LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Use &amp; Adopt

Using and Adopting OERs

The library can assist you in:

Identifying Open Educational Resources that are reliable and appropriate for your course
Determining the copyright or licensing status of materials you wish to use
Identifying resources for creating your own OER
Finding Creative Commons and Open Access images for your own OER
Identifying platforms to host your OER

For assistance with OERs, contact the Gumberg Library or Reagan Harper (Opens New Outlook Email), Research and Instructional Design Librarian.

Adopting Checklist

When deciding if you want to use a resource or textbook for your course, you can reference this Evaluating Course Materials Checklist from Open Oregon Educational Resources.

More Information on Adopting OERs for Your Class

Evolving Into the Open: A Framework for Collaborative Design of Renewable Assignments (Opens New Window)
"As the integration of OER within classes compels instructors to reconsider the assigned course materials, open pedagogy recasts the role of course assignments and activities students engage in within a course. Yet, many are grappling with how to create and redesign assignments to engage students in open pedagogy. In this chapter, we make a case for applying open pedagogy in teacher education coursework and, utilizing a specific case, describe the Renewable Assignment Design Framework that may be adapted by librarians and faculty when planning for open educational practices."
OER Accessibility Toolkit - University of British Columbia (Opens New Window)
"The goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the needed resources needed to each content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource — one that is accessible for all students."