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OER challenges & benefits (from an academic librarian's perspective)
1. OER challenges & benefits
(from an academic librarian’s perspective)
Jennifer Snoek-Brown
OER 101,Washington SBCTC
May 2016
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. OER challenges
• Feeling overwhelmed with volume and variety of
OER options and repositories
• Pressure of staying up-to-date with quality OER in
various disciplines, in order to help faculty across
the curriculum
• Troubleshooting accessibility issues
• Understanding differences between creative commons licenses and
traditional copyright -- and helping articulate those differences to
faculty and students
• Establishing library role in OER academic initiatives
"OERlogo" byJörg Lohrer is in the Public Domain, CC0
3. OER challenges, continued
• Understanding faculty and staff perspectives about:
• searching for and assessing OER
• addressing barriers about using, attributing, and/or creating OER
• connecting with other stakeholders across campus (bookstore,
instructional design, etc.)
• securing buy-in with using
OER in courses
"What is Open" by Alfonso Sintjago is
licensed under CC BY 2.0 / A derivative
from the original work
4. OER benefits
• Opportunities to collaborate
with faculty in navigating,
implementing, and/or creating
OER in their own disciplines
• Highlight OER and other
affordable learning materials
to help supplement course
materials, including already
licensed -- and already paid for! -- library resources (e.g. e-books)
• Opportunity to add our voice and perspective to an emerging field
"What do libraries mean to you?" by ijclark is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
5. OER benefits, continued
• Create more dynamic information literacy lessons
(e.g. ”flipping the classroom” before library instruction sessions)
and strengthen supplemental materials (e.g. LibGuides)
• Continue to develop lifelong learning skills by exploring new
resources
• Natural alignment with new Information Literacy Framework and
pedagogical shift in librarianship
"Information Literacy" by Ewa Rozkosz is
licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
