This module in our training series provides participants with an exploration of OER leadership and advocacy. We have designed these modules to first spark the learner's interest in the topics covered and then dig deeper into the content through presentations, storytelling, and demonstrations of the tools. We will offer opportunities for learners to practice exploring the resources and tools, and reflect on how they might use them in their work.

Created by educators from OER Africa, this guide explains the concept and helps you understand OER. These OER topics have been divided into two tracks designed to support different orientations: The practice track, for those doing the work on OER, and the trends track, for those who want to understand the OER movement and philosophy of open education.

This OER Course is designed to introduce faculty and staff on OER basics, copyright information, and other key topics relating to OER.Please complete the online OER course individually or with a partner.  Since this is an online course, you can work at your own pace.  You will be responsible for all material covered within the course.  The course will take around 1 hour to complete.

These slides and handout were developed for a 60-min. cross-training OER session with college staff, and are therefore very general in nature. These materials could be adapted for any general introduction to OER basics and Creative Commons licenses.

The instructional materials in this module -- which includes a lesson plan, related LibGuide, two options for a citing OER activity, and multimedia citation examples for both APA and MLA style -- were designed by an OER librarian to support a research assignment that required PowerPoint slides, openly licensed multimedia (images, videos, or sound effect clips), and APA style citations.

The Faculty Quick Start Guide is an outcome of a project by ISKME, supported by a grant from the Michelson 20MM Foundation, to conduct a study and develop a set of resources to accelerate OER use for distance education, especially the urgent shift to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. The Guide, created in collaboration with a selection of OER and online education champions across California community colleges (CCC), contains:

- Models and approaches to online learning, and to emergency remote learning in the context of COVID-19;
- How and to what extent OER fits into these models, and local and state-level supports needed for its integration and sustainability;
- Design considerations for integrating OER in online learning, including pedagogical and platform considerations;
- Curatorial practices, such as using OER curation tools and aligning curated OER to learning outcomes; and,
- Starting points and tips for colleges and faculty who want to initiate OER integration into distance education.

Tailored to faculty and campus administrators both in California and beyond, the Guide has the aim is to enable system-wide shifts to meet postsecondary institutions’ long term goals for distance learning, and faculty’s emergency plans for remote learning in response to the COVID-19 and potential future crises.

The Guide is also available as a PDF for download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17AXs30dZeLOrGeNBQ-ISc_OJXIxE9xtB/view?usp=sharing.

See the companion guide for administrators at: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/iskme-michelson-20mm-oer-campus-administrator-quick-start-guide-public/edit

Short Description:
This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education. [Version 1.1. Revised September 5th, 2019.]

Long Description:
This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Each chapter is accompanied with learning objectives and most chapters feature interactive elements and opportunities for readers to engage with the text. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education.

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This toolkit was created by OER student leaders in the CCC and CSU systems. The toolkit's purpose is to motivate students to get involved in OER advocacy and the Open Education movement, as well as make it known that students can make a difference in their education. Education costs can be cut to a fraction of the price with OER, which would allow for more students to be able to access knowledge and higher education. While this toolkit contains some examples and suggestions specific to California institutions, it can still be helpful for all college students. Thanks to the Michelson 20MM Foundation's financial support students were paid for their work and contributions in creating this document, as well as presenting at conferences.

A working group from Iowa OER has made a list of tools used for creating or working with OER, based on the OEN's Open Pedagogy tool list. This includes software, apps, etc broken into use categories, with an index of documentation/tutorials on their use. The tools are also labelled to show if they are free/paid/freemium, and whether they are open or proprietary.

Except where otherwise noted, Open Pedagogy Learning Circle Tools Documentation is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License by The Open Education Network. This version was adapted for a broader audience by the Iowa Open Education Action Team.

This paper addresses online and open education. It presents a simple, yet comprehensive framework that can be adopted by any higher education institution in seek of: (1) clarification of terms and concepts related to online and open education, (2) awareness of issues and challenges to set up strategies for online or open learning, (3) informed choices and their impacts on operationalization actions, from an institutional point of view, (4) perspectives on crucial issues, such as mobility, that HEI faces in a context of internationalization, (5) awareness of policymakers and teachers on what open and online education is.
Paper Citation : Jacqmot, C.; Docq, F. and Deville, Y. (2020). A Framework to Understand, Analyse and Describe Online and Open Education in Higher Education.In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-417-6, pages 458-465. DOI: 10.5220/0009470704580465

Open education is a term you have probably heard, but do you know what it means? As its name suggests, it relates to two concepts – openness and education – but it means a whole lot more. What are its aims, benefits and limits? This guide offers a number of tips and avenues for action to help answer these questions and encourage you to make the most of open education. There is a strong focus on open education in the Louvain 2020 strategic plan. UCLouvain wishes to align itself with a vision of the future and the need to share resources, practices, knowledge, tools and more in order to improve access to education, including outside the confines of the University, and education itself. The open education movement is already well established at UCLouvain. Many teachers have shown an interest and have already embraced it. What about you? This guide is intended to help you navigate open education. It explains concepts such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Open Educational Resources (OERs), OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Creative Commons (CC) licences.
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Open Education, un terme que vous avez probablement déjà entendu mais savez-vous pour autant ce qu’il signifie ? Un terme qui sous-entend l’ouverture, l’éducation mais qui ne s’y limite pas. Quel objectif ? Quels avantages ? Quelles limites ? Autant de questions auxquelles ce cahier tentera de répondre en vous livrant quelques clés et pistes d’action pour vous emparer de l’Open Education. Dans son plan stratégique Louvain 2020, l’UCLouvain accorde une attention parti-culière au mouvement de l’Open Education. L’université souhaite répondre à une vision d’avenir, à un besoin de partage des ressources, de mise à disposition de pratiques, de connaissances, d’outils, etc. afin d’améliorer l’accès et l’efficacité de l’éducation y compris au-delà de ses frontières. Le mouvement de l’Open Education est déjà bien ancré au sein de l’université. Nombreux sont les enseignant·e·s qui s’y intéressent et se sont déjà lancés dans la pratique. Et vous ? Ce cahier se veut être un guide pour vous accompagner dans l’Open Education. Il ouvre les portes de certaines notions telles que les Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), les Open Educational Resources (OER), les OpenCourseWare (OCW) ou encore les licences Creative Commons (CC). Bonne lecture !
Ce cahier est une ressource libre, couverte par une licence CC. La version "livret broché imprimé" peut être commandé et acheté en ligne via le site https://secure.i6doc.com/fr/cart//?fa=additem&gcoi=28001103861450&item_id=3_9732_165736

Après un premier Plan Stratégique Numerique, décliné de 2015 à 2020, l'UCLouvain se dote en 2021 d'un nouveau projet de transformation numérique à l'horizon du 600e anniversaire de l'institution. Il contribue à la mise en place d'objectifs d’ouverture (Open Science, Open Education, dynamique internationale via Circle U.) et d' innovation (transformation de l’environnement pédagogique). Prolongeant l’expérience numérique développée ces dernières années, ce projet (document PDF, sous licence CC-BY) vise à en pérenniser les résultats, en matière d'Open Education, d'Open Sience et de formation à distance.

Based on a one-credit, four-week asynchronous online course developed by the author for a major U.S. based library and information science masters degree program, the OER for LIS toolkit is designed for adoption and adaptation by any instructor who would like to develop an "Open Education Librarianship" course for their LIS program. It provides all the necessary materials, including a syllabus, lecture slides, video lectures, assignments, assignment rubrics, weekly discussion board topics, weekly quizzes, required and recommended readings/videos and supplemental course materials (e.g., resource list, course success tips, etc.). 

The OER Toolkit aims to improve equitable access to open learning resources and services to college students by providing a province-wide academic support platform for faculty to use while designing courses and assignments. The Toolkit is a one-stop guide to open educational resources, providing faculty and library staff with tools and information to understand, engage with, create, and sustain OER in their work and practice.

The Toolkit is designed to be used by anyone involved with OER at an academic institution, whether you are part of a team that is collaborating to create OER, a library staff member who is supporting OER development and use, an advocate for OER at your institution, or an instructor seeking to incorporate OER and open pedagogy in the classroom. The primary purpose of this Toolkit is to support faculty and library staff at Ontario colleges; however, it is openly available for use beyond the Ontario college community.

"Open Access Explained" is an excellent short YouTube video created by Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen that explains the reasoning for Open Access publishing.

Open Access publishing with a Creative Commons Attribution License Ageement, for example (CC-BY 4.0 Interntional) for publications and research data is currently required by federal agencies within the United States with Publication/Data public access policies. In addition, more International Foundations like the Gates Foundation have established an Open Access Policy effective for all new agreements.

Cultura Open Education / Open Learning este o miscare recenta, dar cu dezvoltare foarte rapida, care atrage tot mai multi studenti, profesori si persoane care urmaresc sa se auto-instruiasca. Resursele OER/OCW si sistemele MOOC sunt conceptele-cheie, pe baza carora s-a implementat pe web educatia deschisa.

The open edition of the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program curriculum. This program runs over two semesters, corresponding to the academic year. It begins with an intensive online course in the fall, followed by an independent capstone project with mentorship support in the spring. Fellows complete the program as part of a cohort of peers that adds a rich layer of ongoing support, community, and knowledge-sharing on top of the curriculum. The program is facilitated by an instructor who provides ongoing feedback, support, and evaluation.