SUNY OER funding and Open Ed Resources
Information about SUNY OER funding and Open Educational Resources you can use for your courses.
- Please send Keith Landa a list of the course sections for which you plan to use open educational resources this year (https://www.purchase.edu/live/forms/285-2019-oer-course-section-reporting). SUNY will again provide us funding based on OER sections that we can use to support faculty development in this area.
- As you think about texts for the coming semesters, there are some great resources for finding OER textbooks and other materials. Let us know if you want help locating and vetting open materials for your courses.
- I’m hosting a brown bag lunch on October 30, on OER course development and adding Open Pedagogy projects to your courses. Please sign up if you’re interested (https://www.purchase.edu/live/events/19199-tltc-lunch-open-educational-resources-and-open).
Details
1. We are now in year three of funding by the state of New York, through SUNY, to support campus efforts to promote the use of openly licensed course materials. OER materials are licensed so that you and your students have the rights to Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute them. If any of your course sections use more than 50% OER materials, they qualify as SUNY OER sections. Please report any courses that you plan to use OER materials for this year (Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, and/or Summer 2020) by October 28, using the form at https://www.purchase.edu/live/forms/285-2019-oer-course-section-reporting, so that we can qualify for the next round of faculty development funding.Thanks.
2. SUNY OER Services is partnering with Lumen Learning and with the Open Learning Initiative from Carnegie Mellon to develop a library of Open Textbooks (https://oer.suny.edu/) in diverse disciplines, many of which include online quizzes, interactive content, and homework management. Other sources of Open Textbooks include OpenStax (https://openstax.org/ - which can also be searched and downloaded for free from Amazon.com), BC Open Textbooks (https://opentextbc.ca/ - a major initiative from British Columbia), and the Open Textbook Library from University of Minnesota (https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/). You can also search for individual openly-licensed learning materials for your course using the OASIS tool from SUNY Geneseo (https://oasis.geneseo.edu/), at the MERLOT learning object repository (https://www.merlot.org/merlot/), or other sites. Contact your Library liaison or the TLTC (TLTC@purchase.edu) if you would like to schedule a consultation on finding, adopting, and adapting OER materials for your course(s).
3. Come join us to discuss Open Educational Resources: what they are; how use of OER materials promotes access and success for your students and greater instructional flexibility for you; what SUNY is doing to support use of OER course materials; and strategies for findings, adopting, and adapting OER course materials for your courses. We’ll also introduce the idea of Open Pedagogy, how you can involve your students in developing openly licensed course materials for your subject areas. Please register at https://www.purchase.edu/live/events/19199-tltc-lunch-open-educational-resources-and-open.