Harper College/OER Community of Practice
This page provides background and supporting information for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Community of Practice formed in Fall 2017.
Questions
[edit | edit source]- What OER content is available?
- How can OER be interactive?
- How can we generate content?
- What Harper courses are using OER?
- What are faculty concerns regarding OER?
- What is the future of textbook publishing?
- Could Harper become 100% OER?
Goals
[edit | edit source]- Reduce textbook costs without sacrificing quality
- Find OER
- Create OER
- Evaluate OER
Deliverables
[edit | edit source]- Orientation Week Session?
- Workshops?
- Explore designating courses as OER-based in the schedule?
- List of OER resources?
- Information on copyright and licensing (free vs. open)?
- Tutorial on finding, creating, and using OER?
- Create a graduate-level course on using OER, creating OER, and/or having students create OER?
- GEC course designed to be in person, blended, online, or self-paced?
Teaching Practice Enhancements
[edit | edit source]- Greater flexibility in course materials
- Learner-centered content and approach
- More thorough evaluation and selection of materials requirements
- Enhanced collaboration within disciplines
- Knowledge of / experience with creating free and open content
- Enhanced understanding of content licensing
Student Learning Impact
[edit | edit source]- Improved student engagement and student success
- OER encourages higher order or deeper learning (Bloom's taxonomy levels)
- OER can support more learning styles than typical textbooks
- Students using OER have their textbooks when courses start
- Students using OER can keep their textbooks after the course ends
- Students are able to reduce overall educational costs
Concerns
[edit | edit source]- Students who don't have or can't use technology to access OER. (Need to support printed or printable alternatives.)
- Maintain support for academic freedom so instructors are able to choose the resources they believe are best for their courses and students.
Shared Learning
[edit | edit source]- Harper College/OER Adoption
- Guidebook to Research on Open Educational Resources Adoption
- Open Textbook Network (OTN) webinar, Sarah Cohen sfcohen@umn.edu, February 7, 2017
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), in conjunction with OTN staff, will coordinate full-day “train the trainer” workshops to be offered to CARLI member libraries, including the Harper College Library, in 2018. - ILCCO: Growing Online Learning Conference 2017 Recorded Sessions
- ECampusNews: Faculty want more OER - here’s why
- Project Gutenberg - Free ebooks
- Perseus Digital Library - Classical texts and translations
- Educause: Exploring the Use of E-Textbooks in Higher Education
- CCC OER Mailing List
- Bay College OER Website
- Pima Community College OER Website
- Lumen: Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom
- Slideshare: AtD OER Degree Initiative
- OER Authoring Tools List
- SAIT: Open Educational Resources Policies and Procedures
- OpenWashington: How to use Open Educational Resources