Take the Selfish Route: Empowering Faculty to Use and Create OER

Faculty are knowledgeable, passionate experts in their content areas, often with all the skills they need to use and create OER resources. However, given their own educational histories or the way institutions are structured, diving into the new, rich, and exciting world of OER can seem to be an unnecessary drain on time and mental energy and a project beyond their capacities. Taking a different approach to introducing and/or expanding OER initiatives, the Selfish Professor Approach, we can empower faculty in a new (and comical) light to really impress upon them the power they have to make a difference by harnessing the excitement and deep understanding they have for their content.