Over the past several months I have been sending out Open Education-related emails to a slowly expanding group of colleagues across my college. Generally, I pick a topic and then every other week I send out the email, keeping it as pithy as possible. Recipients do not have to respond, but every so often I hear from someone about something in the email that struck them as interesting or inspiring.

Anyway, I wanted to begin publishing these emails openly as well, in case others (if anyone out there is listening) might be interested in them. Plus it gives me an easy place to point people if they ask about the emails – I don’t have to dig them out and forward them!

So, I thought I would start with the first one I sent out, but unfortunately that is lost in the depths of my email. So, here is the one I sent out on April 19th. I will dig out the next one for a post next week:

I was talking to a faculty member this morning about OER and Open Education, and as I put together a list of resources for her, I thought I would share them with you as well.  Something to get you thinking about Open Education for your Scheduled Development time 🙂

General/overall information and links to collections, etc.

• Nova Southeastern University research guide OER Repositories – Open Educational Resources (OER) – Library Guides at Nova Southeastern University (libguides.com)
• UBC Open Education research guide https://guides.library.ubc.ca/open-education/home 
• Skyline College has a great research guide on all things OER: https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/oersbysubject/alliedhealth 
• KPU OER research guide https://libguides.kpu.ca/opentextbooks 
• Camsun College research guide https://camosun.libguides.com/c.php?g=92346&p=597478

Repositories

• eCampus Ontario: https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/
• Oasis search: https://oasis.geneseo.edu/
• OER Commons: https://www.oercommons.org/
• LibreTexts: https://commons.libretexts.org/
• Merlot: https://www.merlot.org/ (I find Merlot a bit tricky as a lot of resources are old and outdated, but sometimes you run across exactly what you are looking for…)
• BCcampus Open Course Materials (note that this is pretty limited topic-wise right now, but I expect it will be expanding quickly) BC Open Collection | BCcampus 

OER “courses”

• Open Washington OER course http://www.openwa.org/module-1/
•  Minneapolis OER course https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1343276
• Texas Learn OER course https://sites.google.com/austincc.edu/texaslearnoer/module-1-introduction-to-this-course?authuser=0
• Introduction to Open Educational Practices (USask) https://canvas.usask.ca/courses/40758
• Introduction to OER from SURF (the Netherlands, but in English) https://www.surf.nl/en/introduction-to-open-educational-resources?dst=n5036
• My own slides for my Intro to OER workshop https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16s17stSrb7PXwgr3mUjOACCkeMFbC9EN/edit#slide=id.p21
• Introduction to Creative Commons (my open course): https://elearningworkshopscamosun.opened.ca/open-creative-commons-workshops/creative-commons/ 

Open Pedagogy

• Understanding Open Pedagogy https://canvas.umn.edu/courses/202027/pages/understanding-open-pedagogy-dig-deeper
• Open Pedagogy Notebook http://openpedagogy.org/