Welcome to OER and student advocacy! The UNF Library is committed to promoting awareness and educating others on the adoption of OER on our campus. We understand that the cost of an education continues to rise and that there are barriers to paying for a quality education. Purchasing textbooks for your classes can add up quickly. This is why we provide resources to better serve faculty as they consider using OER in their courses. Also, it is important to point out that OER advocacy and its scope goes beyond the cost of textbooks. Explore the infographic posted below for examples.
As students, your voice is important in this cause. Take a look at the CCOER or Community College Consortium's Student Impact Stories for inspiration. See how you can get involved with OER and OER advocacy! Take time to explore the advocacy resources located within the following tabs: OER in Universities in Florida, Readings on OER, Open Education Guides, and Videos on OER. Reach out to your UNF librarians if you have ideas or questions when advocating for OER materials.
Infographic Transcript: When faculty, instructors, students, and society share OER materials it leads to: increasing access, lowering costs, finding free supplements, personalizing content, joining a community, learning, gaining recognition, transforming, supporting underserved populations, benefiting from others' expertise, updating materials, collaborating, revolutionizing practices, adapting to standards, harnessing student interest, expanding impact, globalizing classrooms, gaining recognition, democratizing education, recycling materials, encouraging growth, and inspiring others.
Curated by the Florida Department of Education
Guide for the open and affordable learning community of Florida, OPEN FL.
Distributed by the Florida Virtual Campus
Farrow. (2016). A framework for the ethics of open education. Open Praxis, 8(2), 93–109. https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.8.2.291
Hilton III, J. (2020). Open educational resources, student efficacy, and user perceptions: a synthesis of research published between 2015 and 2018. Educational Technology Research & Development, 68(3), 853–876. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09700-4
McGeary, Guder, C., & Ganeshan, A. (2021). Opening up educational practices through faculty, librarian, and student Collaboration in OER creation: Moving from labor-intensive to supervisory involvement. Partnership, 16(1), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.21083/partnership.v16i1.6149
McLure, & Sinkinson, C. (2020). Caring for students in postsecondary open educational resource (OER) and open education initiatives: inviting student participation and voice. Reference Services Review, 48(3), 473–487. https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-03-2020-0018
Seiferle-Valencia. (2020). It’s not (just) about the cost: Academic libraries and intentionally engaged OER for social justice. Library Trends, 69(2), 469–487. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0042
Wright, R. E. (2018). OER adoption in higher education: A case study of stakeholders’ perceptions at a Florida state college. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
This open toolkit gives students information on how they can advocate for OER materials
A textbook study published by Student PIRGs.
Making Textbooks Affordable: Student Government Toolkit
A Student Government Toolkit published by the Student Government Resource Center
Manifesto for OER: Open Education Resources for All
Textbook Affordability Student Toolkit by Open Oregon Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) Guide for Students in Post-Secondary and Higher Education
This guide is aimed at helping you, as students, to explore the value of good quality OER, and provides an introduction on how to find and use OER. It intends to serve primarily as a source of reference for students in the Small States of the Commonwealth, but we hope it will be useful to students from any country.
#OER@UNF
The Power of Student Voice in the Open Education Movement
#OpenEd20: Presentation at the 2020 Open Education Conference (#OpenEd20) by Mo Nyamweya, Hailey Babb, Winni Zhang. More information at: https://sched.co/fCoa
Open Education Global 2020
Katie Gosa with TEDxUTA
