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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)<\/h1>\n

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Answers to common questions about OER<\/h2>\n

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Definition through Hewlett Foundation:
\u201cOpen Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium \u2013 digital or otherwise \u2013 that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.\u201d[4]
Citation: William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. “Open Educational Resources.” Accessed June 15, 2019. https:\/\/hewlett.org\/strategy\/open-educational-resources\/<\/p>\n

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If a resource is not free or openly licensed, it cannot be described as an OER. For example, most materials accessed through your library\u2019s subscriptions cannot be altered, remixed, or redistributed. These materials require special permission to use and therefore cannot be considered \u201copen.\u201d Table 1 below explains the difference between OER and other resources often misattributed as OER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Table 1: Components of an OER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Material Type<\/td>\nOpenly Licensed<\/td>\nFreely Available<\/td>\nModifiable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Open educational resources<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Free online resources under all rights reserved copyright<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Materials available through the University Library<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Open access articles and monographs<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nMaybe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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What are open textbooks<\/a>? From BCcampus website: https:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/what-is-open-education\/what-are-open-textbooks\/<\/p>\n

Open textbooks are a subset of open educational resources (OER) and reside in the public domain \u2014 where copyrights have been waived by the copyright holder or copyright has expired \u2014 or have been released by the copyright holder under an open-copyright licence. The B.C. Open Textbook Collection, Canada\u2019s first major repository of these OER, is available for all to use.
Open textbooks are available digitally, accessed online or through shareable formats, to be freely used by anyone: students, instructors, librarians, and members of the public. In general, they can be modified, printed, shared, retained, remixed, and reused. If the work has been released with a Creative Commons \u2013 or other open-copyright \u2013 licence<\/a>, the user must adhere to that licence\u2019s legal requirements.<\/p>\n

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Searching for OER can be difficult when you\u2019re starting from a narrow perspective. For the most results, start with a broad search focused on your discipline. Once you\u2019ve brought together a large collection of resources, then you can begin to limit your results.<\/p>\n

6 minute Video: https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/uvicoerguidelines\/chapter\/finding-oer\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now evaluate the OERs that you have found. There are a number of rubrics available to help you evaluate the resources. BCcampus<\/a> has developed a set of criteria for evaluating OER. See if\u00a0textbook\/resource matches your criteria and based on content, presentation, online accessibility, production options, platform compatibility, delivery options, interactivity, consistency between online and printed versions, and available ancillary material (test banks, PowerPoints, etc.). You can read these reviews when you search for different books in the collection. If a book hasn\u2019t been reviewed, consider submitting a review request. \u00a0The reviews are comprehensive.<\/p>\n

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Before you think about creating a NEW open textbook, consider adopting an open textbook that you found. Adopt the textbook and gather feedback about the textbook from your students. Adopting open educational resources means that you are selecting openly licensed free resources (like textbooks) to use \u201cas is\u201d in your classroom. For example, Physics faculty adopted a number of chapters from University Physics Volumes 1-3 published by OpenStax for their PHYS 120, 130, 216 courses. The Copyright and Scholarly Communications Office (CSCO) at UVic Libraries assisted the faculty by collating the chapters required for each course into a pdf for easy by students. The CSCO also curated the Chapter content on Pressbooks for the three courses. Earth and Ocean Sciences have adopted open textbooks for a number of their courses, e.g.: EOS 120 \u2013 Physical Geology. History 230A Canada to Confederation adoption an open textbook for their course as well.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe term adaptation is commonly used to describe the process of making changes to an existing work. Though we can also replace \u201cadapt\u201d with revise, modify, alter, customize, or other synonym that describes the act of making a change.\u201d From BCcampus Adaptation Guide<\/a> (CC BY)<\/p>\n

Reasons to Adapt an Open Textbook<\/strong>
One of the benefits of using an openly licensed textbook or other educational resource is that you are free to adapt it to fit your needs. In other words, you can adjust the educational resources to fit your course curriculum, not the other way around.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adaptopentextbook\/chapter\/choose-licence\/<\/a><\/p>\n

All OER are made available under some type of open license\u2014a set of authorized permissions from the rights holder of a work for any and all users. The most popular of these licenses are Creative Commons (CC) licenses<\/a>, customizable copyright licenses that allow others to reuse, adapt, and re-publish content with few or no restrictions. CC licenses allow creators to explain in plain language how their works can be used by others.<\/p>\n

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Upcoming OER Events<\/h4>\n

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Are you a UVic faculty member who is interested in creating\/adapting and disseminating accessible educational resources? This workshop<\/a> will introduce you to Pressbooks \u2013 an open source, online authoring and publishing platform.<\/p>\n

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create and build an e-text<\/li>\n
  2. Create accessible headings, tables, and footnotes<\/li>\n
  3. Insert accessible media into your material<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Please create an account<\/a> for Pressbooks, hosted at BCcampus for all post-secondary institutions in B.C., before you attend the workshop.<\/p>\n

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    ABSTRACT<\/strong>
    This paper focuses on the ways educators can work within the guidelines of copyright
    while using digital media to develop educational content in legal and ethical ways
    by exploring several key contemporary trends in digital content creation.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cThe UVic Open Hub is a portal for developing open education initiatives, resources, and community to increase the availability, access, reuse, and redistribution of knowledge artifacts and to support the participation of stakeholders, including undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, and administrators, in areas spanning research (open access, open scholarship, open data), teaching and learning (open education, open pedagogy, open educational resources), and service (connecting open practices for community engagement, marketing, recruitment).\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Further Reading<\/h3>\n

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