Free Resources

Faculty Development Workshop: An OER on OER

Have you been tasked to help your faculty design courses with OER and looking for a resource to adopt or adapt? Here is a two-week fully online asynchronous facilitated (not self-paced!) faculty development workshop. Use it as is or make the changes to make it work for your faculty.

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Chapter 2

• Copyright Crash Course site at the University of Texas
• Copyright and Fair Use at Stanford University Libraries
• Creative Commons Licenses
• Public Domain Review

Search Engines and Repositories

• Mason OER Metafinder
• Merlot Collection
• Open Textbook Library
• Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)

OER/Open Textbook Selection and Evaluation Checklist

• OER Evaluation and Selection Criteria from Zhadko, O. & Ko, S. (2019)
• Open Textbook Quality Criteria from the Affordable Learning Georgia

To be updated soon