Articles and Reports about OER
- 7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: PracticesA brief article describing the benefits, considerations, and scope of open educational practices, as well as ideas for implementing them in your classroom.
- Free Digital Textbooks vs. Purchased Commercial Textbooks"A large-scale study at the University of Georgia has found that college students provided with free course materials at the beginning of a class get significantly better academic results than those that do not."
- Introduction to Open Educational ResourcesThis OpenStax textbook by Judy Baker gives an overview of the open educational resources movement and available tools.
- OER Mythbusting"OER Mythbusting addresses the top seven myths about OER in North American higher education, as voted on my more than 100 faculty, librarians, students and other members of the OER community. "
- University of British Columbia: Recognizing Open in Promotion and Tenure"Driven by student government advocacy, one university's change to its promotion and tenure guide highlights an important way institutions can incentivize open practices and provide a model for others to follow."
Books
Interactive Open Educational Resources by Call Number: 001.042 SHAISBN: 9781118277454Publication Date: 2014-01-21A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014! Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process. The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor's curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution's learning management system.
The Educator's Guide to Producing New Media and Open Educational Resources by Call Number: Request from MSU BillingsISBN: 9781138939578Publication Date: 2017-07-10Digital video, audio, and text have never been more popular, and educators need to know how to make new media work in all types of learning environments. The Educator's Guide to Producing New Media and Open Educational Resources provides practical advice on how to produce and use open access resources to support student learning. This realistic "how-to" guide is written for education professionals in any discipline seeking to transform their instruction with technology.
OER Advocacy and Promotion
- SPARC"SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education. As a catalyst for action, SPARC focuses on collaborating with other stakeholders—including authors, publishers, libraries, students, funders, policymakers and the public—to build on the opportunities created by the Internet, promoting changes to both infrastructure and culture needed to make open the default for research and education."