Library Guides: Open Education Resources: Get Started

In This Section

In this section, you'll find:

Resources for learning more about open education resources (OERs) and how to use them in your classroom, including:
- Guides and toolkits
- Webinars and videos
- Self-paced courses

Guides & Toolkits

These guides are great sources for inspiration, information, and practical strategies for using OERs in your teaching. They're also great examples of OERs themselves.

The OER Starter Kit by Abbey Elder
Written by the Open Access and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Iowa State University, this is a guide to getting started with, finding, teaching with, and creating OERs.
Faculty OER Toolkit by Shannon Moist
A resource from BCcampus, a Canadian organization dedicated to supporting higher education and promoting OERs and open pedagogy, on getting started with using OERs in the classroom. "Included are definitions and examples, information about Creative Commons licensing, and tips on how to adapt and/or adopt OER for classroom use."

Webinars

Webinar Archive - CCCOER
An archive of past webinars on a range of OER and open pedagogy topics, sponsored by the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER).

ACRL Presents

"Open for Students and Educators: Open Educational Resources Level the Playing Field," presented October 2019 by Sara Rachel Benson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (55 minutes)

Self-Paced Courses

These courses are freely available online and are also great examples of OER themselves.

Texas Learn OER
A series of self-paced modules created by the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas (DigiTex). Provides an introduction to using, finding, and creating OERs, open licensing, and accessibility. (One module is Texas-specific.)