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Save Time on Prep�Create Ancillaries with AI and OER Online

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CTE: Hear From Peers

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

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Questions? �Email Libraries’ OpenEd Division at:

OpenEdHelp@tamu.edu

Slides: tx.ag/OERAI

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Session Overview

  • What are AI-created ancillaries?
  • Quick refresher: AI + OER basics
  • Tools you can use
  • Best practices

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Example Types of Ancillaries

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  • Slides
  • Question banks
  • Study guides
  • Activities
  • Lesson outlines
  • Images
  • Multilingual content

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Why AI + OER?

  • Saves time
  • Fully remixable
  • Transparent + ethical use
  • Reduces cost barriers
  • Supports accessibility & localization

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OER: Very Quick Refresher

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What is an OER?

  • Free + openly licensed materials
  • Creative Commons licenses define reuse permissions
  • The 5Rs: Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, �Redistribute

“Wiley’s 5 R’s” by Abbey Elder, via Wikimedia Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0; “5Rs” by EllenSeptember, via Flickr is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Open Licensing: Creative Commons

Text adapted and symbols taken from “Anatomy of a CC License” by Creative Commons. CC BY 4.0.

BY = Attribution

The Building Blocks

NC = NonCommercial

SA = ShareAlike

ND = NoDerivatives

Public Domain

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CC Licenses

  • use for any purpose (even commercially or modified form)
  • give attribution

Text adapted and symbols taken from “Anatomy of a CC License” by Creative Commons. CC BY 4.0.

  • use for any purpose (even commercially or modified form)
  • give attribution
  • share adaptations under the same or a compatible license
  • use the unadapted work for noncommercial purposes only
  • give attribution

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  • use the unadapted work for any purpose (even commercially)
  • give attribution

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  • reuse for non-commercial purposes only
  • give attribution
  • share adaptations under the same or a compatible license

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  • reuse for non-commercial purposes only
  • give attribution

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Tools to Explore

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  • OER repositories to feed your AI
  • NotebookLM (course packs, study guides)
  • Generative Textbooks
  • Gemini / Copilot

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  • OERTX
    • Curated resources aligned to the Texas Core Curriculum requirements�
  • Pressbooks Directory
    • Searchable catalog that includes 8,524 OER books�
  • Open Textbook Library
    • 1700+ textbooks with robust search features and open peer reviews

OER repositories to feed your AI

Screenshot of the Pressbooks Directory

See tx.ag/SearchOER for links to repositories where you can find OER.

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  • Great for grounded content
  • Import OER chapters / syllabus
  • Auto-generate Q&A, summaries
  • Useful for consistency and prep

NotebookLM

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Syllabus Tool(s)

NotebookLM URL: Syllabus: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Course

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Syllabus Tool(s), cont.

Infographic

Mind map

Quiz

Video Overview

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Textbook Tool(s)

NotebookLM URL: CALL Principles and Practices

Textbook Attribution : CALL Principles and Practices by Joy Egbert and Seyed Abdollah Shahrokni is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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  • Follows the TRaining AI to be a Teacher (TRAIT) hypothesis
  • Aims to give AI teacher-like structure
  • Good for structured modules, explanations
  • Aligns well with OER remixing

Generative Textbooks

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  • Teacher-like language
  • Pedagogically-structured prompts

Generative Textbooks, cont.

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Generative Textbooks

TRaining AI to be a Teacher (TRAIT) Hypothesis

David Wiley states:

The TRAIT hypothesis is something like this: the effectiveness with which a generative AI model supports student learning will be proportional to the extent to which it has the skills and knowledge of an appropriately trained human teacher.*

URL: Making AI a More Effective Teacher: Lessons from TPACK

Further Reading from David Wiley:

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Example: Demo: Intro to Psychology

URL: Memory

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Example: Demo: Intro to Psychology, cont.

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Visual Content Development

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Using TAMU’s Google Gemini: Asked for a diagram of a starfish with major parts labeled. Very generic prompt - very detailed illustration almost immediately

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Visual Content Development

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Using TAMU’s Microsoft Copilot: Asked for an illustration of the interior structures of an eye - this took quite a bit longer than the Gemini prompt

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Multilingual Course Materials

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Using Gemini, we linked to the FAQ in our Open Publishing Guidelines (which is freely available and openly licensed) into Spanish, Georgian, and Farsi.

Resource Attribution: Open Digital Publishing Guidelines by Seyed Abdollah Shahrokni and Jennifer Pate s licensed under CC BY 4.0

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Best Practices

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  • Start with CC Search before creating from scratch
  • Document your sources throughout the process
  • Test AI outputs for accuracy and appropriateness
  • Maintain attribution chains in all derivative works
  • Share your creations with appropriate CC licenses

The illustration depicts a female professor working in a library (Image generated by Gemini, October 17, 2025)

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Key Takeaways

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  • CC licensing provides legal framework for using content with AI tools
  • Attribution is essential and straightforward with TASL (Title, Author, Source, and License).
  • AI + CC = Powerful, ethical course development
  • Start small using CC sources with AI assistance
  • Share your work - contribute back to the commons

A classroom of college students engaged in a lecture. Google Gemini, 17 October 2025

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Get in Touch with OpenEd

Contacts

General Inquiries: OpenEdHelp@tamu.edu

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Slides: tx.ag/OERAI

Survey: tx.ag/OpenEdWorkshop

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Resources

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Open Licensing/Copyright/Fair Use

OER Libraries/Search Engines

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AI and Open Tools

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OER Tutorials/Textbooks

Open Pedagogy

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Thank you!