Open Educational Resources for Academic and Research Engagement: Creating, Sharing, and Publishing OER for Global Learning with DOI using Zenodo

This resource contains the presentation slides used in a faculty development workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER) and DOI-based academic publishing. The workshop focuses on helping educators transform their teaching materials into globally accessible scholarly resources. The presentation introduces the concept of Open Educational Resources, the importance of Creative Commons licensing, and best practices for preparing high-quality educational materials that can be openly shared. It also explains how teaching materials such as lecture slides, course notes, and lab manuals can be structured as OER and published with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The workshop further demonstrates the process of publishing academic teaching resources through open repositories such as Zenodo and Figshare. Participants learn how these platforms provide free DOI assignment, long-term preservation, and global discoverability of educational content. The resource also highlights how publishing OER contributes to academic visibility, institutional outreach, and research dissemination. It discusses integration with global research infrastructure such as ORCID, OpenAIRE, and DataCite, which allows educational resources to be indexed and cited in scholarly systems. This material is intended for faculty members, researchers, and academic institutions interested in promoting open education practices and enhancing the global reach of their teaching resources.