LibGuides: Open Educational Resources for Faculty: OER Resources

Learning About OER

These are resources intended to help faculty better understand how to create, evaluate, remix, and adopt OERs. These resources also provide information on ensuring the accessibility of open resources.

ACC Checklist for Evaluating Open Educational Resouresc This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of OER. The starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education.
Accessibility Toolkit Written by Amanda Coolidge, Sue Doner, Tara Robertson, & Josie Gray The goal of this toolkit is to provide resources content creators to design a truly open textbook.
Modifying an Open Textbook This is a five-step guide for faculty, and those who support faculty, who want to modify an open textbook.
The OER Starter Kit Written by Abbey Elder. This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of OER. The starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education.
Texas Learn OER by DigiTex Self-paced learning modules to introduce OERs and provide an opportunity for further exploration of open education practices.

Free OER Course by DigiTex

Take the Texas Learn OER course by DigiTex offers a free introductory course to OER. The modules cover basic OER information finding and adapting resources, ensuring accessibility, open licensing, and anything else you made need to get started.

The 5 R's of OER

Remix

Resources can be combined with other resources to create new resources. For example, an instructor can find several OERs and take chapters or sections from each to create a new resource.

Revise

Resources can be modified, adapted, or translated. For example, localized case studies can be added to a resource. It can be edited to reflect more current information, or new material can be added to better cover a particular topic.

Reuse

Resources can be used again and again every semester. Students do not have to pay any subscription or recurring fees to access the materials.

Redistribute

Resources that an instructor uses, remixes, or revises can be shared with students, co-workers, administrators, and the broader public. Resources can be printed, downloaded, or accessed on multiple devices.

Retain

Students get access to materials the first day of class and they never lose access. The materials are freely available online and students can access them after the class ends to after graduation and beyond.