OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Mike Nason | Scholarly Communications and Publishing Librarian, UNB Libraries (For GEAR, Summer 2020)

What's an

OER?

OER are educational resources that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.

"FREE" AS IN SPEECH,

not "free" as in beer! 

textbooks, courses, learning objects…

The

NARRATIVES

• money

• trust

• literacy

• covid-19

• libraries

• pedagogy

• buy-in

• distance ed

textbooks are expensive

MONEY

are driving the conversation!

STUDENTS

have their own resource issues!

FACULTY

how can we incentivize faculty to write OER

?

• MONEY

• TECHNICAL SUPPORT

• TENURE & PROMOTION

• COURSE RELIEF

"I heard most of 'em aren't good"

BUY-IN

like anything "new", trust is [always] a problem.

there are many peer-reviewed OER in the world!

how can we get faculty to consider using OER

?

• NAGGING

• SUPPORTING STUDENTS

• GUIDES/RESOURCES

• PATIENCE

LEVERAGING THE LOGISTICAL REALITIES OF DELIVERING ACCESSIBLE EDUCATION DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

why

LIBRARIES

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well, it's

COMPLICATED

i suspect it has a least a little to do with the reason people ask us every year where the textbooks are.

we are the book place

we are the open place

we are a publishing place

how can we frame this as an opportunity

?

what are we doing right now

?

why

STUDENTS

¯\_(°⊱,°)_/¯

you are the reason we have jobs

how can you frame this as an opportunity

?

what can you do today

?