Current OER Events
- CCCOER Webinar SeriesRegister for free for monthly webinars from Community College Consortium for OER.
OER Training & Professional Development
- Creating an Open Education PlanCCCOER provides guidance for adopting and promoting OER on campus, both for instructors and administrators.
- Texas Learn OERTexas Learn OER is a series of self-paced modules for instructors. Topics range from an OER introduction to understanding different open licensing structures.
While it is geared toward use in Texas, many of the modules are relevant to all instructors. - Creative Commons CertificateRegister for training on Creative Commons licensing practices--the foundation of OER--or peruse the Certificate Resources, including the e-book Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians.
- On-Demand Videos from CCCOERThe Community College Consortium for OER's webinar recordings are available to watch on demand. Filter by categories like course design or open pedagogy, search for keywords, or view the latest webinars.
Switching to Open Educational Resources
As an instructor, making the switch from commercial textbooks to teaching with Open Educational Resources enables your students to have required course materials on day one of class and to spend less money on their education. On average, fewer students will withdraw from your class. This research guide is designed to help you decide whether OER are right for you and your students, and share tools and information resources to give you the knowledge and confidence to succeed with OER.
You have the freedom, whether you adopt someone else's OER or create your own, to mold the course materials to your course objectives. OER are not a panacea though: as Griffiths, et al. have found, "[m]ost instructors reported spending 1½ - 2 times as much time developing OER courses compared to traditional courses, primarily locating, vetting, and adapting content."
Below are several other OER training and resource guides you are welcome to use.
- The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far)Presented as a free e-book, The Rebus Guide is a living document of best practices for creating and adopting OER. The authors invite suggestions for the e-book to keep it up-to-date.
- The OER Starter Kit
This e-book "is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education" and covers the various aspects of creating your own OER. - Open Textbook Authoring and Editing (Va. Tech. University Libraries)Extensive list of resources for instructors who want to create their own OER.
- Harper College OER TrainingGeared toward Harper College instructors, this guide provides instructions for creating Open Educational Resources.
With commercial textbooks, we already know that we are not permitted to modify the content, nor to copy and share it. While OER come with much more liberal permissions, those permissions vary by resource. It is important to know what uses are allowed, and under what condition, for each resource.
- Creative Commons Licenses: A GuideAn excellent guide explaining the different types of CC licenses.
Creating and Sharing OER
- Creative Commons Share Your WorkAnswer simple questions to find out which CC license is right for the work that you create!
- H5PH5P provides templates and tools for creating open HTML5 content, including presentations, videos, and games.