LibGuides: SWIC Faculty guide to Open Educational Resources (OER): OER basics

3 Videos about OER basics

This "Getting started with OER" webinar (56 mins.) is designed for beginners. Don't have an hour to watch the webinar? Explore the slides, linked below. This webinar covers:

How OER is different from "free" resources
How Creative Commons (CC) licenses work
Where to find OER
How to incorporate open pedagogy into your instruction.

"Getting Started with OER" slides

In less than 2 minutes, watch this video produced in Washington state that explains the concept of OER and the 5 R's:

Are you considering incorporating open resources into your course to save students money and improve teaching and learning? Watch this 6-minute video for some tips for finding Open Educational Resources to build or add to your classes.

Text source: "OER - Open Educational Resources" by Portland Community College Library licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0

Learn more about OER

Learn OER - Open Washington Modules
Self-paced modules created by Open Washington to learn about OER and why it matters.
Adopting OER in the Classroom
A faculty resource for adopting, using and re-purposing openly licensed educational resources. Lumen Learning.
Free to Learn
An Open Educational Resources Policy Development Guidebook for Community College Governance Officials
Introduction to Open Educational Resources
OpenStax open textbook about OER
OER Handbook for Educators
This wiki-style handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom.
OER Tutorial
Open tutorial about OER by Algonquin College. This course is meant as a primer to anyone interested in learning more about the OER movement. It provides learning opportunities related to the origins of open resources, copyright and open licensing. It also acts as an overview of searching best practices both on the web and in OER repositories.
Ryerson Open Moments
Erin Meger, et al., 2020. "[A] book that describes the journeys of eight educators who came to discover open education through projects in which they developed open educational resources. Each of these stories recounts a different journey towards open and what open education comes to mean for each of our storytellers." CC BY NC SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial) license.