The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Texas Wesleyan University (CETL) promotes a student-centered university by providing resources and professional growth opportunities to faculty on enhancing instructional practice, integrating technology and promoting essential student skills.
The CETL staff can help with course design, so please contact the CETL for help with incorporating OER into new or current courses you teach.
Centers student agency
Deconstructs traditional power structures
Allows for deeper learning
Invites students in to be co-creators in knowledge
Contributes to knowledge beyond the assignment
Creates a more inclusive learning environment
Demonstrates transparency
“OER-enabled pedagogy” is the set of teaching and learning practices that are only possible or practical in the context of the 5R permissions that are characteristic of OER. (Wiley and Hilton, 2018)
Examples include:
Credits: Adapted from Foundations of Open Educational Resources by Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, CC BY 4.0