1. Library & OERs to Enhance the Online Learning Experience
Donna Ziegenfuss, Marriott Library

2. Why Integrate Library Resources?
Why recreate the wheel for finding research resources … we already have them and can help faculty/students find resources more efficiently?
There are library staff that can help in your courses – we do workshops, guest lectures, help faculty find research for their teaching and research.
We can create a Canvas page to import
Use our Library guides
Just enroll us as a TA and we can field questions in a discussion forum

3. We now have library learning outcomes
Canvas Page of Teaching Resources
Library Instruction Outcomes
Planning for Library Teaching Guidelines based on the QCF phases and library values
Handouts on Research Strategies
Coming Soon!!! OER Library Guide with disciplinary OER links

4. Available Library Resources
Library Guides by discipline (online library research help guide
Library liaisons for each discipline
Allyson Mower, librarian who is a copy right expert and Fair Use Calculator
Course Reserves request to connect library resources to Canvas courses
Steaming video to link to courses

5. Connecting to Canvas From your perspective as IDs around campus:
What would be the best way to push library research materials to faculty based on what you know about how faculty use Canvas?
Canvas Commons?
Equella?
Box?
Through a library subject guide?
On a Canvas Page?

6. Other Resources: OERs
Open Education Resources (OER) – objects, textbooks, courses, videos, modules, etc. created with an open license and in the public domain
Created with the purpose of sharing
Freely available to use and link to
Aggregated in searchable repositories

7. Advantages of OERs
Cost and time saving
Variety and flexibility
Easy to incorporate
Different media formats for teaching diverse student population
Fast to incorporate – no development time
Disadvantages of OERs
Discoverability - lack of awareness of what is out there
Time consuming to find
No commitment to sustain or update materials you find
Inconsistent evaluation of materials
Ownership issues

8. About OERs
Open Washington Workshop on how to use OERs – explains different licensing options
Why OERs have not taken off (Educause)
Campus Technology Mag 16 sites for OERs and whole issue on OERs
JISC UK OER wiki site
National Science Digital Library
Digital Library of America (DPLA)

9. OER Repositories https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

10. Open Textbooks http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Searching OER textbooks by topic

11. Free Courses The Open University in UK free courses
MIT Open Course Work
MOOC website

12. Resources but not OERs https://www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress
Getty Collection – some are OERS