Course Information
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| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
$250.00
Dates: January 4 - January 31Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials shared at no cost under intellectual property licenses that enable others to reuse, revise, and share them with more flexibility than traditionally copyrighted materials. OER make education more accessible to students and offer faculty more pedagogical freedom.
Faculty and administrators curious about OER often come to librarians first. Few library workers have OER listed as part of our duties, and many of us have knowledge gaps in this area. As such, we struggle to allocate sufficient time to adequately support OER-interested faculty or spearhead OER initiatives.
This interactive four-week course supports librarians in facilitating OER adoptions, even if your institution has yet to invest resources in OER initiatives. Through applied learning, peer interaction, and instructor feedback, you’ll practice the skills librarians need to be catalysts for OER at our institutions. This course is designed to accommodate participants across a wide range of prior knowledge and skills.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain how Creative Commons licenses work and describe the freedoms granted by various open licenses.
- Experiment with search strategies for OER and compare several OER referatories.
- Practice applying OER evaluation frameworks that center equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
- Create a deliverable that supports OER adoption at your institution.
Participants intending to complete the Certificate in Open Education Librarianship have the option to choose between Introduction to OER and Introduction to Copyright based on a self-assessment of your prior knowledge and skills around OER. If you’re new to OER, take Intro. to OER, which is introductory. If you have sufficient OER experience to feel you meet the Intro. to OER outcomes, take Intro. to Copyright, which is more advanced.
Course Description
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials shared at no cost under intellectual property licenses that enable others to reuse, revise, and share them with more flexibility than traditionally copyrighted materials. OER make education more accessible to students and offer faculty more pedagogical freedom.
Faculty and administrators curious about OER often come to librarians first. Few library workers have OER listed as part of our duties, and many of us have knowledge gaps in this area. As such, we struggle to allocate sufficient time to adequately support OER-interested faculty or spearhead OER initiatives.
This interactive four-week course supports librarians in facilitating OER adoptions, even if your institution has yet to invest resources in OER initiatives. Through applied learning, peer interaction, and instructor feedback, you’ll practice the skills librarians need to be catalysts for OER at our institutions. This course is designed to accommodate participants across a wide range of prior knowledge and skills.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain how Creative Commons licenses work and describe the freedoms granted by various open licenses.
- Experiment with search strategies for OER and compare several OER referatories.
- Practice applying OER evaluation frameworks that center equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
- Create a deliverable that supports OER adoption at your institution.
Participants intending to complete the Certificate in Open Education Librarianship have the option to choose between Introduction to OER and Introduction to Copyright based on a self-assessment of your prior knowledge and skills around OER. If you’re new to OER, take Intro. to OER, which is introductory. If you have sufficient OER experience to feel you meet the Intro. to OER outcomes, take Intro. to Copyright, which is more advanced.
Colleen Sanders
Colleen Sanders, MLS, M.Ed., is a librarian, instructional designer, faculty developer, and open education practitioner. She works at the intersection of people, information, technology, and learning. She has served as a faculty librarian at multiple institutions in Oregon and Washington. Currently, she supports faculty in academic and technical fields to combine information access with learner-centered design. Her goal is to engage adult learners through active learning that develops relevant, authentic, and transferable skills. She is a graduate of the Creative Commons Certificate program and the Open Education Network’s Certificate in Open Pedagogy. Her work advocating for OER policy amidst commercial textbook affordability programs earned her an OER Champion award from Open Oregon Educational Resources. She has served on multiple large-scale OER publishing projects in Oregon and Washington, first as an OER Development Consultant on the Targeted Pathways Open Curriculum project, then as an Instructional Designer, OER & Copyright Specialist, and Pressbooks Migration Lead for Washington's Open ProfTech project. She hopes to empower library and information workers in all capacities to integrate diverse skillsets into their careers to serve critical informational practices.
Quill West
Quill West has been an open education leader and advocate throughout her career and currently serves as Open Education Project Manager at Pierce College, in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. As a librarian seeking to forward open education work, Quill has helped many institutions launch and sustain open education initiatives. She headed the Library as Open Education Leader project, which invited and trained librarians in Washington to become advocates for OER in their own institutions. She collaborates with colleagues to create, adopt, adapt, and support open education projects, particularly where students shape the materials as they learn.
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