At yesterday's information session, we shared a number of resources to help faculty participate in the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement. Faculty and Grad Students discussed the many challenges of awareness and finding the right open materials. However, all agreed that with ASU's "inclusive" environment, the use of OERs in the classroom would continue to develop in the future.Our ASU Life Sciences Librarian, Rene Tanner, discussed the benefits of submitting papers to the ASU Digital Repository as an important step in increasing the impact of scholarly work. Making pre-publications, post-review publications, white papers, and data available in ASU's Digital Repository will make it possible for others to find, use, and reference your work without paying a fee. More information can be found on the ASU Library Guide for Open Education. Some other highlights of the session were:
- Defining OER, Open Access, and Open Pedagogy with this 4-minute video by Robin DeRosa from the University of New Hampshire
- Information on how to use the Creative Commons and other open resources for videos, images, simulations and assignments specific to Life Sciences, including a Public Health Image Library and a PowerPoint image bank.
- Enhancing OER textbooks and assignments with Libraries of Life from the ASU Natural History Collections
- Framework for analyzing a Copyright Problem and a Fair Use Worksheet to help you evaluate the materials used in your course.
- OER Webinar on March 17 from 12-1pm with Jenni Hayman at EdPlus. To attend, go to https://connect.asu.edu/oer.
- Signing up to support the "Women in Science and Engineering" Edit-a-thon on April 8 from 1-4:30pm. SOLS will work to update and develop a number of Wikipedia pages (seen here) dedicated to the field of life sciences. Sign up today!
Other Resources:
- Coursera: Copyright for Multimedia, Duke University, Emory University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Introduction to Open Educational Resources by Jenni Hayman, Teach Online
- Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN)
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