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OER and Postsecondary Libraries - Todd Mundle, KPU
The document discusses the role of post-secondary librarians in promoting and adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) within British Columbia's educational landscape. It highlights current activities, challenges, and opportunities for librarians, emphasizing the need for dialogue, education, and advocacy to effectively support OER initiatives. It also addresses the integration of OER with traditional educational resources and the necessity for librarian involvement in faculty development and resource management.
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- 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 BCpost 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?
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- 4. What’s happening? Lookswho’s here:
- 5. What’s happening withOER 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… “Whatis 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… Traditionalrole 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… HoldingOA events featuring OER topics Exploring OER as part of the scholarly communications framework No textbooks!
- 9. What’s happening… Librariansattending 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… Oncampus 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… Centralizedobtaining 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… BCcampusOER 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
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- 14. What role canpost secondary librarians play? Acquiring Accessing Awareness Advocacy – both with library and campus colleagues Engaging with faculty
- 15. What role canpost 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 tosupport adoption of OER? Achim Lepp, “Just Do It | Nike x Lau “. https://www.flickr.com/photos/achimh/6041561292/
- 17. What’s needed…Dialogue, educationand 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, educationand 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 ToddM. Mundle University Librarian Kwantlen Polytechnic University Open Education Resources – Librarians, Leadership and Opportunity Monday Oct 27, 2014 Douglas College
Editor's Notes
- #4 Before meeting Quill – Open Textbook Summit in April Trip to US TCC Coach Top 3 – t-shirts Tending field
- #5 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!
- #6 Polled CPSLD colleagues. SOLR, MERLOT
- #7 Education needed
- #8 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
- #9 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.
- #10 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
- #11 Is your institution in the process of or planning a strategic plan? Is open and OER part of the discussion?
- #14 I heard from 6 institutions in my informal poll. Is there an activity that you know about, that I’ve not included here?
- #15 Not much different than the kind of roles we currently play
- #17 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.
- #18 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
- #19 What else?