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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Introduction to basic OER concepts, how to find and incorporate them into your course, creating and modifying OER, and getting UofM training on OER

Publishing OER

If you want to share your OER for others to use outside your course, this page has the resources to cover that. As the University of Memphis develops additional opportunities for UofM faculty and students to participate in OER publishing, this page will continue to be updated with relevant information. 

Digital Commons

Digital Commons is the shared repository of scholarship and publications at the University of Memphis. The OER Collection collects the OER creted, revised, or remixed by University of Memphis faculty, staff, and students. It can host a wide variety of OER file types and can link out to resources hosted elsewhere, such as Pressbooks. 

To learn more about the Digital Commons OER Collection and how to submit your OER, email Dr. Kenneth Haggerty at khggerty@memphis.edu.

OER Repositories

Shared OER repositories are a great place to host and improve the discoverability of your OER.

Depending on the platform, you can

  • Host a file,
  • Host OER created using their tools (like Open Author in OER Commons), and
  • Share links to OER hosted elsewhere (such as Digital Commons or Pressbooks). 

Submitting your OER to repositories, even if they are not your main hosting site, is a great decision, since they will 

  • Boost the discoverability of your OER,
  • Provide opportunities for feedback,
  • Collect usage data, and
  • Give you evaluation information (peer reviews, ratings, etc.) that you can use to demonstrate the quality of your OER. 

Video Platforms

While Digital Commons and standard OER repositories can host video files, sharing to dedicated video platforms make it much easier for your students and others who would use your OER to watch the videos. Both YouTube and Vimeo videos can be easily pulled into Canvas Studio.

Guide License

This guide was created by Dr. Meredith Heath Boulden on behalf of the University of Memphis Libraries and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License    unless otherwise noted. This guide is currently maintained by Carl Hess