 Good afternoon. I know this meeting was scheduled for four, but I have a doctor's appointment at 315 and wouldn't be able to keep it. So I figured I would just go ahead and do the demonstration and record it and send it to you. And then expect to see everyone next Wednesday. And again, if you can attend these OER minutes. I will record them and send them each week to you anyway. So, this week I've decided to highlight for OER resources. The first one is open stacks. The second one will be OER Commons. The next one will be OASIS. And then Mason OER MetaFinder, also known by the acronym MOM. I started with open stacks. And I will not, you know, show you everything within these websites, but just, you know, knowing the name and knowing kind of what they provide will give you the opportunity to go back and see if you can find things specifically for your discipline. So here's just kind of telling you that the website will move effective January 2022. So, so here it is, you can do a search. If you're looking for a particular topic, or a particular type of discipline specific textbook here on the opening page, you see algebra and trig American government, anatomy and physiology, biology. So you see a lot of the sciences, math. And if you keep scrolling, you see college success. I know one of the instructors from Simmons of Kentucky, I know you teach something akin to college success. So here's like first year experience, student success, college transition courses. So if this is something you're interested in, you would just click. And if you're using a specific book already, you know, you can kind of compare the table of contents to see if this book works, because it may be something you can supplement your lessons with, or maybe even switch to. But of course you want to kind of check it out yourself, knowing yourself as a leader. And you can see how it kind of pops up and give students some information about highlights. And so they can use this book, the same way they would have, you know, they can make highlights they can take notes. And so this is something that college open stacks provides. So if I go back to the opening page, let's me again here. Entrepreneurship, if that's an element you want to infuse in your college success course, then you can look in this particular textbook to see if there's a particular chapter you want to assign students, you know, etc. So there's business, here's sociology, statistics, microbiology. Here's one, the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and it tells you in the abstract that this is a, this is produced or a collaborative publishing agreement between open stacks and the bill of rights Institute organizational behavior. And some of these again you may want to just click economics to see what the table of contents looks like. And if there may be a chapter goes to psychology. That appeals to you and or your students and then they're also community created content. Understanding basic music theory, for example. So this was created through community of individuals dedicated to open license educational content. So we know that this would be free to use for you and your students. It would be an idea, because sometimes when you go to a site like this, it also gives you an idea that do you have a community of individuals who could create a community created textbook. And that may be, you know, here they did something, a group got together to do something that looks into the growth of the contemporary Houston art scene. This is the case of 1956 season 70s. So this may be something that, you know, you want to do within your own discipline within your department, maybe put together a book that the department can kind of agree on that these particular chapters or this information, maybe you need to your students. And once you create it you can have it shared here. You can also do a search. So that if you can't find anything on that opening landing page, just to be sure that they have it. They let you. They do provide an overview here so they send humanities. They have 217 books business they have 98. And so you kind of see the breakdown. So if you're doing, you know, criminal justice. You know, try typing it in. And you may not find a book per se. Here they looked at criminal and then they looked at justice and then you can see the authors Institute of humane studies. You can scroll through and see if there is something minority studies, a sociological texts US history, no collection of ethics, business law, then we kind of get back into. And then it kind of goes on. So if you have, you know, time, you can kind of flip through all of this or not. You can always do an advanced search. So here, we can do humanities, and then type in cream. And then use the after, and it will look for any word that ends with that so to look up criminal criminology are not. So let me. Yeah, so that's so it's not coming up. Per se. Right. So that's okay. If you don't see anything for your particular discipline, then you know you can't make something appear that's not here. But this is one open. This is one site that provides open content for instructors and students. And then, you know, you may be able to find something if you spend a little more time. I just let's them try that again because I thought they may have had. Let's say if I type in social. I can get my keyboard to learn social justice. It's kind of like a lot of other things have to kind of play with some keywords. So here you see beyond convention, beyond critique. And then comparing educational leaders promote equity and social justice that we need government that keeps popping up social justice from an esoteric view. And again, so you may not find a book that directly speaks to your discipline. You may find a chapter within a book that does. But it does, you know, it does provide an option for especially. And then popular, you know, in the math as you saw there were countless math and science textbooks. I was going to try one more nursing. Yeah. So it pulls the chapters from different places. Psychology. You get to see books. Not quite. I'm going to try one more. So I'm trying to think about the people in your disciplines. So religion, learning about religion, a commentary on the reality of religion, global sociology has something in there. But it did pull up learning about religion as one general introduction to religions and the study of religions. So there's that. And again, this is open stacks. The next one is OER Commons. And it has a lot to build from and just like Merleau many of these have places where you can go and build your collection, build your network and save and collaborate with other like-minded researchers. You can create your own OER. But again, you know, you're in Merleau. So it's kind of like you, you can put all of this even in there. So long as you have one place that you are comfortable doing that, that is probably your best bet so that you don't lose a lot of time moving from one platform to another. But just in case you can always come to OER Commons and find collections, providers, resources, you can see different hubs. These are some of the featured hubs. I'm not going to, I don't have an account, so I'm not going to log in. But if I click, see all the hubs, you will see. Sorry, we have a lot going on. If you click on see all the hubs, you see all other OER options. So here's the Iowa AEA. Here's another one for the American International Accreditation Associations of Schools and Colleges. Here's Alabama OER Commons, Arabic Languages, other languages, other colleges, Caribbean, more rights for more people. We have the California Community College Hub Cyber Citizenship. So you can, of course, click and go into here's open stacks. This is another OER that we've already looked into. Here's open textbooks. Here are STEM resources, the Tennessee Open Education Hub, the one for the state of North Carolina, the United Nations, which is one I will actually show later in the month. And so this is the Hawaii OER project. So again, depending on your field or your discipline, you're often able to look into various OER resources to see if you see anything that relates. We the people, this is deals with our Constitution, the history tells you about the hub tells you, you know what you'll see things you can find. So it breaks down the articles. The Constitution as a living document primary sources. So if you were in criminology or criminal justice class and you wanted to move through the judicial branch. So here are some items that you can use. So here's like the Marbury Madison decision judgment and the Brown versus Board of Education. And so they get to see the primary documents that you know these are the documents the original documents that have been digitized. You know, the only thing is just similar to what I remind students is just kind of remind, just kind of look to see how you got here so you can always kind of find your way back to where you are and so if you create an account. So what you're able to do in OER Commons is if this article three judicial branch collection is something you want to keep in your account you just click add OER and it would add it to your saved items so that if you signed back in and registered and all that. You would have it. These are also groups, some feature groups that are working on items. But if you're looking for something in particular, a resource or a collection, you just click on resources. And here you see it divided by subject areas. So you have applied science arts and humanities business and communication career, where you can probably find stuff for college success first year student experience, education, you get the idea law may be a good place to start for criminology, social sciences, religion of course maybe should be covered, perhaps in arts and humanities, and then they have material type so if you're looking for names, homework assignments, interactive activities, lectures, lecture notes, you know, again, the purpose of OER is to make what you do less time consuming on the front end so that you can spend a lot more time with students and engagement and assessment so that you can kind of see where they are and then take them to the next level. You can see everything from scratch that usually just kind of bogs and weighs instruction down so here are copies of syllabus teaching strategies and learning strategies and here are textbooks. So if you're looking for a textbook you can also that would also come up in the results when you do a search. So there's different ways to search within OER as you can again click on Discover, click resources and it will bring you up or you can click on collections. And so they talk about collections what's new. And here are some of the collections this one here has 1200 resources within it. Teaching engineering has 1600. If you're teaching English, and you're doing Shakespeare, maybe the Folger Shakespeare Library is something that you would want to look into game based learning. And I know that is something our QE the QEP is tasked with and I guess you know then, and thus instructors, you know, like yourselves. So looking at some games, like creating the entire game, gamification for an assignment, excuse me, or of course, can be, you know time consuming and a daunting task. So come to here and click on game based learning, and then see some of them, you know you want to make sure you do education level. Because you don't want to do lower primary upper primary middle school high school. So maybe the Community College College career technical adult it may be where you want to how you want to filter these. You know you can filter and include those four. So now you're looking at accounting field hockey, like electric, you know whatever that is files for textbook for ability challenge game math tutorial science something about lunar. So you get the idea and so you can click on one, and you can see if it's something that you can use or if it's often when people submit here the right statement. That's what these are. So if you do the attribution and usually if you hover over the eye, it'll tell you what that means so this one that it says that it's open to you share and change, even for commercial use but you must provide provide attribution to the original author. It just means that if you include this in your class you need to cite it in your syllabus or say where you got this from and who created it when you use it in your lesson. So everyone if you hover it says prohibits commercial use, you can open share and change it so long as that's what it says that means you can open it. And if you need to tweak it for your particular discipline or your particular goal or purpose or outcome objectives, you can. And then you can always just click the hourglass and type using the terms and I guess I'm. And so here, finally, right we get criminal justice is the subject so I can just click there. And it did remove some of the results because before it was said 178. But if I just use criminal justice. I get American Civil Liberties Union blood splatter lab. This is an activity in a lab criminal justice 100 so it sounds like so this is a textbook. And here you can tell this is a module. So if you're doing case briefs are you need cases are you need case studies here are some criminal justice and domestic violence, census data on local law enforcement agencies this is a data set. So in here you can kind of see that you have a lot of options the types of material are pretty vast I mean it's not like you just come here for lessons or you just come here for a lesson plan. You can get reading, you can get simulations, you can get a student guide textbooks unit of study diagram illustration and data sets, all from this one. And that is OER Commons. And so the next one is OASIS. And here, this is an advanced search. Let's go back to because when I copied it I copied the wrong link. So this is the homepage for it. Here you can search if you, you can search for textbooks, courses, course materials, interactive simulations, public domain books, audio books, modules, open access books, videos, podcasts, learning objectives, primary sources. So again, this is just another kind of like or you comment OER Commons is very similar to Merlot where there are a lot of sources housed in Merlot so Merlot is that container so OASIS is also a container just like OER Commons is a container where you can find all of these different sources open available for you to use. Here they have 114 sources, 440,000 records, and there are 513 institutions that link to OASIS. So much going on. So here if we click on OER by subject. You see they cover a wide range, everything from women's studies to public speaking, philosophy, math, literature, health and nutrition, economics, college success, composition, fine arts, information literacy. So if you're doing things in technology, you can do technology, technical writing, information literacy. You can find infographics, you know, all of that is possible if you search by subject. So if we're looking. Let's see humanities so we see philosophy. So if we come here we see there are 585 results. If we don't, you know if you want to just kind of peruse. You see that there are 370 open access books if you're just looking for textbooks related to the humanities. So here you get to see it. The titles and work your way through. Click reset takes me back to the original so they're five podcasts, their public domain books, there's primary sources there's a video, there's course material. 11 courses. So if you click that. These are courses provided and it tells you the source. So they pull from open stacks as well so sometimes you'll see these things are duplicate, but some people may put something here that is not there. So it's just one of those things where if you don't find success in one place, you look at Merlot and you find something, but then maybe you don't find exactly what you're looking for you can still come to these and then add the link to your Merlot account so that you have everything in that one location because again you don't want to set up four or five different accounts. I think I feature somewhere between three to four OER resources each week. So you wouldn't want to set up accounts for what about 4050. OER play, you know, websites. So if you maintain your Merlot account, you can link all of those items there. So here is religion and law African American studies, digital humanities, which is like really catching on intro to humanities. So if I come if I go back to OER by subject, I can then type in religion and hit the magnifying glass. And here I get 1100 results. So here's a course. It's a MIT open course. And so this is this means that it's a full course like students who come to your class for 16 weeks. This is that full course that you can pull from MIT and this is medicine, religion and politics in Africa in the African diaspora. And of course such a course would free you from having one to create all of that content yourself but you can always look at their content and if you don't like what you see. You can take that part out, add your own and supplement and build your course using information that you didn't have to necessarily be the one to go out and find. So here is a course on anthropology but it focuses on religion and social order. There's another science and religion to world religions introduction to philosophy the philosophy of religion. So again, if you just go to OER by subject type and what you're looking, you know that the discipline, the topic that you're looking for, you know, you get their filters look different. Just like I remind students that all databases have pretty much the same information is just presented differently, but they will always have a way for you to filter the information. And then the last one. And I know I may be moving quickly, but you get the recording. And I'm taping I'm recording it so that you can see the names of, except for this one I don't know why I didn't show but that you see the names of the resources so that you can go and play with them. And I will also share the full list. And the email that I'm sending the recording with. So you'll have links there. So this is a lot, many of these new containers are being archived or maintained by universities because of course is not just you know if you get it online. You're not. Why would you just keep it in house for your faculty so you're they're finding that you know they can just open it up and let people whenever find information so this one is real time federated search for OER content. Across 21 resources, and it gives you information about the meta finder. Because this is a little different maybe from what some of the other ones we've looked at. I don't know if you find them, but unlike others, and they named the ones Merlot. You aren't searching a static database that we built instead. It launches a real time simultaneous search across 23 different sources of open educational materials. So that means that it's not only searching OER comments and Oasis that we just looked at and Merlot that we've already looked at and open stacks. So looking at DPLA, which is another one that will look at individually happy trust will look at individually, the internet archive the way back machine will look at that individual I think I have that the New York Public Library digital collections, many public state repositories have made much of their digital collections open and free to the public and I don't mean to keep looking away I have a class that I also have to teach in a few minutes. So busy day I chose Wednesdays because when I looked at the calendar it didn't seem that full but of course I was not looking right. So here are the other places that they search when you type in search. They're looking at MIT open courseware. Open Michigan, which is another kind of container repository OER. So here's the open research library, the open textbook library project Gutenberg. Some of these we explore separately, but just to know that Mason mom, Mason OER Meta Finder searches across all of those so here is a list of them again. And if you only want to search one as opposed to all you just click and unclick. So looking for you can search the full record, you can search if you have a title and author keywords, you can search by dates. So if we type in. So we type in counseling. You can see if we get any results in here says these are the 21 top results from 21 found. So here are instructional videos provided about Udemy. Here's some OER from Internet archives. This one is from Stanford University and to disciplinary collaborations. You channel. So over here. Document type archival sources OER's. You can do it by, let's see, visual. So university level materials. It says to so if we click those, there's Chinese University lectures, and it gives you a summary. So it features 187 courses from 14 universities in China, though a few include English so you may not want to do that if your students don't know Mandarin so that's why it's really important to do you know read the abstracts and such before you waste a whole lot of time like clicking and going so here's a single course, a series of lectures. So we're going to click it because we tapped into word counseling to see what that looks like. So here you see a number of titles of strange biological secrets. Interested of a successful path. The gym. That sounds more like, but you get the idea. So I don't want to. Let's see. Use quotation marks and do mental health. So type in a mental health 600 so there's 290 and growing items 290,000. And so here, you can search by filter by topic. This is a digital put so this is something from a radio station. There are 147 additional results okay. So here. Yeah keywords supported by a grant. This is a project looks like a document. Here is something from the office of policy development. But again, you can use your filters here if you wanted all full text if you wanted a book, you can just click and you'll just get all the books and that filter away everything else so here's a book on student mental health, mental health, and financing directories, mental health and suicide mental health and prisons, issues, etc. This is an open book from J store so again it pulls from a number of different types of sources. It is pretty comprehensive, but you can kind of see just with the search and how they are, the results are returned that it could take you some time, and that is okay as well. Again, I will be doing these every Wednesday. Next Wednesday should be live so that you can be there and ask questions as we go through and you can remind me of all the different disciplines we have if I need to look for something specific. But I think these are four good places to start if you're still looking for open education resources which I think, as you continue to just teach and meet your students, you find there's always something you can add to a course, and sometimes it becomes really overwhelming. And you have to then decide if you're going to throw something out or you're going to add something, or where would you add it, because you can pretty much find an entire course including lectures, video tape video recorded lectures for a course, and you not necessarily be that engaged in your own course and that may be too much for some instructors. So, again, thank you. Sorry, we weren't able to do this live, but you have the recording. I look forward to seeing you next week.