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Faculty Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER): Home

This guide is designed to help OCC faculty find, create, evaluate, and incorporate OER resources for instruction.

Contact

For more information about

  • Open Education Resources

  • Designating a course as OER in the catalog

  • Copyright and Licensing

  • or other OER related questions

Contact Lisa Hoff, Associate Professor/Librarian, OER Coordinator @OCC

l.m.hoff@sunyocc.edu

315-498-2340

OER FAQs

How does SUNY define OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits re-purposing by others.”

 "A SUNY OER course/section provides students a cost effective alternative to traditional textbooks. The majority of materials in this section resides in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits re-purposing by others."

Are my course materials OER?  

OER resources can fall anywhere on a continuum of cost and openness. In order to take part in the OER Funding Initiative at OCC, your course materials must be “free."

*Free= materials that have no cost to the student.  Although free of charge, these resources will have a license to use or fall under standard copyright protection.

**Examples: streaming online videos, TedTalks, library-subscribed materials (journal articles), websites, open textbooks, materials you have created and licensed for your courses.

6 Steps to OER

Six Steps to OER

5 Rs of OER

Five R's of OER

Video: An Introduction to Open Educational Resources

Source: "An Introduction to Open Educational Resources" by Abbey Elder is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license

Video source:  "OER Basics" by Open Oregon is licensed under CC BY 4.0

5 Ways to Use OER in Your Class

Five Ways to use OER in your class

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