The SPARC OER Leadership Program is an intensive professional development program for OER librarians and other professionals to learn the skills necessary to lead successful OER initiatives. The program blends online, peer-to-peer and project-based learning.
This LibGuide is a Capstone project for the LeadOER program by SPARC, explained in the second tab.
It carries a CC BY SA Creative Commons License.
How to find content
There are tabs on finding different types of content, both the content to start with and the content to add.
Throughout the discussions, two example books will be used, one, from OpenStax, on American History, specifically the chapter on WWII.
https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history
The second book is on Online Education.
Creating Online Learning Experiences: A Brief Guide to Online Courses, from Small and Private to Massive and Open
Finally, there are some links to find content to add to OERs and a technical guide.
Re-mixing OERs empower faculty to create the pedagogy that they feel is best for their students. Writing an OER is time consuming, but much of the basic material exists. Re-mixing an OER allows educators to add local focus, cultural content, or other information they feel is missing from basic texts. It allows them to add exercises or questions throughout the reading to create a text that they feel meets their students’ needs.
Open Textbooks
Portals are sites to find OERs from many sites, so licenses may vary. Be sure to check.