OER 101: Go Open, Go Free! TEST 1

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

Upon completion of this textbook you will be able to:

• Apply OER and Textbook Cost $0 (TXT0) principles to lower textbook costs for students.
• Provide customized instructional materials that include indigenous, diverse and equity concepts and promote inclusiveness.
• Apply basic concepts in copyright, fair use, public domain, and open licensing.
• Search for and locate OER that support the learning outcomes of your course.
• Evaluate and select high quality resources.
• Modify or create resources.
• Select accessible resources (or remediate/resolve compliance issues).
• Share OER/free resources via Laulima or a public-facing platform.
• Connect to OER communities within UH and outside of UH.

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)
• Connect with a national/global OER community. (LO9)

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

• Ability to designate a class as Textbook Cost: $0 following campus procedures. (LO1)
• Provide feedback regarding OER training.

Attributions:

Photo "OER Logo", by University of Hawaiʻi OER, is used under a CC-BY 4.0 License.

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.

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.

This textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License unless otherwise noted.

Chapter 1. What is OER?

Welcome! We're excited to have you on this journey into Open Educational Resources (OER).

Chapter 1 Activities

• Use this checklist to make sure you complete all of the activities in this Chapter.
• Submit questions/concerns you have about OER
• Complete the "TXT0 Listings" Assignment
• Post a "Meet & Greet" message
• Pass the Chapter 1 Quiz

What Are Open Educational Resources?

So let's jump in. Watch the two videos below for a quick introduction to OER and why we should be using OER in our classes.

Video: An Introduction to Open Educational Resources from Abbey Elder on YouTube

Video: What is OER? from The Council of Chief State School Officers on YouTube

Open Educational Resources (OER) are any kind of teaching, learning, and research materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost without needing to ask permission. The creators retain copyright, however they determine in advance the licenses they grant the public, such as copying, sharing, and modifying.

OER is one of many movements inspired by openness to learning and knowledge. You may be familiar with terms such as open door, open access, GNU licensing, open source software, open courseware, open data, and open pedagogy.

Examples of OER include:

• syllabi
• lesson plans
• presentations
• assignments
• exams
• textbooks
• videos
• images