Faculty Resources for OER (Open Educational Resources)


Welcome to the OER page for faculty at Taft College!  Resources are provided under the plus signs below.  

Faculty Resources


Information about OER for faculty.

Consider Protecting Indigenous Knowledge


While there are many benefits for students and faculty for using openly-licensed learning materials, there are some situations when OER is inappropriate.  The 23-minute video below by Jessie Loyer (Cree-Métis and a member of Michel First Nation) is the keynote speech from the 2020 Open Education Conference that discusses the tension between open licensing and protecting Indigenous Knowledge.  

Similarly, Collin et al. (2016) (PDF of article) discusses property rights and intellectual rights in terms of OER and Indigenous Knowledge.

More questions?


It takes faculty, classified staff, managers, and administrators working together to make OER and ZTC successful at Taft College for students.  Unless you are sure of who you should talk to, your first stop for answers should be the OER Coordinator.  They will be able to answer your question or refer you to someone who can.  

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