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Susan Wood and I created Leeward's first ENG 100 OER course in Laulima and Google Sites. It is now available solely in Laulima using Lessons. We are also currently in process of migrating the Classic Google Site to the new Google Sites for anyone needing the course content outside of Laulima. I've linked the instructor's guide below but note that it will be updated once we update the Google Site. Feel free to leave us a comment.

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This is a great resource that contains books from many subjects - you don't have to do this on your own!

And please take advantage of the training that UHCC offers (look for emails from Wayde and Junie)!

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Open Textbook Library - Open Textbook Library

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Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

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Website Featuring Students' Writing + Videos

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Website Featuring Students' Writing + Videos

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Rachael Inake and I first created this renewable assignment in 2019. I gave my students the assignment of writing profiles of staff, lecturers, and faculty who volunteered to be interviewed for this project. The students also wrote their own profiles to introduce themselves and share their experiences and advice with other students. Shortly before the transition to online learning in Spring 2020, I worked with Camden Barruga and the Video Production Unit to record my students' speeches about their experiences studying at Leeward CC. I hope to continue to add to this project once we are able to do more work in person again. If you'd like to be interviewed by a student and featured on the website, please reach out!

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​Lance Morita is an associate professor of English
​at Leeward Community College.

My name is Myungsuk Hiruko. I was born and grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and I am a student at Leeward Community College.

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​Lance Morita is an associate professor of English ​at Leeward Community College. My name is Myungsuk Hiruko. I was born and grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and I am a student at Leeward Community College.

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Recently switched to a better OER textbook for my business writing class. More and more resources are becoming available each year, so it's worth taking a second (or third) look at the respositories. I found my textbook at OER Commons, which is linked on the Leeward Library's OER Guide.

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Recently switched to a better OER textbook for my business writing class. More and more resources are becoming available each year, so it's worth taking a second (or third) look at the respositories. I found my textbook at OER Commons, which is linked on the Leeward Library's OER Guide.

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Digital Public Library of America
Portal to millions of digitized images, documents, and primary source materials from America's archives, libraries, and museums.

Pixabay
Pixabay is a database of more than 500,000 photos, illustrations, vector graphics and videos released into the public domain under Creative Commons licenses.

Wikimedia commons
This is a database of nearly 30 million media files that are either in the public domain or Creative Commons licensed. You may check any individual item you find to view the licensing.

Openclipart
All clipart in Openclipart is in the public domain. Images can be downloaded in various sizes and formats.

Artstor
Images, videos, documents, and audio files from public institutional collections. When doing a search, freely available items are labeled as "PUBLIC."

The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art announced on January 23, 2019, that it is an Open Access institution, using the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation for high-resolution images and data as related to its art collection. Open Access means the public now has the ability to share, collaborate, remix, and reuse 30,000 public domain images from the CMA's world-renowned collection. When doing a search, use " Show only" and select " Open Access" for these images.

Flickr Commons
Numerous participating institutions share images from the world's public photography archives.

Flickr Advanced Search
Use the advanced search feature to limit your image search by size, date, and creative commons licenses.

The Gender Spectrum Collection
Contains a stock photo library featuring CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licensed images of trans and non-binary models.

Google Images
Use the advanced search facets to limit the usage rights of the images you search.

CC0 images from the public domain. Free to use, edit, and modify for personal and commercial uses.

WorldImages
This database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains approximately 100,000 images from around the world that are available under Creative Commons licenses. For more information about restrictions to the use of the images check the "Conditions of Use of Website Images" section available form the main page.
Unsplash
Free high-resolution images gifted by the global community of photographers for commercial and noncommercial use. Utilizes the Unsplash License.

This is an online resource for visual arts that includes a collection of over 100,000 images available for educational use.

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LibGuides: Open Educational Resources Guide: Guides, Repositories & Collections

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Digital Public Library of America Portal to millions of digitized images, documents, and primary source materials from America's archives, libraries, and museums. Pixabay Pixabay is a database of more than 500,000 photos, illustrations, vector graphics and videos released into the public domain under Creative Commons licenses.

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I was so excited when I found that Canva Pro is free for educators (and students) under Canva for Education. I'm planning on creating infographics and more to jazz up my OER, but for now I have assignments where I have my students make infographics!

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Has anyone used Perusall? How do you like it? The auto grading? Is it way better/nicer than the "comment" tool in Laulima?

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Incorporating OER in your classroom is easy. You don't need to be creative, computer savvy, or carve out a ton of time to change your course. For ALL my composition courses I simply use Excelsior's OWL as my textbook and sprinkle in other free resources already created by others or available in news outlets or our awesome Leeward CC library.
For my Speech 151 I use Communication in the Real World, and for Speech 251, Stand Up, Speak Out, both OER textbooks offered through University of Minnesota's library system.

The best parts are that students save money and I never need to wait for students to gain access to their textbooks. Resources are available from day one.

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Rachael Inake and I participated in a DOERs (Designing with OER) Fellow Program and created two renewable assignments that I use in my ENG 100 class. The first is a Description Essay topic activity. The students have to take a photo of a place in Hawaii that is important to them and paste it into a slide and then explain. The students especially seem to like to see all of the photos of their classmates important places. I've linked the instructor guide that includes a link to the slide deck template.

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ENG 100 OER Description Essay Topic Activity Instructor's Guide

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A second renewable assignment that Rachael and I created in the DOERs program for my ENG 100 class is a Writing Using Sources Activity. This activity seems to work better in a face-to-face class where students can work on it in groups.

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ENG 100 OER Writing Using Sources Activity and Practice Exercises Instructor's Guide

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Attend one of the free CCCOER 2021 Open Education Week webinars, March 1-5.  Organized by the Community Colleges Consortium for Open Educational Resources. UHCC is a CCCOER member.
Open Education is a global movement, too. Check out the OEWeek global calendar of events!

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Over the course of a few years, I was able to participate in some awesome projects focused on connecting students to real world examples of practice and professional thinking. These project s allowed me to create connections to practitioners and business folks around Hawaiʻi. Itʻs been a blessing to have and maintain these relationships.

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I canʻt speak highly enough about being encouraged to seek out an opportunity to develop "real-world" content for my courses and for others as well. Between the Highlighting Effective Teaching Strategies (HETS) video library - http://hets.leeward.hawaii.edu/ and the Raising Entrepreneurial Ventures (REV) video library - http://go.hawaii.edu/CiJ if feel as if students are more engaged with teachers and professionals here in our islands!

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Teaching without a textbook has been a challenge but there are so many programs and videos that do what I need in a much more fun, engaging and most importantly up-to-date way that the students are using materials with current language and issues, not issues at the time the textbook was published. We’ve worked with Quizlet for vocabulary and terminology, grammar videos, online OER worksheets, NY Times images for writing and movie clips. Harry Potter is a foundation for all of these language practice activities as well as fostering critical thinking, reflection and narrative analysis. Thanks to public resources, the students feel freer to find new topics that interest them and learn about citations in an organic way. It’s not an absolute to not use textbooks for me, but using OER definitely helps with current affairs but continuing with academic rigor.

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Due to the frustrating nature of the textbook industry including high costs, frequently changing editions, and low student use, I started using OER in 2013. Over the years more and more quality OER resources have emerged. I love OER for its ease. We are an open door college and I believe that educational access and OER are social justice issues.

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Rachael Inake and I (Erika Molyneux) created a renewable assignment the prompted students to create "how-to" videos on creating media using Photoshop. The student tutorials were licensed under Creative Commons and uploaded to a YouTube playlist. The playlist was linked my class modules. The tutorials are openly available to current students, future students, and the community.

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0 Instructor's Guide: OER Photoshop Video Demo Assignment

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Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology.

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Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology.

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I was inspired and motivated to create my own OER textbook, ancillaries, and lab book because of the support I received from our Leeward OER community, especially from Leanne, Junie, and Wayde!

"Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology" is now a highly-regarded OER textbook with thousands of adoptions around the world. Our website has had 32,000 visitors overall. And in the past two months, we've had 9,000 downloads from 63 different countries, 978 cities worldwide!

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The first comprehensive, peer-reviewed open access textbook for biological anthropology courses. Produced with support from the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (a section of the American Anthropological Association) and a grant from Minnesota State. Available free of charge for use in any setting.

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Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology |

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The first comprehensive, peer-reviewed open access textbook for biological anthropology courses. Produced with support from the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (a section of the American Anthropological Association) and a grant from Minnesota State. Available free of charge for use in any setting.

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TXT0 reaches new heights in Spring 2021!

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TXT0 reaches new heights in Spring 2021!

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This spring semester, 52% of Leeward classes are designated TXT0.

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If you teach in the natural science field, there are lots of resources available through the USDA Cooperative Extension Service that are open sourced, locally produced and already paid for by your tax dollars.

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If you teach in the natural science field, there are lots of resources available through the USDA Cooperative Extension Service that are open sourced, locally produced and already paid for by your tax dollars.

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Nicky

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Adobe Sparks allows you to create creative projects for free. I have my students use the site to create short videos answering a big question in psychology as their final project for the semester. Highly recommend! Very easy to use and intuitive.

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So, "easy" is not the word I would use to describe my switch to OER. I resisted a little because of the significant amount of work for no extra pay that it entailed. I was intrigued by the social justice aspect of it, but also felt like I was treading water already with designing several different courses from scratch using a textbook and learning everything else about how to be a professor. It wasn't until I fully embraced the customization aspect of it, that I fully bought in. Once I was over the mental hurdle of "I don't have to cover every single sentence in a textbook" I was able to focus on the material and assignments that I felt were most important (while also, of course, keeping SLOs in mind). Now, it is no question that any new course I develop is OER. But it has taken me a few years to get there (and a lot of professional development!). So, if you are just starting out and it seems overwhelming and looks easy to everyone else, don't despair! And use your librarians & instructional designers as resources. I used to think I had to come to them with a clear cut plan, but they can be so helpful at the beginning with brainstorming and suggesting resources too that now I email them with "I would like to do xyz, do you have an idea of how I could make that work?" and even if they don't know the answer right then, they keep working on it.

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Combine OER with videos for a multi-sensory approach!

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Combine OER with videos for a multi-sensory approach!

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Spring 2021 was my first semester using OER for my SP151 and SP251 courses, and there's no turning back now! I'm using "Communication in the Real Word" and "Stand Up Speak Out" as recommended by two of my Speech department colleagues. I take chapter highlights combined with other credible sources, and I create instructional Youtube videos for my students each week. The multisensory approach of reading and watching keeps them interested in the content! These learning tools, combined with Laulima Forums and Flipgrid student video responses, and of course, good old fashioned writing assignments, has successfully kept my students engaged this semester! Aloha to you all, Sharolyn