Summer eLC Meeting - August 27th and 28th, 2025
Update from the Summer 2017 Meeting:
The Open workgroup would like to remain on the IC workplan. We want to keep Open in minds and hearts.
We have drafted suggested outcomes:
Objective: 3.4 Further Develop Structural Supports for Open Initiatives
3.4a Collaborate with eLC, LLC and IR to develop strategies for structural supports
3.4b Collaborate to explore impact on student success beyond the cost savings
3.4c Develop a list of best practices for replicating results
3.4d Share all the results in Canvas Commons
3.4e Offer expertise and support to help inform policy authors at institutional and state levels
Update from the Spring 2017 Meeting:
The Open group is focused in IC objective 3. 4:
Objective: 3.4 Support Open initiatives (open educational resources, open pedagogies)
3.4a Assure broad conceptualization through collaboration.
3.4b Demonstrate promising practices that enhance student success through Open.
and the request to foster collaboration between OER leaders and librarians .
The collaboration between OER leaders and librarian leaders at WACC was a huge success.
100% of the survey participants rated the conference as excellent.
The feedback on individual sessions was overwhelmingly positive.
The conference had five sessions from librarians.
Update from the Winter 2017 Meeting:
The eLC OER Workgroup reached out to librarian leaders to collaborate on OER outreach. The OER Workgroup has combined with the Professional Development Workgroup to plan the 2017 Washington Annual Canvas Conference. The OER Workgroup recruited librarians to present on OER in each time block of the conference.
In the works - the eLC Workgroup will be coordinating with the Boyoung Chae to provide OER content for the new Washington OER Commons repository for sharing OER courses developed with the whole system.
The eLC OER Workgroup is coordinating with SBCTC to help spread the information, implementation, and understanding of the new OER and Low Cost code in ctcLink.
The OER workgroup has read the IC plan and created a draft deliverable for 3.4, 3.4a and 3.4b listed below
Objective: 3.4 Support Open initiatives (open educational resources, open pedagogies)
3.4a Assure broad conceptualization through collaboration.
3.4b Demonstrate promising practices that enhance student success through Open.
The Open work group is joining the Professional Development Group and the LLC to help plan the annual Washington Canvas Users Group.
The Open work group will be collaborating with librarians to hopefully get increased proposals submitted for potential presentations at the WA Canvas Users conference. Our goal is for every block of the conference to have a session on OER by a librarian.
*Christie Fierro OER Workgroup Chair
Tacoma Community College
Tim Fuhrman
Big Bend Community College
Dr. Claver Hategekimana
Skagit Valley Community College
Dr. Boyoung Chae
SBCTC
Our goals for the 2016-2017 academic year:
Encourage sharing in Canvas Commons with an OpenWa tag
Explore sharing Open courses developed by Washington faculty in OER Commons
Attempt to create a list of resouces WA State faculty have adopted
Continue to collaborate with the Library Directors/CLAMS
Continue to encourage moving Open courses beyond replacing expensive texts. The goal is to encourage Open Pedagogy as part of course design.