You may not know exactly where the content goes unless you have clues and tools to help you find where it all goes. In this session, we will explore the questions of how to track OER that may help faculty promotion and tenure and solve some of the challenges that surround the OER community. This session will showcase technology tools with analytics tools that will help faculty members create a narrative about their OER content impact. Such tools include utilizing well-known library database tools, social media platform analytics, and other OER repositories to discover such impact.
While there is consensus that OER provides many benefits by lowering costs and increasing access to knowledge, there are some OER issues and challenges that still need to be addressed. How do we know when our OER content has been downloaded, used, or modified? Can we determine when someone violates Creative Commons licensing? The following session will cover why faculty members should consider answering these questions and what strategies can they choose to discover such answers.
Learning Outcomes: Learners will be able to: 1. discuss issues regarding connect OER content to tenure and promotion. 2. identify databases with analytics to measure OER content usage. 3. use analytics as an enhancement to resumes and CVs.
