Go Open, Go Free Using OER

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"Current Landscape of Open" by Paul Stacey is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Leeward CC has developed and conducted professional development using three different instructional modalities: in-person, hybrid, and online. The workshops are designed to equip instructors with foundational knowledge, tools, skills, and resources to incorporate no-cost and low-cost resources into their courses. Both versions are openly shared with the hopes that other educational institutions will provide training and support for instructors seeking to adopt OER course materials. The training and materials are licensed as CC-BY unless otherwise noted.

Objectives for Workshops

Articulating the value of OER in higher education
Defining OER
Distinguishing between openly licensed, public domain, and copyrighted materials
Finding OER in your subject area
Evaluating OER
Understanding the differences in Creative Commons license types
Combining different types of Creative Commons licensed materials
Adding a Creative Commons license to your own work
Giving proper attributions to OER

Workshop Formats

In-Person

The in-person workshop is conducted in a classroom environment every day for five consecutive days. The workshop incorporated mini-lectures, hands-on activities, group discussions, guest speakers, and individual time to work on their own course. Participants did not have homework. All activities were done in class.

Hybrid

The hybrid workshop is met in-person once a week for six weeks. Using a flipped classroom approach, during the week participants did at-home reading and assignments during the six weeks. The in-person time is focused on activities and discussions designed to reinforce the at-home materials."

Mobile Device," Photo by Fixelgraphy on Unsplash

Online

The Summer 2020 workshop was conducted virtually online for the first time and was a condensed version of the in-person workshop. The four, two-hour sessions included mini-lectures and interactive activities conducted over Zoom. Visit the online workshop modules.