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Steven Secord Post 1

11 June 2018, 4:50 PM

Adopting/Adapting/Creating??

To integrate OER into my teaching I am already doing a little bit of all three. I've adopted some articles that are licensed ND, I've adapted images and videos in the past that are licensed for those uses, and I've even created a little bit (very little) that I then have re-shared. 

What I really want for the education courses I will be teaching is better textbooks that are licensed openly so that my students don't have to purchase them. Unfortunately, as I've lamented in previous weeks, there is little to nothing out there that I have been able to discover. This means that I will likely have to create my own. I've been looking seriously at Pressbooks as an option to create something that is more portable and gives both myself and my students options for viewing either online, with an e-reader, or to print if that is the preference of the learner.

One of the ideas I took from this particular module is considering Student Demographics when trying to decide how to incorporate OERs into my courses. It had not occurred to me previously that by creating an OER we would be able to include underrepresented student diversity into our programs... it totally makes sense now that I read that, but that is not an argument for OER I've ever thought of or heard in the past. I feel that argument alone should persuade most, if not all, administrators to do the right thing.

Cheers,

Steve