Open Educational Resources on STEM Center
WHAT IS [OER]:
“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video, and animation” (UNESCO).
NEED: Broadening participation, accessibility, and affordability especially for STEM students
SOLUTION: Overall, Open Educational Resources (OER) can make STEM fields more equitable, inclusive, and affordable. Top 10 benefits STEM OER resources are:
- Help promote latest research in STEM
- Help cost savings of textbooks and therefore college education
- Help increase interdisciplinary faculty collaboration and creativity
- Help increase STEM student success (register & take more courses, earn higher grades)
- Help innovative teaching and learning in STEM edu
- Help increase stu retention
- Help overcome out of print shortage issues
- Anytime and anywhere equitable accessibility
- OER usage also allows various selection of learning materials options
Help financial savings, more formats, and evolving content
FIND [OER] ON STEM
LOCATE TYPES OF OERS: STUDENT & FACULTY RESOURCES
OPEN-TEXTBOOKS; DIGITAL-TUTORIALS; OPEN-MODULES; CASE STUDIES; VIDEOS; OPEN-SOUCE-SOFTWARES; ANIMATIONS; MOOCs; SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS; OTHER.
- CALSTATE-MERLOT: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
- GMU-MOM: https://oer.gmu.edu/?page_id=967
- MIT-OPENCOURSEWARE: https://ocw.mit.edu/search/ocwsearch.htm
- OER-COMMONS: https://www.oercommons.org/
- OERTX: https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/
- RICE-OPENSTAX: https://openstax.org/subjects
- SUNY-OASIS: https://oasis.geneseo.edu/
- UCDAVIS-LIBRETEXTS: https://libretexts.org/
- UMICH-OPENMICHIGAN: https://open.umich.edu/search/node
- UMINN-OPENTEXBLIB: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
- WASHST-OPENCOURSELIB: www.opencourselibrary.org
ADOPT+TEACH USING [OER]
INSTRUCTORS: WHY ADOPT EXISTING [OER]?
By adopting OER, instructors will: increase access to STEM edu; enhance classroom experience; empowering STEM students
SEARCH/ FIND [OER] / CHOOSE THE OER RIGHT FOR YOU_____
REPLACE READING WITH [OER]______
CREATE & SHARE [OER] FOR STEM
INSTRUCTORS: CREATE OER
By writing/ creating OER, instructors will: extend your academic profile; increase access to STEM edu; enhance classroom experience; empowering STEM students, and help lower financial burden for stu.
FREE DOWNLOAD here: https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A761479
RESEARCH / CASE STUDIES ON STEM [OER]
Hacisalihoglu G (2019) Fields of Gold: Plant Prospecting for Precious Metals. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS), 1-15. http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=1075&id=1075
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If you have a resource to recommend being listed here, please send title, author, URL-website to: CONTACT: Dr. G. Hacisalihoglu |
Use the hashtag in your syllabus #THIS COURSE USES OER
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#courses switched to OER/// #stu impacted by OER at the university///+Cost savings to students since 2022:(=cost of resource replaced X #stu per section X # sections per semester)/// # views /// # downloads ///# social-media mentions.
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Last updated: March'22