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The role of Librarians in OER 

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Librarians play a key role in Open Educational Resources. They are uniquely positioned to lead and support OER initiatives due to their experience in information literacy, metadata, licensing, digital preservation and scholarly communications.

Some examples of how librarians can support OERs are as follows

  • Advocacy and awareness
  • Identifying and curating resources
  • Supporting copyright and licensing’s
  • Faculty collaboration and training
  • Hosting or managing OER repositories or resources
  • Training and Guidance
  • OER Discovery

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RUN-EU Open Education Resources Training Copyright © by Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest and Celine Peignen and Maeve Hynes. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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