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* Resources on Copyright & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research *

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak and the need for instructors to switch to online teaching modes, Library Copyright Experts have joined together to provide these resources for higher education, including college, research, community college,and special libraries:

Statement on Fair Use and Emergency Remote Teaching and Instruction
PRACTICAL INFO: Rapidly shifting a course from in-person to online - very high-level overview of the issues from the University of Minnesota (Nancy Sims), Creative Commons licensed, feel free to adapt for your campus - see examples below:

Other resources:

Kyle K. Courtney blog post (Part I & Part II) on exigent circumstances
US Copyright Office blog post on TEACH Act
Terry Fisher’s guide to emergency online pedagogy focusing on practices rather than tech from developing CopyrightX
Vendor Covid-19 Related Donations and Pro Bono Access (continually updated)
Publishers & Vendors Offering Access for Distance Learning & Research During COVID-19 (continually updated)
Ohio State University Libraries’ Copyright Services resource on Copyright and eLearning
Privacy for online teaching by Library Freedom Project

courtesy OhioLINK (updated 3/18/20, 11:00 AM)

this list will continue to evolve

Background Reading

7 Things you should know about: Open Educational Resources [EDUCAUSE]
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Open educational resources (OER) are any resources available at little or no cost that can be used for teaching, learning, or research. The term can include textbooks, course readings, and other learning content; simulations, games, and other applications; syllabi, quizzes, and assessment tools; and virtually any other educational material. Open resources are issued under a license that spells out how they can be used: Some may only be used in their original form; in other cases, resources can be modified, remixed, and redistributed. OER expand the access to educational resources to more learners, more of the time, and they have the potential to spur pedagogical innovation, introducing new alternatives for effective teaching.
7 Things you should know about: Open Textbook Publishing
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The open educational resources model, including textbooks, has emerged as a response to rising text prices, a need for greater access to high-quality learning materials, the proliferation of e-reader devices, and a trend in publishing toward electronic media. Many contend that educational resources should be open and that instructional models increasingly depend on open content. Open textbooks can be offered by commercial publishers or found in open repositories. Open resources can promote active learning through student interaction with the text, particularly when they contribute to authorship. Although open textbooks face questions about the accuracy and reliability of their content, they allow higher education instructors to design content for their courses on an as-needed basis, choosing from an array of books, articles, videos, audio recordings, and readings.
Complete Guide to Open Educational Resources

Open Textbook Collections

Flat World Knowledge Approx. 100 titles in several core subject areas. Some overlap.
OpenStax Limited selection of free, peer-reviewed college textbooks in core subject areas.
Open Textbook Library Free, peer-reviewed academic textbooks. Approx. 450 titles.

General OER Collections

OER Commons
Curated repository of OER that allows you to search by topic, grade level, format, and conditions of re-use.
Internet Archive Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources and university lectures from the United States and China -- contains free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials.
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resouce for Learning & Online Teaching
Open Culture
Free Online Courses, MOOCs, Movies, Audio Books, eBooks, Textbooks, Language Lessons, Business Courses, and K-12 Education.
Open Yale
Free lectures and other materials in the humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences fro Yale courses.
The Orange Grove
Harvested index of OER Resources.

Open Courseware (OCW)

Academic Earth
Courses & Lectures in video format
coursera
An education platform that partners with universities and organizations worldwide that offer courses online.
Khan Academy
Self-paced practice exercises and instructional videos in math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.
Open Course Library
Shareable course materials, including open educational resources,and low cost textbooks.

STEM OER Sites

AMSER: Applied Math & Science Education Repository
Open Source Physics
Computational physics and computer modeling.
OpenTextBookStore
A listing site for publicly available open textbooks that allow for printing.
PhET: Physics Interactive Simulations

Open Video Content

40 Sources for Curated Educational Videos
A list of curated video sites

Finding Aids

open.michigan
Helps to find, use, and create and share openly licensed educational content.

Scholarly Communication: OERs

*** Resources on Copyright & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research ***