Presentation given at CELT to introduce faculty to the SUNY OER initiative, with details on what OER is, and how the incentive might work at Brockport

Myers, Kim

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11-30-2017
Open Educational Resources: CELT Presentation
Kim Myers
The College at Brockport, kmyers@brockport.edu
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OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
November 30, 2017
Kim L. Myers 
Scholarly Communications Coordinator
Agenda
What is OER
SUNY OER Initiative
Where can I find OER resources and support
Incentives 
Questions?
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources(OER) are teaching, 
learning, and research resources that reside in the public 
domain or have been released under an intellectual 
property license that permits their free use and re-
purposing by others (a Creative Commons License).
An OER course
At least 51% of the material must be OER
Doesn’t mean that there is no cost to student
However, free doesn’t always mean OER, either
SUNY OER Initiative
• Given to SUNY to distribute to campuses
$4 million
• Each campus receives investigate/implement OER
$20 thousand
$8 per student enrolled in OER high enrollment-gen ed course
$15 per student if all sections of the course are OER
INCENTIVES
Faculty 
incentives to 
adopt
Training and 
support 
available
3 year 
commitment 
to teach 
course OER
Where can I find OER?
◦http://open-nys.org/ - SUNY created website
◦https://textbooks.opensuny.org/ - SUNY Open 
Textbooks
◦https://openstax.org/ Open textbooks
◦Lumen Learning – full courses and more -
$10/student paid by SUNY this year
◦WITH HELP FROM YOUR LIBRARIAN!
Next steps:
Leave your 
contact 
information!
Watch for 
more 
information in 
the Daily 
Eagle!
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ARE YOU INTERESTED?
Contact: Kim Myers 
kmyers@Brockport.edu


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