h1Sept 14: Finding and Adopting Open Educational Resources
September 7, 2016
Finding & Adopting Open Educational Resources
Faculty who are new to OER may experience difficulty finding an open textbook or other openly licensed materials to adopt for their courses. Searching on your own is time consuming and the choices can be overwhelming. We will hear from a college librarian who helps faculty find and adopt high quality OER to match their course outcomes and the creators of the award winning OER Commons, a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials.
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for our first fall webinar:
When: Sept 14, 10amPST/1pmEST
Featured Speakers:
Heather Blicher, Online Learning Librarian, Extended Learning Institute, Northern Virginia Community College
Mindy Boland, OER Product and Services Manager, ISKME.org, the creators of OER Commons
1. Finding & Adopting OER
Heather Blicher, Northern Virginia Community College
Mindy Boland, OER Commons, ISKME
September 14, 2016, 10:00 am PST
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0
3. Agenda
• Introductions
• CCCOER Overview
• Finding & Adopting OER at NOVA
• OER Commons Overview
• Q & A
Image Front Page Attribution:
CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
4. Welcome
Please introduce yourself in the chat window
Moderator:
Una Daly, Director CCCOER
Open Education Consortium
Mindy Boland
Manager OER Project and
Services
OER Commons, ISKME
Heather Blicher
Online Learning Librarian
Northern VA Community College
Extended Learning Institute
5. • Adoption of high-quality open
educational resources
• Faculty choice & development
• Student success
Community College Consortium
for OER (CCCOER)
http://oerconsortium.org
Image: Come In, We're
Open by Gary
Simmons cc-by-nc-sa
flickr
7. Teaching, learning, & research
resources released under an
intellectual property license or public
domain which permits their free use &
re-purposing by others.
Open Educational Resources
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
26. OER Commons at ISKME
Mindy Boland
OER Project & Services
Manager
27. Finding Open Educational Resources (OER)
Using OER Commons to find high quality OER
CCCOER Webinar
September 14, 2016
ISKME 2016:
28. About ISKME
Research, tools and services to advance teaching and learning
• Focused on improving the practice of continuous learning,
collaboration, and change in the education sector
• Developed OER Commons as a digital public library of OER and a
collaboration environment to support curriculum improvement
• Infrastructure leverages best practices in library science and
interoperability
30. • Expertly curated collections from over 400 content providers, over
65,000 resources
• Custom technical web infrastructure and supports for educators at all
levels
• Integration with state and local LMS’s and processes
• Content hosted on OER Commons as well as on external sites.
• Platform for creating, collaborating, and remixing OER.
OER Commons Digital Public Library
Mature platform leverages best
practices in library science, tagging
and schema protocols, metadata
standards and interoperability
32. The OER Commons Toolset: Search
Keyword search will search the following OER Commons metadata
fields:
• Title
• Abstract
• Keywords & Tags
• Material Type
• Subject
• Provider/Provider Set
• Author
Filter options on the Home screen include:
• Subject Area
• Education Level
• Educational Standards
34. The OER Commons Toolset: Filters
On the Search Results page, users can further refine their search
using the filters on the left side of the screen.
Filtering options include:
• Education standards
• Topic Areas
• Education Level
• Material Type
• Conditions of Use
• Content Source
• Primary User
• Media Format
• Educational Use
36. The OER Commons Toolset: Advanced Search
Why use Advanced Search?
• You are looking for something for a specific purpose.
• You have specific rights requirements.
• You want to find resources that have been evaluated
or commented upon.
• You know a lot about what you want, but don’t know
what it is yet!
• You are a librarian.
37. The OER Commons Toolset: Browse
There are multiple ways to browse for resources:
• Browse Curated Collections
• Check out Groups
• Go to a Hub
• Browse by Provider
39. The OER Commons Toolset: Collections
• Curated Collections focus on a theme, grade, topic and
include a vetted selection of OER.
• Curated Collections can be driven by ISKME’s partners
– organizations who seek resources related to a specific
topic, grade, or theme.
• When ISKME develops a Hub for an organization, often
we’ll work together to construct queries that meet the
needs of the organization, providing them with the
tools to build out their collections.
41. The OER Commons Toolset: Groups
Any registered user can create an OER Commons Group.
Groups provide a space for people to collect, curate, and
organize OER.
• Create your own folder structure
• Save resources to your Group
• Work with others to create and suggest new
resources for a Group.
• Engage in Discussions with other Group members.
42. The OER Commons Toolset: Groups
Anyone can look at another Group’s collections.
• Get ideas about resources that are in use by others.
• Find resources that are newly added to Groups of
interest.
• Ask to Join!
Access your Group via your LMS
• We offer LTI access to a Group so all your curated
resources are easily added to your LMS.
44. The OER Commons Toolset: Hubs
A Hub is a centralized location on OER Commons where an
organization can aggregate and collect specific Collections,
Groups, or Resources.
ISKME creates Hubs to help users find resources
emphasizing a specific topic.
• Open Textbooks
• STEM Literacy
• Common Core
A Hub is a way for an organization to highlight high quality
OER for members.
45. The OER Commons Toolset: Hubs
Statewide Hubs
• Michigan Colleges Online
• Wisconsin
• Alamo Colleges
Topical Hubs
• Open Textbook Hub
• Common Core
• STEM Literacy
OER Commons Partner Hubs
• OpenStax
46. The OER Commons Toolset: Providers
• OER Commons has ~270 providers.
• Users can browse by Provider when they have a
specific source they are seeking.
47. OER Commons
Any questions?
Contact Mindy Boland: mindy@iskme.org
Some URLs:
http://www.oercommons.org
https://www.oercommons.org/groups/
https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/
https://www.oercommons.org/oer/providers
48. Upcoming OE Conferences
• OpenEd16 Conference Richmond, VA
• Nov 2-4, 2016
Registration still open
• Open Global CapeTown, SA
• Mar 8-10, 2017
– Proposals due Oct 17
49. Stay in the Loop
• Sept 28: CCCOER-Advisory meetup
– Follow-up to Finding OER webinar; your
opportunity to network and share.
• Oct 12: Understanding Open Licenses
– Quill West, Creative Commons, and more
• Join CCCOER-Advisory group
http://oerconsortium.org
50. Thank you for coming!
Contact Info:
Heather Blicher: hblicher@nvcc.edu
Mindy Boland mindy@iskme.org
Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Questions?
Notes de l'éditeur
ELLUMINATE/CCC Conference Opening Script
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Details
At the upper left of your screen, you should see the Participants window, which lists the participants in this session. You can use the icons underneath this window to:
Raise your hand if you have a question or comment and you wish to speak
There are also happy and sad faces and an applaud icon
Below the Participants window is the Chat window to the center-left of this screen where you can type a question or comment into the box at any time. You can also send a private message to another participant at any time, but please be aware that moderators can see all private messages.
Below the chat area is the Audio window in the bottom left of the screen. Click on the raised your hand button to let us know you would like to speak. You can use a head set or your phone for audio chat.
If you are using a microphone and have been recognized to speak,
Click the button with the microphone on it and begin speaking. Remember to click the button again when you finish speaking so that someone else can have a turn.
You can control your mic and volume levels with the sliders.
And if you are having trouble with your headset or microphone, you can access the Audio Setup Wizard from the Tools menu on the top toolbar. From Tools, select Audio, and then Audio Setup Wizard, and follow the on-screen instructions.
[CCC Confer ONLY] If you are using the telephone to speak,
Click on the phone handset below the microphone and audio volume sliders. The call-number and pin will then appear in a dialog box.
The Community College Consortium for OER is a community of practice dedicated to promoting the adoption and development of open educational resources to enhance teaching and learning. We were founded to support the community college mission of open access through creating awareness and development of openly licensed, low-cost education materials to make college more affordable and accessible for students. We provide regularly scheduled online and face-2-face workshops for faculty and staff who are engaged in OER projects.
Open is important to faculty
Free is important to students
Quick search from the home page
Refining Your Search
Removing refinements
Education standards (how does this align to standards?)
Topic Areas (what topics are you seeking?)
Education Level (what grade levels?)
Material Type (what kind of activity is this?)
Conditions of Use (how can I use this?)
Content Source (where does this come from?)
Primary User (whom is this for?)
Media Format (what is the file format?)
Educational Use (what is the purpose of this resource?)