Harvard H20
• Web-based course management
• Open source for dynamic usage (can be remixed)
• Piloted with legal casebooks
• Now has many course syllabi
• Used in Prof. Zittrain’s Tort class
• Now used by over 40 law professors
• Reception by students has been positive
20. University of Minnesota Open Textbook
Library
• Open source textbooks in many fields
• “Peer reviewed”; can be reviewed by faculty from any institution
• Currently 24 legal titles in the library (includes works by CALI)
21. CUNY/Aspen Publishing Partnership
• Progressive Legal Research, 2013
• Project used copyrighted materials from WK
• Had the expertise of Wolters Kluwer on their side = a
more polished product
• Had a schedule – done in 2.5 month timeframe
• Had a 3 member editing team
• One editor was tasked with creating a cohesive product
overall
• 3 member production team coordinating the look of the
final book
• Professors noticed students tended to take reading
more serious when professor's names were on the
textbook
• Cost of custom textbook was still less than commercial
one
22. Duke Law: IP Open Source Textbook
Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—
Cases and Materials by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins.
The entire book, the first in a series of Duke Open
Coursebooks, is available for free download under a
Creative Commons license; or you can view and
download the individual chapters (in a variety of
formats). It can also be purchased in a glossy paperback
print edition for $34.99, $120 cheaper than other
intellectual property casebooks.
Can be edited and customized
23.
24. 1. Time/Skill
2. Concern About Quality
Results from Survey of UH System Faculty in 2015:
see https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/38738/2/Executive%20Summary.pdf
26. MAKE/USE/REMIX
MAKE
• Use what you own/have created (consider making it open under Creative
Commons) or take an online course on how to create your own OER
USE
• Find quality resources:
• Open Textbook Library
• OPEN: Open Professionals Educational Network
(https://open4us.org/find-oer/)
REMIX
• Even if you use other’s material consider remixing it to make it uniquely
your own (make sure that’s allowed and then make it available to
others)
29. Faculty Integration Model
Suggested Resources from Open Textbook Library
Civil Procedure
Civil Procedure: Pleading by Levin
Computer-Aided Exercises in Civil Procedure by McFarland and Park
Contract
Contract Doctrine, Theory & Practice (3 vol) by Verkerke
Criminal Law
Criminal Law by Storm
IP
United States Copyright Law by eLangdell Press
United States Patent Law by eLangdell Press
United States Trademark Law by eLangdell Press
Legal Citation
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation by Martin
30. cc Pixabay
Goal: Create a resource that can be used in class
• Invite professors and their Research Asst.
• Encourage them to bring their syllabus and
any pre-created materials they use in class
• Find one OER resources in existence and send
to them beforehand to review
• Take time to revise and remix their and the
existing OER material
• Use in class and ask students to evaluate
31.
32. Photos from Hawaii and cartoon of dog on beach copyright Amy Monthei
• Find or make one OER source to use in your next
class
• Encourage your law faculty to consider OER for their
courses
• Advocate the advantage to students and improved
pedagogy by encouraging OER
33. OTHER CONCERNS
Copyright vis-à-vis copies or home-grown readers
Course Reserves
Creative Commons
Accessibility
Apps that help with formatting when editing: Coko and
Pandoc
Conferences: OpenCon, OpenEd, Open Education
Consortium, and OER16 (just held in UK)
34. ** Be sure to attend Elmer’s Rip, Mix, Learn with CALI Lawbooks on Sat at 12 noon
Editor's Notes
50% awareness and 35% of those had experience using OER; small number answered the survey