The Librarian OER Toolbox is a collection of links to (mostly) open resources. It is designed for librarians, expert searchers, and people who "enjoy the hunt" through overwhelming volumes of information. This site represents the most comprehensive lists we have found of the places to look for open educational resources written in English. WARNING: Using this page may cause information overload. Proceed with caution.
The OER Starter Kit (2019) and Workbook (2020)
To Boldly Go: First-year exploration of OER Initiatives (2014 PPT, but still relevant)
SPARC Open Education Leadership Program Curriculum (course)
OTN OER Librarian Bootcamp (course)
WEBINARS & RECORDINGS
Webinar recording: Effectively Encouraging Use of OER on Your Campus (Nicole Finkbeiner)
How to conduct a reference interview for Course Materials (short videos & templates) (Quill West)
Webinar recording: On Becoming Open Education Leaders (Quill West)
Webinars on various topics (CCCOER)
Import MARC records from the Open Textbook Library
READINGS
Open: The Philosophy and Practices and are Revolutionizing Education and Science Open Access & CC BY
LEARNING COMMUNITIES (online)
OpenLearningHub Includes videos, blogs, Twitter discussions and more. See also: #OpenLearning17 #OpenLearning18 #OpenLearning19 on Twitter
LEARNING ABOUT OPEN PEDAGOGY
Open Pedagogy Notebook (DeRosa/Jhanghani)
Six perspectives on Open Pedagogy (Year of Open)
Discussion on Open Pedagogy (CCCOER)
Open Pedagogy as a foundational concept (BCCampus)
See also: #openped or #openpedagogy on Twitter
LEARNING ABOUT OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
"LearnOER" in 10 modules (Open Washington)
Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom (Linda Williams & Lumen Learning)
See also: #oer on Twitter
LEARNING MORE ABOUT COPYRIGHT & CREATIVE COMMONS
Coursera MOOC: Copyright for Educators & Librarians Framework for Analyzing any U.S. Copyright Problem
Book: Copyright Law for Educators & Librarians (not open access)
Article: The Beauty of Some Rights Reserved: Introducing Creative Commons to Librarians, Faculty, and Students
Video: Get Creative: Being the Origin and Adventures of the Creative Commons Licensing Project (~6 minutes)
Creative Commons licenses (includes human readable summaries and legal text for each license)
FIND LIKEMINDED PEOPLE
Open Textbook Network (Member listserv, summer institute, and service opportunities ($)
OpenStax Institutional Partnership Program (by application. Planning, community, strategy, accountability)
SPARC Library & OER Forum (Public listserv and monthly topical teleconferences)
Community College Consortium on OER (Listserv, public webinars, advisory meetings and more)
Digital Pedagogy Lab (Institute, articles, podcasts, Journal of Hybrid Pedagogy)
CREATING OPEN TEXTBOOKS
Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit (BCCampus)
Recorded open office hours (OTN and Rebus Community for Open Textbook Creation)
More resources at: Open Textbook Authoring & Editing
OER audio, video, images, simulations, textbooks, courseware . . . for those who love to search.
Find OER | Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN)
MERLOT - Search multiple repositories
Google Advanced Search (filter usage rights)
Open Course Library (SBCTC)
Wikieducator Exemplary Collection of Open Learning Content Repositories
The Orange Grove: Florida's Digital Repository
Affordable Learning Solutions Oklahoma
Affordable Learning Solutions California State University
TAACCCT (U.S. Dept of Labor) STEM OER Matrix and Foundational OER Matrix
Open Textbooks (free, Faculty-editable)
Open Stax College (Rice University) http://openstaxcollege.org
BC Campus Open ED http://open.bccampus.ca
Open Textbook Library http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
MERLOT (material type=open textbook) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/advSearchMaterials.htm
Open Textbooks CCCOER http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific
College Open Textbooks http://collegeopentextbooks.org
Open SUNY Textbooks http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbooks
Lower-Cost (Faculty-Editable)
Boundless ($) https://www.boundless.com
Flatworld Knowledge ($) http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com
Thuze ($) https://www.thuze.com
VT Libraries
VT Faculty - Contact your VT College Librarian regarding purchase of a multi-user eBook version.
VT Faculty & Students - Contact the VT OER Librarian for assistance in locating OER.
Slightly lower cost commercial Custom Textbooks (Note: these tend to have lower or zero re-sale value)
Bedford, Freeman & Worth, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, & Wiley
California Learning Resource Network http://www.clrn.org
Carnegie Mellon University - Open + Free Courses http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-open-courses/
CosmoLearning http://www.cosmolearning.com/
Curriki http://www.curriki.org/
MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
MyOpenMath https://www.myopenmath.com/
National Repository of Online Courses http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/
Notre Dame OpenCourseWare http://ocw.nd.edu/
Open Courseware Library http://opencourselibrary.org
Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/
OpenCourseWare data faceted search http://serendipity.utpl.edu.ec
OpenCourseWare Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) https://p2pu.org/en
Saylor.org Academy http://www.saylor.org
Sofia http://sofia.fhda.edu/
Stanford Online http://online.stanford.edu
Tufts OpenCourseWare http://ocw.tufts.edu
UNU Open Coursware (archived site) http://ocw.unu.edu
Utah State OpenCourseWare http://ocw.usu.edu
Library OER initiatives (from SPARC) - an list of OER initiatives involving libraries or librarians. Organized geographically.
LibraryAsLeader (Washington state) initiative and the BCOER Librarians group are particularly notable.
A number of international, state, regional, and local OER consortia also exist, including: OpenVA, OpenWashington, and many others. Annual conferences, such as OpenEd and Open Education Global are excellent places to explore and obtain support.
A variety of impact, project, policy and other OER maps are also available from the OER Research Hub.
Judith, Kate and Bull, David, (March 2016) Assessing the Potential for Openness: A Framework for Examining Course-Level OER Implementation in Higher Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives v24, p.42.
Billings, Marilyn, et al. (2012) “Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries” RLI 280 p2-10
Babson Survey Research Group surveys on Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education. (2012 & 2014). The 2014 survey focuses on level of faculty awareness of OER.
Chae, Boyoung and Jenkins, Mark (2015) "A Qualitative Investigation of Faculty Open Educational Resource Usage in the Washington Community and Technical College System: Models for Support and Implementation" Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Collins, Sue and Levy, Peter (2013) “Guide to the Use of Open Educational Resources in K-12 and Postsecondary Education” Software & Information Industry Association.
Florida Virtual Campus (2012) 2012 Faculty and Administrator Open Educational Resources Survey. Tallahassee, FL: Author.
Kazakoff-Lane, Carmen [2014] “Environmental Scan and Assessment of OERs, MOOCs and Libraries: What Effectiveness and Sustainability Means for Libraries’ Impact on Open Education”
Kleinman, Mill (2008) “The Beauty of ‘Some Rights Reserved’: Introducing Creative Commons to librarians, faculty, and students. C&RL News. Vol.69, No. 10.
Kleymeer, Pieter, Kleinman, Molly, and Hansee, Ted (2010) “Reaching the Heart of the University: Libraries and the Future of OER” Presented at the Open Education 2010 Conference, November 2-4, 2010. Barcelona Spain.
Charleston Conference (Nov 2014) issue "Library Roles with Textbook Affordability" Against the Grain 26(5). [Nearly 50+ pages Library and OER projects descriptions] Not Open Access. Ask your Collections Development Department if they have a copy or online subscription.]
Walz, Anita (2015) "Open and Editable: Exploring Library Engagement in Open Educational Resource Adoption, Adaptation and Authoring" Virginia Libraries. Vol.61:23-31.
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