“Introduction” in “OER 101: Go Open, Go Free!”
Introduction
OER 101: Go Open, Go Free!
Introduction
Welcome! In this textbook you will be learning about Open Educational Resources and how to find, evaluate, modify, and adopt them for use in your classes.
Learning Outcomes (LO) |
Upon completion of this textbook you will be able to:
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What is OER?
- Define Open Educational Resources (OER) and the Textbook Cost $0 (TXT0) course designation. (LO1)
- Articulate the benefits of using Open Educational Resources. (LO1,2)
Chapter 2: Copyright & OER
- Understand copyright infringement and the fair use defense. (LO3)
- Distinguish between openly licensed, public domain, and all rights reserved copyrighted materials. (LO3)
- Distinguish between the different types and combinations of Creative Commons licenses. (LO3)
- Ability to properly use and attribute copyrighted and Creative Commons licensed materials. (LO3)
Chapter 3: Prep & Planning Your Course for OER
- Revisit course planning to identify content gaps that could be filled with OER. (LO4)
- Create a project goal after looking at OER options. (LO4)
Chapter 4: Find, Evaluate, and Create Resources
- Locate and search provided repositories for resources. (LO4,9)
- Conduct searches on the internet to locate resources. (LO4)
- Evaluate resources using a provided rubric. (LO5,7)
Chapter 5: Adapt OERs, Create and Share with your Students
- Determine if adaptation is needed. (LO5,6,7)
- Determine if adaptation is possible based on OER type and source. (LO3,5,6)
- Adapt/modify and re-license a resource. (LO6)
- Identify ways OER can be indigenized, localized and made more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. (LO2, 7)
- Create and license a resource. (LO6)
- Ability to share content via Laulima and other public-facing platforms. (LO8)
- Ability to provide your students access to your resources. (LO8)
Chapter 6: Next Steps
- Connect with a national/global OER community. (LO9)
- Ability to designate a class as Textbook Cost: $0 following campus procedures. (LO1)
UHCC System OER Initiative
The High Performance Mission-Driven System (HPMS) Section of the UHCC 2015-2021 Strategic Directions explicitly lists the adoption of OERs as a strategy for reducing the cost of education for students (page 27). Tasked by our campus administrators to explore the opportunities presented by open educational resources in 2014, the UHCC OER campus advocates came together to share information and to develop common strategies and approaches where appropriate. In 2015, we were fortunate to receive funding from former Vice President Morton and the UHCC OER Initiative was born.
Campus Advocates
Individuals who have assumed or been assigned the responsibility to coordinate at the campus levels the following: implementing OER awareness campaigns; facilitating OER adoption and creation projects and related incentive programs; providing faculty support, training and OER-related workshops; coordinating campus TXT0 course marking program and associated data collection; managing expenditures; and submitting annual system-mandated reports. The campus advocates work to develop systemwide standards and guidelines and to coordinate training opportunities for faculty.
Licensing Info
The University of Hawai‘i Community Colleges' (UHCC) Open Educational Resources (OER) Group created this textbook to provide on-going professional development to those who teach and those who support teaching.
This textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License unless otherwise noted.
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