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Join Buffalo State and SUNY for the webinar The Open Web: (a) Lost (b) Reclaimed (c) Co-claimed (d) All of the Above today, March 13, at 2:00 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center 120.

Interested in using OER in your course? The first step in adopting an OER could begin with finding a free open textbook to replace a traditionally published textbook for use in your course sections. Faculty members can begin their search on the Open SUNY ALS Free Textbooks page or Butler Library's OER page to see if any existing OERs would be a good fit for their course.

If faculty members find that the materials needed for their course are not already available, and they are interested in creating and sharing a course or its contents as OERs, they can work with their campus librarian to assign the best Creative Commons license for their work and catalog it in an open repository.

With a Creative Commons license, faculty members can share content and still maintain ownership and receive attribution for the materials. They can also select instances in which the materials they have created can be used for a fee.

Interested in learning more about OER? Please join us today to view the webinar and stay for a discussion afterward. Light refreshments will be provided. Unable to join us? Use the link to view the webinar on your own. This webinar is part of Open Education Week (March 9–13) to raise awareness about the benefits of open educational resources (OERs).