creating an oer unit: lessons and successes over the first 2.5 years
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Open Oregon State
Dianna Fisher, Director
Land Grant
1862 Federal act to focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science, military science and engineering for the greater population -- in contrast to the historic practice of higher education focusing on an abstract liberal arts curriculum for the upper class
Land-grant universities have a democratic mandate for openness, accessibility, and service to people
Land-Grant mission requires us to participate in OER initiatives
Courses• Childhood Food
Insecurity• Basics of Grant Writing• Grad School Prep• Spanish for Health• Caregiver’s Guide to
Prevent Falls• Mastery of Aging Well• Recycling
• Watershed Education• Living Cemeteries• Basic Botany• Sudden Oak Death
Prevention• Industrial Hemp• Nursery Pathogen
Training• Forestry (various topics)
Courses
• Two MOOCs– one was a “one time training”• State needed to quickly train all ESL teachers on some
new standards
– Second runs twice a year• Permaculture
Modules
• Over 40 modules – Spanish– Chinese
Textbooks
Opportunities• Doesn’t meet your needs?• Can we help you reformat it?
• Doesn’t cover what you need?• Can we help you gather what does
• Don’t think the quality is good?• Can we support you while you write?
Success & Failure
Success• Some modules• Courses• Textbooks• MOOC (special
circumstance)• Faculty –led• Full service• Partnerships
Failure• Most Modules• Faculty working
unsupported• Preaching• Expecting faculty to know
what OER is
• Administration• Faculty• Students
• Acknowledge that there are issues to address
• Ask for their help addressing them
Student led events
Faculty Led Events
• Successful models– Forums– Faculty Lunch & Learn
• Faculty talking to Faculty– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfbRDeAuww4– https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_t601xnoy
• Improvement in Grades
Administration
• Talked to Deans, Vice Provosts and others at administrative meeting– Provost’s Council– Department Meetings– Faculty Senate
Results
• Pub-ready materials• One faculty member took a sabbatical• Many new submissions of course materials
from full textbooks to lecture content• Seminar Series• Podcasts• Newsletter