OER Presentation at NMLA Conference 2024

This is a presentation I gave at the New Mexico Library Association Conference in Carlsbad, New Mexico in October 0f 2024. The audience was librarians from New Mexico, and the purpose was to inform people about open educational resources. The materials contained within the website are licensed Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted.

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1. Q U E S T F O R T H E D R A G O N ’ S T R E A S U R E : O E R A T N M L A P R E S E N T E D B Y J E N N I F E R J O R D A N 1 0 / 2 4 / 2 4
2. OER PRESENTATION AGENDA 1. Meet the Facilitator 2. Define OER Materials 3. Identify OER Benefits 4. Group Activity 5. Explore databases and repositories 6. Discover CC Licenses Robot OER Image by annemazo on Pixabay
3. P L E A S E N A V I G A T E H E R E : W W W . J E N N I F E R J O R D A N W R I T E S . C O M This interactive page contains supplementary materials for today’s presentation.
4. M E E T YO U R FAC I L I TATO R I’m Jennifer Jordan, an OER librarian at the University of New Mexico. I am also the principal investigator on a Department of Education grant developed to create an OER consortium in the state of New Mexico for post-secondary schools.
5. D E F I N I N G O E R M AT E R I A L S A N O V E R V I E W
6. O P E N E D U C A T I O N A L R E S O U R C E D E F I N I T I O N Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain are released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others. An open license respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner and provides permissions granting the public the rights to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt and redistribute educational materials. The definition for “Open Educational Resources” comes from https://www.unesco.org/en/communication-information/open-solutions/open-educational-resources
7. T H E 5 R A C T I V I T I E S O F O E R An open license permits users of a resource to participate in the 5R activities of OER: • Retain: Make, own, and control your own copy of content • Reuse: Use the content as-is • Revise: Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the content • Remix: Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something new • Redistribute: Share your copies of the original content, revisions or remixes with others 5R Definition adapted from David Wiley under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
8. O E R B E N E F I T S S T U D E N T S , F A C U L T Y , C O M M U N I T Y
9. FACULTY BENEFITS OF OER • Increase student engagement and retention • Enhance instructor control and collaboration • Adapt curriculum to college, department, and course outcomes • Increase capacity and momentum to create and support OER • Administer creative pedagogical tools Faculty Benefits of OER adapted from A Closer Look by Elvis Bakaitis licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 With Open Source materials, faculty can:
10. S T U D E N T S B E N E F I T F R O M O E R , T O O Benefits of OER from Open Ed Group: • Students less likely to drop courses • Students more likely to take additional OER courses • Student success increases, generating more tuition revenue. Info from Open Ed Group’s Review Project
11. G R O U P A C T I V I T Y : L E T ’ S G E T T O K N O W E A C H O T H E R ! 1. Describe your experience with Open Educational Materials. 2. Are you currently using OER in your courses? 3. What support and resources could ULLS provide you to help implement OER? 4. Do you have any other questions about OER? Please navigate to my website (https://jenniferjordanwrites.com) and answer the questions below on my Padlet presentation.
12. S E E T H E P R E S E N T A T I O N M A T E R I A L S A T H T T P S : / / J E N N I F E R J O R D A N W R I T E S . C O M
13. W E B S E A R C H I N G S T E P S G O O G L E A N D O T H E R R E P O S I T O R I E S A R E Y O U R F R I E N D S
14. B E F O R E Y O U S T A R T C R E A T I N G O E R • Research the open-source materials in your discipline. – Search multiple repositories to determine what materials are available. • The materials you need may already exist. – You can adapt existing materials to meet your course and program outcomes.
15. O E R W E B S E A R C H T I P S Google Searching Boolean Searching • Use Google Advanced Search • Pair CC keywords, Boolean operators, and discipline-specific terms to yield results. Youtube Searching • Perform a search • Find the filters option • Under features, click on Creative Commons Other sites like Flickr also have a CC filter
16. O E R F O R H I G H E R E D U C AT I O N 16
17. H E L P F U L R E P O S I T O R I E S • Cool4Ed California Open Online Library for Education • BC Campus Open Ed Open materials from British Columbia’s Open Campus • Directory of Open Access Books Over 88,500 peer-reviewed books • Directory of Open Access Journals Community-curated directory • Libretexts Open textbook platform grant-funded by the Department of Ed • Lumen Learning Open courses for free or at minimal cost. • Mason Metafinder Federated discovery site • Merlot Repository of open materials, including videos, animations, graphics, lecture notes, websites • NMOER Consortium The website for the NMOER Consortium
18. H E L P F U L R E P O S I T O R I E S C O N T ’ D • OER Commons Repository of open materials: videos, textbooks, & more. • Open Course Library Database of open courses and materials • Openverse repository of open source images and audio clips • OpenStax Free, peer-reviewed textbooks in a variety of disciplines from Rice University • Open Textbook Library A referatory maintained by the Open Education Network of more than 1500 open textbooks. • Open Washington’s Open Resource Repository Resource repository maintained by Open Washington • Suny OASIS Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) metafinder pulls in content from multiple repositories
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20. O P E N E L E M E N T A R Y A N D S E C O N D A R Y R E S O U R C E S Open Books • Find, Customize, and Share: A Second Language Teacher’s Guide • Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A collaboration toolkit for higher education • The OER Starter Kit Open Curriculum • Engage NY Open Curriculum • OER Commons for K-12 • OER from Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology • OER from William and Flora Hewett Foundation • Open Oregon Learning Hub • Phet Open Simulations 20
21. O P E N R E S O U R C E S F O R C O M M U N I T Y M E M B E R S 21
22. O P E N C O M M U N I T Y R E S O U R C E S Open Content Collections • Curationist • Getty Search Gateway • Global Network for Open Education • Project Gutenberg • Storyweaver • Ted Talks Open Museum Collections • Auckland Museum • Digital Public Library of America • Europeana Collection • Library of Congress • Rijks Museum • Smithsonian Open Access 22
23. D I S C O V E R O E R L I C E N S E S A R U N D O W N O F C R E A T I V E C O M M O N S D E F I N I T I O N S
24. L I C E N S E T Y P E S Six Possible Licenses can be derived: • CC = Creative Commons • BY = Attribution • SA = Sharealike • NC = Non-Commercial Use • ND = No Derivative Use “License Types” is located on the Community College Consortium of Open Educational Resources, and is used according to a CC BY 4.0 license.
25. CC License Compatibility Chart Wiki/cc license compatibility by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License
26. T H R E E L A Y E R S O F C C L I C E N S E S https://labs.creativecommons.org/2011/demos/ license-layers/ Three layers of licenses © 2011, Creative Commons, Nathan Yergler, Alex Roberts. Licensed to the public under CC BY 3.0 Unported. Creative Commons logo used under CC Trademark Policy.
27. C C L I C E N S E C H O O S E R https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/ CC License icons by Creative Commons are licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License
28. I N C L O S I N G … 28
29. P L E A S E R E T U R N T O M Y W E B S I T E J E N N I F E R J O R D A N W R I T E S . C O M • Navigate to the bottom of my article “Quest for the Dragon's Treasure: OER at NMLA” • Click on the OER Outreach Worksheet and • Enter the following info: • Your contact information • Disciplines you are researching • Your specific OER needs and interests • And any other OER questions you have
30. Q U E S T I O N S ? jschall1@unm.edu Contact me Enlist help from the NMOER And contact a librarian at OER@unm.edu