This presentation goes over the main points I will discuss in my candidate presentation.

1. OER Informational
Meeting
Presented by Jennifer Schaller
4/4/22

2. OER Presentation
Agenda
1. Meet the Facilitator
2. Define OER
Materials
3. Identify OER Benefits
4. Group Activity
5. Discover CC
Licenses
6. Explore databases
and repositories
Robot OER Image by annemazo on Pixabay

3. On your own devices, please navigate here:
www.jenniferjordanschaller.com/
This interactive page
contains supplementary
materials for today’s
presentation.

4. Meet Your
Facilitator
I’m Jennifer Schaller, an English
teacher and OER developer.
● Pictured to the right, evidence
that people love an OER.
● It’s an article from the ABQ
Journal called “Online
Textbooks: CNM Instructors
Create Free Online Textbook in
Growing Trend”

5. Defining OER Materials
An overview of what’s possible with OER

6. Open Educational
Resource Definition
• Open Educational Resources (OER) are
learning, teaching and research materials
in any format and medium that
• reside in the public domain
• are released under an open license, that
permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose,
adaptation and redistribution by others.
• An open license respects the intellectual
property rights of the copyright owner and
provides permissions granting the public
the rights to access, re-use, re-purpose,
adapt and redistribute educational
materials.
The definition for “Open Educational Resources” comes from https://www.unesco.org/en/communication-information/open-solutions/open-educational-resources

7. OER Definition
Teaching and learning materials
that are
• Freely accessible
• Openly licensed
• Publicly available for the
Five R's of Open Resources

8. The 5R Activities of OER
An open license permits users of a resource to participate in the 5R
activities of OER:
• Retain: Make, own, and control your own copy of content
• Reuse: Use the content as-is
• Revise: Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the content
• Remix: Combine the original or revised content with other
OER to create something new
• Redistribute: Share your copies of the original content,
revisions or remixes with others
5R Definition adapted from David Wiley under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

9. Identify OER Benefits
Open Educational Resources benefit faculty and students

10. Faculty Benefits of OER
● Increase student engagement
and retention
● Enhance instructor control and
collaboration
● Adapt curriculum to college,
department, and course
outcomes
● Increase capacity and
momentum to create and
support OER
● Administer creative pedagogical
tools
Faculty Benefits of OER adapted from A Closer Look by Elvis Bakaitis licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
With Open Source materials, faculty can:

11. Students Benefit
from OER, too
• Benefits of OER from Open Ed
Group:
• Students less likely to drop
courses
• Students more likely to take
additional OER courses
• Student success increases,
generating more tuition
revenue.

12. Group Activity: Let’s
Get to Know Each
Other!
1. Describe your experience with
Open Educational Materials.
2. Are you currently using OER in
your courses?
3. What support and resources
could ULLS provide you to help
implement OER?
4. Do you have any other questions
about OER?
Please navigate to my website (jenniferjordanschaller.com) and answer the questions below
on my Padlet presentation.

13. Discover OER Licenses
A rundown of Creative Commons definitions

14. License Types
Six Possible Licenses can be
derived:
• CC = Creative Commons
• BY = Attribution
• SA = Sharealike
• NC = Non-Commercial Use
• ND = No Derivative Use
“License Types” is located on the Community College Consortium of Open Educational
Resources, and is used according to a CC BY 4.0 license.

15. We will review the Padlet
responses you submitted at
jenniferjordanschaller.com
I will project the site below for a full screen view of your responses:
https://padlet.com/niferschaller/pfxnjbjh4ppam6wu

16. Web Searching Steps
Google and Other Repositories Are Your Friends

17. Before You Start Writing
• Research the open source materials in your discipline.
• Search multiple repositories to determine what materials are available.
• The materials you need may already exist.
• You can adapt existing materials to meet your course and program
outcomes.

18. OER Web Search Tips
Google Searching
● Use Google Advanced Search
● Pair CC keywords, Boolean
operators, and discipline-specific
terms to yield results.
Boolean Searching
Use and, or, not
Example: “James Baldwin” not
Billy
Use quotes to yield more
precise results:
“CC BY-SA”
“CC BY-SA-NC”
“Creative Commons”
Repository
“Open Access”
“Open Educational Resource”
Or just search OER

19. Helpful Repositories
• https://www.oercommons.org/ Repository of open materials: videos, textbooks,
& more.
• Merlot.org Repository of open materials, including videos, animations, graphics,
lecture notes, websites
• https://doaj.org Directory of Open Access Journals, a community-curated
directory
• https://www.saylor.org/books/ Open textbooks and courses.
• http://opencourselibrary.org Database of open courses and materials
• https://openstax.org/ Nonprofit organization creates free, peer-reviewed
textbooks in a variety of disciplines.

20. Helpful Repositories cont’d
• http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ Open textbooks for freshman and
sophomore level courses. Textbooks on this site are peer-reviewed.
• https://wordpress.org/openverse/ repository of open source images and
audio clips
• https://nsdl.oercommons.org National Science Digital Library
• https://www.oeconsortium.org Global Network for Open Education
• https://www.cool4ed.org California Open Online Library for Education
• http://lumenlearning.com/ Open courses for free or at minimal cost.
• https://open.bccampus.ca/ A collection of textbooks from British Columbia.

21. Even More Helpful Repositories
• University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library Open textbook library with free & peer-
reviewed textbooks.
• Wikibooks An open-content textbooks collection.
• Project Gutenberg Full texts of classic and public domain works.
• Johns Hopkins School of Open Health Courseware List of 110 free and low cost courses
in medical field.
• http://encore.excelsior.edu/encore/ Open repository from Excelsior college.
• https://textbooks.opensuny.org/ Open textbooks from the State University of New York.
• The OER Catalogue Open Educational Resources for Higher Ed.

22. Get help from CULLS
• Enlist help from the University Libraries
• Contact a librarian at OER@unm.edu

23. Please return to my website
jenniferjordanschaller.com
• Navigate to the bottom of my article “Using Open Resources in
Blended Learning Environments”
• Click on the OER Brainstorming Worksheet and
• Enter the following info:
• Your contact information
• Disciplines you are researching
• Your specific OER needs and interests
• And any other OER questions you have

24. Questions? jjordan6@cnm.edu
Contact me: