the critical role of librarians in oer adoption
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Please join CCCOER on Tuesday, February 26, 10:00 am (Pacific time) to hear about the critical work that librarians do to support OER adoption at community colleges. This webinar will feature three projects where librarians are leading the way in searching, curating, and creating OER to expand student access and improve teaching practices. card catalog cc-by-nc-sa reeding lessons Paradise Valley Community College, AZ –Sheila Afnan-Manns and Kande Mickelson, faculty librarians will share how they worked with students in International Business to find and create OER to support course learning outcomes. Houston Community College District, TX – Angela Secrest, director of library services, will share her libguides that support faculty in the process of finding and adopting high quality OER. Open Course Library(OCL), WA – Shireen Deboo, OCL and Seattle Community Colleges district librarian will share her work with faculty to find, create, and curate open content for inclusion in the Washington State Community and Technical College’s Open Course Library.TRANSCRIPT
Angela Secrest, Houston Community CollegesSheila Afnan-Manns, Kande Mickelsen, Maricopa
Community CollegesShireen Deboo, Seattle Community Colleges
February 26, 2013
The Critical Role of Librariansin OER Adoptions
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– Una Daly, moderator• Community College Outreach Director at
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Agenda
• CCCOER Introduction• OER and the Library • Empowering Students with OER• Curating OER for Open Course Library• Next Webinar, March 26• Q & A
CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning
– Expand access to education– Support professional development– Advance community college mission
Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
150+ Community & Technical College members in OCW Consortium
Community College Consortium for OER
Critical Role of Librarians
• Search experts
• Work with students to improve information literacy
• Curators of educational content
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OER and the Library
Angela SecrestDistrict Director, Library Services
Open Educational Resources
Library support | Faculty success
Initiatives at all levels
• Board of Trustees initiatives– Policy statements
• Administrative initiatives– Task force– Procedures
• Instructional initiatives– 2 hour workshops– Textbook working groups
• Faculty-led initiatives• Library initiatives
Librarian involvement at HCC
• Instruction in adopting and adapting• Customized search engine• Links integrated with the library catalog and website• Presentations at HCC faculty conferences and
workshops• Participation in textbook and resource working
groups• Development of faculty input/search • OER LibGuide
Providing self-serve resources
• Supplements other initiatives• Provides access and discoverability• Provides context – global, local• Provides validation on several levels
– Community of colleagues– Already vetted for quality
• One-stop shop (well, not really, but we try)
Customized search widget
Faculty input
Public search
LibGuides
• Cloud-based• Alas, not open source, but at least built on
open source• Relatively inexpensive• Librarian buy-in for the product• Integration with other free and open sources• Easy to share among colleagues• Responsive design
http://libguides.hccs.edu
What? We have a box for that.
How?
Discover: Search
Discover: Browse by Subject
Textbooks
Also included
• Open and free access materials to compliment the use of commercial resources and OER– Heavily used by our community– Recognizable sources: PBS, DOAJ, Annenberg
• Organizations provide– Scholarly community– Validation– Support– Education– Promotion– Research
You are welcome to use it as a template!
Thank you!
Empowering Students with OER
Sheila Afnan-Manns
Faculty Librarian
Kande Mickelsen
Faculty Librarian
OER as Content / OER as Pedagogy: Empowering Students
as Partners in Learning Using Scholarly Open
Educational Resources
Digital creativity, “is the life our kids push for. They demand it … We can't kill this instinct for creativity …We can't make
them passive again …” Lawrence Lessig
Recipients: EBSCO Community College Learning Resources and
Library Achievement Award Sheila Afnan-Manns
Reyes MedranoKandice Mickelsen
Background OER Experts: Library created a buzz by embracing
OER with a unique professional spin:
OneClick Digital©: The technical and intellectual act of blending proprietary and open scholarly resources in ways that meet official course competencies, are copyright compliant, and feel free to the end user.
OER as Content: In Spring 2010 PVCC Business Division asked Library for help to replace an expensive textbook.
OER as Pedagogy: Soon realized that with a little information literacy, students could curate their own living textbook!
Classroom Nuts & Bolts
Students as curators of digital scholarly content: IBS101 unleashed a paradigm shift in which students responded to course lectures not with rote memory, but as curators who by researching, evaluating, and mixing relevant digital content created a “living textbook.”
Students as peer teachers: In addition, students became peer teachers by presenting their content under the excellent guidance of their instructor.
Students as public speakers and team builders: Lastly, students gained “real world” skills in digital research, public speaking, working in teams, and more.
Librarian’s role
Technology infrastructure: Blackboard based wikis
Team schedule: Lecture, search, create, present, follow up
Information literacy instruction: harvest keywords and concepts from lectures, evaluate, use ethically, EZProxy and persistent links
Research Guide with Library and OER resources
Support inside and outside of the classroom Survey to measure impact
Findings
100% strongly agree or agree that collaboration between Faculty enhanced their learning experience.
100% strongly agree or agree that instructors encouraged critical thinking and problem solving. With 91% expressing better competence in critical thinking, research and presentation skills.
76% strongly agree or agree that research instruction provided by the librarians assisted their participation in creating the “living textbook”.
95% found content for this course more engaging than a traditional textbook.
62% have found textbook costs to be an academic barrier.
Comments: Saved money not having to buy a textbook – Epic! This course is amazing! Love the interactive learning,
working with classmates! Since this course is about current business affairs, it
makes more sense to do it this way. If we had a textbook it would be outdated by the time we started, I’ve enjoyed this class.
I would like to give credit to two of our librarians … who did an awesome amount of work to get this off the ground. Without their help and humor, this class would not have been possible. I just wanted to let you know how much of a difference they made in showing us how to do the research and putting together our Wiki pages.
The Next Step: Scalability for Mass Adoption
This project demonstrated the efficacy of student blended open and proprietary digital content while spotlighting the hindrance of EZProxy to the process
Open source code like Xerxes enables seamless access between the library’s web scale tool (e.g. Ebsco’s Discover, Summon, etc.) and the LMS of a college or district (Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, etc.)
Discovering, adding, and using Library resources with OER content is just a click away, saving students money while increasing the quality of course materials
Credits: OER Research Guide:
http://paradisevalley.libguides.com/OER
Contact:Sheila Afnan-Manns: [email protected] Mickelsen:[email protected]
Open Course Library
Shireen DebooFaculty Librarian
South Seattle Community College
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Open Course Library
Phase Two—40 additional courses developed5 librarians—each assigned to 5-8 courses
Open Course Library
Librarians’ role:• Assist with finding/identifying/evaluating open access
textbooks and course materials• Assist with determining copyright status for non OA materials• Assist with securing permissions for non OA materials• Assist with documenting/tracking all materials used• Assist with building and incorporating information literacy
components into each course
Open Course Library
Librarian role change• Phase One—passive/advisory/voluntary involvement• Phase Two—approval authority, more pro-active role, more
opportunity to include IL component
Information Literacy Outcomes Assessment Worksheet
Conduct effective searches using appropriate tools
● Effectively use search tools, such as the library catalog, periodical databases, and web search engines
● Develop and revise search vocabulary, including synonyms and broader and narrower terms
● Apply appropriate search techniques, such as Boolean logic and truncation
● Use tables of contents, indexes, database features, and other tools to facilitate searches
● Use information in search results, such as keywords, article titles, and subject headings to refine and improve search results
Week 2 writing assignment: find an article about the electoral college. Week 5 writing assignment: identify something that will be changing over time, and locate data or graph. Week 7 writing assignment: find an article describing a recent study.
Analyze content to choose the best information for the need
● Determine relevance of information found as it relates to the topic
● Revise overall search strategy, search tools, information types, and keywords as needed to complete the task
● Apply appropriate reading strategies, including browsing, skimming, selective reading, and close analysis
● Summarize information and findings to assess whether and where to continue searching
Week 2 writing assignment: evaluate whether an article is biased, and determine if it is opinion or factual.
Week 5 writing assignment: locate data or graph that is showing something changing linearly or exponentially. Week 7 writing assignment: find and analyze an article describing a recent study.
Open Course Library
Challenges and Observations• A mandatory component helps• OA materials are still less than perfect
(quality/searchability/quantity)• Faculty are on a learning curve about
copyright issues• It’s not all textbooks!
March 26 Webinar
OER Authoring Tools
• OpenStax College, Connexions OER
• BCcampus Pressbooks
• SoftChalk Tool and Cloud Repository
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Contact InformationUna Daly [email protected]
Angela Secrest [email protected]
Kande Mickelsen [email protected]
Sheila Afnan-Manns [email protected]
Shireen Deboo [email protected]
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