OER How-To at Guttman Community College

Logo by Markus Büsges for Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. (CC BY-SA 4.0)

 

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are cost-free and accessible instructional materials that can be used, reused, and often remixed and customized under an intellectual property license that permits their free use: insuring authors retain copyright to their work. OERs are often referred to as the 5Rs.

Definition of Open Educational Resources by CUNY Office of Library Services

 

  

 

 

 

open = free + permissions (the 5Rs)

"MI ExplOER" by MiALA OER IG, 2021 (CC BY 4.0)

 

 

Image adapted from Lumen Learning, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

The Creative Commons licenses and tools give everyone, from individual creators to large companies and institutions, a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.

 

 

The author of the work has the ability to grant unique Creative Commons licenses which detail how that work can be used. Often OER authors state that their work can be changed, as long as it is not for profit, and their name is credited.  

This link explains the various licenses in plain, non-legal language.

 

Additional short videos on Creative Commons licensing here.

 

 

Creative Commons Infographic from Technology Enhanced Learning Blo

The following 13 slides covers the core concepts, purposes and examples of OER:

Open Educational Resources Training is organized by Guttman colleagues, and presented by discipline/First-Year Experience (FYE) courses. This training introduces accessibility and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) searching for CUNY. 

(CC0 1.0)

• Biology
• Business Administration
• Chemistry
• English
• Ethnographies of Work
• History
• Human Services
• Information Technology
• Learning About Being a Successful Student
• Math
• Political Science
• Social Science
• Urban Studies

Take an OER 101 course that introduces finding and evaluating OERs, using OERs in the classroom, and creating and hosting OERs. The course is designed for professors creating Open Educational Resources in higher education.

OER 101 was created by Open@CUNY GroupLinks. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

 

• Module 1: An Introduction to Open Education Resources 
• Module 2: The Importance of Open Education Resources
• Module 3: Finding and Evaluating Open Education Resources
• Module 4: Using Open Education Resources in Your Class
• Module 5: Creating and Hosting Your Own Open Education Resources

MI ExplOER is an excellent self-paced eight-module course created by Michigan librarians as an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education.

 

• Module 1: Understanding OER
• Module 2: Why OER?
• Module 3: Copyright & Open Licensing
• Module 4: Finding OER
• Module 5: Evaluating OER
• Module 6: Accessibility
• Module 7: Creative Commons
• Module 8: Adapting, Creating, & Sharing OER