5 OER Services & Support
The OER team offers the following services to faculty interested in adopting, adapting, or creating OER. To access any of these services you can request a consultation with the OER librarian or OER specialist. You’ll be directed to a short form where you can sign up for a consultation and answer a few questions about what you need help with. You can also contact the OER librarian or OER specialist directly.
Please visit the OER website for more information.
Consultation:
- Finding OER:
- Assistance searching for appropriate OER to use in courses and/or finding OER to adapt where no resources exist.
- Licensing and Copyright consultation:
- We can offer advice if you would like to openly license your own work, or if you have questions about how you can reuse/remix openly licensed work. We can also help you write attribution statements and find/use openly licensed media.
- We also offer virtual workshops on Copyright & Licensing for OER (see the DREAM Lab event calendar for sign-up links and more info)
- One-on-one Pressbooks consultations and Workshops
- If you want to get started with Pressbooks, learn what you can make with Pressbooks, or get a one-on-one Pressbooks tutorial, you can sign up for a one on one Pressbooks training with the OER specialist.
- We also offer virtual Introduction to Pressbooks and Advanced Pressbooks workshops each term, you can find workshop dates and sign up links on the DREAM Lab events calendar.
OER Development Support
- Project management: assistance planning the OER development process and regular meetings with the OER team.
- Basic editorial review.
- Cover design and assistance finding openly licensed images.
- Pressbooks troubleshooting and formatting assistance.
- Assistance incorporating interactive elements like Hypothes.is and H5P into Pressbooks projects.
- Accessibility review and assistance implementing accessibility best practices.
OER Development Process
These resources will help guide you through the OER development process. Everyone’s OER creation process will look a little different, the OER Production Workflow will give you you an idea of all the steps that go into OER creation. The OER Pre-Production Author Guide is designed to be completed alongside step two in the OER Production Workflow and will help you set actionable goals for your project and come up with a workable structure. If questions come up at any point in the production process you can always contact the OER team.