Open Education: Librarian Tool Box

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

Year of Open

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

OER Commons

Creative Commons

Google Advanced Search (filter usage rights)

Open Course Library (SBCTC)

OER Africa

Wikieducator Exemplary Collection of Open Learning Content Repositories

OER - CC Wiki

The Orange Grove: Florida's Digital Repository

Affordable Learning Georgia

Affordable Learning Solutions Oklahoma

Affordable Learning Solutions California State University

Open Courseware Directory

TAACCCT (U.S. Dept of Labor) STEM OER Matrix and Foundational OER Matrix

Wisc-Online 

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

http://www.affordablelearningok.org/lower_cost_textbooks

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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