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August Classes Spotlight:
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET
Over the last decade, the awareness and use of open educational resources (OER) has seen significant expansion as educators and institutions increasingly avail themselves of educational
materials that are either free from copyright (i.e. in the public domain) or are available for free use and adaptation under an open sharing license (e.g. those developed by Creative Commons). The word "free," however, does not accurately describe the materials
that these individuals and organizations are using, because "open" materials explicitly permit use and adaptation in ways that much freely-accessible content doesn't. This course covers the basics of open content licensing and explores a variety of existing
OER initiatives to help identify a set of best practices that may be scaled across institutions.
Instructor: Matthew Bloom, Maricopa Community Colleges
More on Open Educational Resources coming in September:
A Deeper Dive into Open Educational Resources: Myths,
Barriers, and Current Issues
9/24/2019
2:00 – 3:30PM ET
Open Educational Resources (OER), or learning objects that are explicitly licensed so that others can retain, reuse, and revise them, continue to gain traction in higher education, both as a
potential solution to the rising cost of textbooks and as an impetus for improving pedagogy. As a result, several libraries have established incentive programs and outreach to raise instructor awareness of OER and increase OER adoption and creation on their
campuses. In order to lead these programs, librarians must intentionally prepare for instructor misconceptions, gaps in knowledge, and questions. Building upon LYRASIS’s introductory course on OER offered in August 2019, this course will provide participants
with an overview of common myths related to OER, including concerns about peer review and comprehensiveness, as well as barriers instructors face when adopting OER, including a lack of familiarity with Creative Commons and the need for ancillary materials.
Potential solutions and talking points will be discussed. The session will conclude with a short overview of current issues that librarians working with OER should be familiar with. While some background on OER will be covered, this session is intended for
librarians that already have a working knowledge of how OER are defined and why they are important.
Instructor: Sarah Hare, Scholarly Communication Librarian at Indiana University Bloomington
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