CEE: Learning and Teaching Technology division
CEE's Educational Technology team runs a suite of boutique services for the Learning and Teaching Technology division at SFU.
Open Educational Resources: The Basics of Finding and Adapting
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Objectives:
- Understand basics of copyright and open licensing
- Identify potential sources of open educational resources (OER’s) suited to your curriculum
- Articulate potential benefits of OER
- Evaluate quality and suitability of OER
What are OER?
OER are “teaching, learning and research materials in any medium - digital or otherwise - that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.”
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2019
WHy OER?
CHALLENGE: To Embrace a coherent curriculum review with focus on innovative curriculum design and delivery.
STRATEGY 2.9 Promote and support Open Access to course materials and the distribution and mobilization of knowledge
copyright and sfu
Copyright office
https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/academic-integrity/copyright/instructors
Copyright tips for teaching online
https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/academic-integrity/copyright/instructors/copyright-and-teaching-online
copyright basics
Copyright grants a set of exclusive rights to creators, which means that no one else can copy, distribute, perform, adapt or otherwise use the work in violation of those exclusive rights
Copyright does not protect facts or ideas themselves, only the expression of those facts or ideas
copyright is automatic the moment a work is fixed in a tangible medium
Copyright protection lasts a long time (50 years after the life of the author in Canada)
OER Cost Savings
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Estimated 1 Billion in student savings
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For a course, from $79 - $128
When asked what students did with cost savings from OER, they indicated that they re-allocated funds to: groceries, bills, transportation costs, paying off student loans, and putting the money towards future semesters
OER Efficacy
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Efficacy studies and perception studies present OER as being the same or better as traditional resources (Hilton 2019)*
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963 faculty reviewers of the Open Textbook Library rated the open textbook they evaluated as of reasonable quality for classroom use in 98% of measures of quality (Belikov & McLure, in press)
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OER most often show to have no significant difference when replacing a traditional textbook in the classroom (Open Education Group)
* https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11423-019-09700-4
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Ensuring that the OER fits your purpose, your needs for adaptation/remixing, and your standards for quality
Subject specialists (educators and librarians) assess the quality and suitability of learning resources, often along the following criteria:
- Accuracy
- Reputation of author/institution
- Standard of technical production
- Accessibility
- Fitness for purpose
Thank you!
SFU Open Educational Resources: Basics
By CEE: Learning and Teaching Technology division
SFU Open Educational Resources: Basics
In this workshop we will be discussing OER (Open Educational Resources), with a focus on open textbooks. We will provide a foundation of copyright and Creative Commons license basics. As a result of this workshop, you will be able to explore how to find appropriate OER for courses, as well as how to evaluate these resources. This will include a discussion of the quality of free resources, as well as cost savings for students and impact of these cost savings. We will also demonstrate how you can share your course materials as OER.
