Find Your Fit Activity: Resources for Introducing OERs

A response to the Find Your Fit Activity
created by Holly Ashbourne (@hashbourne)

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Am emerging part of my role is instructing College staff and faculty about OERs. For the purposes of this activity, the theme of my resources will be “what are open educational resources?”. I decided to curate meaningful, engaging OER materials around this topic to make my teaching more effective. I searched the Open Textbook Library, MERLOT, and the H5P Studio as I would like to select different types of media.

  1. OERs: Open Educational Resources – Libguide from the Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library, University of Nebraska

This resource is a very thorough open educational resource on the topic of introducing OERs. It covers all of the topics I would address in a workshop or webinar on this topic. The format is also helpful. LibGuides is a content management system used by many libraries and, with permission, I could put this into my own LibGuides system. A downside to using this resource is the licensing (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This will be slightly problematic because it restricts any sort of customization. I would like to be able to customize this LibGuide by adding more Canadian content, other links, and more.

  1. A Short History of OER – Lillian Hogendoorn, ECampus Ontario

This resource provides an interactive timeline based on Emily Carlisle-Johnson’s article “A Short History of OER”. The timeline provides an interesting snapshot of where OERs started. It is easily embedded into different content management systems and designed with accessibility in mind. I think this will be an engaging addition to an online resource teaching about OERs.

  1. The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) – Apurva Ashok and Zoe Wake Hyde

To round out my resource selections, I would choose this open textbook as a “for further reading” option. This book has been mentioned frequently in various workshops I have attended, so I think it will be a nice addition for those faculty who are inspired by my workshops and want a deep dive into creating open textbooks. The perk of this book is the ongoing development which helps maintain its currency, the collaborative nature of the material, and the wide variety of download or reading options.

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