The Scholar Commons Open Educational Resources collection features openly available learning and teaching materials created by faculty and staff across USC locations. Materials in this collection are freely available to access and are openly licensed. Content may include:
- Assignments
- Artistic works
- Lecture presentations
- Video recordings
- Textbooks
- Syllabi and,
- Other educational content deemed relevant to the collection such as lab manuals, diagrams, or worksheets.
University of South Carolina system authors or creators of OER resources may suggest materials for inclusion in the OER collection. The final decision on which materials to include in the collection resides with library personnel with responsibility for collection management of the Scholar Commons within the University of South Carolina system.
Copyright and Accessibility
All OER materials included in the Scholar Commons OER collection must adhere to all applicable copyright laws of the United States. In addition, for inclusion in the OER collection, materials must be licensed using an open license of the author’s selection such as Creative Commons. While OER authors and creators are ultimately responsible for selecting an appropriate license, they are encouraged to consult with a librarian before contributing resources for inclusion. Preference will be given to materials that are licensed to meet the 5Rs, i.e., retain, revise, remix, reuse, and redistribute.
It is expected that materials in the collection will meet minimum standards for accessibility such as readability by a screen reader, include alternative captions for images. In addition, when possible, materials should be compliant with the University of South Carolina’s current Digital Accessibility standards at the time the materials are uploaded. It is the author or creator’s obligation to make material submitted accessible as set forth above.
-
Mapping Contemporary Spain: Peninsular Cultures and Civilizations
Ángel M. Rañales
"Mapping Contemporary Spain" is a digital course project of SPAN 319 (Peninsular Cultures and Civilizations) from the University of South Carolina Aiken. This project is a mapping tool to navigate the marvelous cultures of the Iberian Peninsula. Each peninsular culture and civilization are represented in a well selected object which the creators have researched about as part of the course. Each of the following objects is a footprint of human civilization in Iberia.
This project is a testimony to the importance of preserving and studying foreign cultures. Each object presented in this resource has a history and a story to be told and appreciated.
Keywords: Iberia, Peninsular Cultures, Spanish, Digital Humanities, Student Learning
-
Diccionario de la inmigración y la Otredad en las Américas en el siglo XXI
Flor Urbina Barrera and Araceli Hernandez-Laroche
Tiene como objetivo ser fuente de consulta amigable y visual para un público diverso, interesado en las expresiones sociales contemporáneas, particularmente para los estudiosos del tema que puedan poner en contexto la migración de los países latinoamericanos sin restringirla exclusivamente al cruce entre México, Centroamérica y los Estados Unidos.
Estudiar las migraciones internacionales desde una perspectiva social, cultural y cotidiana, nos muestra a grandes y pequeños contingentes de población en movimiento, tanto en la frontera norte de América Latina, como entre las fronteras de los países de Centro y Sudamérica. En el contexto actual, ante la visible presencia de grupos humanos provenientes de diversos países que se acercan a los puertos de entrada a los EE. UU. en busca de cruzar de forma regulada o con la implementación de estrategias de ingreso irregular, la atención se ha volcado desde agencias e instituciones locales e internacionales, para analizar y atender el fenómeno. Si bien es cierto, esta dinámica es la que presenta visibles complejidades, la migración en las Américas no se reduce exclusivamente a las fronteras de Norteamérica.
Keywords: immigration, latin america, central america, mexico