Open Educational Resources: OER Resources for Faculty
Interest Form
If you are thinking about converting your courses to OER fill out this interest form and a librarian will contact you to start the process.
OER Discussion
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 HubThis 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
The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
Stipend form
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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 ResourcesThe CCCOER collects open access resources for the creation of textbook alternatives, in addition to open content repositories and developmental tools.
- ConnexionsConnexions 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
- InTechA multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
- MERLOTA free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education
- NanoHUBProvides over 1600 open teaching and learning resources: online presentations; course material; learning modules; podcasts; simulation tools.
- OER Commons: Open TextbooksThis 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 LibraryRange 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 ConsortiumFree and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
- Open ModernismsOpen 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 CollegeOpenStax 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 CatalogA 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) ObjectsThe 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. - SaylorThe 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.
- SmARThistoryA free and open, online, not-for-profit art history textbook with complete multimedia content.
- Student PIRGs: Open TextbooksA 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 MediaOffers a number of e-Textbooks sorted by author and topic
- Textbook RevolutionA student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors
- WikiEducatorAn 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 ChecklistThe 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.
- Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists: Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & ResearchThis 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 CommonsA collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.
- NY Public Library Digital GalleryOpen access to over 700,000 digital images from the New York Public Library's collections.
- U.S. Government Photos and ImagesA 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 ArchiveA large collection of movies, films and videos that are all free to use.
- The Open Video ProjectA repository of open access digitized videos for education and learning purposes.
OER
If you are interested in applying OER to your courses or have already converted to OER email Susan.Souza-Mort@bristolcc.edu for further information about stipends.