OERs: Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources are "teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."  - The William and Flora Hewlitt Foundation

The 5 R's of OER: Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute are a good place to start. Details from OpenContent.org

• Dr. Matthew DeCarlo: What’s Open Education?   RU Tartan Interview, Sept 26, 2019 
• A pedagogical endeavor: Dr. Robin DeRosa, Plymouth State 

• Beyond free: A social justice vision for open education by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani [slides from ACRL 2019 Invited presentation]. Check out his great blog re: OER.

Other resources:

• VIVA Open: "OER Commons website designed to support the open education efforts of Virginia faculty and higher education professionals."

• Four questions authors are asking about open textbooks: Textbook and Academic Authors Association

• A Critical Take on OER Practices: Interrogating Commercialization, Colonialism, and Content by Sarah Crissinger

Council of Chairs 10.26.22 Slidedeck