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The SCELC OER Landscape Report + Lightning Talks
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are coming up more commonly within SCELC these days. Some member institutions are very involved, some are just starting, and some aren’t sure where to begin. In this webinar, we’ll have something for everyone!
OER can mean the difference between a student being able to afford decent food during the semester or not. It can be their electricity bill for the semester. Some students will not buy the required textbooks and they will suffer as a consequence. The SCELC Scholarly Communications Committee tasked an OER Subcommittee to run a SCELC-wide survey on what member institutions are doing regarding OER. The results from the Fall 2020 survey will be shared during the webinar. One of the survey questions asked for respondents to talk about their successes with OER and we will also hear five lightning talks from SCELC members about their experiences:
Christina Pecora and Jan Kuebel Hernandez will present collaborative efforts with an iSchool instructional design class in tandem with offering paid, project-based internships. CUSM’s OER content provides professionally crafted elearning modules for healthcare education. We will illustrate the various projects and their workflows that involve OER curation and content creation, the benefits of the modules, cost factors, and the challenges of housing the modules in an environment without a library catalog.
Christa Bailey and Adriana Poo will present about their Fall 2019, when the Affordable Learning $olutions (AL$) team held a digital storytelling contest open to all currently enrolled San Jose State University (SJSU) students. The contest asked students to write a personal narrative or create their own digital story around how textbook affordability impacted them personally.
Kristin Laughtin-Dunker and Doug Dechow will discuss their process for launching an OER program at Chapman University, including meeting with the Student Government Association to plan future collaborations and conducting a faculty outreach webinar during the annual teaching and learning conference held each interterm.
Jamie Hazlitt will discuss Loyola Marymount University’s Open & Affordable Textbook Initiative (OATI), the keystone of which is a departmental faculty grant. In the pilot year (2020), three faculty from the Art History department partnered to convert five courses to open and free course materials. She will share lessons learned from the pilot, the current status of OATI, year 2 at LMU, and resources that may be adapted for libraries interested in launching their own OER grants.
Michele Gibney will talk about initial success with OER from the Biology department thanks to multiple OER champions as well as easy outreach efforts you can attempt by department via email. She has seen success from targeted email campaigns particularly in the departments of Philosophy, Art, and Modern Languages.
If you have an OER program at your institution, these ideas might spark your interest in broadening some portion of it. If you are just starting, these presentations will have suggestions on new ways to engage students or faculty. And if you are not sure where to start, the results from the survey and the ideas shared by your fellows will hopefully inspire you! We hope you will join us to learn more about where SCELC members stand in the OER landscape.
Presenter Bios:
California University of Science and Medicine
Christina Pecora received a MS in Medical illustration from Augusta University. Prior to her medical illustration training she received a BFA in illustration and a certificate in medical illustration from California State University of Long Beach. Christina is currently the Manager of Instructional Resources Services at California University of Science and Medicine, where she is responsible for the advancement, collaboration, design, production and project management of creating innovative and effective biomedical visualization resources that support the curricula, instruction, patient education, public relations, and research objectives of the university.
Jan Kuebel Hernandez is the Director of the Information Commons of the new California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM), she and her team reframe traditional library, instructional design, and medical illustration resources and services within a digital environment offering dynamic learning experiences throughout the medical school's curriculum. Before joining the founding team at CUSM and teaching at SBVC, Jan served as the University Librarian of West Coast University, overseeing the growth and development of 8 campus libraries across California, Texas, and Florida, and an Online Library. Jan's past library employment experiences include public library systems, private sector, museums, visual resources & special collections, and the SS Universe Explorer cruise ship's Library. Jan holds an MLIS from San Jose State University with undergraduate degrees in Art History & Anthropology from the University of Indianapolis.
Chapman University
Douglas R. Dechow is the Engineering and Science Librarian at Chapman University. He is the co-author of Generation Space: A Love Story, The Craft of Librarian Instruction, and Squeak: A Quick Trip to Objectland. He co-edited Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson. Dechow earned a PhD in Computer Science from Oregon State University, an MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a BA in Physics from Knox College.
Kristin Laughtin-Dunker is the Coordinator of Scholarly Communications & Electronic Resources in the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University in Orange, CA. She earned her MLIS at San Jose State University and has also earned a Digital Archives Specialist certificate from the Society of American Archivists and a Certificate in OER Librarianship from the Open Education Network. She currently manages Chapman University’s institutional repository and electronic resources, is the Secretary for the CARL Scholarly Communication and Open Resources for Education (SCORE) interest group, and is a member of the SCELC Scholarly Communication Committee.
Loyola Marymount University
Jamie Hazlitt is the Librarian for Collection Development and Evaluation, the Interim Associate Dean, and the lead for the Open & Affordable Textbook Initiative at the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University. (No, that does not fit on her business card.) She is a 2019-2020 SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow, and the LMU OATI program builds upon her SPARC capstone project.
San Jose State University
Christa Bailey is the Business, Economics and Psychology librarian at San Jose State University (SJSU) and serves as Co-coordinator of the campus Affordable Learning $olutions initiative.
Adriana Poo is the Kinesiology, Public Health and Recreation Librarian at San Jose State University (SJSU) and serves as Co-coordinator of the Affordable Learning $olutions initiative.
The initiative has been at SJSU since 2012 and has contributed to students saving over $2.3 million in textbook savings.
University of the Pacific
Michele Gibney has worked in the development and management of institutional repository software and platforms for over 9 years and is currently the Head of Publishing and Scholarship Support at University of the Pacific in California. She also served a Fulbright Scholarship in Kosovo at the University for Business and Technology to launch their repository, is pursuing her PhD in Informatics at Linnaeus University in Sweden and serves as the Chair of the SCELC Scholarly Communications Committee’s OER Subcommittee.