2014-2015 Open Educational Resources

Group Members:

Tim Fuhrman - Communicator

Vicki Sievert - Website

Boyoung Chae- Expert!!!!!

Zach Wellhouse

Christie Fierro

Anyone? Anyone? - Chair

2012-2013 OER page

2013-2014 OER page

Objectives:

1. Promote a common definition of OER

   1. 1. Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others (definition by Hewlett Foundation). 

• • • Format: materials in any medium, digital or otherwise

    • Conditions: that either

      • reside in the public domain or

      • have been released under an open license,

    • Nature: which permit their free use and re-purposing by others.  

2. Provide resources, examples, testimonies of successful OER use.

• • The Boyoung tour!

    • Testimonies http://www.openwa.org/stories/ 

    • Attribution Builder http://www.openwa.org/attrib-builder/

    • Online training course @ http://www.waol.org/info/training/instTrainingRegV2.asp

      • self paced - http://www.openwa.org/module-1/

    • Conference presentations (ATL, WACUG, NFI, LOEL)

  • SBCTC OER Website launched http://www.openwa.org/

3. Measure usage and/or effectiveness. 

• • A Qualitative Investigation of Faculty Open Educational Resource Usage in the Washington Community and Technical College System: Models for Support and Implementation http://goo.gl/dERBtX

Strategies:

1. OER definition.

   • Definition will be officially shared with IC (at the winter meeting - Feb 12) and then used on all official websites, training, and marketing.

   • Support the development of a common OER logo - swagable!

2. Stay apprised to developing Canvas Commons and how it fits with OER activities.

   • Schools with Beta (LCC & TCC) will report back to Boyoung and eLC with continuous progress. 

3. Promote and market the OER training course.

   • 11/2014 Post to the CLAMS listserv and share at the LOEL workshop to increase awareness of faculty training.

   • Promote & Use Boyoung's OpenWa listserv with a reminder that it ties to the eLC goals and to share out with faculty and staff.

     • 11/2014 - Tim shared at LOEL Workshop

     • 11/4/14 - Boyoung shared on eLC listserv

   • OER training course enrollments to date (1/29/15) for WACTC = 300 (600 total- 300 out of WACTC)

     • Share enrollment individually with low participating colleges. (Tim or Renee)

   • 11/21/14 Guest speaker requested by the Student Association:  Alyson was the guest speaker!

4. Promote and market openwa.org - support phase 2 development and launch. 

   • Shared Resources - develop a one pager to be added to the shared documents of eLC

   • Collect feedback for phase 2 development - Boyoung will draft an official request for volunteers (eLC, ATL, CLAMS, OpenWa, LLC, CCCOER) to review the openwa.org website - Boyoung & eLC workgroup will distribute and encourage participation.

     • shared google doc with themes (Renee)

5. Collaborate with the State Board, LLC, and CLAMS to drive OER use and awareness, specifically for the LOEL grant

   • Individual eLC members support individual campuses in developing their plans

   • Data/Results? - LOEL Grant applications and results

     • Phase 1 - 18 colleges participating in the LOEL Planning Mini-Grant (all who applied received)

       • Deliverable due date is May 15, 2015

     • Phase 2 - Collaboration Mini Grant - to be awarded the end of January 2015.P

   • Shared - A Qualitative Investigation of Faculty Open Educational Resource Usage in the Washington Community and Technical College System: Models for Support and Implementation http://goo.gl/dERBtX

   • Shared - (via listservs) BABSON Survey Research Group - Quantitative Study Came out 2 weeks ago, surveyed 2,200 faculty from all levels.  http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html

 Workplan 2014-15