Professional Development

The University of Hawai‘i Community Colleges continue to be a part of the global Open Educational Resources (OER) movement to reduce textbook and learning material costs for students and to provide quality education. Research shows that students do better when taught with OER.

With the support of the UH Office of the Vice President for Community Colleges, our college chancellors, and vice chancellors for academic affairs, the community colleges have joined together to contribute funding to support a UHCC Open Textbook Incentive Program. This program provides OER training and support for eligible UHCC faculty, lecturers, and APTs who wish to modify or create a textbook, or convert a course to Textbook Cost: $0 (TXT0). OER professional development will be offered in fall and spring and we encourage you to sign up. For those who complete a fall training and are ready to start an OER project, we hope you will also apply for a modification or creation award.

OER 101

This professional development gives you the basics for understanding what OERs are and how to use them as teaching materials. It will give you basic copyright, fair use, and licensing information and open your world to the more than one billion open educational resources online. You will receive the foundation you need to add OER to your class, to adopt and modify OER, or create new OER. This knowledge is essential if you want to move your course to Textbook Cost: $0 (TXT0.)

We all have different learning styles and schedules. You can sign up for a synchronous online workshop series or take an asynchronous, 6-module course in Laulima. Each offering takes about 15-20 hours to complete.

UHCC participants will be compensated $300* for completing the requirements of the workshop series or course and will receive an official UHCC OER 101 certificate or badge. Eighty seats have been set aside for OER 101.

* All incentive payments will be processed as overload, subject to participant eligibility.

Synchronous Online Workshop

Do you like attending workshops where you can collaborate with others in real time? We are offering several synchronous Zoom workshops. You will be working with our very own OER experts to get an excellent introduction to modifying and creating OER. Estimated time for work: 15 hours, including three in-person, 90-minute online meetings.

Spring 2022 workshop dates: Feb. 4, 11, 18

Asynchronous Online Workshop

Do you like to learn on your own time and schedule? We are offering a Laulima-based asynchronous course with six modules. You can sign up at any time and take as long as you need to complete. (If you plan to apply for the Modification Award (OERMA) or Creation Award (OERCA) you will need to complete the asynchronous OER 101 by November 30.) Estimated time for work: 15-20 hours.

You will be compensated $300 for completing the requirements of this course* and will receive an official UHCC OER 101 certificate or badge.

Sign up for the asynchronous Laulima OER 101 course.

Sign up continues through March 31, 2022. Course completion deadline is April 30, 2022.