Library: Open Educational Resources (OERs): Open Ed Week webinar

OER, Affordable Content, and Student Success webinar

Webinar recording: OER, Affordable Content & Student Success
What are Open Educational Resources (OERs) and how can they impact student success? In this webinar, librarians Mary Ann Cullen and Denise Dimsdale introduce openly licensed course content and other affordable textbook alternatives and how they can improve student grades and retention. Learn to locate high quality, low cost resources and find out about Affordable Learning Georgia grants to develop new OERs or adapt an existing course to use open content. (40 minutes, recorded 3/28/17)

Advocate
- Increase awareness of OERs among faculty and administrators
- Participate in conversations about OERs state-wide ....and beyond
Educate
- Lead workshops for faculty about finding and using OERs
- Help students use software related to OERs, such as PDF readers
Find/Collect
- Help instructors locate OER resources for their classes (and library resources, where appropriate!)
- Add OERs to the library catalog and/or aggregate in LibGuides.
Advise - Librarians often have advanced knowledge about...
- e-Book formats (including PDF, html, wikis, and interactive software)
- Creative Commons licenses and other copyright issues
Create content - Include links to library resources and write information literacy content for faculty-created OERs.
Publish - Some libraries have OER publishing initiatives.
- Example: PDX Scholar from Portland State U http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/
Sponsor - Provide/administer grant funding to facilitate creation, adoption, and adaptation of OERs.
- Example: NCSU Alt-Textbook Project http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/alttextbook