 Welcome everyone to our third in the series of timely OER tutorials. This one is on Searching OER by Discipline and this is Una Daly here from CCCOER and we're so glad that you could join us. And as part of this tutorial today we're going to get into breakout rooms for about 15 minutes or but prior to that we want to ask you to rename yourself in the participants list so that we know what your discipline number is and that way Liz Yotta who does a lot of this wonderful magic behind the scenes can get everyone into a breakout room that is covers their discipline and we have some wonderful facilitators here with me today who I'll introduce in just a moment so if you can click on the participants tab in your toolbar which should be at the bottom of your screen right now it says participants 53 on my screen which means there's 53 of you here which we're just thrilled to have you so if you click on that a list will come up and you'll be able to find your name in the list and when you hover over that there's a more button to the right and if you click on the more button you'll see a rename and you can then rename yourself and put your discipline in front of your name so we chose this completely arbitrarily number one is humanities number two is social sciences number three is science and math number four is career technical education including computer science and IT and number five if you have something very unique that you feel doesn't fall into one of those categories thank you so much for doing that and Liz may be putting some of you number fives into other rooms just so that we don't get too large in that room alright so as I mentioned earlier this is the third out of five sessions that we're doing on that in the timely OER tutorial series and now I want to give an opportunity for you to meet our other facilitators today so first up is Susan Joaquin she's biology faculty at Butte College in California she's also the OER distance ed and student learning outcome coordinator would you like to say hello Suzanne great and Suzanne's going to be doing science and math today thank goodness alright next up is Rachel Artiaga and we're glad to have her back this week she led the copyright and licensing last week she's referenced an instructional librarian at Butte College would you like to say hello Rachel hi everyone I'm Rachel Artiaga and she's doing social sciences today and another newcomer today is Trudy Radke she's the open educational resources specialist at College of the Canyons and a recent master's graduate in history and she's doing humanities for us today Trudy would you like to say hi hi everyone happy to be here yeah we're very pleased to have you Trudy and she's done a lot of work in this area I think you've met me and now I'd like to introduce Liz Yada who is the community's a practice manager at Open Education Global our parent organization and does a lot of the magic behind Zoom say hello everybody glad you could join us today all right thanks everyone so today the learning objectives for this are we hope that at the end of this you'll be able to identify at least one major OER repository that has materials in your discipline we also hope that you'll be able to utilize OER search engines to find materials so that you'll develop some strategies that you can use in the future and we also want to we also hope that you will understand how faculty peer reviews and accessibility information can help you with selecting the best OER materials to use in the classroom any questions about that all right don't see any at this point so before we go into our breakout rooms I did want to just go back and review a little bit of information that we covered at our first session back in mid-June about just a few of the big repositories out there we obviously don't have time for all of them today but I wanted to give you some information again about how you can use those repositories in the future to read about what other faculty have had to say about these textbooks and these OER materials and which can be very helpful for you in terms of making decisions and the the first repository I'm going to talk about is OpenStacks and I wonder I hope a lot of you have heard of OpenStacks it provides textbooks for many of the gateway courses for the first two years of college in addition to some other textbooks as well it does some AP work and it also does a very comprehensive set of business courses beyond just the the initial intro to business so it focuses on math science social sciences humanities business essentials business essentials and college success so really covers the gamut so if you haven't been to OpenStacks.org you definitely should go there it's a nonprofit run out of Rice University and they produce these textbooks themselves they're openly licensed so free for you to reuse and share with your students and they actually do the peer review as part of the production process so there aren't separate peer reviews but you will see in the textbooks who did the peer reviews and you'll see that their subject matter experts and faculty higher ed faculty they are currently used in over 50% of colleges and universities in the US and the exciting thing is that faculty who have adopted these textbooks have saved 9 million students over 830 million dollars in the last eight years and this has not been updated since spring and I know in spring there was quite a big adoption so I'm guessing that number is quite a bit larger now for OpenStacks impact. Next up I want to talk about the Open Textbook Library which is a repository of textbooks some which they produce but many which other folks have suggested belong in that library and it has quite a rigorous set of criteria for the textbooks to be entered into the into this library of course it has to be openly licensed it must be a complete textbook and it has must have already been adopted for use in colleges or universities they now have 700 open textbooks covering a wide variety of disciplines 60% have peer reviews by other higher ed faculty and that number is growing all the time and you can see the peer review rubric if you go up there it's a 10-point scale consistent with many other repositories so another wonderful resource for you and the last repository I wanted to talk about is the Skills Commons which I am I hope some of you are familiar with this one it's focused on open educational resources for workforce development it was built through a big program at the federal government the TACT program which was for community colleges working with workforce and industry experts and boards to develop retraining materials and so it's a very large repository that has a lot of wonderful resources and for those of you who are joining me in room number four we'll go take a look at that so that we can reuse some of those materials finally I just wanted to give you a search engine that is just about two years old but is has a wonderful front-end interface it's called OASIS it was developed at SUNY State University of New York Geneseo State University in their library there and it has a really very easy to use interface for finding open textbooks audio books modules and other multimedia materials and so we highly recommend that one it's it's very easy to use and has quite a comprehensive set of materials in there which they're continuing to build so before we go into the breakout rooms I just wanted to mention that there is a handout here the bit.ly is right here and maybe one of my co-hosts can pop that into the chat window for you this handout can be used during the search process if you if you like it also is there for you afterwards as quite a comprehensive list of various engines search engines and repositories that you can use after the fact some wonderful open textbook repositories multimedia open courseware ancillaries and then some discipline specific repositories so please do use that handout when when you need some further inspiration to find OER so at this point I think we're ready to go into our breakout rooms Liz how are we doing all right let me just pause the recording I'm sorry I didn't realize I was muted Liz did you mute us all anyway this we are back and I just wanted to give our facilitators a moment to share what went on in their room so Trudy would you like to start absolutely so we conducted a couple of searches first we went over to OER Commons and we looked for medical terminology and we found some courseware that we thought might work there mostly in a zip file PDF and Word documents and then we conducted a couple of advanced Google searches including I believe ESL elementary and grammar ESL grammar and elementary Spanish and we found a textbook for elementary Spanish on Galileo so that was exciting and then we had a bit of a discussion on the best way to put OER content in your course either via a link or as a file that kind of stuff wow excellent all right and Rachel how was your how was your facilitation session I think I went way too fast and showed way too many things but I showed them NOBA I showed them how to actually get the course from open stacks so you can actually download a full the full course shell and then I showed open textbook library oasis and really quick Google advanced search some of the topics were really specific so we didn't find necessarily stuff for them right away great great sounds like you showed them quite a bit that's wonderful next up Suzanne yeah I'm listening to the other two I don't think I got through nearly as much wow we just went through some of the searches and talked about using limiters and how to do the Google advanced search so yeah great great thank you oh and I'm number four so I I showed folks a few areas because we had a lot of computer people and business people so we first of all went to skills commons which one of the comments was that it's pretty overwhelming and I had to agree with that we had a librarian in there who I suggested that she take a look and do some curation if she's going to share that because it does have a lot of materials but it's difficult to navigate we also went to Geneseo and found some information just by typing in computer science there was a course at sailor.org which is one of our resources on our dock our handout and then Val from Fox Valley suggested I do the Google advanced search for OER which we did so it 15 minutes is a whirlwind and I'm sure that people need more time to explore this on their own and we will have more time in just a few minutes we will take individual questions from folks so thanks to all my and I'm sorry Liz you you had a room too didn't you yes yes I did so we did a couple of quick searches on Oasis and I also mentioned our community email list where we have because we had somebody who's looking for fire science and emergency management so that's a pretty tricky one I recommended our community email list if you go to CCC OER org and under get involved there's community email and you can find more information or search the archives for something that specific it's pretty hard to find it in a search engine yeah yeah open Oregon might have some information in that area as well they have some pretty comprehensive materials nice thank you once again here is that bitly if you didn't catch that the first time it's capital TOT and then lowercase search and I hope that you'll join us for our our last two sessions we've got a great one next week on designing courses with OER and once again it's the same format it'll be a 30-minute tutorial no breakout rooms for that one but we're we're going to talk about course mapping and why that's important for designing with OER and that how that will help you keep track of the materials that you're using if you're not using strictly an entire textbook and then our final one which is really exciting it's going to be evaluating and selecting OER and looking at equity diversity and inclusion and other issues around course materials and if you have some time we'd we'd appreciate your feedback on how the breakout rooms worked for you some suggestions perhaps on better ways to do this this was our first time and I'd appreciate it if one of our co-hosts can put the bitly on the sharing your experience link in the chat window so folks can take that and you can take it anytime if you don't feel like taking it right now and finally we are here for Q&A and for the next 30 minutes and so I think Liz is going to stop the recorder at this point and we're just