OER Professional Learning Academy Resources
Overview
Introduction to OER Practices & Tools for Discovery Exploration of the what, why, and how of high-quality OER, highlighting use cases involving successful adoption and implementation of materials. Introduction to effective search strategies to identify resources that meet specific OER need areas and priorities.
OER Evaluation & Curation Discovery and customization of tools to evaluate the quality and alignment of resources. Examination of curation strategies to collaboratively identify, evaluate, organize, create, remix, and share OER to meet teaching and learning needs and priorities.
OER Authoring & Remixing Deep dive into designing and remixing OER for continuous improvement. Get an overview of OER authoring tool and discover how to edit, describe, and publish a resource. Develop plans for future OER work, including designing and facilitating presentations and trainings, and articulating next steps for outreach and advocacy. Determination of how to best leverage OER tools and practices to continue and grow this work collaboratively throughout the islands.
Introduction to OER Practices & Tools for Discovery
Session Agenda:
Connect and get to know each other
Share Academy Goals, Outcomes & Expectations
Open Educational Resources and Practices Overview
Explore the What and Why
Discover how Open Educational Resources and Practices can support our work, highlighting an example of collaboration, curation, design, and leadership from the state of Washington
Discover how to find OER that you can use in your work
Browse collections in the digital library and hubs
Utilize search, advanced search, refine search
Session Recording:
Link to recording: https://iskme.zoom.us/rec/share/qlEL5gDj3Sh6zmmi7IQlAGPS3MkhszOAWKMsKvN10HLGpbR9m2vJS3Op-rIe9_VB.fg2Z7V25HgAJvMO6
Practice & Sharing Activities:
Practice: Register and create a profile on #GoOpenUSVI
Join our Group
Use discovery tools Search / Advanced Search / Filter Results to find a resource you can use
Save the resource in our Group
Share a link to the resource and how you might be able to use it by replying to the discussion in our Group.
OER Quality Evaluation & Curation
Session Agenda:
Share what high-quality resources look like in your work
Explore evaluation tools
Achieve OER Rubric https://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveOERRubrics.pdf
Open Textbook Library Review Criteria https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/reviews/rubric
Accessibility Checklist https://goopenusvi.vide.vi/courseware/lesson/12/overview
Washington’s Screening for Bias in Instructional Materials https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/74736/overview
Determine your own evaluation criteria
Discover best practices for curation
Explore tools and workflows for curation
Submit resources
Create folders and subfolders
Save resources to folders
Add keyword tags
Session Recording:
Link to recording: https://iskme.zoom.us/rec/share/Fef48YQ4cds7JTy3qiBe4GFNg3Xe5sa8kvaie5czYtvTfQPJIsa733LiqUi_n_el.YLLb4MoLuI-L5ONm
Sharing & Practice Activities:
Share what your resource evaluation criteria is in the Group discussion
Practice:
Evaluate a resource in using your own criteria. Write your review as a comment on the resource
Submit an open educational resource to share in the OER Commons library
Create folders / subfolders in our Group and save resources you want to use and share (click +New to add a folder)
Add descriptive tags and keywords to resources you curate
Bring a resource that you created and would like to publish and share in the #GoOpenUSVI library for our next session.
OER Authoring & Remixing
Session Agenda:
Connect and learn from each other
Explore OER Authoring examples
Discover how to author and remix using the uthoring tool, Open Author
Plan next steps for future OER work
Session recording;
Link to recording: https://iskme.zoom.us/rec/share/sOa5_qKdtxxCZWgZbafMh5RJxJt09IbPXEJ7FsIRE9YBkrthwg4hQjl8kyOFW6RG.rnj3tloyYl4p-RqA
Link to slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1I7WWPSAT-ABON_dE3biWecT7oPEUF0Es/edit#slide=id.p1
Free image resources
https://search.creativecommons.org/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
https://deeperlearning4all.org/images/ (K-12 images)
Here are the additional free images that are intentionally diverse:
Heather Blicher, academic librarian, compiled a great list of photo collections that are openly licensed and DEI:
- Images of Empowerment: Free images of women’s lives and work, created by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Getty Images; License: CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Allgo Plus-Size: Free stock photography collections featuring plus-size people; License: While attribution is not required, please credit
- Disabled And Here: Free stock photography featuring disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color), varied body sizes/types, sexual orientations, and gender identities in the Pacific Northwest; License CC BY 4.0
- The Gender Spectrum Collection: Free stock photos of trans and non-binary people, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Nappy: Free high-resolution photos of black and brown people, licensed Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
- PICNOI: Free photos of people of color; no attribution required, but can give credit by linking to site
- #WOCinTech Chat: Free photos of women and non-binary people of color working in the Tech field; licensed CC BY #WOCinTech Chat or wocintechchat.com
- Redefining Women Icon Collection: Icons of women; License: Creative Commons Public Domain CC0 1.0
Practice & Sharing Activities:
Publish a resource in Open Author:
Click Contribute to this Group and select Open Author
Edit and describe your resource
Your draft will be automatically saved in our Group
Publish and share your resource by July 30
Share your next steps to grow #GoOpenUSVI in the Group Discussion.