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OER - Open Educational Resources

This guide is for OER-doers that need more advanced guidance beyond adopting an established open textbook with ready-made supplemental materials.

Conferences

Open Education Conference
An annual convening for sharing and learning about open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open education initiatives.
Open Texas
Convenes faculty, librarians, administrators, and other open education practitioners and advocates.

Courses

Texas Learn OER
Nine-module, self-paced introduction to open educational resources with concept reviews. You can earn a certificate of completion with a 10th module.
Creative Commons Certificate
Provides an in depth study of Creative Commons licenses—helping you become an expert in open licensing and the Commons. These licenses are an important part of OER.

Webinars and Blogs

Open Stax (Webinars)
Gives you advice and support for using open educational resources (OER), OpenStax books, OpenStax Tutor Beta, and the additional resources that are available with OpenStax content. You can sign up or view a recording.

improving learning (blog)

By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, a company that uses OER as part of its business model.