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● Librarians & OER
● BCOER Beginnings
● Our Projects
● Learning & Sharing
● Future plans

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Librarians & Open Education Resources

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Mission
BCOER is a group of B.C. Postsecondary librarians
working together to support the use of quality Open
Educational Resources (OER).

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Participation
BC Postsecondary Institutions and
BCcampus

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BCOER Hackfest
OER Awareness was identified as a
key need. Talking points for an
advocacy poster and ideas for
librarian professional learning were
discussed.
We tested an assessment rubric
for OER repositories. 40 science
repositories were evaluated.

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BCOER Project: Advocacy Poster
A poster was developed
with talking points to
engage faculty in
conversations. It is an OER
made available on
http://open.bccampus.ca/
bcoer-librarians/bcoer-
tools/

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BCOER Project: OER Assessment Rubric
The OER Repository rubric
developed and tested at
the Hackfest is now
available on
http://open.bccampus.ca/
files/2014/07/OERR-
Rubric.pdf

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BCOER Project: Subject Guides
These OER Primer Libguides were the first ones developed by a
BCOER librarians. The links are available from
http://open.bccampus.ca/bcoer-librarians/bcoer-guides/

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BCOER Project: Librarians & OER Event

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BCOER Project: Web space
Web site
Collaboration site

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BCOER: Community feedback
http://bcoerguides.wikispaces.com/ETUG+Spring+Workshop+Session
Awareness
Discoverabilty
Quality & Longevity of OERs
Licensing – understanding CC
Resistance to Change
Knowing about Opportunities
Thinking session on identifying
OER Challenges

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BCOER: Connecting & Sharing
#bcoer

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BCOER: Connecting & Sharing
Open Textbook Summit
May 28 & 29
BCcampus Webinars
March 9 - 14
April 22 - 24
Spring Workshop June 4 & 5, 2015

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Future Projects
Currently exploring &
testing a collaborative
space to develop/maintain
OER subject guides

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More Project Ideas
• Pro-d opportunities offered in variety of modes (e.g. f2f event,
webinar, podcast, discussion forum, or self-serve resources)
• Host a resource sprints or hackfests for/by librarians
• Facilitate an OER librarians community of practice

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Acknowledgments
Icons are from “The Noun Project”
(http://thenounproject.com/) licensed under a Creative
Commons –Attribution license (CC-BY 3.0)
• Brainstorm by Jessica Lock
• Celebration by Scott Lewis
• Collaboration by Krisada
• Digital-Classroom by Dan Hetteix
• Librarian by Wynne Nafus Sayer
• Open-Education by Berkay Sargin

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Thank YouQuestions?
http://open.bccampus.ca/bcoer-librarians/
Caroline Daniels
Erin Fields
Leva Lee