Open Educational Resources Advocacy Toolkit

This section of the CAUL OER Advocacy Toolkit provides a list of recommended resources for OER advocacy, including templates, toolkits and guides, reports and research relating to OER advocacy. Where possible, the project team has selected resources that are licensed for re-use under various Creative Commons licences.

• OER advocacy action plan template [Word 43KB] (CC BY 4.0)
• OER advocacy decision board template (available as an A4 or A3 handout) [A4 Word 36KB] [A3 Word 36KB] (CC BY 4.0)
• Example OER advocacy personas:
  • Librarian advocating for OER [Word KB] (CC BY 4.0)
  • Librarian advocating for open textbooks [Word 379KB] (CC BY 4.0)
  • Librarian advocating to a committee [673 KB] (CC BY 4.0)
• Example OER advocacy action plans:
  • Librarian advocating for OER [Word 51 KB] (CC BY 4.0)
  • Librarian advocating for open textbooks [51 KB] (CC BY 4.0)
  • Librarian advocating to a committee [Word 52KB] (CC BY 4.0)
• Stories to support OER advocacy:
  • Glapa-Grossklag, J. (2019). ED Talks: Open education resources [video]. RMIT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgnEnv-H45g (CC BY 4.0)
  • SPARC. (n.d.). Impact stories. https://sparcopen.org/impact-stories/ (CC BY 4.0)
• Open Textbook Initiative. (n.d.). Student savings calculator. https://emedia.rmit.edu.au/oer/ (CC BY 4.0).

• Universities Australia. (2018). 2017 Universities Australia student finances survey. https://www.universitiesaustralia.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/180713-2017-UA-Student-Finance-Survey-Report.pdf (CC BY 4.0)
• National Union of Students, YOUNG Campaigns and the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS). (2020.) Starved of opportunity: Young people’s experience of Youth Allowance and Newstart. ACOSS. https://www.acoss.org.au/media_release/survey-of-892-young-people-on-youth-allowance-and-newstart-reveals-shocking-rates-of-deprivation/.

• Bali, M., Cronin, C., & Jhangiani, R. S. (2020). Framing open educational practices from a social justice perspective. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), 10. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.565
• Fischer, L., Hilton, J., Robinson, T. J., & Wiley, D. A. (2015). A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 27(3), 159–172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-015-9101-x
• Ross, H. M., Hendricks, C., & Mowat, V. (2018). Open textbooks in an introductory sociology course in Canada: Student views and completion rates. Open Praxis, 10(4), 393–403. https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.10.4.892
• Zhao, Y., Satyanarayana, A., & Cooney, C. (2020, November 7). Impact of open education resources (OER) on student academic performance and retention rates in undergraduate engineering departments [Paper presentation]. 2020 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, United States. https://peer.asee.org/36048.

• College Libraries Ontario. (2022). Advocacy. In The OER Toolkit. The Learning Portal. https://tlp-lpa.ca/oer-toolkit/advocacy (CC BY-NC 4.0)
• Cummings-Sauls, R., Ruen, M., Beaubien, S., & Smith, J. (2019). Open partnerships: Identifying and recruiting allies for open educational resources initiatives. In A. Wesolek, J. Lashley & A. Langley (Eds.), OER: A field guide for academic librarians (Editor’s cut). Boise State University. https://boisestate.pressbooks.pub/oer-field-guide/chapter/open-partnerships-identifying-and-recruiting-allies-for-open-educational-resources-initiatives/ (CC-BY 4.0)
• Cummings-Sauls, R., Ruen, M., Beaubien, S., Smith, J., Rigling, L., Cross. W., Ivie, E., Ellis, C., Baker, A., Ippoliti,C., Dean, K. N., LaMagna, M., Frank, E., Gallaway,T., Hare, S., Wright, A., Allen, C., Clinkscales, G. E., & Julie Reed. OER advocacy, partnerships, sustainability, and student engagement. In A. Wesolek, J. Lashley & A. Langley (Eds.), OER: A field guide for academic librarians (Editor’s cut). Boise State University. https://boisestate.pressbooks.pub/oer-field-guide/part/oer-advocacy-partnerships-sustainability-and-student-engagement/ (CC-BY 4.0)
• Gallant, J. (2021). Data collection and strategies for OER programs. In A. K. Elder, S. Buck, J. Gallant, M. Seiferle-Valencia & A. Ashok (Eds.). The OER starter kit for program managers. Rebus Community. https://press.rebus.community/oerstarterkitpm/chapter/chapter-21-data-collection-and-strategies-for-oer-programs/ (CC BY 4.0)
• Houwleing, C. (2018). Textbook affordability student toolkit (Rev. 2018 ed.). Open Oregon Educational Resources. https://openoregon.org/student-toolkit/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
• Lumen Learning. (n.d.). OER champion playbook. https://lumenlearning.com/champion-playbook/ (CC BY 4.0).
• McNutt, K. (2016). OER champion’s toolkit. University of Alberta. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/e2e4843d-b567-4fa0-8353-ceb9d8347ec8 (CC-BY)
• West, Q. (n.d.). Libraries as open education leaders. Libraries as Leaders. http://libraryasleader.org/ (CC-BY).