37 OER Selection and Annotations: Faculty Assignment and Feedback
The process of selecting, annotating, and designing assignments around OER material is one way to strengthen foundational teaching practices. For this assignment, faculty were asked to identify at least two OER resources, identify the Creative Commons licenses, and a goal the OER is aimed to accomplish.
The selected resources will support the HUM 300 course project goals and some will be added to The John Jay College Justice eReader which is a product of the Transforming the Justice Core Project, made possible through generous funding from the Teagle Foundation.
OER materials selection assignment instructions
- Identify at least two OER you want to use for your course (a list of OER repositories is available here). The OER should meet one of our three main goals:
- Orienting students to critical reading, writing, and other foundational skills
- Helping students connect course content to their careers
- Preparing students to complete a major course assignment like an essay, presentation, simulation, or exam
- For EACH OER you choose, provide the following:
- Link to the OER
- Citation (APA preferred)
- License it carries (this chapter in the Social Justice Landmark Cases eReader provides a review of CC licenses and a short video.)
- Where in the course calendar will you introduce this OER? Why?
- Which of the 3 goals will this OER help accomplish and why?
- Orienting students to critical reading, writing, and other foundational skills related to law and justice
- Helping students connect course content to their careers
- Preparing students to complete a major course assignment like an essay, presentation, simulation, or exam
- How will students interact with this OER? (small group discussion, creating a question bank, informal presentation, written response and peer review etc.)
- What do students need to know/be able to do to complete the reading and assignment successfully?
How was this assignment aligned with the HUM 300 course project goals?
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Project Goals |
OER vs. OA use |
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Develop the student Justice eReader
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Support faculty to write original content or identify OER materials that can be inserted or remixed for the eReader, organized by course topic. OA content will also be included as a source in course bibliographies. |
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Develop the faculty Instructional Resource |
Alongside the student-facing Justice eReader, we are also developing an eReader that includes OER and OA material that support related pedagogy. |
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Develop HUM 300 course content |
Create zero or low-cost courses that address course goals using OER and OA materials and faculty-created works. Over the long term, we hope the eReader will become the text where most HUM 300 course materials are accessed by students and faculty. |
Are OER and OA the same thing? When evaluating the submissions, we used the distinguishing features below.
The short answer is no. The longer answer is that Open Educational Resources (OER) represent a subset of Open Access (OA) material. OER are always OA, but not all OA materials are considered OER.
Open Access materials incorporate all types of information that are freely available to the public. This can include pre- and post-prints of scholarly journal articles, data that has been shared widely, and images whose copyright has expired. These materials can be used as provided but do not include permissions to change the content.
Open Educational Resources, on the other hand, are instructional materials that are freely available but that can also be reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed due to the author’s/creator’s pre-selection of a creative commons license. This license allows other interested parties to use the resource as they wish, but places stipulations on those permissions like attribution, share alike, and non-commercial.
Are OER and OA the same thing? (2021, September 21). https://www.library.rochester.edu/services/open/are-oer-and-oa-same-thing
How are the OER selections being evaluated for this project?
The content or subject matter of the selections are not being evaluated. This can be done through exchanges between faculty working on the same courses. Rather, the evaluation and feedback is focused on the licensing and accessibility of the works selected and how they can support the project goals.
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Submission evaluation template and feedback prompts
Submission: APA citation Does the license allow for the educational reuse of the materials? Does the license allow modifications or adaptations of the materials?
License Agreement (for the submission) License identified and relevant user policy highlighted.
Accessibility (where applicable) Did the provided link to the material work? Each image present has alt text that can be read. Videos have accurate closed captioning. Students can access the materials in a quick, non-restrictive manner. Podcasts provide closed captioning/transcriptions making every word accessible.
Faculty Responses Description of content included. Highlighted specific aspect(s) of the material. Relevance to class assignment mentioned.
Comment(s):
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When we evaluate OER resources for reuse, the first 4 CC Licenses listed here are ideal for our project’s goals: https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/
How will your selections be incorporated into this project over the long term?
If we identified any of the resources you selected as OER, we plan to add them to the Justice eReader, and OA resources will be added to a course bibliography in the eReader. The eReader is an OER (comprised of multiple OER selections, remixes, or original content); however, your courses may incorporate OA materials that are not necessarily OER.