.OER for You and your Students: Beginning OER Implementation (i)

The easiest way to integrate OER into the classroom would be to tell people to treat all content like it is fully copyright protected, and just link to what they want the students to view and use.   

If they treat everything as if it is copyrighted, they won't have to know if the material is Public Domain, Copyrighted, Opened, or anything. 

They would only have to check to make sure they have the most current supplemental resources or textbook version.  

As long as they don't modify or edit - or try to license and release modified content -  they don't have to know what license the work has, how to remix with other works, or how to license.

It is only when they want to publish, post content in Blackboard, or change a copyright opened work, that they have to worry about all the details.

On the other hand, the Open Access movement will die if no-one adds new content.  On the other hand, we can leave that to people who are getting paid to add new content for now.

5 steps to adopting OER.

1: List keywords based on course objectives or student learning outcomes.

2: Search for open content using these keywords. Ask Librarian for assistance as needed.

3: Select appropriate open content. Collaborate with your department and other people teaching same courses.

4: Get necessary approvals to change textbook or switch to module teaching.

5: Link to open content and disseminate the open textbook links to students.