Creating Small and Ugly Open Educational Resource (OER) Online
Are you interested in sharing your educational materials for students and instructors to use and learn from? This workshop will focus on taking the content you’ve already created and turning it into an open educational resource (OER), without a lot of time or effort. We’ll discuss strategies for publishing and sharing educational content such as lecture notes, slide decks, assessments, or multimedia. We’ll find simple ways to openly share educational resources so that others can access, share, and adapt them. We’ll focus on expanding access to educational materials, with one small, ugly step at a time.
This session is ideal for instructors, teaching assistants, educational developers, librarians, and anyone interested in sharing educational materials more openly. No prior experience with OER creation or open licensing is required.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain what is meant by “open educational resources”
- Select an appropriate open license for a resource they might share
- Identify online repositories where they might share an OER that they create
Details: Any preparatory work for the session can be found on its information page. This virtual workshop will be recorded and shared on the same page, and discoverable via the Sherman Centre's Online Learning Catalogue.
Certificate Eligibility: This workshop is eligible for the Sherman Centre's certificate program. For more information, visit scds.ca/certificate-program. It is also eligible for the Canadian Certificate for Digital Humanities. To learn more, visit ccdhhn.ca or contact scds@mcmaster.ca.
Related LibGuide: Open Educational Resources (OER) by Katie Harding
- Date:
- Tuesday, October 20, 2026
- Time:
- 12:30pm - 1:45pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- McMaster + Community
- Categories:
- DMDS DRI Training SCDS Sponsored Events Workshops
CODE OF CONDUCT
The Sherman Centre and the McMaster University Libraries are committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment for its presenters and participants. As a participant in this session, you agree to support and help cultivate an experience that is collaborative, respectful, and inclusive, as well as free of harassment, discrimination, and oppression. We reserve the right to remove participants who exhibit harassing, malicious or persistently disruptive behaviour.
We strive to make this event accessible to everyone. Where possible, sessions are recorded and include live captioning, and we will share recordings, slides, and transcripts afterward so you can revisit the content at your own pace. Because these materials are provided, and to help protect participant privacy and consent, we ask that attendees do not use AI note-taking or automated recording tools (such as Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Zoom AI Companion, or similar apps) without prior permission from the organizers.
Please refer to our code of conduct webpage for more information.
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