OER Resources

&
Information Literacy

Ru Story Huffman
Professor & Dean of Library Services
James E. Carter Library
Georgia Southwestern State University
ru.story-huffman@gsw.edu
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy 2018
https://www.gsw.edu/Library/index
What is OER?

 Open Educational Resources

"Open Educational Resources are teaching

and learning materials that you may
freely use and reuse, without charge.”

OER Commons, 2015

OER Mantra

Retain
Reuse
Revise
Remix
Types of OER
 Open Online  Content Modules
Courses
 Digital Learning
 MOOCs
Objectives
 Textbooks
 OpenStax,  Digital OER
Saylor, etc. Library
 OpenCourseWare Collections
 MIT  Video, PPT,
 Depository Podcasts
 Merlot
 LibGuides
Benefits

Free/reduced cost for students

Relevancy
Engagement
Flexibility
Availability
 Challenges

Quality/legality of
resources/Copyright
Sustainability
Here today, gone tomorrow
Organizational change
Trust factor/willingness to share
Time
OER & Information
Literacy

 Open Source Software

 Open Access
 Open Media
 Open Textbooks
 Open Pedagogies
 Open Activities & Assignments
OPEN, nd
OER Commons
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/information-literacy-2/view
http://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-information-
literacy-user-s-guide-an-open-online-textbook-2/view
 In-Class Assignments
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2aXJ4C6kH6CNUF6
eUh3MldwcTA?tid=0B2aXJ4C6kH6CbE01X1BEQWxJTFE

Information as Creation Process Cards

http://kevinseeber.com/processcards.pdf

Searching as Strategic
http://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/UWresearch101/research1
01searching

ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox

http://sandbox.acrl.org/

ACRL Framework Assessment Resources

http://sandbox.acrl.org/resource-types/assessment-material
 LIBR1101
Affordable Learning Georgia
Textbook Transformation Grant
Develop, Design, Deliver
LibGuide delivery platform
93 students
3 sections
1 F2F, 2 online
92.86% of respondents had a
“positive” experience with OER
 OER in the IL Classroom

 Funding for this project was provided by

USG Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook
Transformation Grants (Rounds 2 and 11).

Affordable Learning Georgia

http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/
OER LibGuide
http://libguides.gsw.edu/OER
http://libguides.gsw.edu/infolit
http://libguides.gsw.edu/infolit/oeril
References
Creative Commons. (nd). About the licenses. Retrieved from: http://creativecommons.org/licenses

Marcniek, A. (2015). Open education resources meet instructional design. Retrieved from:
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/open-educational-resources-instructional-design-andrew-marcinek

OER Commons. (2015). What are OER? Retrieved from: https://www.oercommons.org/about

OPEN. (nd). What is “open?” Retrieved from: https://open4us.org/about/what-is-open/