LibGuides: OER: Getting Started

Getting Started with OER

New to OER? Below are courses and toolkits to help you with understanding OER and best practices when incorporating OER materials into your course(s).

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Courses
Toolkits

Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom
This self paced course, comprised of six modules, introduces teachers to the regulations that shape the use, re-use, and dissemination of information they may want to make use of in a course.
How to use Open Educational Resources
A self-paced workshop composed of 10 modules, this course walks you through techniques to incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) into your teaching practice.
MAKING THE TRANSITION TO OPEN: THE EASY WAY TO CREATE, LICENSE, AND SHARE FREE MATERIALS
This course encourages faculty to participate in developing and improving OER by demonstrating some simple steps by which materials can be generated, collected, licensed, and shared.
OER101
This class is a brief introduction to Open Education Resources (OER) for faculty. It is divided into five modules: An Introduction to Open Education Resources; The Importance of Open Education Resources; Finding and Evaluating Open Education Resources; Using Open Education Resources in Your Class; Creating and Hosting Your Own Open Education Resources
OER Basics
This course serves as an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER), providing faculty with new options for selecting textbooks and other resources so they can make the best decisions for their students. This course is a self-paced
OER Course Development Support
Covers searching for Open Educational Resources, Find Open Textbooks, OER Licenses, Creative Commons License Types, The 5 R’s of “Open”
and OER Success Stories. Also provides OER course design and resources for the following disciplines: Communication and Speech Studies, English, Math and Science
Open Practices for Faculty
This course is intended to provide a foundation in the skills and knowledge needed to create, remix, adopt, or update open educational resources (OER).
Texas Learn OER
A series of nine self-paced online learning modules (the tenth module serves as a final assessment) that serve as an introduction to open educational resources (OER) and as an opportunity for further exploration and discovery of open education practices.

Accessibility Toolkit for Open Educational Resources (OER)
This guide was created to assist CUNY Librarians, faculty, staff & OER developers create accessible content and accessible Open Educational Resources (OER)
ACRL/CJCLS OER Librarian Toolkit
This toolkit was developed based on a survey conducted by the OER Taskforce. We hope that value of this toolkit will be in connecting librarians with active OER Communities and resources that reflect the value of the work of academic librarians.
Faculty OER Toolkit
This Toolkit is an information resource and guide to adapting and adopting Open Educational Resources for classroom use.
OER Capability Toolkit
This Toolkit aims to provide educators with a fundamental understanding of the use and creation of OER.
OER Handbook for educators
This handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom.
OERI Student Impact Toolkit: Measuring Student Impact and Capturing Student Voices in OER/ZTC
This Toolkit is designed to guide colleges, universities, and other organizations in higher education to capture, measure, and share the impressions and impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) course sections on enrolled students through a survey and videos.
The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers
This Starter Kit was created to bring attention to the work that is involved in building and managing an OER program, from learning about open educational practices and soliciting team members to collecting and reporting data on your program’s outcomes.
OER Starter Kit Workbook
This Starter Kit includes worksheets to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, use, or even create open educational resources (OER).
OER Student Tool Kit
This toolkit explains the benefits of OER and provides guidance on how students can help promote its adoption.
OER Toolkit
This toolkit provides information and tools to help faculty and library staff understand, engage with, and sustain OER in their work and practice.
Open Educational Resources: OER Toolkit
News and information for Faculty on using OERs in the online classroom.
OpenStax OER Toolkit
This toolkit provides guidance and considerations regarding an array of OER development and implementation topics.

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