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Open Educational Resources: OER

Describes the how open educational resources are crucial to student success and how faculty members at UMBC can adopt, reuse, and create OER content for their courses.

Professional Development Resources for Faculty

OER Cuny Faculty Development Course
On this site, you can find more information about the workshop content and structure, download the workshop to be imported into Blackboard or Course Sites, download guides for implementation and more.
Learn OER open course
This open course offered by Open Washington introduces the basics of OER, how to search for and share OER, and how to navigate creative commons open licensing.
Candela learning course: Adopting OER in the Classroom
"This course provides faculty with an introduction to the copyright laws that influence the use, re-use, and distribution of content they may want to use in a course. Activities include finding openly licensed content for use in a class and publishing openly licensed works created by faculty. At the end of the course, faculty will have openly licensed content that will be ready for use in a course."
Intro to Open Education
Introduces the innovative potential of the Open Pedagogy movement- a movement which empowers students as collaborators and information creators rather than passive information consumers.

Creative Commons Licensing

The Types of Creative Commons Licenses
Describes what a Creative Commons license is, and how to select the type of license that is best for your work.

Presentations on OER

Rajiv Jhangiani. (2020, Mar 5). Open Digital Futures: Supporting Social Justice & Pedagogical Innovation. Concordia University.

American University panel (2020, June 24). Working Towards Antiracism and Culturally Responsive Teaching in Open Education.

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