Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A Collaboration Toolkit for Higher Education

To access the free, digital version of this book, visit http://hdl.handle.net/10919/112264.

Higher education and PreK12 are vastly different domains. As such, well-intended, collaborative efforts between higher education and PreK12 do not always result in creation of useful and reusable learning materials for PreK12 classrooms or effective, productive partnerships. Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A Collaboration Toolkit for Higher Education is a toolkit of instructional resources designed to support higher education personnel who wish to improve or build strong and generative collaborations between higher education and PreK12 educators.

The toolkit aims to expand use and re-usability of PreK12-centric learning resources through informed practices regarding copyright, open-licensing, and accessibility and includes a variety of resources: videos, presentations, transcripts, activities, guides, assignments, and assessment tools.

Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12 is intended to prepare and position practicing and future academic librarians and interested higher education faculty, staff, and students consulting with librarians to address gaps related to PreK12 outreach. Designed for use in formal graduate-level library and information science courses and relevant for self-study by academic librarians already in practice, this toolkit includes a variety of resources for learning and delivery by librarians to faculty and students in higher education. While it is designed for librarians, it is also relevant to the broader audience of interested instructional designers, higher education faculty, staff, and graduate students seeking to improve the quality of their service to and collaborations with PreK12 educators.

The toolkit is part of the Scholarly Communication Notebook, available at https://oercommons.org/hubs/SCN.