Short demo on the changeling of OER with good solutions

1. WHY OER?
By Jacqueline Staley

2. What is OER and why is it Important
Why Open Education Matters by Ope Bukola CC BY

3. Too hard to find quality
content
Too hard to adapt the
available content
Licensing questions
How is the content
updated? Time spent to
assure content is current
What if a student needs a
printed copy?

4. Overcome
Challenges
Finding Resources
Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/
Canvas Commons: access through your local Canvas domain
Open Washington: http://www.openwa.org/find-oer/
Quality
Excellent resources to help faculty determine content quality:
https://oer.psu.edu/evaluate/
Licensing:
Understanding OER licensing can be daunting, the best source to understand
licensing is Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Student Hardcopies
Hardcopies are almost always provided for print outs using the universal PDF
format
 Find resources that help
faculty find and adapt
OER content
 Determining Quality
 Licensing
 Keeping content current
 Hardcopies

5. Sources
Challenges of Using OER: Penn State
https://oer.psu.edu/challenges-of-using-oer-and-how-to-overcome-them/
Creative Commons
https://creativecommons.org/
Open Washington
http://www.openwa.org/