Research Guides: Textbook Affordability and Open Educational Resources (OER): Professional Development and Continuing Education

Archived CCC Textbook Affordability and OER Workshops

SP22 OER Workshop Recording - Finding Free Course Materials: Textbook Affordability VS OER

In this workshop, librarian Justine reviews the difference between Open Educational Resources (OER) and other free resources that fall under the umbrella of Textbook Affordability. You’ll learn a variety of ways to implement free course materials, determine which of those best suits your needs, and discover where free course materials can be found.
Visit the SP22 OER Workshop Google Drive to view the slide deck and list of links mentioned in the workshop recording.

OER Webinar Repositories

CCCOER Webinars
The Community College Consortium for OER hosts and archives webinars on a wide variety of OER topics.
OER Commons - Open Education Webinars
OER Commons offers free webinars to help educators gain the skill necessary to shift to open practice.

OER Advocacy, Reading, and Research

There are a lot of amazing things to read about OER, so this is an incomplete list. Please make recommendations for this list by emailing reference@clackamas.edu

Creative Commons
The Open Education program at Creative Commons works to minimize barriers to effective education, supporting the CC mission through education, training, advocacy and outreach on using open licenses and open policies to maximize the benefits of open education (content, practices and policy).
An Examination of the Lived Experience of Eleven Educators Who Have Implemented Open Textbooks in Their Teaching
Masters thesis of Danielle Paradis
Open Education Group
The Open Education Group is an interdisciplinary research group that (1) conducts original, rigorous, empirical research on the impact of OER adoption on a range of educational outcomes and (2) designs and shares methodological and conceptual frameworks for studying the impact of OER adoption.
An Open Education Reader
A collection of readings on open education with commentary. Edited by David Wiley.
SPARC
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education.