Suggest a course topic for STATE-WIDE OER creation (deadline: May 24th)

[Walz, Anita]

Dear Colleagues,  

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Do you have ideas for development of new open educational resource (OER)* in topics/disciplines that would benefit a large number of students and institutions in Virginia Higher Education?

*Open Educational Resources are freely available and released under a license that allows adaptation. They can be in any format.

VIVA – Virginia's Library Consortium has announced a multi-institutional "Open Rapid Publishing Program". They are looking to identify gaps in usable OER for Virginia higher education for 1-year, rapid publishing projects.

Now is your opportunity to suggest areas for consideration by VIVA's Open and Affordable Course Content Committee on which I serve. Please share some good options from which we can consider!

VIVA will proceed to build at least one multi-institutional team to work on developing new OER in a target area in the coming year. Projects in the VIVA Open Rapid Publishing Program are eligible for an award of $50,000-$100,000 to support their efforts.

Please submit your ideas here before May 24th: https://forms.gle/b4vZ2oULcBBMV98N6 

Thanks,

Anita

What OER already exists? See LINKS BELOW for largest current places to look for (mostly English-language) OER: 

Pressbooks Directory   (books)

Open Textbook Library  (books)

OER Commons advanced search  (beyond books)

     OER Commons (curated textbook list)

LibreTexts

MERLOT advanced search

SUNY Oasis

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

BCCampus OpenEd Library

GitHub 

GoogleAdvancedSearch (filter by "usage rights" and Creative Commons)

See also course content mapping between different institution types and the hub for peer-reviewed course content mapped between two and four-year institutions.

Further information on open educational resources is available here: https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer 

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Do you have ideas for development of new open educational resource (OER)* in topics/disciplines that would benefit a large number of students and institutions in Virginia Higher Education?

*Open Educational Resources are freely available and released under a license that allows adaptation. They can be in any format. Click here for more information.

VIVA – Virginia's Library Consortium has announced a multi-institutional "Open Rapid Publishing Program". They are looking to identify gaps in OER for Virginia higher education for 1-year, rapid publishing projects.

Now is your opportunity to suggest areas for consideration by VIVA's Open and Affordable Course Content Committee on which I serve. Please share some good options from which we can consider!

VIVA will proceed to build at least one multi-institutional team to work on developing new OER in a target area in the coming year. Projects in the VIVA Open Rapid Publishing Program are eligible for an award of $50,000-$100,000 to support their efforts.

Please submit your ideas here: https://forms.gle/b4vZ2oULcBBMV98N6 before May 24th. 

Thanks,

Anita

What OER already exists? Here are the largest current places to look for (mostly English-language) OER: 

Pressbooks Directory   (books)

Open Textbook Library  (books)

OER Commons advanced search  (beyond books)

     OER Commons (curated textbook list)

LibreTexts

MERLOT advanced search

SUNY Oasis

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

BCCampus OpenEd Library

GitHub (various)

GoogleAdvancedSearch (filter by "usage rights" and Creative Commons)

See also course content mapping between different institution types and the hub for peer-reviewed course content mapped between two and four-year institutions.

Further information on open educational resources is available here: https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer 

Anita R. Walz

Associate Professor

Assistant Director for Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Library Liaison to Economics and Legal Studies

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