OER presentation materials
Through the Valley of the Creative Commons: Converting a Composition II Class to OER
Primary Sources:
· The Public Domain Review - https://publicdomainreview.org/essays/
· Quotidiana - http://essays.quotidiana.org/
· Essays for Composition -http://www.grammar-worksheets.com/essays/essays.php
· East of the Web -http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/indexframe.html
· The Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=short+stories
Secondary Sources and Teaching Presentations:
· Bibliomania Study Guides - http://www.bibliomania.com/1/7/frameset.html
· Merlot II - https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
· Slideshare (Now through LinkedIn) - https://www.slideshare.net/featured/category/education
· Grammar Worksheets - http://www.grammar-worksheets.com/worksheets/worksheets.php
· Purdue Online Writing Lab - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Public Broadcasting Sites:
· PBS https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
· National Public Radio: http://Npr.org
Institutional Sites & Repositories:
· MIT Open Courseware - https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
· Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources - https://www.oerconsortium.org/
· Open Textbooks Library - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Governmental Sites:
· Smithsonian - http://library.si.edu/digital-library/
· Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/
Tina Buck buck@austincc.edu materials and presentation posted at:
https://sites.google.com/a/austincc.edu/english/
Through the Valley of the Creative Commons: Converting a Composition II Class to OER
Useful tools to determine public domain and other CC license terms
Searchable & Interactive tools:
· Stanford Libraries Copyright Renewal Database - https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals
· United States Copyright Office Resources - https://www.copyright.gov/
· “The Copyright Genie” American Library Association Copyright Advisory Network, Office of Information Technology Policy - http://librarycopyright.net/resources/genie/index.php
· “Public Domain Slider” American Library Association Copyright Advisory Network, Office of Information Technology Policy - http://librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/index.html
Overviews, charts, and definitions:
· Stanford Libraries Copyright & Fair Use (excellent overview of Public Domain) - http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/
· Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center (useful public domain chart) - https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain
· Creative Commons License Compatibility Chart - https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Wiki/cc_license_compatibility
Achieving the Dream OER Degree Initiative Licensing Guidelines Chart – a resource developed for grantees to assist them in evaluating educational resources. It’s purpose was to help determine if the resource was eligible for inclusion in the OER Degree Initiative Course.
"OER 101 - Licensing Chart - Slide 46" by David Wiley is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Using the chart above, I evaluated 25 short stories for Tina’s ENGL 1302 course to vet some initial eligibility for use in her course. My results and annotations can be found here: https://goo.gl/zvgLFd
Carrie Gits carrie.gits@austincc.edu ~ researchguides.austincc.edu/oer