Open Educational Resources (OER)
This guide is intended to provide SNHU faculty/staff information and support in researching open educational resources and copyright/licensing.
Questions?
If you have any questions, or if you would like more information, please contact:
Ellen Phillips - Director, Open Educational Resources & Intellectual Property, e.phillips@snhu.edu (603.652.1900)
License Information
All original content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 This link opens in a new window International License. 3rd-party content including, but not limited to images and linked items, are subject to their own license terms.
SNHU OER Tools
OER Tools for Institutions
- BCcampus Open Education Faculty OER Toolkit This link opens in a new windowThe Faculty OER Toolkit is an information resource about and guide to adapting and adopting Open Educational Resources. Included are definitions and examples, information about Creative Commons licensing, and tips on how to adapt and/or adopt OER for classroom use.
- OER Commons Starter Kit This link opens in a new windowBrowse a listing of favorite community-created resources for OER Commons, including lessons titled, "How to Search OER Commons,"How to Use the OER Commons LTI Tool," and "OER Evaluation Tool."
- How to Use Open Author on OER Commons This link opens in a new windowDocument introducing users to the Open Author tool on OER Commons where users can create, share, and remix open educational resources.
- Create with Open Author This link opens in a new windowCreate Open Educational Resources (OER) with the CC publishing tool, Open Author. Open Author helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses (on your own, or with others) — and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.
- Turning a Resource into an Open Education Resource (Video) This link opens in a new windowAn animation illustrating the steps involved in embedding open licenses in educational resources, and some of the associated Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues.
- Oppia - Quiz Builder This link opens in a new windowCreate free, high-quality, and effective lessons/quizzes in math, statistics, computing, science, humanities, languages, and social science with the help of educators from around the world, Oppia aims to provide students with quality education — regardless of where they are or what traditional resources they have access to.
- OER FAQ (Open Oregon) This link opens in a new windowQuestions about Open Educational Resources that faculty frequently ask.
OER & Accessibility
- Accessibility This link opens in a new windowOpen Washington
- Accessibility Toolkit This link opens in a new windowDownloadable eBook from BCcampus
OER Guides for Institutions
- Learning Portal OER Toolkit This link opens in a new windowCollege Libraries Ontario
- Open Educational Resources: Advancing Widespread Adoption to Improve Instruction and Learning This link openWilliam & Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Opening the Textbook This link opens in a new windowBabson Survey Research Group
- Free to Learn Guide This link opens in a new windowCreative Commons
- OER Champion Playbook This link opens in a new windowLumen Learning