Open Educational Resources (OER)

If you are considering OER for any of your courses, and would like help researching what's available, contact your subject librarian.

For other questions about OER and OER support at Fresno State, contact:

Vera Kennedy, EDD
OER Faculty Fellow
vekennedy@csufresno.edu

David Drexler
Scholarly Communications Librarian
ddrexler@csufresno.edu

Online books

• The OER Starter Kit
• BCcampus Faculty OER Toolkit and OER Adoption Guide
• OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians

Web sites and email lists

• SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Open Education
  Numerous resources, including the LibOER email list and OER Digest.
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)
  Webinars and a very active email list.
• Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)

Webinars, Online Courses, and Certificate Programs

• How to Use Open Educational Resources - self-paced online course from Open Washington Open Educational Resources Network
• OER Commons Training Webinars 
• Community College Consortium for Open Education (CCCOER) webinars
• Quill West’s free Canvas course on intellectual property review
• Creative Commons Certificate Course 
• Open Textbook Network - OER Librarian Certification
• Library Juice Academy - Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

Conferences

• Open Education Annual Conference 
• Open Education Global Conference