In the event that students do not have access to their course reserves during the campus shutdown, you can find ways to supplement the material using Open Educational Resources (OER). It is possible to find OER in your discipline, which students can then access online. While the OER you find may not be exactly like the original textbooks or materials you used for your course, they will still provide important resources for student learning in these extraordinary circumstances.
To learn about and find OER, please visit: http://libguides.ccsu.edu/OER
For help finding materials related to your subject, or with any other OER-related questions, contact the OER Library Team:
Sharon Clapp - sclapp@ccsu.edu
Joy Hansen - jhansen@ccsu.edu
Jillian Maynard - j.maynard@ccsu.edu
The following two messages from Lumen Learning and TopHat are helpful for those considering OER. Lumen Learning and TopHat are two OER vendors. They use OER to create courses or content packages for faculty and charge a small fee to use their platform. So while they are considered OER, the user is paying for the platform. The messages below were sent out to the OER Community and educators in general, stating that for the time being during this pandemic, they will wave those associated fees to use the platform.
