The focus of many open education projects is to provide access to education. But what does access mean? If the materials are not accessible for each and every student, do they fulfill the mandate to deliver fully open education? The open education movement has helped people in different parts of the world access content that they would otherwise not be able to view or interact with. Open education resources reduce costs for students and allow for greater flexibility for instructors. Accessibility can help push the movement even further forward.

The goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the needed resources needed to each content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource — one that is accessible for all students.

Your action plan is an internal planning document for how you will convince key internal and external constituents to support for the work that you are doing. It is intended as a living document that you can revisit as you review the results of your advocacy activities and refine your advocacy strategy. Think of it as a skeleton you can work to fill in.

This is an evolving resource intended to provide inspiration for instructors who use Pressbooks and Open Educational Resources for their teaching.

This guide is currently in the open creation stage, meaning that it is in-progress, but openly licensed.[1] In other words, this is a resource in flux: we will be composing, revising, and reorganizing these materials over the course of the coming months.

In 2021, the Student Senate at Roger Williams University passed a resolution to initiate coursemarking in RogerCentral, the portal in which students search and register for classes. This resolution is licensed CC-BY, in hopes that other student governments can benefit from seeing model language.

This resources is a fact sheet for adult educators and administrators to learn about OER and their benefits in the adult education classroom.

What is this? This is a free and open course designed to nutshell open-resource philosophy as well as encourage instructors to participate in generating, collecting, licensing, and sharing free and modifiable educational resources.

Whew! That was a mouthful. Perhaps a catchier intro is necessary (take your own advice, teacher). Start again.

What is this? This is a free and open course designed to let you in on some cutting-edge ideas for improving student learning while actually reducing your long-term workload and keeping your use of materials legal in the information age.

Too good to be true? Not at all.

With open educational resources, you've got the whole world ready to back you up. Think back on all the times you've thought, "Wow. It would be great if I could just pluck a handout about parallelism out of the ether and use it as I see fit without worrying about getting sued." Now read this: You can with OER, and you don't have to worry about stepping on anyone's copyright toes.

Byte: Sometimes you'll see a sentence or two emboldened like this. These "Bytes" are vital points, so read them!

Depending on your method of operation and internet connection speed, this course should take somewhere between 2 and 3 hours to complete.

These are full-course openly licensed resources for districts interested in exploring OER options when considering core instructional materials for district adoption.

OER Passport is a professional development program that takes educators through the process of understanding, finding, developing and sharing Open Educational Resources.

This course trains teachers and students on OER use, reuse, licensing, creation, and sharing by completing the following tasks. The first three tasks lay a solid foundation and provide teachers with the tools to complete the last three tasks which focus on the use, reuse, production, and innovative teaching practices.

Participants can complete the tasks online. There are also files to print/create physical copies of OER Passports that can be used in an offline environment.

Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for increasing equity and access to high-quality K–12 education. Many state education agencies now have offices devoted to identifying and using OERs and other digital resources in their states. To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of OERs to the Common Core State Standards, and to determine aspects of quality of OERs, Achieve has developed eight rubrics in collaboration with leaders from the OER community.

“This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education.”

While some of the content included in the handbook is Iowa State University-specific, these examples are few and I have tried to make the text as generalizable as possible. I welcome any comments for potential edits and additions to the text and will add an errata/tracking changes page to the front matter in the future. I especially welcome comments on my Diversity and Inclusion chapter, since I am not the most well-versed on that topic.

If you would like to adapt the text for use at your institution, please let me know so I can add links to your adaptations in the future. If you are interested in working with me on a second edition in the future, feel free to reach out! I’d love to make a more advanced version with additional sections for OER program managers and librarians.

The OER Starter Kit was originally adapted from the ABOER Starter Kit, but blossomed into a much larger project over the past few months. It includes content from Billy Meinke’s excellent UH OER Training manual, SUNY’s wonderful OER Community Courses, and others, all of which can be found on the kit’s Attribution page and on the footnotes of their corresponding chapters.

The toolkit is made up of three elements:

1). information and resources to support your evaluation activities

2). an interactive tool to guide you through our Evaluation and Synthesis framework, providing an opportunity to submit findings, observations and links to evidence AND which feeds this back to you for inclusion in your project reporting mechanisms

3). examples of evaluation materials, instruments and reports from other UKOER projects

ISKME is pleased to partner with OERColorado to offer a 4 session series on OER and the OERColorado platform. This resource contains the slidedecks and recordings of each session. If you are interested in registering for the series, you can complete this Registration Form.

Trine University promotes the awareness, adoption, adaptation, and creation of open educational resources and no-cost resources for students. This work: “An OER Workshop” by Andrea Bearman is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 and is a derivative work of Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians, and GLAM. In order to receive a certificate, you must take the course through Creative Commons. This book means to share an abbreviated version of the information with Trine University specifics.

This is a copy of a consent form that we devised with an instructor on campus. The instructor was teaching a master's course in which participants were creating materials in groups. In order to expand access to the research that participants had done and to create a renewable assignment, the instructor invited the groups to convert the collected essays into an open educational resource for future course participants to expand on.

The instructor described the project and the concept of OER during a seminar meeting and gave students opportunities to ask questions about the project. She also made sure to emphasize that granting or withholding permissions would not affect people's course grades in any way.

If you would like to use or adapt this resource for your own purposes, click File > "Make a Copy" or File > "Download As"

The OER Toolkit aims to improve equitable access to open learning resources and services to college students by providing a province-wide academic support platform for faculty to use while designing courses and assignments. The Toolkit is a one-stop guide to open educational resources, providing faculty and library staff with tools and information to understand, engage with, create, and sustain OER in their work and practice.

The Toolkit is designed to be used by anyone involved with OER at an academic institution, whether you are part of a team that is collaborating to create OER, a library staff member who is supporting OER development and use, an advocate for OER at your institution, or an instructor seeking to incorporate OER and open pedagogy in the classroom. The primary purpose of this Toolkit is to support faculty and library staff at Ontario colleges; however, it is openly available for use beyond the Ontario college community.

The OEL Toolkit is openly available and openly licensed. The guidance generated by the OEL Toolkit is of primary relevance to educators and developers working within Australian higher education institutions. The OEL Toolkit web application has been designed with a focus on ease of use. It provides relevant information for users seeking guidance on using, creating, modifying or sharing a specific Open Educational Resource.

This page collects OER presentations (responsive HTML slides with embedded audio, also PDF versions) for a course on Operating Systems (following the book Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction by Max Hailperin). Presentations can be viewed with modern browsers on any device (including mobile), also offline after download. Source files, necessary software, and presentations are published in this GitLab repository under free licenses.

Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.

Open licensing of instructional materials such as textbooks, videos, and other related resources makes possible free sharing and remixing which reduces cost barriers for students. Creative Commons provides the legal infrastructure for easily sharing creative works including instructional materials but how do the different licenses indicate a resource can be re-used. Join us for an interactive session of playbook license scenarios where you test your knowledge of the OER re-use based on license type.

Use this checklist to make sure that your resource meets all the requirements for open licensing. Please note that it is very helpful to review this checklist BEFORE you begin development work so that you are designing your resource with open licensing requirements in mind from the beginning.

This link goes to the Strategic Action group on OER Commons where you can download a pdf version of the document or remix the editable version.