Changing Practice: School Librarians as OER Curators
School librarians play a vital role in curating instructional resources to match the needs of their targeted school audiences.
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School Librarians as OER Curators
School librarians play a vital role in curating instructional resources to match the needs of their targeted school audiences. They have long been the experts in how to find resources and make them discoverable by others, and in understanding copyright and its pitfalls. These skills are especially useful when OER are part of a school system’s curriculum development process—as openly licensed materials necessitate selection based on careful evaluation of use permissions, and where the outputs of curation are often adapted and shared for discovery by future users.
#CurateOER: What are we seeking to learn about K-12 librarians and OER?
Through open licensing, Open Educational Resources (OER) enable possibilities for new, more collaborative teaching and learning practices—because the materials can be used, adapted and shared across learning communities. Realizing the potential of OER, school librarians have begun to play an ever-increasing role in enabling its use by working to curate OER to meet specific teaching and learning needs in their schools.
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