How to Remix the OER Universe Delmar Larsen

How to Remix the OER Universe Delmar Larsen Executive Director, Libre. Texts Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis http: //Libretexts. org USERNAME: Remix Password: ILove. Remixing! https: //groups. io/g/ Libretexts-Constructionforum https: //facebook. com/Libretexts https: //twitter. com/libretexts https: //groups. io/g/ Libretexts-Commons

Presentation Overview • • • How and What we are and not Modes of Usage OER Fragmentation and The Rise of Oracles Step 1: Harvesting it All Step 2: Remixing it All

Mission Statement The Libre. Texts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.

Three Principal Aspects of how the Libre. Texts project is used The Libre. Texts as a Curated Repository of “living” OER Content – largest and most visited on the net The Libre. Texts as a Construction and Dissemination Platform – 100 s of courses The Libre. Texts as Student Assessment/Performance Tool – 60 M students annually

The Libre. Texts is First and Foremost a Community Effort Including Diablo Valley College

The Textbook of the Future is not the textbook of the past We need to stop thinking about building OER individual textbooks… We need to start thinking about building OER “textlibraries”… CC BY 2. 0; Stewart Butterfield - flickr

We focus on building an integrated online platform • Ease of dissemination • Seamlessly integrates content over multiple sub-fields or across different fields • Facilitates highly-collaborative and highly-distributed construction efforts • Provides a mechanism for more advanced features than a PDF or paper-based book • Online Homework system (adaptive) • 3 D capabilities • Multimedia including videos and simulations • Numerical calculations infrastructure • Student tracking and assessment • Integrated annotation infrastructure

Organization of a Library Campus Sandboxes Where the Texts are Where the Problems are Everything else

Download Center Mechanisms of Using Libretexts Books Online Via PDF Via LMS Common Cartridge LTI (soon) EPUB (soon) Professionally Bound Text

The OER Universe

Enter The Oracles Step 1: Either Connect all OER Content or Integrate all OER content Step 2: Construct a tool to traverse this aggregation effectively and allow finding and remixing

Step 1: We want to Borgify the OER Universe Pillage and Harvest existing OER Depository/Referatories Edit and Typeset to Central Standard Cross reference and add Metatags for content curations Build an OER Remixer to let faculty rapidly construct customizable texts

Building the Ultimate OER Repository Mechanism 1: Student contribution via course effort (e. g. , extra credit) Mechanism 2: Student integration of existing content from faculty Mechanism 3: Faculty construction of raw content from scratch

Content Development

Harvesting Team Common format allows simple integration and modification

Step 2: Use the Libretexts like a Storeroom of Educational Content CC BY SA 3. 0; unported; Tiia Monto Swap “Weapons of Tooth Death” for “Weapons of Education”

The OER Remixer is a self-service tool to rapidly assemble a Libre. Text from existing sources. This tutorial will include both an explanation of the User Interface as well as a walkthrough of how to do basic tasks.

How to Adopt a Libretext? Identify what you want… Does something identical exist in the Libraries already? yes Copy, Paste, and Go no Does something similar exist in the Libraries already? no yes Copy, Paste, Edit, and Go

How to Adopt a Libretext? no Does something similar exist outside the Libraries already? yes Ask permission to integrate into Libre. Texts no no Construct from Scratch… involve faculty and students yes Copy, Paste, Edit, and Go tent stallo y r c e t a Integr gra t con u o h g u phy thro yes Copy, Paste, Edit, and Go

Affordable Learning $olutions https: //als. csuprojects. org/ Leslie Kennedy AL$ - CSU Gerry Hanley CSU Ralph Hexter UCD Provost Mac. Kenzie Smith Librarian

Contact us for more Details • https: //Libre. Texts. org • dlarsen@Libretexts. org