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Feature Article

Have you heard of MERLOT? Have you heard of MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative? Both are examples of sources of free materials for faculty in the exciting new Open Educational Resource (OER) movement. As described in Wikipedia, "Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute."
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Announcements

The library will be making an address change to the proxy server that authenticates off-campus users of library databases.
If you have links to library articles in your course you will need to update your URLs.
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Your Department, CSU, Chico

Online Curriculum Support

If  you could use assistance in finding online materials to enrich and supplement your courses, at no cost to you or your department, I am here to help.

As CSU Chico's Online Learning Librarian I have been assigned to help CSU, Chico faculty members find and integrate content into their courses.  My name is James Tyler, and I can be reached at (530) 898-6779 or jtyler@csuchico.edu.

Services that I provide to faculty include:

  • Help you find free images, audio, and video content for your courses
  • Show you how to link to articles, eBooks, and eReserves provided by the Meriam Library
  • Help you understand copyright issues and get copyright permissions
  • Help you add library materials to your Bb Vista web pages
  • Set up Turnitin antiplagiarism service for your courses

 

May 22, 2008 , 11:58 am