This is a self-paced tutorial for faculty and staff to learn about Open Educational Resources - what they are, how to find and evaluate them, how to adapt and create them, and how to handle the copyright and technical implications.
It’s often the case that something you can do creates something you should or have to do. Think about the new shoulds and have-tos created by what you can do with OERs. With all the possibilities and affordances that OERs provide, what are the best practices that we should adopt? In other words, now that you can keep your own copy, what does that imply about what you should do and how you should do it? Now that you can revise it, etc.
Think about the subject matter that you teach. The people you teach it to all have one thing in common: they are enrolled at SUNY Empire, or another, probably similar, institution of higher education. List at least one other community or group of people in the world who would have interest in or need for what you are teaching.
Think about the subject matter that you teach. What kinds of learning resources would be most helpful for you and your students? Categorize those learning resources as relatively low tech (text, found images, hand-drawn diagrams and charts, perhaps images, audio, or video you capture with devices and software available to you) or relatively high tech (things requiring a programmer, graphic designer, videographer, or other specialized expertise that you'd have to bring in.)
