1. Open Educational Resources: New and Expanding Needs
Tessa Handa
bepress Consulting Services

2. Introduction
What are Open Educational Resources (OER), and how can they serve your institution’s needs?
Engaging faculty in conversations about Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources in the institutional repository: multimedia teaching tools, textbooks, and more

3. Open Educational Resources are...
“teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.”
SPARC Open Education Factsheet
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4. Value and Benefits of OER
How can OER serve your institution’s needs?
Value and Benefits of OER

5. Rising Cost of Textbooks
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6. OER Cost Savings University of Massachusetts Amherst 2011-2015
Institution
Years
Student Cost Savings
University of Massachusetts Amherst
over $1,000,000
Portland State University
Spring 2015-Fall 2017
$150,000
George Fox University
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
$118,855
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7. Recognizing OER for Campus Needs
Diverse campus groups are connecting open education initiatives to strategic goals.
Grant-making organizations are funding OER materials or degrees.
Over half of the states have a policy/initiative for OER; In 2018 Congress funded a $5 million open textbook grant program.
More research studies on efficacy and perception of OER.
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8. Broadening Your Institutional Appeal
The library is a natural partner for OER publishing.
OER in the repository are permanently associated with your institution, giving demonstrated value from your community’s teaching.
OER can be a recruitment tool for prospective students.

9. Addressing Barriers to OER Adoption
Institution name prominently displayed alongside OER.
Development and vetting process visible with materials.
Demonstrate use of materials at other institutions.

10. How can I engage faculty in conversations about OER?
Engaging Faculty

11. Faculty Awareness of OER
2017 Babson report found that many faculty are still not aware of several aspects of OER, but awareness is steadily increasing each year. 
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12. Library Support for OER
Part of your library’s suite of services.
The library can help with education, licensing, print on demand, etc.
Making resources already in the Learning Management System truly open.

13. Benefits of OER for Faculty
More recognition for their teaching work.
OER better meets the changing needs of teaching practices.

14. Bringing Faculty Aboard
Start small, with existing materials such as slides.
Remind faculty: You have already created content that can be used as OER.
Work up to bigger fish: lectures, textbooks, worksheets, handouts, specimens.

15. What OER Look Like Now Wide variety of institutions are posting OER
What are some examples of OER in institutional repositories?
What OER Look Like Now
Wide variety of institutions are posting OER
Course materials and multimedia teaching tools
Textbooks and lectures
Syllabi

16. Multimedia Teaching Tools

17. https://spark.parkland.edu/sim_teach/

18. “The David E. Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University has created this easy to use, easy to modify learning module…”

19. https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/norbertmooc/

20. Textbooks

21. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/

23. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/

24. Digital Commons Dashboard for Textbook Use

25. Course Materials

26. https://scholars.fhsu.edu/philosophy_oer/

27. https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/esa21/

28. https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/crhr/

29. https://scholar.valpo.edu/usmaps/

30. Lectures

31. “All viewers are most welcome!”

33. https://digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/lectures_and_videos/

34. Syllabi

36. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/

37. OER on Digital Commons are collected into the Teaching Commons for centralized discovery.

38. For more OER resources:
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