Projects
Manifold Pilot Project
The Manifold Pilot is a two-year program (April 2022 - March 2024) organized through the Open Education Network (OEN) to explore the potential of the Manifold web publishing platform and share collective knowledge with the OEN community. As one of 17 selected United States and Canadian academic institutions and organizations, our group includes four members from the University of Hawaiʻi Community Colleges (UHCC) OER team: Leanne Urasaki (Hawaiʻi CC), Sunny Pai (Kapiʻolani CC), Jason Yamashita (Leeward CC), and Wayde Oshiro (Leeward CC).
The team's leading project is the conversion of the UHCC OER asynchronous OER 101 training course from its location in Laulima to an openly accessible digital textbook for broader use. This six chapter text covers the basics about OER, preparing instructors and support staff to develop open resource materials for the University of Hawaiʻi. Our team will also consider other projects to investigate the practicalities of Manifold as a publishing option for UH system-wide OER creation.
This six chapter textbook covers the basics about Open Educational Resources (OER) and how to find, evaluate, modify, and adopt them to replace for-cost course materials. This textbook also prepares instructors and support staff to start an open textbook project for the University of Hawaiʻi.
This resource was developed to document our team's journey as we published the OER 101 textbook. It includes sample texts ingested from the various source files, and a document that discusses what we found as pros and cons for each type.
Mentor-Mentee Framework
A collaboration between the UHCC and UH OER teams, the Mentor-Mentee Framework project nurtures relationships between mentors with experiences in OER work and mentees who are looking for guidance with OER learning, OER development, or incorporating OER into tenure and promotion review dossiers. This framework has two components. The OER Mentor Directory offers a public listing of UH OER champions who may be contacted for quick questions or short-term assistance on self-identified topics. The Mentor-Mentee Program nurtures a mentor-mentee partnership for OER-related support through a mentorship contract outlining specific expectations for both parties.
UHCC members on the development team are Sarah Gray (Windward CC) and Jason Yamashita (Leeward CC).
The OER Mentor Directory will be available in mid-2023.