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OER Basics Course

This course is an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER). It provides De Anza faculty with knowledge and resources in OER, Creative Commons Licensing, remixing, and Universal Design for Learning to help them make the best decisions for their students. This course is a self-paced version of the ASCCC OERI Introduction to OER Course. At the end of this course, successful participants will be able to:

  1. Identify and analyze Creative Commons (CC) licenses to determine a resource's permissible and restricted uses.
  2. Evaluate various repositories of open resources through research and analysis.
  3. Apply efficient search strategies to locate open resources and formulate a course framework for curation and creation on UDL principles.
  4. Synthesize multiple existing resources to create an original open resource and assign an appropriate license based on the licenses of the source materials.

Course Content

  1. What Is OER?
    • Defining OER
    • The 5Rs of Open
    • Why Use OER
    • Equity and OER
    • History of OER
    • Open in Other Contexts
  2. Licensing and Copyright
    • Copyright, Fair Use, Public Domain, and Creative Commons
    • What Is Creative Commons and Why Do We Need It?
    • Creative Commons Licenses
    • Attributing Creative Commons Licenses
    • Licensing Your Work
  3. Finding OER
    • Searching OER Repositories and Collections
    • Strategies for Searching OER Repositories and Collections
    • Discipline-Specific Searching
    • Using Library Materials
  4. Curating, Adapting, and Creating OER
    • Remixing/Adapting, Collecting, and More
    • Adapting or Curating an OER
    • Backward Design and Course Development
    • Gathering and Organizing Your Resources
    • Combining Licenses When Adapting
    • Resources for Building OER: Microsoft Word, Google Docs, PDFs, and Pressbooks
  5. Accessibility and IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism)
    • Accessibility
    • Accessibility Checkers
    • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
    • IDEA Framework

Grading and Completion

Each course unit consists of at least one multiple-choice quiz that can be taken as many times as necessary to earn a perfect score. Earning 100% on the quiz will unlock the next module. The last module will contain a cumulative test. Like all the other assessments, you must earn 100% and have multiple attempts. 

Participants can expect to spend at least 20 hours on the course content to complete the requirements.

Contact Information:

Shagun Kaur

Licensing

You can find a copy of this class in Canvas Commons.

Attribution: DA ZTC PW: OER Basics by Shagun KaurLinks to an external site. licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International LicenseLinks to an external site., is a derivative of ASCCC OERI — OER Basics by Rachel Arteaga and Suzanne Wakim, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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