OER RESOURCES

&
INFORMATION LITERACY

Dr. Charles Huffman Ru Story Huffman

Professor & Chair
Professor & Dean of Library Services
Department of Psychology & Sociology
James E. Carter Library
Georgia Southwestern State University
charles.huffman@gsw.edu Georgia Southwestern State University
ru.story-huffman@gsw.edu

Kentucky Library Association Conference

September 22, 2017
James E. Carter Library
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 Collections
OpenCourseWare Video, PPT,
MIT Podcasts
Depository LibGuides
Merlot
Benefits

Free/reduced cost for students

Relevancy
Engagement
Flexibility
Availability
Challenges

Quality/legality of resources
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
SUNY
http://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-information-
literacy-user-s-guide-an-open-online-textbook-2/view
Activities, Assignments,
Assessment: The 3 As
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/research10
1searching

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
Spring 17

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 Grant (Round 2, Grant #101)

Affordable Learning Georgia

http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/
OER LibGuide
http://libguides.gsw.edu/OER
Information Literacy
LibGuide Including 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/