 Hello, everybody. Thank you so much for joining me for this session for OpenEd 2021. My name is Amy. I am the customer success manager at Pressbooks. So my day to day looks a lot like talking to faculty and librarians and staff and students and other OER creators on how to get started with their OER projects. I'm going to look for opening licensed content and just overall how you can get the most out of your OER project. So that is fitting for my presentation today, which is about finding and remixing OER a practical introduction. So firstly is about finding OER. You know when you're getting started with looking for a text to remix. How can you start? So the first thing to do is to define what you're looking for and this is a really perfect opportunity to think beyond what you're accustomed to using and ensure that the resource that you're looking for is the best match for your course content and for your students. When you're also searching you can narrow down your results. So make your search more efficient and you can do so by using a set of requirements to compare against. And it's great to ask questions like if the ideal resource existed, how would you describe it and what would it look like. And also a very important topic is which topics and features am I looking for which are necessary to my book. And the last thing is also to maybe coordinate with a librarian or an instructional designer who can really help you look and curate a certain type of search. And there are the people who will know where to where to go to to look for exactly what you're looking for. Or to also consult colleagues who may have experience to articulate your needs. There's no better people to ask them than ones who've already who have who have a bunch of experience already doing this. And then in terms of repositories and places to actually look for content. I have a bunch of options here. Today I'll be demoing the press books directory, but even beyond the press books directory there are so many other we are repositories that are available. Oftentimes in true niche and following the true nature of we are most of the time they are free, they're readily available for access. So they should be available for you to read and to see and to share. So a couple of the examples that I have here are open stacks, Lumen learning, Libre text, the open textbook library at the University of Minnesota, CUNY manifold, Merlot, and then I've also included two content repositories. H5P which is, they have the offer I believe over 45 different kinds of interactive interactive activities that you can create, as well as fed simulations, which are interactive simulations simulations for math and step math and science. And these are all great options and one of obviously one of the best parts about OER is that you can really look for different content and across all of these different platforms, or these different repositories and mix them to suit your own needs. And I wanted to share all of them here because you might find different resources in different places that that suit your needs. So these are all here they're all hyperlinked for you to come back to and look at after the presentation is over. So, this sort of segues on into the demo of the press books directory. Obviously I work for press books so this is the easiest for me to demo and I love talking about the directory but I would also recommend that you go and have a look at the other repositories as well to see if they fit your needs. So here is the press books directory. The directory is a, it's an ever growing collection of books that live on here, even if you do not have a press books account, it is free for you to, it's really free for you to use all the books on here are accessible which means that you can read them. And share them with others. And, and in some cases with the right license you could even reuse them and none of that requires a press books license for you to do so. If you're curious about an in depth for the directory you can take the tour up here. This will sort of give you a better perspective on how to sort of get the most of the directory by, you know, really searching in on what you're looking for but I wanted to demonstrate some of the more surface level elements. But it will maybe help you get started in your search. So, on the left hand side, starting at the top you have a search bar if you're looking for anything in particular looking for particular books this is a perfect place to do it or for certain keywords. There's also a sorting function on the right hand side depending on how you want to view. And then moving down there's all of these filters available on the left hand side so let's say I'm looking for a version that I want to remix to the most of my abilities and I might want to look for a CC by license book. So all of the comments licenses down here as well as some all rights reserve books as well and some public domain books, everything that you could be looking for in terms of licenses sort of on the left hand side. There's also many subjects available, no matter what you are teaching or looking for. I would recommend that you search the subjects or scroll through them and see what's there for you. There's also languages available as well as well as hoping the book is and when the book was last updated. So all of these can aid in your search and I will go on into how to evaluate your, how to evaluate the OER that you're looking for later on in the presentation. And also there are, you can also look through h5p activities. This is a really nice thing that we have. So actually coming down to one of these cards this is what's called a book card and each represents a book. So you can click on the title and it will take you to the, where the book lives. So you can see this book was published with the Mounthead Community College. Although this is not an original you can see that sitting in the child position which means that this is an adaptation, which is also really cool you can see originals and the sort of the child cloned versions of the originals as well, which is really cool. And on here you can look at some of the, the values so the number of words how big the book as well as h5p activities. So if I actually slide down to an example with h5p activities here is a lightly adopted and slightly a bridged version of a Christmas Carol for advanced students of English. You can see that this, when there are h5p activities, it's linked. And upon clicking on this, this will take you to the page of h5p activities. And they all live in here so that you don't have to scroll through the book to find them. And what's so convenient about this is that if, if you want to reuse these h5p activities depending on the license of the activities themselves. You don't have to use the whole book you can also just use the h5p activities. So there's book level chapter level, and as well as activity level remixing that you can do, and all of it is available for you to do on the directory which is super neat. And that sort of wraps up what I wanted to say about the directory. This is a very short demonstration. Like I said the number of books are always changing and hopefully increasing as more and more people decide to publish books to be publicly available for everyone to see and to share. So if you are working on a book with someone else and you'd like to share this query you can also click on here and this will obviously I'm just at the homepage but depending on your search, you'll have a more defined query that you can share with your colleagues who are working on the book with you. And there is a link to the directory on the slide here. So naturally, the next step in this OER remixing process is if you found your OER, you should assess it to see whether or not it really fits your needs. So the first thing is when you're going through your search process, things to look for are considering factors like accessibility, whether or not the book's been peer reviewed, and the peer reviews that it's actually received, as well as the supplementary and ancillary materials that are available, the license that's possible for you to remix, as well as the publication date and currency, so how recent the book is, and whether or not you'd like a more recent book or an older edition, the diversity of authors, which is super important, inclusive images, icons, illustrations, and multimedia. Skimming through the table of contents and outlines, so not only the meat of the content itself, so to speak, but also the approach that it takes with the content, how the book is laid out. And obviously, all of these things combined in an overall polish, so if the book is complete, how it's formatted, whether or not the layout of the book is up to par with your standards and what you're looking for. So the evaluation pertains to the content as well as everything surrounding the content as well. And depending on exactly what you're looking for, these, one of these or all of these sort of standards are worth exploring into. And then once you've sort of narrowed down your search a little bit more, something that's worth considering is conducting a further more in depth evaluation so upon of initial evaluation you'll have a list of smaller resources to review through or rather a smaller resources to sift through. So when you get here, you might want to consider reviews from the adopters in those referratories or repositories. You can also conduct a read through of resources to help you decide so there's worksheets and evaluation criteria forms that can help you narrow down your search further so I've listed the evaluation criteria from BC campus in open Oregon. And there's a sheet for improving diversity and representation in OER so you can have a read through that from open stacks. And you can also read about evaluating OER from someone who has done it many times before. I think Monica Brown for me was community had talked through this. So it's a really valuable article to read if you're if you're interested in reading it from the perspective of someone who has had experience doing this many times. And think beyond the evaluation of the text itself. What else do you need success, what else do you need for success in a project so what kind of technology and platform is best suited with your needs or your institutional courseware. And what kind of support will you need. Do you need collaborators or technical assistance. And in both of these cases, just like I had mentioned with exploring and finding OER from earlier. And in both of these points. It's super important to consult people who can offer you professional help and also offer their expertise. So this is a great time to consult your librarians instructional designers and other colleagues to explore your options. They're the people who will be able to help you and, especially with, you know, access problems and access questions and also in terms of, you know, technical assistance, they might have the best knowledge as I always like to say the librarians are sort of the unsung heroes of academic institutions amongst the other sort of wonderful people who make up the community. So rely on them, ask them for assistance. And also, you might want to consider whether or not you want help in in remixing or starting with your OER project. Do you want a colleague's help in helping you read a chapter. These are important things to think about as you're getting started. In terms of technology and platform, other than asking librarians and instructional designers and others who might have more experience who might have had previous experience who might be able to refer you to a to a place where you might have access for free. There are also other free options available. I'm going to demo the press books platform for you today right now. But there's also a free version of press books available. There's also an open source version of press books available, and also starting out with OER might not look like starting out on a platform at all you might want to collaborate with, you know, your colleagues who you are authoring your book with on Google Docs and then migrate it later on to a platform later on. So, these are all important considerations to make. So this segues nicely into adopting and remixing OER after you found a resource that you'd like to remix or to even just reuse but the, like I said one of the, as I keep on saying one of the many beauties of OER is that down the line, you can certainly, you know, you can start off by reusing it down the line of the license permits you to do so you can also remix. So, when you're remixing your OER go beyond the right edit and review criteria. You can think about adding things like adding media elements and think about this as an opportunity to include interactive elements and to consider greater accessibility. I also want to localize your text to fit your pedagogical needs and to make the learning experience more personal or pertinent for your students or for your readers or your for your audience. In addition to this community makes all the difference so gather a sounding board and advice along the way. This could look like receiving, you know, having peer reviews or also receiving help from your colleagues or having people read your chapters mixed. You can also receive professional help from programs that will help you along the way in your creation process so an example of this would be the textbook success program, which is a professional development opportunity to build open textbooks with a cohort this will be done with your community but I also know that there's many other professional programs that you can search another great time to ask colleagues who might have experience searching for these professional programs, or who might have used them before, or to also just search on a search engine to see what kind of professional programs are available to you. Lastly is to use resources and support to create a perfect blend of OER for your needs so there's so many resources and support available out there I have my last slide is filled with resources and there's I know we're at open ed so there are many many many others who will have resources available for you if you'd like to get started with your project. I'm back on the directory because I want to show you how to use a press books platform to remix some contact. So, starting at the top I am at our curated collections are librarian Travis curated the set of collections, thank you Travis. I really love this book this is one of my favorites it's called the OER certificate on Iowa State. Sorry created by I was state by Abby elder I think it's a very well known book in the in the open ed world. And let's say that I look at this book and I've evaluated it and this suits my needs. So here I can see that this is a CCP by license which means that so long as the book is really attributed, then, with the right license and with the original author, I should be good to go in terms of remixing. So, coming on to my press books book. I've actually already taken the time to clone this book onto my network into my sort of prospects university which is the process of bringing over. So I'm creating a copy of the book on my network so I'm already logged in. And to clone the book. It's super easy to do so you have to go into my books and go to clone a book. You give the book the source URL which is the URL of the original and the target book URL. So, that's the, that's what what you would like for the book URL to be on your site, as well as the target book title so what what you would like for the target for the title to be on your network. To clone this you can just click on clone this book, and it will take a minute or two to clone the book. And from here, it also tells you are cloning us at the top. And from here, it will clone this beautiful copy of the book. I've already done this just to save us a little bit of time as we only have 25 minutes for the session. So you can see that I now have a perfect copy of this book on my network, and I already have the book source down here I was automatically created to attribute the original author and you can see that credits the author as well as as list the original license as well as if I were to click on this it would take me back to the original book so I'm good to go on this front. So from here heading back into the admin panel. So all of the original content is here in full. But let's say that I'm back on the directory and I see I want my book to be about getting started with we are an open pedagogy. And I see this book that I really like. And also the CC by license and I want to remake some of the chapters into my book. I already pulled it up here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the link of this book. And I'm going to come into the OER started kit that I had cloned and through the tools module I'm going to go and import, and I'm going to import this by web page so from here I'm going to import by URL, and I'm going to begin import. And it will take just a little bit of time to load all of the pages that are available for me to import. And then from here I see that all of the chapters are pulled up so from here let's say that I just want to bring over cloned over this one chapter, then I'm going to keep it as a chapter. And I'm going to come down in here and I'm going to click import selection and upon successful import I'll see that my, my chapter that I had just brought over has been perfectly included into my chapter with the right authors. I'm going to go to view my chapter, all of the content from the original has been maintained and all of the right authors at the bottom of the book should be there at the top. Sorry. You can see all the authors are attributed and all of the footnotes and content have been brought in full. So using this technique you can really curate your book to fit your own needs. Because it has the right license, you can, you know bring in a chapter from one book and bring in three chapters for their book and if you also have started writing your book on Microsoft Word, then you can also import your manuscript on from there and really sort of make it in quotations a Franken book as we like to call it a press box to really put put the book together in the way that you like to fit your needs. I don't have time to show it to you in this short presentation today, but like I already had mentioned, think about adding media and adding, I think about increasing accessibility throughout your book. You can also incorporate more interactive content so here are all of the H5P activities that were in the original book, but beyond this you can also add H5P activities from other places so if you're looking in the directory. And you want to, this is obviously the book that I'd already cloned over but in another book card if you see that they have H5P activities and you think that they could suit your purpose. Let's do the purpose of your book, you can also explore those H5P activities and download them and import them into your book so as I had mentioned earlier. The increasing process can be done at the book level so in terms of cloning at the chapter level in terms of bringing in chapters or different parts, and then at the content level so you know changing a sentence in a chapter or bringing in new images to some of the images that are already there or to add images or to add H5P activities. And when you're ready, your book is available for everyone to see, or you can also export them into a PDF or to EPUB to make multiple modalities available to your students. So there's lots of options for you to remix and revise. So this is a perfect example of a enabling sort of the capabilities of OER, you can see the original left hand side and on the right is the adopted text which is a combination of three different books to include study skills and time management, as well as career, career, sorry, as well as career and decision making skills, and the adopted version one and open one a textbook success award, and was published under CCB license for further possibility of adoption by others. So this is a really great example of really remixing the book to fit your needs and making it a sort of a similar but a completely different thing and and also publishing under CCB license obviously means that the book has an even brighter future going forward. The last thing that I wanted to show you are all of these resources, this is a really small sample pool of resources, but I just wanted to offer a couple on here in line with what I've shown you today. And I will say for the last time to, you know, go to conferences other sessions at OERs at open ed sorry to find and look for greater resources and talk to the people in your community to see what kind of suggestions they have when getting started with your OER project. I hope that by and large today's presentation was helpful for you in getting started with your OER project or if you're somewhere down the line in your OER project creation then this serves as sort of greater information for your brain to handle. Thank you so much for tuning in in today's presentation. And if you'd like to get in contact with us here's all of our contact information. And I wish you the best of luck in your project creation making process. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.