Bristol Community College Library Learning Commons: Open Educational Resources: OER Resources for Faculty

OER Discussion

Giving Knowledge for Free

A detailed discussion of Open Educational Resources in higher education, covering a wide variety of critical topics.

Faculty Perspectives on Open Educational Resources and Open Access (Vimeo)
Narrated version of a presentation by Gideon O. Burton on 11-11-09 at the Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellows Institute at Brigham Young University.

OER worksheet & syllabus template

Massachusetts Community Colleges OER Hub

Massachusetts Community Colleges OER Hub
This site serves as a repository for the work created and collated by Massachusetts Community College (MCC) faculty as part of the MCC Go Open project. As OER work continues to expand across the state, additional resources will be added, allowing for faculty collaboration and increased access to high quality course materials for all students.

OER Starter Kit

OER Starter Kit

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

Stipend form

Have you adopted, adapted or created OER? Then you may be eligible for a stipend. Fill out this form to get the process started. Before you submit have you:
Met with a librarian to locate resources?
Met with an Instructional designer to help implement your resources in your course space?
Completed the OER process in your course?

There will be a three-tiered stipend for faculty selected for this program. Stipends will be awarded after completion of training and course adaptation to ensure use of OER in lieu of a textbook and submission of both their redesigned syllabus and an invoice.

Most OER projects fall into one of three tracks: Adopt, Adapt or Create.

Adopt: Eligible for a $250.00 stipend. Find, evaluate and adopt an existing open textbook for a course you teach.

Adapt: Eligible for a $500.00 stipend. Find an existing open textbook with the appropriate licensing and enhancing it by:
Inserting culturally specific references to make a concept easier to understand
Updating the book to add the latest discoveries or theories
Inserting more media or links to other resources
Changing the target educational level
Inserting a different point of view to that originally given in the material

Create: Eligible for a $1000.00 stipend. There may not be an appropriate open textbook available for the course of interest. The instructor would create most of the content for the course and agree to an “open” (creative commons) license. This option requires a significant number of hours for transcription of lecture notes and video creation.

Quick Guide

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
The CCCOER collects open access resources for the creation of textbook alternatives, in addition to open content repositories and developmental tools.
Connexions
Connexions contains educational materials for everyone - from children to college students to professionals - organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses
CORA: Community of Online Research Assignments
InTech
A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
MERLOT
A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education
NanoHUB
Provides over 1600 open teaching and learning resources: online presentations; course material; learning modules; podcasts; simulation tools.
OER Commons: Open Textbooks
This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
OER Commons Curated Collections
"We are busy around the clock adding new educational resources to OER Commons. We work with the finest producers of instructional content in the world and gather their best work together especially for you. Then we ensure the resources are carefully described and fully indexed because we want you to be able to find exactly what you need, when you need it."
Open Course Library
Range of materials including syllabi, course activities, and assessments created by faculty, instructional designers, librarians, other experts. Some of these materials are intended to be paired with textbooks.
Open Courseware Consortium
Free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
Open Modernisms
Open Modernisms is a Creative-Commons-licensed (CC-BY) resource that allows users to search, remix and create customized content using primary source works in the humanities from approximately 1890-1940. All items are in the public domain in Canada, where the site originates. Instructors and scholars of modernism can build custom anthologies or coursepacks.
OpenStax College
OpenStax College offers free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.
Open Textbook Catalog
A catalog of open access textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members, made available by the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development.
Rubrics for Evaluating Open Education Resource (OER) Objects
The following rubrics represent an evaluation system for objects found within Open Education
Resources. An object could include images, applets, lessons, units, assessments and more. For
the purpose of this evaluation, any component that can exist as a stand-alone qualifies as an
object. The rubrics in this packet can be applied across content areas and object types.
Saylor
The Saylor Foundation's free education initiative has focused on driving the cost of education to zero and expand access to quality open educational resources. To date there are over 270 free, self-paced, college level courses, created by credentialed professors.
SkillsCommon
SmARThistory
A free and open, online, not-for-profit art history textbook with complete multimedia content.
Student PIRGs: Open Textbooks
A catalog of information about some of the top examples of open college textbooks, offered online under a license allowing free digital access and inexpensive print options. Material can be easily modified to fit your needs.
Textbook Media
Offers a number of e-Textbooks sorted by author and topic
Textbook Revolution
A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors
The Orange grove: Florida's OER Repository
WikiEducator
An evolving online community intended for the planning of education projects linked with the development of free content and the development of free content on WikiEducator for free learning.

Creative Commons License Information

Examples of Creative Commons Licenses
"The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates." This link illustrates the licenses on a spectrum, from the most open to the most restrictive, and offers examples of each.

Fair Use

The American Library Association's guide to fair use and its limitations.

Fair Use Checklist
The Fair Use Checklist and variations on it have been widely used for many years to help educators, librarians, lawyers, and many other users of copyrighted works determine whether their activities are within the limits of fair use under U.S. copyright law (Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act). The four factors form the structure of this checklist. Congress and courts have offered some insight into the specific meaning of the factors, and those interpretations are reflected in the details of this form.
Fair Use Guidlines
Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists: Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
This Statement is meant to provide clarity for U.S. colleges and universities about how copyright law applies to the many facets of remote teaching and research in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. We write this as copyright specialists at colleges, universities, and other organizations supporting higher education in the U.S. and Canada who work every day with faculty, staff, and librarians to enable them to make ethical and legal choices about copyright issues in online teaching.

Open Image Sharing

Flickr: Creative Commons
A collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.
NY Public Library Digital Gallery
Open access to over 700,000 digital images from the New York Public Library's collections.
U.S. Government Photos and Images
A vast collection of photos and images from the U.S. Government, many of which are in the public domain and free to use.

Open Video Sharing

Moving Image Archive
A large collection of movies, films and videos that are all free to use.
The Open Video Project
A repository of open access digitized videos for education and learning purposes.

Open Educational Resources: OER Resources for Faculty

Interest Form

OER Discussion

OER worksheet & syllabus template

Massachusetts Community Colleges OER Hub

OER Starter Kit

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

Stipend form

Quick Guide

Creative Commons License Information

Fair Use

Open Image Sharing

Open Video Sharing

OER