Lightning Talks: Nobody Showed: Extending OER Support Through Asynchronous Resources

In this brief session, UMass Boston Special Projects Librarian Lydia Burrage-Goodwin will discuss her creation of a 10-minute how-to video addressing the complexities of image copyright and usage in Open Educational Resources. She offered one-on-one Zoom trainings on evaluating image licenses and their terms of use to a class of graduate students collaboratively authoring an OER textbook. After scheduling conflicts, and to avoid repetitive individual consultations, she created a short video to convey this important information asynchronously. She will outline the topics addressed in this video, including understanding Creative Commons licensing, identifying image attribution and citation requirements, modifying or altering content within different use cases, and faceting collections searches to locate appropriate and usable materials for OER. She will explain how this asynchronous training tool will streamline the support process for faculty and students and will add value as a resource for her department’s OER Toolkit in the future.