Open Educational Resources (OER) Shauna Donovan Educational Technologist/Adjunct Instructor Iowa Lakes Community College

What is OER? Educational materials available to distribute, share, and in some cases change to adapt to your classroom. OER can be textbooks, syllabi, assignments, presentations, etc. OER is available via many websites. Cite OER utilizing the proper attribution. Many sites will provide the proper attribution

Creative Commons© https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads/ Provides free legal tools to utilize when sharing, distributing, and reusing OER globally. Attribution buttons can be downloaded and utilized by anyone to communicate permissions. Attribution buttons can be found: https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads/

OER Sites OER Commons www.oercommons.org MERLOT www.merlot.org OpenStax (Rice University) cnx.org

OER Sites (continued) MIT Open Courseware (courses) https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Cite: https://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-cite-ocw-content/ Open Education Consortium (courses) http://www.oeconsortium.org/#

OER Sites (continued) TED-ED Archive.org Opencourselibrary.org http://www.openculture.com/ Many more!

Resources to Begin Not sure where to get started? https://courses.lumenlearning.com/pathways/ Canvas Commons https://iowacconline.instructure.com/

Questions about OER or Canvas?