This day was held at Ryerosn University on March 30th, 2017 and sponsored by eCampusOntario and Ryerson Library. Thank you to all the librarians who presented and attended and to eCampusOntario and Ryerson Library for the support.

1. Getting Faculty
Interested in OER
Michelle Schwartz
Ann Ludbrook
March 30, 2017

2. Agenda
➢OER promotion at Ryerson, 2013-2017
➢Building partnerships
➢Determining what faculty want/need
➢Tailoring programming
➢Open textbooks
➢Mix & Match
➢Pressbooks Hands-on
➢Open textbook authoring guide
➢Problematics

3. OER
Promotion
at Ryerson
2013-2017

4. Building Partnerships
➢RULA together with LTO: Five years of
trial and error!
➢Open Access Week workshops
➢Targeted faculty workshops
➢Newsletters
➢Handouts
➢How-to Guides

5. What do faculty want/need?
➢What we’ve done:
➢Broad overviews of what’s available
➢Presentations from faculty on their work
➢Workshops focused on one type of OER
➢Provided information on grants and funding
➢What we learned:
➢Hand-on and fun!
➢No longer shying away from social justice

6. Overview
of RULA/LTO
Programming

7. Liberate Your Course Materials
➢Show faculty how to search for OER
➢Live-demo
➢Mix and match model
➢Highlight library services
➢Course reserves
➢Fair dealing
➢Media databases

8. Open Your Textbook
➢Keeping things fun and relevant:
➢Kahoot Quiz: Do you know how much your
textbook costs?
➢Highlight student and faculty perspective
➢Adopt / Adapt / Create
➢Potential for grants

9. Open Your Textbook
➢Hands-on Pressbooks Training
➢A Guide to Bears
➢A Guide to Space

10. Tailored Programming
➢Engineering and Architectural Science
➢Open textbooks
➢Chang School of Continuing Education
➢Mix-and-match, library resources

11. Open Textbook Authoring Guide
➢Based on BC Campus books
➢providing faculty with resources
➢modeling best practices

12. Problematics
➢CC Licences
➢Questions / Obstacles
➢Time, money
➢Ancillary materials

13. Questions?

14. Thanks!
Contacts:
➢ Michelle Schwartz,
michelle.schwartz@ryerson.ca
➢ Ann Ludbrook,
aludbrook@ryerson.ca