This document discusses the use of open educational resources (OERs) at Lansing Community College. It describes how the author initially wrote their own textbook but has since adopted OERs. It outlines various OERs that have been developed or adopted for psychology courses at LCC, including an OpenStax psychology textbook used program-wide. The document also addresses challenges of creating OERs and getting new faculty involved with OERs. Finally, it discusses outreach with high school teachers to explore developing OERs for foreign language courses.
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Does Your Talk Match Your Walk? Setting the Example for OER Doubters
1. Does Your Talk Match
Your Walk?
Setting the Example for
OER Doubters
Mark Kelland and Kari Richards,
Lansing Community College
2. My entry into the world of OERs
The textbook contract…
Writing the book…
The big publishing industry…
Small publishing companies…
Self-publishing…
Caring about my students…
OER…
3. Challenges to making an OER available
My own limitations…
Working with OpenStax CNX…
Being introduced to other platforms…
Simpler options?...
4. What I’m up to now…literally…right
now!
I am on sabbatical!
Writing an OER for positive psychology
I am keeping it simple
5. Current and future OER activities in the
psychology program at LCC
My personality OER textbook on OpenStax
We adopted the OpenStax psychology textbook program-wide
Lumen Learning lifespan developmental psychology course
Social psychology OER at the Open Textbook Library
Abnormal psychology OER?
Z-degree
6. Working with my colleagues who are
new to OERs
A philosophical perspective on OERs
Cost or Quality?
Full-time vs. Part-time
Different academic areas
7. Some thoughts…
Full-time or Part-time faculty?
Faculty driven or driven by someone else?
Is it about money or quality?
Supported and/or expected?
10. OER Foreign Language Courses
FRENCH 115 –
Conversational French I
Darcy Ebert
GERMAN 115 –
Conversational German I
Charlotte Steiner & Kari Richards
SPANISH 115 –
Conversational Spanish I
Sara Bostwick