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Open Educational Resources

About the Librarian Tool Box

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.

Strategies for Getting Started in Open Education

The OER Starter Kit (2019) and Workbook (2020)

SPARC Open Education Leadership Program Curriculum (course)

OTN OEN Certificate in OER Librarianship PUBLIC (course)

LEARNING COMMUNITIES (online)

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)

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)

CREATING OPEN TEXTBOOKS

Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit (BCCampus)

More resources at: Open Textbook Authoring & Editing