Building Open Education Ecosystems: Integrating OER Into Your IR
Location
Cook 209A/Room A
Presentation Type
Short Concurrent Session
Start Date
24-4-2026 1:30 PM
Description
Digital Commons offers a natural platform for hosting and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER), promoting open scholarship and reducing costs across campuses. This session will kick off by exploring how DC can serve as a central hub for OER creation, hosting, and access, enabling faculty to easily share, adapt, and discover free and affordable course materials while ensuring long-term preservation and discoverability.
Building on this foundation, Danielle De Jager-Loftus will share her specific experience at the University of South Dakota, a public R2 university, where they launched an OER initiative through campus fellowships and adopted a cohort model to introduce faculty to open textbooks and courseware. While this approach successfully engaged faculty at a small scale, USD identified the need for a centralized, sustainable platform to host and distribute their OER content campus wide. They are now exploring their institutional repository, RED, as a natural fit for this purpose—creating a shared space managed by the library that fosters collaboration, broadens faculty adoption, and supports digital content co-creation. Join us to learn how DC can support OER initiatives, from strategic hosting to faculty engagement, and hear real-world insights on building momentum for open education across institutions.
Building Open Education Ecosystems: Integrating OER Into Your IR
Cook 209A/Room A
Digital Commons offers a natural platform for hosting and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER), promoting open scholarship and reducing costs across campuses. This session will kick off by exploring how DC can serve as a central hub for OER creation, hosting, and access, enabling faculty to easily share, adapt, and discover free and affordable course materials while ensuring long-term preservation and discoverability.
Building on this foundation, Danielle De Jager-Loftus will share her specific experience at the University of South Dakota, a public R2 university, where they launched an OER initiative through campus fellowships and adopted a cohort model to introduce faculty to open textbooks and courseware. While this approach successfully engaged faculty at a small scale, USD identified the need for a centralized, sustainable platform to host and distribute their OER content campus wide. They are now exploring their institutional repository, RED, as a natural fit for this purpose—creating a shared space managed by the library that fosters collaboration, broadens faculty adoption, and supports digital content co-creation. Join us to learn how DC can support OER initiatives, from strategic hosting to faculty engagement, and hear real-world insights on building momentum for open education across institutions.