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Welcome to the Seneca Libraries Staff Guide to Open Educational Resources!

Seneca Libraries is developing a training program and toolkit for liaison librarians in order to support Seneca's Digital Learning Strategy and enhance Open Pedagogy at the College.

This guide provides Seneca Libraries staff with information and guidance you can use to respond to requests from faculty regarding Open Educational Resources (OERs).

We are in a unique position to help reduce the cost of education to Seneca students by showing faculty how to find educational resources for courses that come at no additional cost. These might include content from library databases, open access content, and OERs. This guide focuses on OERs. 

 

The Library’s Role: What is expected    The Library’s Role: What is not expected

 

  • Become familiar with and stay up to date with OERs in your subject areas
  • Help faculty identify existing OER materials including alternatives to textbooks
  • Manage faculty expectations
  • Provide information on issues of copyright and fair dealing
  • Provide information on use of Creative Commons licenses
  • Advocate and promote awareness (for example, at school meetings)

 

  • Make the final call on the quality of a resource
  • Be a subject expert
  • Choose a textbook or course material
  • Create OERs - including copy editing, image creation, markup, etc.
  • Search for grants or other types of funding
  • Assist faculty to make resources more accessible

 

Unless otherwise specified, all resources on the Seneca Libraries Staff Guide to Open Educational Resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                              
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