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

 * 1) What OER content is available?
 * 2) How can OER be interactive?
 * 3) How can we generate content?
 * 4) What Harper courses are using OER?
 * 5) What are faculty concerns regarding OER?
 * 6) What is the future of textbook publishing?
 * 7) Could Harper become 100% OER?

Goals

 * 1) Reduce textbook costs without sacrificing quality
 * 2) Find OER
 * 3) Create OER
 * 4) Evaluate OER

Deliverables

 * 1) Orientation Week Session?
 * 2) Workshops?
 * 3) Explore designating courses as OER-based in the schedule?
 * 4) List of OER resources?
 * 5) Information on copyright and licensing (free vs. open)?
 * 6) Tutorial on finding, creating, and using OER?
 * 7) Create a graduate-level course on using OER, creating OER, and/or having students create OER?
 * 8) GEC course designed to be in person, blended, online, or self-paced?

Teaching Practice Enhancements

 * 1) Greater flexibility in course materials
 * 2) Learner-centered content and approach
 * 3) More thorough evaluation and selection of materials requirements
 * 4) Enhanced collaboration within disciplines
 * 5) Knowledge of / experience with creating free and open content
 * 6) Enhanced understanding of content licensing

Student Learning Impact

 * 1) Improved student engagement and student success
 * 2) OER encourages higher order or deeper learning (Bloom's taxonomy levels)
 * 3) OER can support more learning styles than typical textbooks
 * 4) Students using OER have their textbooks when courses start
 * 5) Students using OER can keep their textbooks after the course ends
 * 6) Students are able to reduce overall educational costs

Concerns

 * 1) Students who don't have or can't use technology to access OER. (Need to support printed or printable alternatives.)
 * 2) Maintain support for academic freedom so instructors are able to choose the resources they believe are best for their courses and students.

Shared Learning

 * 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