Open Educational Resources at Santa Fe College, Mar 17, 2017. Transcript

Introduction

An advantage to using Open Educational Resource (OER) are legal rights to reuse and retain.  After instructors find, evaluate, and decide to use OER in a class, they need to incorporate it.  How and where students will access content is a key concern. Along with content permissions, format type(s), personal abilities, and support available. This will dictate how to incorporate content. Like, whether to embed OER or link out to it. While some open licenses do not allow adapting, one does not violate theses licenses by:

• downloading/uploading as is
• embedding
• linking
• copying and pasting as is (no remix or combine)
• printing a self-copy

Learning Objective Check-In

Requirements for Attribution

It is ethical to give credit to all sources, even those within the Public Domain. All Creative Commons (CC) licensed materials require attribution with use. Best practice for CC attribution is to follow TASL:

• Title
• Author
• Source
• License

An online Marking Guide from CC demonstrates how to mark CC licenses on different media types. Attribution must be displayed with content when adopting OER. The viewer should easily find any attribution.  Like, in course settings description, home page, and/or syllabus.

Linking Out

The saying, “when in doubt, link it out” has been echoed by many. Linking out to material has been seen as a “safer” way to use content. This is considered copyright-wise within a course since no copy is being created, only a link added. It may be one of the easiest ways to implement an OER in a course. So, it is presented here first.

To create a link:

1. Log into your LMS (for example, Canvas) or site
2. Navigate to the course or section where you will be linking to outside content
3. Click to edit the content via the rich content editor
4. Place your cursor where you want the link to be
5. Click on Insert and then on Link (or the link symbol)
6. Paste the URL into the link’s address field
7. Provide a descriptive title for the link in the Title field
8. Then click Done or Save

Go back into the page and click on the link to make sure it works. Make link review a regular part of course updates. As “link rot” can occur from term to term. Download and save any linked content. If it disappears from the internet mid-course, instructors may be able to continue to use the work that semester under given rights or a fair use exemption. If this happens, please document with the Fair Use Evaluator.

Another reason to link out to an OER is to increase the download counts for the content. This improves the statistics data the OER author can present for Tenure and Promotion. It may also encourage the author to update the content to a new edition. Or they may write another OER for another course. Additionally, the author may make minor updates to the content without publishing a new edition. Linking to the content will ensure students are using the latest version of the content.

Downloading

To download:

1. Navigate to the OER site (for example, Pressbooks)
2. Search for your title
3. Then locate download options (drop-down menu, link, etc.). If multiple types are offered, select the file format(s) that best suits your needs
4. Download the resource file(s) to your computer or other device
5. Name the file and place it in a folder. File name should follow your organizing scheme and be easily identifiable to upload it to your course

We encourage instructors to use course packs; when available and appropriate for a course. If there is not a download option in a platform, contact the publisher. Ask if the publisher can provide a download or reach out to the author(s). Instructors may need to demonstrate that they are an instructor of record to access hidden content.

Uploading

Full Course Import

For Full Course Imports:

1. Log into the LMS (for example, Canvas) or site where you will upload the OER
2. Navigate to the specific course shell where you want to populate content
3. Find an “import course content” or similarly worded link and click on it
4. Select content type to upload/import
5. Click on Import
6. Then select the Course Export Package (available as file type in some OER repositories)
7. Click Done/Save

Navigate to modules and find the newly imported course content. Check each part for completeness. Note if any issues are reported from the upload. If needed, correct these within the imported course.

Importing Couse Packs Guides by System:

• Canvas Help
• Blackboard Help
• D2L Help

Textbook or Single Resource Only

For Single Resource Load:

1. Log into the LMS or other site (for example, Google Drive) to which you will upload the OER
2. Navigate to the specific course
3. Find the folder where you will place the textbook
4. Click on the option to upload a file

There may be several options for ingesting content. For a complete textbook, instructors may be able to upload zipped files. Common cartridge files may be a better choice due to file size limits. If a common cartridge is not available, consider contacting the author of the resource–many authors are happy to share files with those using their content.