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Open Educational Resources (OER) are free teaching and learning resources that use an open licence. This allows instructors to freely reuse, adapt, and remix the resources to meet their specific teaching and learning context. As OER have continued to grow in popularity as course learning materials, faculty at post-secondary institutions have begun to create OER adaptations, as well as new OER. While this proliferation of free, openly licensed learning materials has been a boon for students and faculty and support UN SDG 4: Quality Education, it has also created a challenge in terms of the preservation and dissemination of OER. This presentation highlights the difficulties that York University, a Canadian post-secondary institution, faced when creating an OER collection within their open access institutional repository (IR). The presenters will cover some of the advantages of using a DSpace instance, while also highlighting challenges such as file types and version control for OER. Additionally, the presentation will highlight other examples of preservation and dissemination of OER in the Canadian post-secondary landscape. Ultimately, this presentation will explore key considerations repository managers should examine when making the decision to add OER to their IR or if a separate repository solution is required. |
