Open Educational Resources and Accessibility
The ASCCC OERI has developed two self-paced courses to prepare faculty who are planning to develop/curate OER. Please note that Accessibility Basics provides an overview of accessibility intended for all faculty – it is not limited to accessibility in the context of OER.
Important: All courses are offered via Canvas and set so that you can “self-enroll”. Please be sure that you are logged into your home instance of Canvas before attempting to access any PDC course. If this does not work – or you are not faculty – please contact us for assistance.
Register for ASCCC OERI – OER Basics
OER Basics serves as an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) providing faculty with new options for selecting textbooks and other resources so they can make the best decisions for their students. At the end of this self-paced course successful participants will be able to:
- Properly identify the creative commons (CC) license on a resource and describe how this resource can and cannot be used.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open resources using current research in the field as evidence.
- Research, analyze and review repositories of open resources.
- Effectively search for open resources and post reviews in an OER repository.
- Create an open resource by remixing multiple existing resources and designate a license to this new resource based on the licenses of multiple resources use.
Register for ASCCC OERI – Accessibility Basics
This course was designed with two compatible goals. It is intended to:
- introduce all faculty to the basics of developing accessible content and
- provide faculty who will be developing and/or curating open educational resources (OER) with an understanding of accessibility basics.
The ASCCC OERI has integrated accessibility training into much of its work as today’s faculty member is certain to be interacting with students in a digital environment. As we hope to interact with all faculty in the California Community Colleges, we believe it is important to do what we can to ensure that no faculty member is creating accessibility barriers for students. Accessibility is a complicated topic. Our goal is to ensure that you understand the basics of accessibility. Many courses and OER projects will require more extensive training. Our focus here is on the creation of accessible online content, regardless of the platform you are working in.