Presentation type
Lightning Round (15 minutes)
Start Date
1-8-2018 2:00 PM
End Date
1-8-2018 2:30 PM
Proposal Abstract
As higher education in the United States has undergone radical transformation in recent decades, open education resources (OER) are becoming more and more vital for supporting core institutional missions of enriching student college experiences through research, teaching and learning. While academic libraries subscribe to the idea of making education more affordable despite the constraints of the current financial climate, they often face the challenge to devise innovative and concrete programming to promote the use of OER among members of their campus communities.
This lightning talk will highlight the efforts of Subject Librarians at James A. Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado, to design, market, and teach, in Fall 2017, the “Open Education Resources: What’s in it for You” workshop. The workshop, developed as part of the larger Researcher Workshop Series, targeted graduate students and faculty and aimed to enhance their awareness of open education resources and practices, including public domain materials such as government data sets, open licensed textbooks, peer reviewed open access journals and more. It also introduced major discovery tools for locating OERs that already exist and tips for creating and sharing new original OER.
The lightning talk will delineate some of the benefits and challenges of a collaborative approach to workshop design. The presenter will discuss the significance of forming partnerships between the library and numerous campus stakeholders involved in OER production and use. Finally, this talk will address specific implementation strategies and ways to ensure the buy-in of the OER concepts by departmental administration and faculty.
Audience Type
Librarians
Outcomes
Use specific examples of successful librarian-faculty collaboration to create a blueprint of library engagement in Open Education Resources literacy efforts
Recommended Citation
Trembach, Stan (2018). "“Open Education Resources: There’s Something in It For You.” Unearthing the Hidden Value of OER to a Mid-size Academic Community," OER From Vision to Action. https://newprairiepress.org/oer_fromvisiontoaction/2018/presentations/11
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“Open Education Resources: There’s Something in It For You.” Unearthing the Hidden Value of OER to a Mid-size Academic Community
As higher education in the United States has undergone radical transformation in recent decades, open education resources (OER) are becoming more and more vital for supporting core institutional missions of enriching student college experiences through research, teaching and learning. While academic libraries subscribe to the idea of making education more affordable despite the constraints of the current financial climate, they often face the challenge to devise innovative and concrete programming to promote the use of OER among members of their campus communities.
This lightning talk will highlight the efforts of Subject Librarians at James A. Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado, to design, market, and teach, in Fall 2017, the “Open Education Resources: What’s in it for You” workshop. The workshop, developed as part of the larger Researcher Workshop Series, targeted graduate students and faculty and aimed to enhance their awareness of open education resources and practices, including public domain materials such as government data sets, open licensed textbooks, peer reviewed open access journals and more. It also introduced major discovery tools for locating OERs that already exist and tips for creating and sharing new original OER.
The lightning talk will delineate some of the benefits and challenges of a collaborative approach to workshop design. The presenter will discuss the significance of forming partnerships between the library and numerous campus stakeholders involved in OER production and use. Finally, this talk will address specific implementation strategies and ways to ensure the buy-in of the OER concepts by departmental administration and faculty.
