Introduction: Open Educational Resources and the Academic Library

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-342
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Dill ◽  
Mary Ann Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources

scholarly journals A case study investigation of academic library support for open educational resources in Scottish universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-693
Author(s):  
Seth D. Thompson ◽  
Adrienne Muir
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Institutional Commitment ◽  
Case Study Methodology

The aim of the research was to investigate why and how Scottish university libraries support open educational resources and to assess their ability to provide support services for their development and use within higher education institutions. There has been little research on the role of academic libraries in supporting open educational resources in Scotland and previous research found that there is a lack of awareness of them in Scottish higher education institutions and few have open educational resources policies. The case study methodology therefore involved two Scottish academic libraries providing open educational resources services. The libraries’ motivation includes supporting teaching and learning and the development of educator digital skills and copyright knowledge. However, there are a number of barriers limiting the services the libraries are able to provide, particularly lack of human resources. The research confirmed the findings of previous research on the importance of institutional commitment, incentives for educator engagement, and understanding of copyright and licensing issues by educators and library staff.

scholarly journals Optimizing Library Services — Digital Darwinism, Open Educational Resources (OERs), and the Academic Library

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tia Esposito ◽  
Caroline J. Campbell ◽  
Lindsay Wertman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Library Services

scholarly journals It’s Up to the Librarians: Establishing A Statewide OER Initiative

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J Bell ◽  
Joseph A Salem, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Campus Leaders ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
Institutional Priority

Academic librarians increasingly adopt roles as campus leaders to promote the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) and other strategies to encourage making textbook affordability for students an institutional priority. When it comes to a statewide strategy to support academic library efforts for textbook affordability, Pennsylvania is lagging more progressive states such as Oregon, Georgia, Ohio, Virginia and Louisiana. This article makes a case for and lays out a strategy by which Pennsylvania’s academic librarians can develop a statewide initiative to tackle the challenge of textbook affordability together in order to achieve substantial progress.

scholarly journals In the News

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
David Free
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Professional Development Program ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
University Of Memphis ◽  
Data Stewardship ◽  
The University

Welcome to the April 2019 issue of C&RL News. We start out this month with two articles focusing on scholarly communication issues. Navigating copyright in open educational resources is the focus of Lindsey Gumb’s Scholarly Communication column “An open impediment.” At the University of Memphis, librarians increased knowledge of data issues on campus through a professional development program for faculty. They write about their efforts in the article “Data Stewardship Week in an academic library.”

scholarly journals An Exploration of Academic Library Involvement in the Adaption of Open Educational Resources

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROLINE MUTWIRI ◽  
SALOME MUHINJA
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources

scholarly journals Performance Improvement Technology for Building a Sustainable OER Initiative in an Academic Library

TechTrends ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-274
Author(s):  
Kathy Essmiller ◽  
Penny Thompson ◽  
Frances Alvarado-Albertorio
Keyword(s):  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Gap Analysis ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
University Campus ◽  
The University

AbstractIn keeping with its land grant mission, a university campus library partnered with several OER advocacy efforts on both national and state levels to promote the creation and use of OER at the university. While the program had some initial success in inspiring faculty to create and use OER in their courses, the effort proved difficult to sustain. This paper presents the application of the Performance Improvement/HPT model to an Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative in a university library. This paper focuses specifically on three phases of the process: organizational analysis, environmental analysis, and gap analysis We share results of that application and discuss how the HPT model might effectively be applied to other similar programs.

ACCESS TO EDUCATION WITH ONLINE LEARNING AND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: CAN THEY CLOSE THE GAP?

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Geith ◽  
Karen Vignare
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Education Gap ◽  
The Right ◽  
Compare And Contrast

One of the key concepts in the right to education is access: access to the means to fully develop as human beings as well as access to the means to gain skills, knowledge and credentials. This is an important perspective through which to examine the solutions to access enabled by Open Educational Resources (OER) and online learning. The authors compare and contrast OER and online learning and their potential for addressing human rights “to” and “in” education. The authors examine OER and online learning growth and financial sustainability and discuss potential scenarios to address the global education gap.

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