Empire State College

Justin Albohn

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Describe how you already use open materials in your class, sharing your content if possible.

As an instructional designer I work along with faculty to embed OER’s directly intro courses.  One example was a major revision of a US History I course in which we replaced almost every resources in the course with some sort of OER.  We used Corbett, P. Scott, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd J. Pfannestiel, Paul S. Vickery, and Sylvie Waskiewicz. 2014. U.S. history I as well as many primary source documents from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Museum and other public entities.

The same faculty member and I will be working together again soon to create a US History II course with the same textbook.  We do however see some issues in finding primary source documents that are OER, due to copyright, but plan on relying heavily on the Library of Congress and other .gov sites to provide us the OER resources necessary for the course.