The Goals for This Course

This course serves as an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER), providing staff with new options for selecting textbooks and other resources so they can make the best decisions for their curriculum and realise the potential of using and publishing OER. This course is a self-paced version of the ASCCC OERI Introduction to OER Course. At the end of this course successful participants will be able to:

Properly identify the Creative Commons (CC) license on a resource and describe how this resource can and cannot be used.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open resources using current research in the field as evidence.
Research, analyse, and review repositories of open resources.
Effectively search for open resources and post reviews in an OER repository.
Create an open resource by remixing multiple existing resources and designate a license to this new resource based on the licenses of multiple resources use.

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Module 1: What Is OER?
Module 2: Licensing and Copyright
Module 3: Finding OER
Module 4: Curating, Adapting, and Creating OER
Module 5: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Open Educational Practices (OEP)

This Course has been adapted for the University of Liverpool by Simon Thomson and is based on an original course developed by Rachel Arteaga and Suzanne Wakim.

You can find a copy of the original course available in Canvas Commons.

ASCCC OERI — OER Basics by Rachel Arteaga and Suzanne Wakim is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.