Course Mapping Companion Kit
Map Open Educational Resources (OER) to courses at your institution and tag them on VIVA Open to facilitate discovery.
Goal of the project
Identification and discovery of OER is a significant barrier for faculty adoption. Mapping OER to courses is a strategy library professionals can adopt to ease the burden on faculty. The Course Mapping Companion Kit provides curation workflow steps that can be adapted to institutional needs. The companion kit also provides instructions on preparing curated OER with course alignment tags for inclusion on VIVA Open, an OER Commons hosted website. By tagging curated, course-aligned OER to VIVA Open, faculty may trace and locate OER suitable for their courses, as well as courses at other Virginia institutions of higher education.
The primary goal of this step is to assist curators in gathering syllabi and/or course catalog descriptions to facilitate mapping of OER to courses at their institutions. The corresponding worksheet is designed to help curators think through different considerations and strategies they may employ.
The primary purpose of this guide is to assist with searching and evaluating (aka curating) OER for courses at your institution. The corresponding worksheet is designed to facilitate matching course topics to OER contents.
Use the Course Aligned OER Input Form to share your mapped OER with VIVA so that they can be added to relevant collections and assigned course tags on VIVA Open.