According to the Open Education Consortium, “sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights, and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas, and understanding can be built." Whether they are purchased or freely acquired, librarians should be open to sharing their resources to everyone who wants to use them to enrich their lives through education. Open Education Resources (OER) include resources or tools that can be used and modified for free and without any legal or technical barriers, and when used properly can help foster a transparent culture of learning and engagement in our communities. In this webinar: • Learn what Open Education Resources (OER) are and how they can be used to engender trust, generate rigorous learning opportunities, and potentially lead to smarter decision-making strategies. • Discover a variety of OER and Open Access (OA) repositories to find accessible and authoritative resources, including textbooks, to use in curriculum. • Acquire OER strategies for developing a variety of educational opportunities using a variety of formats. •Understand various issues (e.g., GDPR) impacting OER in libraries.

1. Education Resources in Libraries

2. “The average college graduate has $24,000 in
education-related debt. So we have two choices:
stop sending as many students to college or
make college more affordable.”
Source: http://goo.gl/LTwFj

3. Agenda:
• Learn what Open Education Resources (OER) are and how they can be used
to engender trust, generate rigorous learning opportunities, and
potentially lead to smarter decision making strategies.
• Discover a variety of OER and Open Access (OA) repositories to find
accessible and authoritative resources, including textbooks, to use in
curriculum.
• Acquire OER strategies for developing a variety of educational
opportunities using a variety of formats.
• Understand various issues surrounding OER in libraries.

4. Open Education Resources (OER) are “free and openly
licensed educational materials that can be used for
teaching, learning, research, and other purposes.”
Source: https://goo.gl/893dDD

5. Source: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
OER represents the "teaching, learning, and research resources that 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."

8. Source: http://goo.gl/VRAP

9. Source: http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge
and creativity with the world. It develops, supports,
and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that
maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

12. https://stateof.creativecommons.org

13. https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/
https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
https://commons.wikimedia.org

14. Development of open access
Source: http://goo.gl/6S6ex

15. October 23rd-29th, 2017
A global event promoting Open Access as a new
norm in scholarship and research.
http://www.openaccessweek.org/

16. http://roar.eprints.org

17. http://maps.repository66.org/

18. Select OER Repositories
• OER Commons
• BC OpenEd Textbooks
• MIT Open Courseware
• OpenStax Textbooks
• SOL*R Online Resources
• MERLOT
• Saylor
• OpenLearn
• Khan Academy
• HippoCampus
• Curriki
• P2PU
• edX
• Open Education Consortium
• Academia.edu
Slide adapted from Open Education Resources by Passos, https://goo.gl/eZN1qd

19. http://network.bepress.com/
Uncommonly Open: The New Digital
Commons Network, https://goo.gl/g13QiK

20. https://spc.digital.flvc.org

21. Every article that PLoS publishes is open-access,
freely available online for anyone to use. Sharing
research encourages progress, from protecting
the biodiversity of our planet to finding more
effective treatments for diseases such as cancer.
http://www.plos.org/
https://www.plos.org/innovation

22. https://www.plos.org/open-access

23. http://almreports.plos.org
Learn more at https://www.plos.org/article-level-metrics

24. https://www.skillscommons.org/

25. https://sparcopen.org
(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
https://sparcopen.org/what-we-do/popular-resources/

26. Transitioning Your Journal from
Subscription to Open Access
Many university libraries have established programs to assist in the
transitioning of journals from the subscription model to open
access. Resources related to university publishing programs include the
following:
•The Library Publishing Directory (Library Publishing Coalition)
•Campus-Based Publishing Partnerships: Browse by Institution (Columbia
University Libraries)
•Campus-Based Publishing Resources (SPARC)
Source: https://goo.gl/wQAzwL

27. http://www.oaspectrum.org

28. OpenStax Textbooks OpenStax CNX
https://openstax.org
OpenStax TutorOpenStax Concept Coach

29. https://open.bccampus.ca/

30. Access the book at OER Commons: https://goo.gl/LMxazb

31. This book is out of print. None of
the publishers had the rights to it.
We were able to locate one of the
sons, via the author’s obituary,
and permission was granted for us
to use it in a course.

32. https://www.gutenberg.org

33. Image source: https://goo.gl/SeMSeP

34. Are you currently getting rid of
some of your physical collections?
If yes! Then you can donate your books
to Open Library. More information at:
http://openlibrary.org/

35. • FlatWorld Knowledge
• Bookboon
• College Open Textbooks
Other textbook resources:

36. Acquire OER strategies for developing a variety of educational
opportunities using a variety of formats.

37. https://ed.ted.com

38. https://ocw.mit.edu
Unlocking Knowledge
Empowering Minds

39. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com

40. Curriculum Builder:
Support the Faculty and Promote
Library Resources Simultaneously

41. 1.
2.
How it works in Desire2Learn …

42. 3.
4. Change the title

43. 5. Enter search terms
6.

44. … in all online courses!

45. “I use it for journal articles and general Internet resources as a
‘Reading List’ for my students. Since I don’t use a textbook for
Introduction to Humanities, these primary sources serve as the
foundation for what we do in class. I really enjoy the tracking
feature, which allows me to see who is accessing the readings.”
Marc Unger
Humanities Professor
St. Petersburg College

46. Image source: https://goo.gl/yNkUPV
5 R’s of OER Permissions

47. Source: https://goo.gl/Djo5SN

48. Tracking Learning with the Experience API (xAPI)
https://experienceapi.com

49. Understand various issues surrounding OER in libraries.

50. Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014 by Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman.

52. Harvesting
Open Access
https://www.openarchives.org/
(OAI-PMH) (OAI-ORE)

53. Harvesting open education?

54. More to think about …

55. Edit Wikipedia articles and include OER library resources.

56. More info: http://goo.gl/Ng0zM

57. Promote DRM-free e-books
http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com/
http://overdrive.com/
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://openlibrary.org/

58. https://www.flvc.org/OERSummit

59. A Year’s Worth of Free Resources for E-Learning
Read more at https://goo.gl/cp3J2e

60. Select Resources:
Open Access Directory - a compendium of simple factual lists about open
access (OA) to science and scholarship.
Achieving Personalized Learning: Text-Neutral Course (video) by Nathan
Muehl and Jeff Donovick
OER Commons – discover, share, and create open educational resources.
Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher
Education, 2014 by Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman.
Open Education Resources: OER Issues and Trends – Curated by Boston
College Libraries.
OER Planning Resources – copyright and fair use decision tools, evaluation
models, lesson plans etc.

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