You will find below some selected links for further information on OER, including where to find them, which organizations are supporting them, some key research on OER, and some meetings and conferences where you will find Lyryx!
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Repositories: Where to find OER materials
- Open Textbook Library: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
- BCcampus Open Textbook Project: https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/
- OpenStax: https://openstax.org/
- OER Commons: https://www.oercommons.org
- Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative: http://openedmb.ca/
- eCampus Ontario: https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/
- MERLOT: http://www.merlot.org
- Saylor Books: http://www.saylor.org/books
- LibreTexts: https://libretexts.org/
- Open Up Resources (K-12): http://openupresources.org/
Organizations and Initiatives supporting OER
- Bccampus: https://bccampus.ca/
- eCampus Ontario: https://www.ecampusontario.ca/
- SPARC: https://sparcopen.org/
- Campus Manitoba: http://campusmanitoba.ca/
- Lumen Learning: https://www.lumenlearning.com/
- Open Education Consortium: http://www.oeconsortium.org/
- Creative Commons Canada: https://ca.creativecommons.org/
- Rebus Community: https://about.rebus.community/
- Textbook Broke: follow #textbookbroke
- US Department of Education, #GoOpen States: https://tech.ed.gov/open/states/
Research and Information on OER
- OER Awareness and Adoption on the Rise, By Nicole Allen: https://sparcopen.org/news/2019/oer-awareness-adoption-rise/
- Babson Study Research Group, Open Educational Resources: 2018 National Higher Education ReportFreeing the Textbook: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2018: https://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html
- Made with Creative Commons: A guide to sharing your knowledge and creativity with the world, and sustaining your operation while you do. By P. Stacey and S. Hinchliff Pearson 2017: https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/made-with-cc/
- Incentivizing the Production and Use of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education Institutions by David Annand and Tilly Jensen (Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University) IRRODL, Vol 18 No 4 (2017): Special Issue: Outcomes of Openness: Empirical Reports on the Implementation of OER: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3009