Campus Promotion Kit

This Open Educational Resources (OER) Campus Promotion Kit provides information for starting an initiative on your community college campus to promote the use, development, and sharing of open educational resources. 

Kit Contents

• Marketing and Presentation Materials
• Quick Start Guides, Policies and Models
• Introduction to OER tutorial
• History of the Open Educational Resources Movement
• Videos about OER
• OER Workshop Toolkit  (from WikiEducator)
• Directories and Repositories
• Resources for Collaboration
• Open Content Licenses and Copyright
• Accessibility and Universal Design

• Case Studies

• OER Websites

• Glossary and OER Lexicon
• References

Why an OER Campus Promotion Kit?

Increasingly, educators are getting involved with open educational resources initiatives. Yet, most existing resources are most appropriate for K12 and university settings.  Community colleges need OER content and tools in order to apply their unique experiences and knowledge.    

Community college educators can benefit from knowing what other colleges have done to promote OER:

• What resources did they use?

• What materials did they develop?

• What programs worked?

• What samples do they have?

In a time when the OER movement is growing rapidly and everyone is looking for resources, being able to review and use materials that have already been developed may give educators the information and motivation to launch an OER initiative on their own campuses.  

Consider applying the complexity principal called 'positive deviance' to the goal of teaching and learning beyond textbooks.  Beware of the dragons all around, however.

Get Involved!

Because community college campuses are different and ever changing, Dr. Judy Baker developed this OER Campus Promotion Kit to be a dynamic guide that can be modified and enhanced by those who use it. Feel free to edit, modify, and contribute materials.  To edit, click on the Edit Page button on the OER Campus Promotion Kit wiki. The password is contribute.

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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