Resource Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Getting Started

A great place to start!

The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. This OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials when you hit the Search button.

"OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge." TNCC OER Link

UMA Libraries Faculty Institute 2021 Presentation:

Doing Our Part: How OER (Open Educational Resources) Benefit Students - Google Slides

OER Readings and Getting Started Guides

The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics (Article)
"This research suggests OER is an equity strategy for higher education: providing all students with access to course materials on the first day of class serves to level the academic playing field in course settings."
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Colvard, N. B., Watson, C. E., & Park, H. (2018). The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics. InfoDoc MicroVeille. http://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IJTLHE3386.pdf.
OER Handbook for Educators
"This handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom."
The OER Starter Kit
"This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER)." Starter Kit from Iowa State University.