OER and Postsecondary Libraries - Todd Mundle, KPU

Open Education Resources – Librarians, Leadership and OpportunityMonday Oct 27, 2014Douglas College

OER and BC post secondary librarians

Todd M. MundleUniversity Librarian

OER and BC post secondary librarians

•What’s happening with OER at BC post secondary libraries?•What role can post secondary librarians play?•What’s needed to support adoption of OER and librarians?

by librarians? through librarians?

Tacoma Community College

What’s happening? Looks who’s here:

What’s happening with OER at your library?“Could be just me struggling with the lingo, but I think librarians do and have done a lot with open educational resources, lower case. I’m a bit perplexed by the distinction between OER’s and open access resources. Is this the educational community’s way of talking about OA? Or are we talking about some area of overlap between OA and learning objects when we talk about OER? If so, even so, librarians still deal with these resources as one part of our broad and diverse information landscape. I would think it’s integrated vs. dedicated.”

From the poster created by the BCOER

What’s happening…

“What is an Open Education Resource and what level of education are you talking about? I'm not sure this does strike me as one of the first priorities of post secondary libraries.”

https://openclipart.org/detail/168137/head-scratcher-by-johnny_automatic


Traditional role of acquiring and making accessible OERs• Linking to BCcampus textbooks – 76 and counting

Joint development (3 institutions) of an OER guide• LibGuides or their equivalents – guides and tabs

within guides


Holding OA events featuring OER topics

Exploring OER as part of the scholarly communications framework

No textbooks!


Librarians attending the Open Textbook SummitLibrarians attending ETUG Workshops presenting a session on OER and academic librariesDeveloping and participating in events such as the one you are attending

What’s happening…On campus speaking events - strategic planning sessions pushing OER as a retention strategyWork with Teaching & Learning Centre on Open Access projectsLibrarians participated (completed surveys and were interviewed ) in a OER research project led by Teaching & Learning Centre

What’s happening…Centralized obtaining Creative Commons licenses in the Library

• answering questions about CC• guiding instructors through the process of adding a CC

license to their itemsWorking faculty to source open texts that they may want to adopt for their courses, or that they may want to use when creating a new open text

What’s happening…BCcampus OER group and activities• ‘hackfest' to develop OER poster• Developed rubric for assessing OER resources

which was then applied to a number of resources• Organized this session

More at BCOERGuides Wikispace bcoerguides.wikispaces.com


What else?

What role can post secondary librarians play?AcquiringAccessingAwarenessAdvocacy – both with library and campus colleaguesEngaging with faculty

What role can post secondary librarians play?“I think that the library can play a big educational role in promoting OER, explaining the benefits, helping faculty navigate their way through OER resources, licensing etc. and supporting faculty development of OER resources. Also, since there is every indication that budgets will keep shrinking, leveraging assessed OER resources is a logical way to extend library collections.”

Foresman, Pearson Scott. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALever_(PSF).png

What’s needed to support adoption of OER?

Achim Lepp, “Just Do It | Nike x Lau “. https://www.flickr.com/photos/achimh/6041561292/

What’s needed…Dialogue, education and awareness

“I still find it a challenge to inspire the librarians here to get more involved/aware. If only we could spend the same amount of time we do with the traditionally published materials. And, I think the shift to educational resources is hard for librarians.”

What’s needed…Dialogue, education and awareness

“Could be just me struggling with the lingo, but I think librarians do and have done a lot with open educational resources, lower case. I’m a bit perplexed by the distinction between OER’s and open access resources. Is this the educational community’s way of talking about OA? Or are we talking about some area of overlap between OA and learning objects when we talk about OER? If so, even so, librarians still deal with these resources as one part of our broad and diverse information landscape. I would think it’s integrated vs. dedicated.”

“What is an Open Education Resource and what level of education are you talking about? I'm not sure this does strike me as one of the first priorities of post secondary libraries.”

[email protected] M. MundleUniversity LibrarianKwantlen Polytechnic University

Questions?

Open Education Resources – Librarians, Leadership and OpportunityMonday Oct 27, 2014Douglas College

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