Attention Esteemed Faculty: Save the Date!

Did You Know?

• 47% of students register for a class drop it within 2 weeks due to high cost of textbooks and materials*
• 3 out of 5 students who are interested in a class never enroll because they can’t afford the textbooks and materials
• 92% of students who complete a class say the textbooks and materials they purchased were a complete waste of money and that they’ll never use them again

 We have a grant at Merritt College to help you provide free or low cost textbooks and course materials for your Students!!!

 Come to the Online Educational Resources (OER) Orientation!

When:  Tuesday, March 14th at 12:30 to 1:30 (College Hour)

Where:  R-28

Light Refreshments provided

Overview of OER

Open educational resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes.

Open Education “…is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge.”
—The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

www.cccoer.org    Consortium site for community and technical colleges involved with open educational policy, practices, resources.

Here is an example of a sister college and how they are leveraging OER

Why Should you use OER

What are the benefits of using OER?

Here is a whole Canvas course on how to use OER

Locating OER Resources (Repositories)

www.cnx.org          A searchable library of open source materials in two formats: modules “small information/knowledge chunks” and collections, viz. groups of modules tied into books or course notes.

http://cool4ed.org/courseshowcase.html A repository of free/open etextbooks, course materials, open access journals and articles.

https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching developed by the California State University System

Merritt College Library

Shank, John D.       Interactive Open Educational Resources: A Guide to finding, choosing, and using what’s out there to transform college teaching

ZA 4228 S53 2014

Professional Development Collection Database

Upcoming Webinars related to OER topics

https://www.cccoer.org/2016/04/21/spring-cccoer-activities-apr-27-may-11-may-18-and-june-8/

April 27  1100 PST NOBA Psychology OER (low-cost print Psychology textbooks)

May 11 1000 PST    Faculty Perspective on adopting OER

May 18 1100 PST   OpenStax College; authoring platform for customizing OpenStax textbooks for course adoption

June 8   10000        Designing for Open Pedagogy; students contribute to improving learning resources for open pedagogy classes.