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Advanced Skills Series

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board,�Division of Digital Learning

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Welcome!

Please log in to the https://oertx.highered.texas.gov platform

In the chat box, please share:

  • Your name and pronunciation
  • Your location and institution
  • Your educational position

Link to the published slides - https://bit.ly/Advanced-Skills-Slides-1

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Agenda

  • Introductions from THECB
  • What are OER and what is the OERTX Repository?
  • OER Panel
  • Advanced Skills - Licensing, Remix, Accessibility
  • Evaluating Plans - Breakout Sessions
  • Next Steps (please note completion date of July 20th)

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Link to the published slides - https://bit.ly/Advanced-Skills-Slides-1

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Mission Meet the Team

The mission of the Division of Digital Learning is to provide leadership and advocacy for digital learning in higher education and promote, sustain, and advance a quality digital learner experience positioning Texas as a world leader and resulting in globally competitive digitally proficient citizens.

Accountability Adaptability Advocacy Authenticity Equity Integrity Leadership

Assistant Commissioner

Michelle Singh, Ph.D.

Administrative Assistant

Amy Zandy

Directors

Carrie Gits, MLIS

Gwendolyn Morel, Ph.D.

Kylah Torre, Ph.D.

Program Directors

Maryanne Maddoux, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Tolman, Ph.D.

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Title

https://oertx.highered.texas.gov

  • Over 370,000 users across all states and continents
  • Over 10,000 added resources
  • Over 3,000 authored resources via Open Author

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- Support institutions as they work to build capacity��- Drive systems change around OER��- Serves as a guiding document for institutions that have not yet engaged in OER work or taken advantage of existing programs and opportunities

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Professional Learning

OER Core Elements Academy​

  • Introduction to OER
  • Discovery and Curation
  • Evaluating and Remixing

OER Advanced Skills Academy​

  • Build on foundational skills 
  • Curation, Evaluation, Creation, Sharing

Creator Communities​

  • Cohorts collaborated to create OER

Resource for the Resource Retreat

  • Train the Trainer Program 

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OERTX Repository and Group

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  • Platforms - (OERTX or OER Commons)
  • Hubs
    • Getting Started with OER Hub
  • Collections
    • OER Basics Collection
  • Groups

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OERTX Repository and Group

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What are OER?

OER refer to any teaching and learning materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under a license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution.

Open licenses, such as Creative Commons, give authors flexibility in how they want to share their work and represent a shift from “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved”.

  • Intellectual Property & Copyright
  • Open Access Journals & OER
    • Berlin Declaration of 2003
    • Peer Reviewed Options for publishing (PLOS, Frontiers, DOAJ, MDPI, Nature, many others)
      • Article Processing Charges (APCs)
  • Talk to your OER Librarian for more info

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What are Creative Commons Licenses?

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Description

Licensees may copy, distribute, display, perform and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these. Since version 2.0, all Creative Commons licenses require attribution to the creator and include the BY element.

Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to ("not more restrictive than") the license that governs the original work. (See also copyleft.) Without share-alike, derivative works might be sublicensed with compatible but more restrictive license clauses, e.g. CC BY to CC BY-NC.)

Licensees may copy, distribute, display, perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-commercial purposes.

No derivative works (ND)

Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works and remixesbased on it. Since version 4.0, derivative works are allowed but must not be shared.

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Creative Commons/Licensing practice

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Guest Speakers: OER Experiences

  • What first inspired you to begin your OER journey?
  • What has your process of adopting and implementing OER been like?
  • What impact has your OER work had on your community?
  • What are your future plans for OER?
  • Do you have any tips for faculty just getting started with OER?

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Kim Estes

Sr. Instructional Designer

Tarrant County College

kim.estes@tccd.edu

Twitter: @mamaestes

Arturo Ozuna, Ed.D.

Instructional Designer

Tarrant County College

arturo.ozuna@tccd.edu

Twitter: @agozuna

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Advanced Skills - Discoverability

  • Naming and describing the resource

  • Aligning the resource

  • Tagging the resource

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OER Advanced Skills - Remixing

  • Remixing have tremendous time, cost, and engagement benefits

  • A resource can only be remixed if it has a specific license
    • Poll - “Which licenses allow for remixing?”

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OER Advanced Skills - Remixing

  • Remixing can only happen between licenses with compatibility.

  • Be sure to give proper attribution either directly near the resource or at predictable locations (end of chapter, presentation).

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OER Advanced Skills - Remixing for Accessibility

  • Accessibility skills
    • Accessibility Checker
    • Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
    • SLIDE practices

  • Let’s practice!
    • Intro to Statistics Syllabus

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OER Advanced Skills - Project Templates

For your project, please choose one template and remix this template as your submission structure. This template must be completed in entirety and submitted by Thursday July 20th to receive credit for the series.

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Stay Connected

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Subscribe to the THECB-Digital Learning News and Events for updates.

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Advanced Skills Structure and Supports

  • 3 Webinars - June 20, 22, 29

  • EPRA engagement activities - track in this Attendance document

  • Office Hours - June 27th 10am-11am CT
    • This is a good checkpoint for your project/template progress.

  • Reach out to Joanna@iskme.org with any questions
  • Contact oertx@highered.texas.gov for technical support

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Next steps

Before our next session (Thursday June 22), please

  • Engage - reply to the two prompts in the group discussion board
  • Practice - finish remixing this Stat syllabus to increase accessibility
  • Reflection - Answer the short survey for this session
  • Advocacy - Locate the librarian or OER point person at your institution

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Image Attributions

  • The image on slide 3 "Photo" by Burst, Unsplash is in the Public Domain, CC0
  • The image on slide 5 is a screenshot of the OERTX platform and is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA.
  • The image on slide 6 is a screenshot of the OER in Texas Statewide Playbook and is licensed CC-BY.
  • The image on slide 7 is the ISKME logo
  • The image on slide 8 is a screenshot of the Advanced Skills group and is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA
  • The image on slide 9 is of the Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX from Picryl and is Public Domain (CCO)

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Image Attributions

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