by Leah Hannaford, Open Education Librarian, Kirk Library

1. LEAH HANNAFORD
OPEN EDUCATION LIBRARIAN
KIRK LIBRARY
Hacker Librarian meets Curious
Faculty: Building Workflows in a
Multi-discipline Project

2. The Nature of a Community College Librarian
• General Collection
Development
• Liaison for Social Sciences
• Water Conservationist
• Reference Desk
• Community Programming
• One-shot Information
Literacy Instruction
• Open Education Projects

3. Project
Management ● Strategic Planning
○ Communication
• External
• Internal
● Consistent Workflows
○ Account for time
○ Quality and Accessibility Assurance
○ Allow for flexibility of unique project
features

4. Faculty Open Education Awareness Survey
● 67% of faculty stated that the COST of OE is
superior to that of traditional resources
● Reservations include:
○ Connectivity Concerns
○ Quality assurance
○ Varying definitions of copyright and open licensing (such as
Creative Commons)
Note: Our awareness survey was adapted from the Babson Survey

5. On connectivity…
● The concerns:
○ Loading online supplementary materials
○ Students fear of being “bad at tech”
● The solutions:
○ Sync materials with:
• Institutional Repository
• Learning Management System
• LibraryBox
○ Considering digital literacy programming

6. On quality…
● The concerns:
○ How can we ensure the quality of resources?
● The solutions:
○ Adopt a framework, rubric, and evaluation tools
○ Build assessment into OER projects from the START
○ BC Campus Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit

7. On licensing…
● The concerns:
○ How can we ensure compliance with chosen license?
○ How is creative commons different than public domain?
○ You want me to share this where?
● The solutions:
○ Hosted 2 OER workshops
○ Hosted an interactive copyright workshop

8. Starter Kit
● 5 Components
○ Licensing Flowchart
○ OER Fact Sheet
○ Project Outline Worksheet
○ SPARC OER Information
○ Primer
● Initial Meeting:
○ Introductory Course
○ Brainstorm through Project
○ Explore Collaborative Tools

9. H Form
Describe current
student to course
materials
relationship.
Describe ideal
student to course
materials
relationship.
Brainstorm
through what is
feasible (beginning
of project plan).
Set goals.
Tool discovered via: “The Sound of the Crowd” by Jill Emery and Graham Stone (2015)
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/participatory/production/identifying-issues/

10. General Faculty Workflow
Initial Meeting
Familiar
Assess
Current
Materials
Plan Project
Unfamiliar
Take
Introductory
Course
Assess
Current
Materials
Plan Project

11. General Faculty Workflow
● Google Drive
○ Folder
• Project Outline
• Initial Appointment
• Previous materials
• How students interact with materials
• $
• Timeline for adoption of OER
• Set goals for assessment
• Discuss next steps

12. Non-Western
World
Literature
Mini-grant recipient
● Goal: Write an anthology
● Timeline: No timeline
● Workflow:
○ List all materials used in course
○ Discover materials one-by-one
○ Write or adopt supplementary
materials
● Project Features –
○ Public Domain
○ Copyright on Translations

13. Pre-calculus
Math Department
● Goal: Develop a localized open
pre-calculus textbook
● Timeline: Nine Months
● Workflow:
○ Authoring tool
○ Test materials over one-quarter
● Project Features –
○ Student Worker

14. Accounting
Mini-grant recipient
● Goal: Create a lessons learned
handbook with auditing focus
● Timeline: None
● Workflow:
○ Develop keywords for material
discovery
○ Faculty member selects materials for
final entry into database
● Project Features –
○ Faculty member wants students to be
able to conduct their own case study

15. Art History
Mini-grant recipient
● Goal: Replace current materials
(including textbook) with open
materials
● Timeline: 1-year
● Workflow:
○ Outline course in Canvas
○ Find the materials (Smart History –
Khan Academy)
● Project Features –
○ Open Textbook
○ Interactive Component (Tiki Toki)

16. LEAH HANNAFORD
LHANNAFORD@CENTRALIA.EDU
Updates on our Initiative and Handouts:
http://libguides.centralia.edu/OERhome