LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: The OER Community

OER Communities and Listervs

Open Education Global: Getting Started with OER
An introduction to OER, Creative Commons licenses, and locating OER from this international open education organization.
SPARC Libraries and OER Forum
This listserv provides many updates on OER policy, projects, and news from the open education movement.

Listservs and Digests

SPARC OER listserv
The goals of this forum are:
1. Enable librarians (and others connected to the library community) to share ideas, resources and best practices pertaining to OER and open educational practices.
2. Support coordination on librarian-focused events and educational programming about OER.
3. Disseminate important updates about policy, research, projects and other news from the broader OER movement (SPARC, 2018).
EDUCAUSE Listserv
See their open education list for topics related to OER and other related ones,
Community College Consortium for OER (CCOER)

Learn About OER

Are you interested in using OER in your courses but want to learn more about its nuts and bolts? See Open Washington: Open Educational Resources Network's Open Educational Resources to learn about copyright, Creative Commons licenses, and other considerations in using OER. This 10-step module is self-paced and openly available to help you incorporate OER into your teaching.