LEAH HANNAFORDOPEN EDUCATION LIBRARIAN

KIRK LIBRARY

Hacker Librarian meets Curious Faculty: Building

Workflows in a Multi-discipline Project

The Nature of a Community College Librarian

• General Collection Development

• Liaison for Social Sciences

• Water Conservationist • Reference Desk• Community Programming• One-shot Information

Literacy Instruction

• Open Education Projects

Project Management ●Strategic Planning

○ Communication • External • Internal

●Consistent Workflows○ Account for time○ Quality and Accessibility

Assurance○ Allow for flexibility of unique

project features

Faculty Open Education Awareness Survey

●67% of faculty stated that the COST of OE is superior to that of traditional resources

●Reservations include: ○ Connectivity Concerns○ Quality assurance ○ Varying definitions of copyright and open licensing

(such as Creative Commons)

Note: Our awareness survey was adapted from the Babson Survey

On connectivity…

●The concerns:○ Loading online supplementary materials○ Students fear of being “bad at tech”

●The solutions:○ Sync materials with:

• Institutional Repository• Learning Management System• LibraryBox

○ Considering digital literacy programming

On quality…

●The concerns:○ How can we ensure the quality of resources?

●The solutions:○ Adopt a framework, rubric, and evaluation tools○ Build assessment into OER projects from the START○ BC Campus Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit

On licensing…

●The concerns:○ How can we ensure compliance with chosen license? ○ How is creative commons different than public

domain? ○ You want me to share this where?

●The solutions:○ Hosted 2 OER workshops○ Hosted an interactive copyright workshop

Starter Kit

●5 Components○ Licensing Flowchart○ OER Fact Sheet○ Project Outline Worksheet○ SPARC OER Information○ Primer

●Initial Meeting:○ Introductory Course ○ Brainstorm through Project○ Explore Collaborative Tools

H Form

Describe current student to course materials relationship.

Describe ideal student to course materials relationship.

Brainstorm through what is feasible (beginning of project plan).

Set goals.

Tool discovered via: “The Sound of the Crowd” by Jill Emery and Graham Stone (2015)http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/participatory/production/identifying-issues/

General Faculty Workflow

Initial Meeting

Familiar

Assess Current

Materials

Plan Project

Unfamiliar

Take Introductory

CourseAssess Current

Materials

Plan Project

General Faculty Workflow

●Google Drive○ Folder

• Project Outline• Initial Appointment

• Previous materials • How students interact with materials• $

• Timeline for adoption of OER• Set goals for assessment• Discuss next steps

Non-Western World Literature

Mini-grant recipient

●Goal: Write an anthology●Timeline: No timeline ●Workflow:

○ List all materials used in course○ Discover materials one-by-one○ Write or adopt supplementary

materials

●Project Features – ○ Public Domain ○ Copyright on Translations

Pre-calculus

Math Department

●Goal: Develop a localized open pre-calculus textbook

●Timeline: Nine Months●Workflow:

○ Authoring tool○ Test materials over one-quarter

●Project Features – ○ Student Worker

Accounting

Mini-grant recipient

●Goal: Create a lessons learned handbook with auditing focus

●Timeline: None●Workflow:

○ Develop keywords for material discovery

○ Faculty member selects materials for final entry into database

●Project Features – ○ Faculty member wants students to

be able to conduct their own case study

Art History

Mini-grant recipient

●Goal: Replace current materials (including textbook) with open materials

●Timeline: 1-year●Workflow:

○ Outline course in Canvas○ Find the materials (Smart History

– Khan Academy)

●Project Features – ○ Open Textbook○ Interactive Component (Tiki Toki)

LEAH HANNAFORDLHANNAFORD@CENTRALIA.EDU

Updates on our Initiative and Handouts:

http://libguides.centralia.edu/OERhome