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OER and Postsecondary Libraries - Todd Mundle, KPU
1. Open Education Resources – Librarians, Leadership and Opportunity
Monday Oct 27, 2014
Douglas College
OER and BC post secondary librarians
Todd M. Mundle
University Librarian
2. 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?
5. 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
6. 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
7. What’s happening…
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
8. What’s happening…
Holding OA events featuring OER topics
Exploring OER as part of the scholarly communications
framework
No textbooks!
9. What’s happening…
Librarians attending the Open Textbook Summit
Librarians attending ETUG Workshops presenting a
session on OER and academic libraries
Developing and participating in events such as the one
you are attending
10. What’s happening…
On campus speaking events - strategic planning
sessions pushing OER as a retention strategy
Work with Teaching & Learning Centre on Open Access
projects
Librarians participated (completed surveys and were
interviewed ) in a OER research project led by Teaching
& Learning Centre
11. 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 items
Working 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
12. 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
14. What role can post secondary librarians play?
Acquiring
Accessing
Awareness
Advocacy – both with library and campus colleagues
Engaging with faculty
15. 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
16. What’s needed to support adoption of OER?
Achim Lepp, “Just Do It | Nike x Lau “. https://www.flickr.com/photos/achimh/6041561292/
17. 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.”
18. 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.”
19. Questions?
Todd.Mundle@kpu.ca
Todd M. Mundle
University Librarian
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Open Education Resources – Librarians, Leadership and Opportunity
Monday Oct 27, 2014
Douglas College
Editor's Notes
Before meeting Quill – Open Textbook Summit in April
Trip to US
TCC Coach
Top 3 – t-shirts
Tending field
These are just the BC PS institution libraries represented
Also Pierce College in WA, Tacoma Community College, North Vancouver School District, VPL and of course Bccampus!
Polled CPSLD colleagues. SOLR, MERLOT
Education needed
Traditional role – linking not only to BCcampus titles but others as well
Joint development – long been a goals for all sorts of other information related topics – why re-invent the wheel?
Many institutions are including OER either in a specific guide or as a tab
Holding OA events featuring OER topics- last week at SFU Harbour Centre
Exploring OER as part of the scholarly communications framework – more considerations when speaking with faculty
No textbooks! – We said "no textbooks" for years, and now we expect folks to support faculty with open textbooks.
Open textbook summit - BCcampus held event – April 2013 and 2014 – 30 in 2013, 130 in 2014 (18 librarians) Creation of BCOER, further evolution at ETUG in June?
ETUG – Spring 2014: Feedback: Erin Fields, Janis McKenzie, Leva Lee “Liked hearing about the BCOER group and their great work.” Missed it? Notes from the session are up on the ETUG website – No OER and libraries pitches yet for their unconference Nov 13….
This event – not quite preaching to the converted but certainly the committed
Mary Burgess and Leva Lee speaking/running a workshop at CPSLD in Fall 2013: Open Education and Implications for Libraries
Is your institution in the process of or planning a strategic plan? Is open and OER part of the discussion?
I heard from 6 institutions in my informal poll.
Is there an activity that you know about, that I’ve not included here?
Not much different than the kind of roles we currently play
This is where this talk began: 20 minutes – support for adoption of OER
If you mean getting OER in library guides, etc., that’s easy, just do it; don’t ask for permission, just do it.
We are good at locating and selecting resources and do have good critical analysis skills, so we should be using these skills to find, evaluate and make available resources for faculty and students.
Use your librarians, infiltrate the faculty as best you can and be an advocate for quality OER and how students and faculty can use them.
Put as much effort into locating quality OER as we do for paid items. It takes work but I believe there’s big payoff for faculty and students