OER Resources and Pedagogy
- Structuring Equality: A handbook for student-centered learning and teaching practicesPublished with support from the Teagle Foundation, this HASTAC book includes essays, lesson plans, and assignments that turn the principles and theories of engaged, active learning into ways to structure equality in the classroom and throughout academe.
- Open Pedagogy NotebookThe Notebook is a site of praxis, a place where theories about learning, teaching, technology, and social justice enter into a conversation with each other and inform the development of educational practices and structures. This site is dynamic, contested, constantly under revision, and resists static definitional claims.
- Public Domain Core Collection Faculty GuideThe Public Domain Core Collection project consists of a collection of public domain texts and a faculty guidebook for using those texts either as standalone resources or as the basis of open assignments.
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Evaluate OER
- Achieve RubricsAchieve offers 8 rubrics to help educators determine the degree of alignment of OER to disciplinary standards and to determine other aspects of OER quality.
- Achieve RubricsAfter 24 years in the K-12 education space, Achieve is shutting its doors. The website, www.achieve.org, will remain available through December 31, 2020.
- CUNY OER Evaluation and Selection CriteriaThis list of criteria is suitable for any type of OER, including an open textbook or individual OER artifacts/objects.
- Assessing Commercial Platforms that Utilize OERCrowd-sourced details about commercial OER platforms.
- Cool4Ed Accessibility ToolsThe COOL4Ed accessibility open textbook evaluations can inform faculty, staff, and students how the free and open etextbooks meet 15 accessibility “checkpoints” that could impact the learning of learners with a range of disabilities.
JMU Libraries Resources as Course Materials
E-books: Not all e-books will be suited for course use. Below are explanations of restrictions publishers may require for e-book use. If you are using Libraries' e-books in your course, don't forget to remind students to Connect from Off-Campus.
Number of users: This can vary by publisher and subscription package agreement.
- If use is limited, you'll see this note in the Library catalog "Access to this e-book is limited to one user/three users at a time"
- Some downloaded e-books expire after a checkout period, but can then be checked out again.
- Some e-books have no user limit
Type of access: This can vary by publisher and subscription package agreement.
- Downloads by chapter or of an entire book
- Only online access
Digital Rights Management (DRM): This can vary by publisher and subscription package agreement.
- Technological restrictions placed electronic resources to limit what users can do with the e-book.
Other JMU Libraries resources: In addition to e-books, the JMU Libraries also provide access to physical objects (like books and videos) or virtual materials (electronic journals and video playlists). Want to link to JMU Libraries' articles and videos from a Canvas course? Find detailed instructions at the Connect the Libraries to Canvas guide.
Licensing and Copyright
Boyoung Chae, from Wikimedia Commons
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Open Licenses: Know the Creative Commons licenses
Unless the OER is in the Public Domain, the educational resource will likely have a Creative Commons (CC) license applied. See below for a detailed look at the rights granted by the various CC license types.
- CC-BY
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
This license permits the user to: Share and Adapt - CC BY-SA
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
This license permits the user to: Share and Adapt - CC BY-NC
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
This license permits the user to: Share and Adapt - CC BY-ND
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit.
NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
This license permits the user to: Share - CC BY-NC-ND
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
This license permits the user to: Share - CC BY-NC-SA
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
This license permits the user to: Share and Adapt
