Sharing Open Courses

[Jennifer Jordan]

Hi everyone,

I am talking with folks at a college in New Mexico who have created open courses using Canvas. Their subscription to Canvas was funded through a federal grant. They are wondering how to archive and share the courses should they not be able to maintain the subscription. Does anyone have ideas or suggestions for how to share open courses?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Sincerely,

Jennifer

[Amy Hofer]

Hi Jennifer, 

This is a good question, because there isn't really a standard way to share openly licensed ancillaries like course shells. 

Since they created the courses in Canvas, they can share to Canvas Commons and add an open license at the same time. I have a free Canvas account not affiliated with an institution to do this with. I'm not sure if they'd have to copy the course into a free account before sharing via Commons - maybe somebody else on this list knows what happens to courses in Canvas Commons that are shared via a paid account, and the account account goes away?

A few years ago an Oregon workgroup made guidelines that might have some relevant info for you: Oregon guidelines on sharing open courses from the LMS.

I'll be curious to see what others say!

Thanks, 

Amy  

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[Jennifer Jordan]

Hi Amy,

Thank you. They did publish the courses in Canvas Commons. I think my first question needed more detail. What I should have asked is "How else have people published and shared courses besides in Canvas Commons?"

Like, does anyone archive the materials outside of Canvas? If so, what formats do you use? (Does anyone do this?). I have seen courses in a Google Drive before saved as Docs, and in Canvas Commons.

Anyway, thanks for sharing resources and for helping me articulate my question more clearly.

Sincerely,

Jennifer 

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, Amy Hofer <hof...@linnbenton.edu> wrote:

Hi Jennifer, 

This is a good question, because there isn't really a standard way to share openly licensed ancillaries like course shells. 

Since they created the courses in Canvas, they can share to Canvas Commons and add an open license at the same time. I have a free Canvas account not affiliated with an institution to do this with. I'm not sure if they'd have to copy the course into a free account before sharing via Commons - maybe somebody else on this list knows what happens to courses in Canvas Commons that are shared via a paid account, and the account account goes away?

A few years ago an Oregon workgroup made guidelines that might have some relevant info for you: Oregon guidelines on sharing open courses from the LMS.

I'll be curious to see what others say!

Thanks, 

Amy  

On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 10:27 AM Jennifer Jordan <nifers...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am talking with folks at a college in New Mexico who have created open courses using Canvas. Their subscription to Canvas was funded through a federal grant. They are wondering how to archive and share the courses should they not be able to maintain the subscription. Does anyone have ideas or suggestions for how to share open courses?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Sincerely,

Jennifer

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[Amber Lancaster]

Hi Jennifer,

They should be able to publish the course via Creative Commons on Log In to Canvas (instructure.com) without a subscription. (This is the Canvas site - but not a university specific-site.)

Hope this helps.

Amber

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[Aaron Cooke]

Jennifer

They can save them as common cartridge format and archived them in a repositor similar to Open Oregon. That way the cartridge could be loaded into most LMS systems. The original license would not be needed to “Share” the class in the cartridge form. Tim may explain better than me. They could also add it to the CANVAS Commons, or a localized commons as we have in Southern Oregon.

 

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[Jennifer Jordan]

Hi Aaron,

Thank you for the information. This helps a lot. Is this the Open Oregon repository: https://openoregon.org/resources/  Or is there a different URL?

Thanks for your help!!

Sincerely,

Jennifer

[Aaron Cooke]

Jennifer

I was referring to the Oregon Open Learning Hub, but the OpenOregon.org would seem a good solution as well.

In the Hub starting something like a LMS OER Collection, or Group could store them in a subset to make them easier to find. I do not see New Mexico having a Hub, but they could similar to Oregon, or find a collection that exists that the would fit into and join that as a collaborator.

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[Jennifer Jordan]

Hi Aaron,

We're in the early stages of our OER organizing. I am checking out what other places are doing to get ideas for how to organize our materials, so thanks for sharing the OER Commons hub. Hubs and Catalogs will be forthcoming soon :) 

Sincerely,

Jennifer

[Melissa Morrow]

Thanks, all, for this information. Jennifer is helping gather ideas around how we want to build an OER repository/referatory for NM OERs and has been such a boon with all her experience. Yes, a NM OER Hub is in the works! 

Melissa Morrow
Librarian, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Community Outreach
Technology Connected Communities (TCC), NTIA-CMC Project
Thomas C. Donnelly Library
New Mexico Highlands University