This Code is a tool for educators, librarians, and authors to evaluate common professional scenarios in which fair use can enable them to incorporate inserts, including those protected by copyright, to create OER. It can provide groups working on OER projects with a shared framework for evaluating and understanding when and how to incorporate existing content to meet pedagogical needs.

While we have released this code under an open license for the widest possible reuse, please be aware that the principles are carefully crafted to be read together and reflect the series of workshops and interviews that informed the Code. Please make clear when you are using only an excerpt, and carefully note if you are making
any changes or alternations not in the original code. Over time, there will be additional supplementary materials and updates to this code available at auw.cl/OER.

Please attribute as: “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OER, available at
auw.cl/oer is licensed under CC BY 4.0”

The purpose of this document is to help the program director begin outlining the learning needs of a program and to uncover learning needs that might not be met by the current capabilities and tools.

Introduces faculty to Open Educational Resources and planning resources for OER adoption. In this course, participants will be introduced to the meaning Open, laws surrounding the distribution of educational content, and how to find openly licensed materials for use in a class. Participants will apply concepts to the creation of a mini module in their discipline.

A guide which provides an overview of OER resources, links to OER repositories, and planning resources and examples created and used at Frederick Community College.

Under the Planning Resources and Examples tab, there are course cartridges for an Intro to OER course that introduces faculty to Open Educational Resources and planning resources for OER adoption. In the course, participants will be introduced to the meaning of Open, laws surrounding the distribution of educational content, and how to find openly licensed materials for use in a class. Participants will apply concepts to the creation of a mini module in their discipline.

This resource was created at the University of Maryland (UMD) for instructors who want to develop open educational textbook resources. You may use this template and modify the text and format to fit your open educational resources (OER) needs, whether that is a complete textbook or a single chapter of information. The purpose of this resource is to provide a flexible and free resource for instructors that can promote and facilitate the creation and use of open educational resources.

We teach open science and have used this template to create an OER introduction to statistics textbook (Numbers don't lie (but people do), https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/statisticsinsocialsciences/home), an OER R textbook (Learning R the EZ way, https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/ezlearning-r/home), and an undergraduate research dissemination textbook (Addressing Grand Challenges through open science research, https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/umd-open-science-research/home?authuser=0). We hope others will find this resource useful as well.

This resource includes best practices in applying learning design principles, searching for learning resources, identifying digital rights requirements, and ensuring accessibility compliance in the classroom.

This content describes how to use many of H5P content types, focusing more on the accessible content types. More content types exist, h5p.org for more information.

How to Build a Virtual Escape Room in Moodle or another platform with H5P.

This resource offers a selected list of OERs that cover the topic of open education pedagogy, including the relation of OER and open pedagogy, how to implement open pedagogy in higher education, and different approaches to open pedagogy.

This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education. [Version 1.1. Revised September 5th, 2019.]

The Peralta Equity Rubric is a research-based course (re)design evaluation instrument to help teachers make online course experiences more equitable for all students. The rubric’s criteria include: addressing students’ access to technology and different types of support (both academic and non-academic); increasing the visibility of the instructor’s commitment to inclusion; addressing common forms of bias (e.g., implicit bias, image and representation bias, interaction bias); helping students make connections (e.g., between course topics and their lives; with the other students); and following universal design for learning principles.

The Peralta Equity Team periodically reviews and revises the rubric to address feedback and updates to equity-related research.

The site includes 3 related resources: 1) the Peralta Equity Rubric, 2) a brief companion document, “Describing the Peralta Equity Rubric,” and 3) a bibliography of research used for the Peralta Equity Rubric

OER Evaluation Rubrics adapted from the Achieve OER Rubric by Prince George's Community College to include a "Fair" rating. The Rubics included are: Rubric 1 - Alignment to Learning Objectives; Rubric 2 – Licensing; Rubric 3 - Quality of Subject Matter; Rubric 4 - Technology; Rubric 5 – Accessibility.

This template will guide faculty or program directors in how to map out a course into competencies, deliverables, learning topics, course-specific materials, and so forth.

This resource provides a selected list of OERs that examine the business of self-publishing, including how to self-publish open textbooks and other materials on the Web.

Word table that includes a selection of OERs that deal with the subject of how to create and adopt OER, including self-publishing OER, how to create an open textbook, accessibility, how to adapt OERs, and how to involve students in open publishing projects.

The UMGC OER Quality Guide is a tool to help evaluate the quality of OERs for use in your course. It examines resources through multiple lenses: compliance; content considerations; and technical factors. The Quality Guide Q&A answers key questions about the Quality Guide and helps users use the guide effectively.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Open Pedagogy Fellowship Toolkit is meant as a resource for both instructors and institutions. Within this resource, readers will find examples of a wide variety of openly-licensed renewable assignments that can be assigned and applied to a variety of subject areas and disciplines. Of course, each assignment speaks directly to at least one UN SDG. Beyond that, this resource also serves as a guide for institutions who wish to adopt and adapt this program by bringing it to their home institution.

Shifting the instructional lens about plagiarism from punitive to positive, this interactive tutorial addresses: the importance of citation, when to quote and paraphrase, how to determine copyright and how to create a creative commons license to protect your work, and how to access and use resources for academic writing.To link or view without Adobe Captivate software: https://most.oercommons.org/courses/university-of-baltimore-citation-and-licensing-guide

From the Wor-Wic Arts & Humanities Department, this rubric is designed to help faculty who are deciding if they would like to use an OER in their course. It includes assessments related to Authorship, Potential Bias, Affiliation, Quality Control, Peer Review, Timeliness & Relevance, Content Quality, Target Audience, and Accessibility.

The Wor-Wic rubric was adapted by Adam Tavel from a public rubric uploaded by user mcbrarian on the iRubric site.