Location
Room D
Session Type
45-minute concurrent session
Start Date
24-4-2018 1:50 PM
End Date
24-4-2018 2:35 PM
Keywords
OER, open textbooks, open educational resources, open pedagogy, Open Textbook Network, SPARC
Abstract
Awareness and usage of open educational resources (OER) in higher education is on the rise, thanks to OER advocates and digital repositories such as the Open Textbook Library, MERLOT, Cool4Ed, OER Commons, and more. But as the Open Education Librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries, I’ve encountered a variety of concerns from faculty and administrators about OER. These range from worries about content quality to the amount of time it takes faculty to adopt/adapt/create OER to the difficulty of finding OER in a particular subject (particularly for upper-division courses). Concerns also relate to academic freedom, campus bookstore relationships, copyright questions, confusion over Creative Commons licenses, and the technical difficulties of customizing digital OER. This presentation will share specific ways to address these concerns, resources you can share with faculty and administrators, and tools you can use to increase OER adoptions at your institution.
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Overcoming Objections to OER from Faculty and Administrators
Room D
Awareness and usage of open educational resources (OER) in higher education is on the rise, thanks to OER advocates and digital repositories such as the Open Textbook Library, MERLOT, Cool4Ed, OER Commons, and more. But as the Open Education Librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries, I’ve encountered a variety of concerns from faculty and administrators about OER. These range from worries about content quality to the amount of time it takes faculty to adopt/adapt/create OER to the difficulty of finding OER in a particular subject (particularly for upper-division courses). Concerns also relate to academic freedom, campus bookstore relationships, copyright questions, confusion over Creative Commons licenses, and the technical difficulties of customizing digital OER. This presentation will share specific ways to address these concerns, resources you can share with faculty and administrators, and tools you can use to increase OER adoptions at your institution.