Open Educational Resources for Faculty

Libraries, as learning communities, can play a significant role in promoting, locating, organizing and critically evaluating relevant OER for faculty, staff and students. They can:

• Guide faculty in identifying and searching key OER repositories such as BCCampus’ Open Textbook Collection, eCampus’ Open Library, the OER Commons and the Open Textbook Library for relevant OER.
• Provide faculty assistance in evaluating credible and relevant OER for classroom learning and instruction based on subject matter expertise.
• Create OER research guides where OER can be curated and easily accessed for students and faculty.
• Guide students in locating supplementary OER when they are challenged by costly textbooks.
• Promote and support staff and faculty in the use and benefits of OER for teaching, learning and research.
• Liaise between faculty and students to provide OER recommendations for students, staff and faculty.
• Offer resources to faculty on self-publishing, OER and accessibility toolkits, and learning portals.

From: Library Journal. (2020). Libraries play a key role in Campus OER Adoption. Retrieve from https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=libraries-play-a-key-role-in-campus-oer-adoption

This is not an exhaustive listing of all library database which provide research about open educational resources, but they are key ones which provide core content on all aspects of open educational topics.