Best Practices Using OER for the Seasoned Instructor

Roxanne Haimann
Anna Laneville
Joshua Mitchell

Hawkeye Community College

Benefits to using OER

• Cost

• First day access

• Portable

• Accessibility built-in

• Engaging

• High quality

• 95% of students are doing as well or better using OER

Broaden ideas of what OERs are

• e-Textbooks

• Journal/magazine/newspaper articles

• APR/NPR audio clips

• Self-assessment quizzes

• PowToons

• Quizlet

• Online reference materials

• YouTube

• TedTalks

• Padlet

Creation/implementation tips

• Ensure source permanence

• Co-create content along with your students

Implementation matters

• Acknowledge OER in the syllabus

• Provide technical instructions on how to access OER resources

Other tips to consider

• Consider changing PDFs to Word docs for accessibility – students can change font sizes, etc.

Using technology to personalize OER

• H5P – Create, share, and reuse interactive HTML5 content in your browser

What other institutions are doing/using

• Upload video to YouTube, make unlisted, have YouTube do auto-captioning, download caption, then upload caption file to streaming media service (Panopto, Mediasite)

• Have students find content within the course (create a quest), that can be used in future courses.