Thanks, Scott, for providing an opening in the conversation for me to weigh in. I am one of the consummate SCoPE lurkers, Karen Baker. I used to teach at Morehead State (KY-USA) but have relocated to TX-USA after following my husband for his new job. Presently, I am job searching in deep east TX.
Yes, I am new to this topic. Because my graduate teaching area is higher education/student affairs administration and college student development, I find it difficult to find good media resources to incorporate into my online courses. If I am lucky to find one, it’s usually so expensive that it is out of reach.
For an applied field for educators working in postsecondary education settings, as far as I know, there are few low cost or freely useable repositories of supplemental curricular resources available. There may be two exceptions. There is the syllabi depository collaboratively sponsored by the American Educational Research Association Postsecondary Division (AERA-J) with the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) (http://www.higher-ed.org/syllabi/index.html)/. The other is the College Student Educators International (ACPA) Syllabus Clearinghouse (http://www.myacpa.org/syllabi/) which is accessible only by its members (so how "open" is that?).
But beyond syllabi sharing, if there are OERs for postsecondary educators, I am sure many of them would appreciate direction to them. This particularly is true for supplemental resources for teaching online courses where copyright infringement issues are particularly grey mine fields. For these reasons, the idea of OER appeals to me.