Once you've found an OER and decided to adopt it, you've opened up a number of ways that you can use it in your course. The pages in this section will walk you through copyright and licensing pointers, mixing your own in case you choose to combine OER, and writing your own.
People to help:
- Katie Yelinek, kyelinek@commonwealthu.edu, for help with copyright, licensing, mixing, and writing your own
- Jon Hedrick, jhedrick@commonwealthu.edu, for help with integrating your OER into D2L/Brightspace
- Laura Heger, lheger@commonwealthu.edu, for help with reporting the adoption to the university store--don't forget to do that!
- Robert Dunkelberger, rdunkelb@commonwealthu.edu, or Bernadette Heiney, bheiney@commonwealthu.edu, for having your OER put in the institutional repository for others to use
While OER work is not specifically addressed in the CBA, there are ways of highlighting your OER work in evaluation, promotion, and tenure documentation. This guide will give you pointers: