Library: Open Education & OER: Considerations for Using & Creating OER

Considerations for using OER

Including OER in your course can be as simple as switching one textbook or material for another or as transformative as completely changing your teaching style. This page looks at some key considerations and questions you should ask yourself before adopting or creating OER.

How can using Open Educational Resources improve your course?

Who is your audience?

Does the OER you need already exist?

How will you share your course OER?

What expertise is needed to use or create OER?

Could your OER be easily reused or repurposed?

Arguments for Open

Open Education: The Moral, Business, & Policy Case for OER
Presented Feb. 2017 by Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Education at Creative Commons.
U.S. PIRG Report: Making Higher Education Affordable
Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2015-2016
A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students
Babson Survey Research Group: Open Educational Resources
Capetown Open Education Declaration
It's been ten years since the Capetown Open Education Declaration.
We're still going strong. Here are ten directions to move Open Education forward.

Find more arguments, research, case studies, etc. on the OER Research tab.

Attribution

Except where noted, Open Education & OER is licensed CC BY 4.0 and is adapted from "The OER Starter Kit" by Abby Elder licensed under CC BY 4.0