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Contributor(s): Krysta McNutt; Erik G. Christiansen
Date issued: 2016
Description: This presentation provides an overview of two online toolkits created for the Alberta Open Educational Resources Initiative. The Champion's Toolkit provides strategies for promoting OER at educational institutions. The Starter Kit outlines considerations when adopting or creating OER such as intended audience, copyright, and accessibility and usability. The presentation was given at the OER In and Across Disciplines Conference at Mount Royal University, on Nov 9, 2016.
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Erik G. Christiansen
Date issued: 2016
Description: This presentation is from a workshop on open educational resources (OER). This workshop was part of the Code4Lib Alberta Conference, on November 24, 2016. It provides an overview of OER in the context of the open education movement while emphasizing practical considerations when using/creating OER. The audience participated in an OER search activity and added their findings to the live slide deck.
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Erik G. Christiansen; Michael B. McNally
Date issued: 2017
Description: This paper examines the continuum from "closed" to "open" for both open educational resources (OER) and open courses. The primary focus is to evaluate what instructional choices are needed to increase the openness of courses and how such openness impacts the student experience. The majority of OER literature is concerned with cost savings to students and are presented as institutional case studies. This conceptual paper provides an analysis of the critical academic literature and summarizes the common obstacles instructors face when working on their own OER projects - namely instructional design, technical support, and institutional tenure. Through this analysis, the authors propose a six...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Michael B. McNally; Erik G. Christiansen
Date issued: 2016
Description: This presentation examines the continuum from closed to open for both open educational resources in general and open courses. The presentation evaluates what instructional choices are needed to increase openness. In this regard the presentation will identify not only how to move resources and courses from closed to open, but also any potential negative impacts those decisions raise.
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Christiansen, Erik G.; McNally, Michael B.
Date issued: 2020; 2020
Description: While open licensing is a foundational aspect of open educational resources, there are several "factors" that educators must use to achieve openness in their course design. This study builds on the previous work of the authors' conceptual framework, titled "Open Enough?," for evaluating the level of openness within Open CourseWare (OCW) (McNally & Christiansen, 2019). In the previous work, the authors proposed eight factors that educators should consider when undertaking OCW development. The authors also argued that these eight factors could be used to assess the openness of existing OCW. The goal of this pilot study was to answer the following question: 1) Is the "Open Enough" framework...
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Christiansen, Erik G.; McNally, Michael B.
Date issued: 2020; 2020
Description: Although open licensing is a necessary component of open educational resources, the overall openness of a resource is determined by several factors beyond licensing. This paper examines the applicability of the “Open Enough” framework (McNally & Christiansen, 2019) for examining the openness of existing Open CourseWare (OCW). This previously published conceptual framework proposed eight factors that educators should consider when creating a new, or adopting an existing, open course. These factors include Copyright/Open Licensing Frameworks, Accessibility/Usability Formatting, Language, Support Costs, Assessment, Digital Distribution, File Format, and Cultural Considerations. In this study...
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): University Library