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. They can help you search for OER and libary-licensed resources that can reduce textbook costs to your students.

The Office of IDEAS offers a self-paced Canvas course on Open Educational Resources. Enroll here.

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

David Drexler
Scholarly Communications Librarian
ddrexler@csufresno.edu

Online books and resources

• The OER Starter Kit and Workbook
• BCcampus Faculty OER Toolkit and OER Adoption Guide
• OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians
• The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers
• Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources
• Open Pedagogy Notebook

Web sites and email lists

• SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Open Education
  Numerous resources, including the SPARC Open Education Forum 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)
• ACRL/CJCLS OER Librarian Toolkit

Webinars, Online Courses, and Certificate Programs

• How to Use Open Educational Resources - self-paced online course from Open Washington Open Educational Resources Network
• Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom at Lumen Learning
• 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 Education Network - OER Librarian Certification (Materials from this program are available.)
• SPARC - Open Education Leadership Program
• Library Juice Academy - Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

Conferences

• Open Education Annual Conference 
• Open Education Global Conference