1. Leva Lee, BCcampus
Erin Fields, UBC
Amanda Wanner, UBC
Open Education Week 2015
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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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BCOER Hackfest
OER Awareness was identified as a
key need. Talking points for an
advocacy poster and ideas for
librarian professional learning were
discussed.
BCOER Hackfest, May 2014
We tested an assessment rubric
for OER repositories.
40 repositories were evaluated.
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BCOER Project: Advocacy Poster
A poster was develop with
talking points to engage
faculty in conversations. It
is an OER made available
on open.bccampus.ca
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BCOER Project: OERR Assessment Rubric
The OER Repository rubric
developed and tested at
the Hackfest is now
available on
open.bccampus.ca.
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BCOER Project: Subject Guides
These OER Primer Libguides were developed by a team of BCOER
librarians. The links are available on open.bccampus.ca
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BCOER Project: Shared Spaces
Currently exploring & testing a collaborative space to
develop/maintain OER subject guides
http://mediawiki.bccampus.ca/index.php/Category:BCOER
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BCOER Project: Librarians & OER Event
“Open Education Resources: Librarians,
Leadership & Opportunity”
Aboriginal Gathering Place,
Douglas College, New Westminster, BC
October 27, 2014
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More Project Ideas
• Develop more Pro-d opportunities in variety of modes (e.g. f2f
events, webinars, podcasts, self-serve resources)
• Host a resource sprint 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
Context
Open Education and OER movement gaining momentumi
In particular in BC with the Open Textbook project
Postsecondary Librarians well positioned and much needed for leadership role – advocacy and consulting
Librarians have:
Expertise in searching for, curating and organizing high quality educational resources
Established trusted relationships with faculty at their institutions
Always been early adopters of technology
student interests at heart /advocates
Long track record as excellent collaborators
BCOER
Informal and grassroots group - began December 2013 as one answer to what could post sec librarians be doing help faculty learn about OER
Began as a conversation with fellow librarians on how to address adoption of open textbooks and use of quality OER
met to explore ideas
Identified need and desire to co-develop practical OER tools/guides for faculty and support librarians/colleagues to do this
Agreed to
Work collaboratively on OER guides, subject guides and tools to support OER awareness & advocacy
Share Information & resources & broader librarian community
Focus on projects with immediate and mid-term benefits
Advocate for longer term: ongoing professional development for librarians
10 BC Public Postsecondary institutions have participants on our working group
Meet monthly via teleconference
Wikispace and a group list
Supported by BCcampus
Erin -
Erin -
4 or 5 Monthly meetings then decided in order to really get something done we needed some dedicated time.
In early May 2014 – BCOER Hackfest – crowdsourced ideas on that were most in need interest
Day of the event we selected OER repository Assessment rubric/ Science repositories & developing some OER Advocacy tools.
14 attendees – BCOER & UBC Library students
Group one: focused on testing a newly developed OER Assessment rubric. They reviewed 40 Science OER repositories
Group two: focused on developing an OER Poster as a tool to engage faculty and discussed ideas for professional development for librarians
Thanking our students future and past
Erin -
Erin -
Amanda -
Main Challenge with Co-development of the Subject Guides = a collaborative space that would be accessible by the team/cross institutional.
Content would need to be able to be used in Libguides and other web pages (WordPress)
To address an immediate need for OER Primer guides a team from the BCOER (KPU, BCIT, Douglas College) collaborated developed a set of OER Primer guides. These were available in Sept 2014.
KPU - http://libguides.kpu.ca/OER
Douglas - http://guides.douglas.bc.ca/content.php?pid=599755&sid=4975095
links available on the open.bccampus.ca site
We’re pleased to see Dalhousie and St. FX Libraries Have reused this content in their Libguides!
Dalhousie - http://dal.ca.libguides.com/content.php?pid=252753&sid=2090299
Amanda -
Happening right now
Develop and test collaborative space and how it will work to co-develop content, share in its maintenance
Challenge: need access cross institutionally and need a way for content to be output in a variety of forms – libguides and Wordpress
Currently testing Mediawiki – a BCcampus supported site
Oct 27 2014 was the day of our prof learning event for librarians
“Open Education Resources: Librarians, Leadership and Opportunity”
Open Education Movement world-wide, in NA and regionally, provincially
Librarians & how they are getting involved in BC post sec
Leadership & Advocacy for librarians
Work of BCOER
Librarians taking on Innovation roles – BCcampus Geography Book sprint
BCOER Web space launched December 2014
Public facing site
BCOER Librarians – list of participants
Professional Learning – Upcoming & Archived resources including our CARL Webinar and Oct 27 event
Guides – forthcoming
Tools – Advocacy poster & OER Repository Assessment Rubric
To come – Faculty checklist (individual resource level)
ETUG spring workshop June 2014
BC Post secondary faculty, ed technologists, ed developers, teaching and learning staff, librarians. Facilitated a session and asked them to identify challenges
Check back again in June 2015
Connecting with the Librarian community and other work in OER
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Research Coalition) http://www.sparc.arl.org/ and Librarians & OER Forum https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!forum/sparc-liboer (Nicole Allen)
OER Consortium http://oerconsortium.org and OER & Libraries subcommittee and CCCOER List (Una Daly)
Quill West, Pierce College, Washington http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/profile/QuillWest
CARL Cdn Assoc Research Libraries
CAUL Council of Atlantic University Libraries
Twitter hashtag #bcoer