This libguide is primarily designed for the faculty at Flagler College. It is my hope and expectation that we will use this as a platform to learn about, and discuss the opportunities and nuances of Open Educational Resources (OER’s). I also hope it will inspire us to expand our use of OER’s at Flagler College.

So what exactly are Open Educational Resources (OER's)?

Below are a few working definitions of Open Educational Resources (OER's)

Hewlett Foundation

The Hewlett Foundation defines “open education” to encompass the myriad of learning resources, teaching practices and education policies that use the flexibility of OER to provide learners with high quality educational experiences. Creative Commons defines OER as teaching, learning, and research materials that are either (a) in the public domain or (b) licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities– retaining, remixing, revising, reusing and redistributing the resources.

UNESCO

"Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with intellectual property licenses that facilitate the free use, adaptation and distribution of resources."

Hewlett Foundation

https://hewlett.org/strategy/open-education/

UNESCO Open Educational Resources

https://en.unesco.org/themes/ict-education/oer#:~:text=jpg,adaptation%20and%20distribution%20of%20resources.

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Steve Derrig
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By no means, is this an exhaustive list of research on the impact of OER’s. It’s just a small list of studies that could enhance the expansion of and sustainability of OER here at Flagler College.

The Need for OER

Respondents from the “2012 Florida Student Textbook Survey” indicated, as a result, of the high cost of textbooks:

63% reported not having purchased the required textbooks.

35% took fewer classes.

14% dropped a class.

10% withdrew from a class.

Florida Virtual Campus (2012)

“…Faculty and department chairpersons believe that the high cost of course material has a negative impact on student access. …“

Seaman and Seaman (2019)

Benefits- Cost

“…From 2002- 2012… new textbook prices increased by a total of 82%,...while tuition and fees increased 89% and overall consumer prices grew by 28%...”

United States Government Accounting Office. (2013)

Benefits- academic performance, impact on attrition and retention, and throughput rate

“…In the three key measures of student success- course completion, final grade of C- or higher, course grade- students whose faculty chose OER generally performed as well as or better than students whose faculty assigned commercial textbooks.”

Fisher, Lane et al. (2015)

“…This study adds to the growing body of research suggesting that OER are a promising avenue for reducing the costs of higher education without compromising academic success…”

Hilton et al. (2016)

Benefits- OER perception

“…Most students and teachers perceived their OER to be at least equal in quality to traditional textbooks they had used in the past…”

Bliss, Robinson, Hilton, and Wiley. (2004)

Bliss, T.J., Robinson, T. Jared, Hilton, John, and David A. Wiley. (2004) An OER COUP: College teacher and student perceptions of open educational resources. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. Retrieved from file:///C:/Users/sderrig/Downloads/252-2228-2-PB%20(1).pdf

Colson, Robin, Elijah Scott & Robin Donaldson (2017) Supporting Librarians in making the business case for OER. The Reference Librarian, 58:4, 278- 287. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2017.1377665

Fisher, Lane, Hilton, John III, Robinson, Jared, T. and Wiley, David A. (2015) A multi- institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post- secondary students. Journal of Computing in Higher Education 27: 159- 172.

Florida Virtual Campus. (2012) 2012 Florida Student Textbook Survey .

Seaman, Julia and Jeff Seaman. (2019) Freeing the textbook. Babson Survey Research Group.

United States Governmen accounting Office. (2013). College textbooks: Students have greater access to textbook information (GAO- 13- 368). Washington DC: US Government Accounting Office. Retrieved from https://www.gao.gov/assets/660/655066.pdf

Finding OER's - book repositories

Openstax https://openstax.org/

Merlot https://www.merlot.org/merlot/

Wikibooks https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/

OASIS https://oasis.geneseo.edu/index.php

Galileo https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/

Open Textbook Library https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

Libretexts https://libretexts.org/

An individual faculty member, or department or college as a whole may want to create a rubric for evaluating an OER. An example or guidelines might include the suggestions on this attachment.

https://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveOERRubrics.pdf

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Fair use refers to the use of copyrighted materials. The Proctor Library developed a libguide to help you with fair use and copyright questions.

http://library.flagler.edu/copyright-compliance/

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides the framework through licenses to share creative endeavors and other types of information.

Wikipedia Creative Commons page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

Creative Commons website

https://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons attribution licenses explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHSxD4O_wYs

This area lists several open access journals. More will be listed in the future.

DOAJ https://doaj.org/

SCIRP https://www.scirp.org/

Open Access at Oxford University Press https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access

hathitrust https://www.hathitrust.org/

Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/

Open Culture https://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks

Open Library https://openlibrary.org/

The following Flagler College instructors use a combination of OER's and OAR's. This list will be updated as frequently as it warrants.

Dr. John Daniels teaches religion, theology, and library classes. He uses articles, course reserves, and other resources. Since January of 2020, he has saved Flagler College students almost $1000.

There are also other free resources that instructors might find useful. Some of them include...

Open Culture: http://www.openculture.com/

Library of Congress Digital Collections : https://www.loc.gov/collections/?fa=original-format:film,+video

Virtual museum tours

The Louvre https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne#tabs

The National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/

The Vatican Museums http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.html

The British Museum https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-british-museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features

The Dali Theatre- Museum https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-theatre-museum-in-figueres/visita-virtual/

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour

National Women's History Museum https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-history/online-exhibits