Bethune-Cookman University                 Library Showcase for OER Adoption 

OER Minute Webinar Series

With the essential support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the California State University Long Beach, MERLOT (www.merlot.org) and SkillsCommons (www.skillscommons.org), the collaboration and community of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are designing and deploying strategies to make college more affordable by reducing the cost of course materials. Initiated by Bethune-Cookman's Dr. Clarissa West-White, this webinar series offers viewers easy-to-absorb instructions for finding and using Open Educational Resources (OER).

Webinar Description: The TSU HBCU AL$ Project Leadership Team and TSU Students guide viewers through a tour of MERLOT sharing its capabilities and functionalities.

Presenter: Tennessee State University HBCU Affordable Learning $olutions project team

Resource Links:  merlot.org; MERLOT Help https://info.merlot.org/merlothelp/index.htm;  hbcuals.org; skillscommons.org; hewlett.org

Webinar Description: Dr. Clarissa West-White shares updates and features provided by five OER collections including bookboon, EDSITEment, MIT Open Courweware, Open Course Library, Open Textbook Library.

Presenter: Clarissa West-White, Ph.D., PI for the HBCU Affordable Learning $olutions initiative at Bethune-Cookman.

Resource Links: bookboon.com; edsitement.neh.org; ocw.mit.edu; opencourselibrary.org; open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

Webinar Description: Dr. Clarissa West-White shares updates and features provided by four OER collections including CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), Academic Earth, CCCOER: Community College Consortium for OER (California), and DPLA (Digital Public Library of America). 

Presenter:   Clarissa West-White, Ph.D., PI for the HBCU Affordable Learning $olutions initiative at Bethune-Cookman.

Resource Links: projectcora.org; academicearth.org; cccoer.org; dp.la

Webinar Description: Dr. Clarissa West-White shares updates and features provided by five OER collections including Wikibooks, Project Gutenberg, FreeBooks4Doctors, Smithsonian Open Access, Open Michigan.

Presenter: Clarissa West-White, Ph.D., PI for the HBCU Affordable Learning $olutions initiative at Bethune-Cookman.

Resource Links: wikibooks.org; gutneberg.org; freebooks4doctors.com; si.edu/openaccess; open.umich.edu

Webinar Description: Dr. Clarissa West-White shares updates and features shared by four OER collections including Open Stax Textbooks, OERCommons, OASIS, and Mason OER Metafinder (MOM).

Presenter:   Clarissa West-White, Ph.D., PI for the HBCU Affordable Learning $olutions initiative at Bethune-Cookman.

Resource Links: openstax.org; oercommons.org; oaresources.org; oer.gmu.edu

Webinar Description: Dr. Clarissa West-White shares updates and features provided by five OER collections including Saylor Academy, Open Learning Initiative, Creative Commons, Hathi Trust Digital Library, Wayback Machine.

Open Learning Initiative Presenter: Clarissa West-White, Ph.D., PI for the HBCU Affordable Learning $olutions initiative at Bethune-Cookman.

Resource Links: saylor.org; oli.cmu.edu; creativecommons.org; hathitrust.org; web.archive.org

Webinar Description: Dr. Clarissa West-White shares updates and features offered by four OER collections including Open Access, Open Book Publications, Open Stax, Qubes, and Unesdoc Digital Library.

Presenter:   Clarissa West-White, Ph.D., PI for the HBCU Affordable Learning $olutions initiative at Bethune-Cookman.

Resource Links: openstax.org; open-access.us; qubeshub.org; unesco.org

About the HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) Program: Bethune-Cookman is a lead campus in designing and deploying an institutional strategy to reduce the cost of course materials , making the education at HBCUs more affordable. Visit the HBCU AL$ Portal today to learn more! http://www.hbcuals.org/