According to the Open Education Consortium, “sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights, and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas, and understanding can be built." Whether they are purchased or freely acquired, librarians should be open to sharing their resources to everyone who wants to use them to enrich their lives through education. Open Education Resources (OER) include resources or tools that can be used and modified for free and without any legal or technical barriers, and when used properly can help foster a transparent culture of learning and engagement in our communities. In this webinar: • Learn what Open Education Resources (OER) are and how they can be used to engender trust, generate rigorous learning opportunities, and potentially lead to smarter decision-making strategies. • Discover a variety of OER and Open Access (OA) repositories to find accessible and authoritative resources, including textbooks, to use in curriculum. • Acquire OER strategies for developing a variety of educational opportunities using a variety of formats. •Understand various issues (e.g., GDPR) impacting OER in libraries.

1. Open Education Resources in Libraries

2. Agenda:
• Learn what Open Education Resources (OER) are and how they can be
used to engender trust, generate rigorous learning opportunities, and
potentially lead to smarter decision-making strategies.
• Discover a variety of OER and Open Access (OA) repositories to find
accessible and authoritative resources, including textbooks, to use in
curriculum.
• Acquire OER strategies for developing a variety of educational
opportunities using a variety of formats.
• Understand various issues (e.g., GDPR) impacting OER in libraries.

3. “The average college graduate has $24,000
in education-related debt. So we have two
choices: stop sending as many students to
college or make college more affordable.”
Source: http://goo.gl/LTwFj

5. Open Education Resources (OER) are “free and openly
licensed educational materials that can be used for
teaching, learning, research, and other purposes.”
Source: https://goo.gl/893dDD

6. Source: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
OER represents the "teaching, learning, and research resources that reside
in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual
property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Open educational resources include full courses, course materials,
modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other
tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."

7. Source: http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge
and creativity with the world. It develops, supports,
and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that
maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

9. https://stateof.creativecommons.org

10. https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/

11. "NASA and menchville high school robotics team setting up at #madexpo" by Pete Brown is licensed under
CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0

12. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

14. Source: http://goo.gl/VRAP

15. Development of Open Access
Source: http://goo.gl/6S6ex
Source: https://goo.gl/HeznnF

16. October 21- 27, 2019
A global event promoting Open Access as a new
norm in scholarship and research.
http://www.openaccessweek.org/

17. http://roar.eprints.org

18. Select OER Repositories
• OER Commons
• BC OpenEd Textbooks
• MIT Open Courseware
• OpenStax Textbooks
• SOL*R Online Resources
• MERLOT
• Saylor
• OpenLearn
• Khan Academy
• HippoCampus
• Curriki
• P2PU
• edX
• Open Education Consortium
• Academia.edu
Slide adapted from Open Education Resources by Passos, https://goo.gl/eZN1qd

19. http://network.bepress.com/
Uncommonly Open: The New Digital
Commons Network, https://goo.gl/g13QiK

20. Every article that PLoS publishes is open-access,
freely available online for anyone to use. Sharing
research encourages progress, from protecting
the biodiversity of our planet to finding more
effective treatments for diseases such as cancer.
http://www.plos.org/
https://www.plos.org/innovation

21. https://www.plos.org/open-access

22. http://almreports.plos.org
Learn more at https://www.plos.org/article-level-metrics

23. https://www.skillscommons.org/

24. https://sparcopen.org
(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
https://sparcopen.org/what-we-do/popular-resources/

25. Transitioning Your Journal from
Subscription to Open Access
Many university libraries have established programs to assist in the
transitioning of journals from the subscription model to open
access. Resources related to university publishing programs include the
following:
•The Library Publishing Directory (Library Publishing Coalition)
•Campus-Based Publishing Partnerships: Browse by Institution (Columbia
University Libraries)
•Campus-Based Publishing Resources (SPARC)
Source: https://goo.gl/wQAzwL

26. http://www.oaspectrum.org and https://www.plos.org/how-open-is-it

27. OpenStax Textbooks OpenStax CNX
https://openstax.org
OpenStax TutorOpenStax Concept Coach

28. https://open.bccampus.ca/

29. Access the book at OER Commons: https://goo.gl/LMxazb

30. This book is out of print. None of
the publishers had the rights to it.
We were able to locate one of the
sons, via the author’s obituary,
and permission was granted for us
to use it in a course.

31. https://www.gutenberg.org

32. Image source: https://goo.gl/SeMSeP

33. Are you currently getting rid of
some of your physical collections?
If yes! Then you can donate your books
to Open Library. More information at:
http://openlibrary.org/

34. • FlatWorld Knowledge
• Bookboon
• College Open Textbooks
Other textbook resources:

35. https://www.floridashines.org/orange-grove

36. Acquire OER strategies for developing a variety of educational
opportunities using a variety of formats.

37. Image source: https://goo.gl/yNkUPV
5 R’s of OER Permissions

38. Source: https://goo.gl/Djo5SN

39. https://ed.ted.com

40. https://ocw.mit.edu
Unlocking Knowledge
Empowering Minds

41. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com

42. Curriculum Builder:
Support the Faculty and Promote
Library Resources Simultaneously

43. 1.
2.
How it works in Desire2Learn …

44. 3.
4. Change the title

45. 5. Enter search terms
6.

46. “I use it for journal articles and general Internet resources as a
‘Reading List’ for my students. Since I don’t use a textbook for
Introduction to Humanities, these primary sources serve as the
foundation for what we do in class. I really enjoy the tracking
feature, which allows me to see who is accessing the readings.”
Marc Unger
Humanities Professor
St. Petersburg College

47. Harvesting
Open Access
https://www.openarchives.org/
(OAI-PMH) (OAI-ORE)

48. Harvesting open education?

49. Adding Open Textbooks to Catalog

54. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/581

57. Edit Wikipedia articles and include OER library resources.

58. More info: http://goo.gl/Ng0zM

60. No Textbook!

61. Understand various issues surrounding OER in libraries.

62. Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014 by Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman.

63. General Data Protection Regulation is a “legal
framework that sets guidelines for the collection and
processing of personal information of individuals
within the European Union (EU).”
Source: https://goo.gl/1WkPQX

64. In a nutshell:
• The General Data Protection Regulation came into force on May 25, 2018.
• It affects companies located in and outside the European Union.
• The key principle of GDPR is to give consumers control of their data.
• Companies face fines of up to 4 percent of total global turnover if they
breach the rules.

67. Read more: https://goo.gl/Turcxj

68. https://gdprchecklist.io/

69. GDPR and Open Education
Source: https://goo.gl/qw8V6m
To meet the GDPR requirements regarding consent, personal data must meet the following tests:
Freely given: The consent must be freely given and capable of being withdrawn at any time.
Specific: Separate consents must be obtained for different processing operations.
Fully informed: Organizations should clearly communicate to individuals what they are consenting to and of their
right to withdraw consent.
Consent must be unambiguous and be a positive indication of agreement: consent will no longer be presumed
or inferred from silence, inactivity or pre-ticked boxes.

70. Tracking Learning with the Experience API (xAPI)
https://experienceapi.com

71. Do we know what our vendors are collecting on our patrons? How
granular are usage statistics?
OR, does (or did, thanks to the GDPR) ease of access, delivery of
digital content, and user demand eclipse customer privacy?

72. A Year’s Worth of Free Resources for E-Learning
Read more at https://goo.gl/cp3J2e

73. https://www.flvc.org/OERSummit

74. Select Resources:
Open Access Directory - a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science
and scholarship.
Achieving Personalized Learning: Text-Neutral Course (video) by Nathan Muehl and Jeff
Donovick
OER Commons – discover, share, and create open educational resources.
Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014 by Elaine
Allen and Jeff Seaman.
Open Education Resources: OER Issues and Trends – Curated by Boston College Libraries.
OER Planning Resources – copyright and fair use decision tools, evaluation models, lesson plans
etc.
Center for Open Education - A source of openly licensed textbooks available for anyone to
download and use for free. An alliance of higher education institutions committed to improving
access, affordability, and academic success through the use of open textbooks.

75. Contact me!