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Upcoming OER Trainings
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General OER Trainings
Getting Started with Open Educational Resources (OER)
The OER or Open Educational Resources movement was developed as a response to rising textbook prices. Using OER materials can help reduce costs and bring new and adaptable resources to the classroom. Want to learn more about how to get started, where to look for materials, and review some OER examples before joining the crowd? This session is for you!
OER 101 for Faculty and Staff Recording
OER & Copyright Workshop
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 10am-11am Flyer
This webinar is intended to clarify the relationship between OER and traditional copyright. In this session, you’ll engage with our panelists as they share their OER journeys and participate in a roundtable discussion. Participants are encouraged to share their OER experiences, concerns, successes, and questions.
Presenters: Gwen Sibley, Scholarly Communication and Copyright Librarian, Assistant Professor, Kansas State University Libraries
2023 OER Beyond the Basics: Faculty Workshops
Finding, Evaluating & Adopting OER Thursday, Feb 23, 2023 2:00 pm
Finding the right OER for your courses can be daunting and this workshop will review the best places to begin your search for OER textbooks, assignments, lectures and other materials. We will also cover how to evaluate OER to make sure it's a good fit for your students and institution. Since planning time is precious, participants will be encouraged to practice searching and evaluating during the workshop to make the best use of their time.
Finding Evaluating & Adopting OER Workshop Recording
Adapting OER Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:00 pm
You picked out an OER or two that you want to use in class. They need some changes or need to be combined. Now what? This workshop will lead you through the following steps to adapting your OERs. We will start by determining the licensing of your OERs and then look at where to edit and provide access to your adapted OER. Finally, we will look at correctly attributing the original OERs and how to create your own Creative Commons license for your new textbook. Throughout the workshop, guiding questions will help you make decisions efficiently and effectively.
Adapting OER Workshop Recording
Presentation Slides & Presentation Sources
Accessibility & OER Thursday, April 6, 2023 2:00 pm
Now that you have found an OER to use in your class and adapted it to your needs, how can you further adapt it to make it accessible for all. This workshop will cover the basics of the why and how of accessibility and universal design. Then, we will dive deeper into enabling user agency to enhance the user experience (UX). Some topics include accessibility tools, scalability, anchored content, and keyboard navigation.
Accessibility & OER Workshop Recording
2022 "Open your mind to OER" summit session recordings
2020 Webinar Topics & Dates
September 10, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. - OER Jargon/Free-Digital-Open
This presentation identifies the use and difficulty of Open Education jargon for newcomers to the Open Community. Here we will clarify Open Education Resources (OER) terms as well as the difference between free, digital, and open. Live Q & A will be available at the end.
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October 1, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. - Outlining Problems
Presenters will discuss the benefits beyond using OER to lessen the student financial burden and demonstrate how content may be manipulated and shared in pedagogically interesting ways that may violate copyright in traditional materials.
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October 26, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. - Creative Commons
The "openness" of OER depends upon permissive licensing, most commonly Creative Common (CC) licenses. Join us for an introduction to CC licenses designed to assist educators in recognizing, understanding, complying with, and applying CC licenses in teaching and learning environments.
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December 2, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. - Repositories & Platforms
Join us for a tour of selected repositories and platforms, a few search strategies to try when looking for OER, and a couple demonstrations of identifying this information.
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OER disciplinary Roundtables
These discipline focused, informal, discussion based, virtual sessions are intended for those interested in using Open Educational Resources in their curriculum. In these sessions, panelists will share their OER journeys and participate in a roundtable discussion. Participants are encouraged to share their OER experiences, concerns, successes and questions.
COMMUNICATION COURSES
Wednesday April 17, 2024 2:30pm
This webinar is intended for those interested in using Open Educational Resources in Communication courses.
Panelists: Ashley Page, Fort Scott Community College Communications Instructor, Tonya Neises, Labette
Community College Communication Professor
Education COURSES
Thursday, February 15, 2024 3:30-4:30pm
This webinar is intended for those interested in using Open Educational Resources in Education courses.
Panelists: Renee Cason, FHSU Teacher Education Instructor, Kim Sprecht, BCCC, with more to be added.
Language COURSES
Thursday, November 30, 2023 2:30-3:30pm
This session is intended for those interested in using Open Educational Resources in Language courses.
Panelists: Jonathan Perkins, Director of the KU Open Language Resource Center, Necia Chronister, Coordinator of the KSU German Language Program & Amy Rossomondo, Director of the KU Spanish Language Program
If you are interested in leading a future roundtable or have a subject area you would like to see available, please contact
2024 Spring OER Discipline Roundtables
Using OER in Communications Courses Wednesday, April 17, 2024 2:30 pm (click the title to register)
This webinar is intended for those interested in using Open Educational Resources in Communication courses. In this session, you’ll engage with our panelists as they share their OER journeys and participate in a roundtable discussion. Participants are encouraged to share their OER experiences, concerns, successes, and questions.
- Lead: Dr. Alicia Mason Collins, Ph.D. (Professor Pittsburg State University Department of Communication)
- Panelists: Ashley Page (Fort Scott Community College, Communications Instructor) and Tonya Neises (Labette Community College, Communication Professor)
systemwide transfer course OER recommendations
The recordings and content provide recommendations for high-quality OER aligned with the most commonly taken transfer courses. They highlight strategies for adoption, best practices, and tools to ensure academic rigor, while emphasizing cost savings, accessibility, and equity to enhance student success.
A full list of course recommendations is located here.
College Algebra - February 26, 2024 at 3:30-4pm - Recording
Public Speaking - February 27, 2024 at 11-11:30am - Recording
General Psychology - February 27, 2024 at 2:30-3pm - Recording
English Composition - February 28, 2024 at 11-11:30am - Recording
Elementary Statistics - February 28, 2024 at 2-2:30pm - Recording
Libretext trainings
librefest
Monday, October 7, 2024 11am-5pm
October is just around the corner and with it comes the return of LibreTexts' October LibreFest, or OctoberFest. This one day, virtual workshop, will be held on October 7, the day before this year's OpenEd Conference kicks off, from 9-3 PST. OctoberFest is a scaled down version of our annual summer LibreFest workshop and will introduce you to everything Libretexts has to offer, including editing, remixing, and adapting OER. Created by practitioners, for practitioners.
LibreTexts Training: Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 2:00-4:00pm
Delmar Larsen, founder and executive director of LibreTexts, will provide training on LibreTexts and the associated LibreVerse. LibreTexts is an Open Educational Resource (OER) platform. The Kansas Board of Regents System was the first state system to join the LibreNet, a consortium of members supporting LibreTexts. System members can create, adopt, and adapt OER on the platform and use the associated technology. If you don’t already have an account, it would be good to set one up at https://one.libretexts.org/