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Leeward Designing OER Renewable Assignments (LDORA) Incentive Award

From 2018-2021, the OER Campus Committee supported an incentive award program for Leeward faculty and lecturers. In AY 2021-22, the Leeward program was discontinued, and a new UHCC system program was launched. For more information about the UHCC OER Incentive Program, go to the UHCC OER website.

Purpose

The LDORA Incentive Award invites partnership between subject matter experts and educational technologist to jointly apply for small grants, supporting the creation of renewable assignments.

Goal

The goal of the LDORA is to create renewable assignments based on the principles of OER-Enabled Pedagogy which are designed to be used with specific open educational resources (OER).

Eligibility

Any faculty or lecturer teaching a TXT0 course at Leeward CC for at least one semester (Fall or Spring) in partnership with an Educational Technologist. Past award winners will be eligible if it is for a different course.

Award $500

$250 each (Subject Matter Expert / Instructor and Educational Technologist). The award is funded through the UHCC OER Initiative fund. Up to three awards per year.

Process

    1. Instructor and Educational Technologist team up. Please contact Brent (bhirata@hawaii.edu) or Rachael (rinake@hawaii.edu) if you are interested in working together.

    2. Identify at least one OER to be used as content for the assignment.

    3. Propose one renewable assignment aligned to a specific OER.

    4. Commit to license everything you submit as CC BY 4.0.

    5. Submit finished product to UH OER Repository.

Timeline

  • Application Period: March 1 - 31, 2021

  • Application Review: April 1 - 16, 2021

  • Notification by: April 21, 2021

  • Work Period: April 22 - December 31, 2021

  • Submission of Half Deliverable: July 23, 2021

  • Submission of Full Deliverable: December 31, 2021

Criteria

Create and submit one complete renewable assignment including:

    • The name and URL of the specific open educational resource the renewable assignment is designed to be used with,

    • A set of clear and complete instructions for completing the renewable assignment,

    • A rubric for grading the renewable assignment (typically presented as a table) that clearly specifies:

      • at least three levels of possible student performance (e.g., poor, acceptable, excellent),

      • the criteria by which the renewable assignment will be evaluated (e.g., use of supporting evidence), including criteria determining whether or not excellent student work might be eligible for remixing into future versions of the OER itself (e.g., licensing),

      • a description of what student performance looks like for each criterion at each level of performance (e.g., a “poor” rating for the criterion “use of supporting evidence” might read “no supporting evidence is provided”),

    • Guidance to faculty who have adopted the specific OER regarding how to use the renewable assignment with students (e.g., “use this assignment to assess mastery of material covered in section 5.7 of the OER in place of related items on an end of chapter quiz”; “have students present their projects in class for review and rating by their peers”), and

    • A sample completed assignment, together with a completed rubric for the assignment, on which the sample assignment receives the highest rating for each criterion.

All grant deliverables must be licensed CC BY and added to UH OER Repository. Attribution will be shared between the educational technologist and the subject matter expert.

The LDORA rubric will be used to score all applicant submissions.
OER Award

Award Winners

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Congratulations to 2020 Award Winners - Cara Chang and Brent Hirata!

Cara Chang
Brent Hirata

The LDORA award invites a partnership between a subject matter expert and an educational technologist to jointly create renewable assignments. Cara Chang and Brent Hirata are the recipients of this year’s award. The evaluation committee was impressed by Cara and Brent’s sustainable vision for current students, future students, and the educator community with this renewable assignment project.

ENG 209 students will share one of their assignments by applying an open Creative Commons license to the work. The assignments will be accompanied by a reflection on how their work can be applied in a real-world business setting. Both the work sample and reflection will serve as examples for future students using Cara’s OER textbook, Business Writing for Success.

Contribute a Business Writing Example to OER Textbook Instructor's Guide

Contribute a Business Writing Example to OER Textbook Assignment

Congratulations to 2019 Award Winners - Tasha Williams and Rachael Inake!

Tasha Williams
Rachael Inake

Tasha and Rachael created an OER renewable assignment for ENG 100. The renewable assignment has students contribute to a chapter in an existing OER College Success textbook.

Congratulations to 2018 Award Winners - Erika Molyneux and Rachael Inake!

Erika Molyneux
Rachael Inake

Erika and Rachael created a renewable assignment for Digital Art 112. The renewable assignment has students create "how-to" videos on creating media using Photoshop. The student tutorials were licensed under Creative Commons and uploaded to a YouTube playlist. The playlist was linked to the instructor's class modules (OER). The tutorials are openly available to current students, future students, and the community.

References

LDORA is modeled after the DOER Fellowships. Here are sample OER Renewable Assignments and sample OER Enabled Pedagogies.