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Introduction:
There's always room for improvement--don't be afraid to improve the wheel.
Details:
The link to the presentation is in the comments on this session in the Community
It's a journey that is about the design--the quality of the resources matters
Getting away from designing courses around a TOC
OERs defined: OpenStaxs etc.
Also tons of digital resources--courses, modules, quizzes, etc.
All are public domain or CC licensed
OERs generally permit free use and repurposing
Tl;dr--sharing is caring and shouldn't we all care
Openwa.org
Canvas content that can be moved to our instance
Its free any anyone can take it. (consider this)
They also have good lib resources like we do (OER squared)
Don't work in silos
Form in commons that can be used to compile resources on OREs
Using Commons
Reach out to the leaders in the community
Use collaboration and peer review
You can ask for a community review on anything you add--and you can ask for individual modules to be reviewed or whole course
Commons.canvaslms.com
Don't fall in love with your classroom--be willing to make improvements and let the community help you by the review feature
Melissa Adams is the librarian presenting if you want to search for her commons materials.
Just replacing the textbook with OER is like driving a plane down the highway instead of flying
Use it to create more things that reach beyond the boundaries of the classroom and live on after the term ends.
90% of edu is encouragement
Everything they talked about is in Commons
Conclusion:
I didn't know you can have materials peer reviewed in Commons--I may have to do this with the Freshmen orientation course I teach.
