OER 2018-2019

*Zach Welhouse, Workgroup Chair

Big Bend Community College

Tim Fuhrman

Big Bend Community College

Dr. Boyoung Chae

SBCTC

Vicki Sievert

Peninsula College

Jeff Iannone

Shoreline

Diana Bullen

Pierce

Kelley Meeusen

Clover Park

Jeremy Winn

Grays Harbor

Randy Gottfriend

NopeShoreline

Dale Coleman

Tacoma

Our goals for the 2018-2019 academic year are pending guidance from IC. For now they are:

• 1. Encourage understanding of OER tag in course catalogs

  2. Support Boyoung's efforts to collaborate with outside agencies and use resources mindfully (e.g. Washington universities, Department of Education grants)

  3. Continue to collaborate with the library directors/CLAWS

  4. Continue to encourage moving open courses beyond replacing expensive texts.  The goal is to encourage open pedagogy as part of course design. (links to IC workplan 2.1d and 3.3a)

From the 2017-2018 IC workplan:

2.1 Increase student access and success

2.1d Demonstrate leadership in equity and access in eLearning (OER, Professional Development)

3.3 Support Open initiatives (open educational resources, open pedagogies)

3.3a Assure broad conceptualization through collaboration.

3.3b Demonstrate promising practices that enhance student success through Open.

From the Spring 2019 meeting:

1. Zach will work with Candice Watkins (LLC, Tacoma CC) to discuss collaborative ELC-LLC projects. For example:

   1. Plan a OER activity for the summer joint meeting.  (Statewide letterwriting campaign kickoff?)

   2.  Work with Greg Bem (LLC, LWIT) to find speakers for an OER webinar.

   3.  LLC is hoping to work with us on one element of their work plan: 3.1.b. They suggest modifying their 3.1.b. to: "In conjunction with ELC, Further study methods for collecting campus processes/mechanisms for coding OER and Low Cost classes." This sounds good.

2. LLC would appreciate our input on their "Design a recommended model for OER," item. This model demonstrates an ideal setup for who works on OER at any given campus. For example:

• • Ensuring high quality materials: the OER Librarian or equivalent would be involved with this work.

  • Accessibility: the folks responsible for accessibility on campus are involved with this one (at my campus, the accessibility folks are part of eLearning and are part of the course-design process).

  • Ensuring that open=inclusive...this one is trickier. Would this be accomplished through open pedagogy and/or equitable outcome work? Or? While this could fall within the course design process, it also requires professional development on the part of faculty. Maybe this one ties to the other recommended model that we would develop, the one focused on OER leadership. Professional development on using inclusive open pedagogy could be a component of that model.

  • Admins/bookstore/eLearning for institutional support.

3. Developed plans for 2019-2020 that focus on equity:

• Update the WA 45 resource list (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YPhk1QUKlU0VbOnnvu6_2P2pBcmIZdPGioNCBvBDGQk/edit?usp=sharing)

• Encourage experts to add FAQS & feedback to the OER labeling page on ctclink (https://boyoungc.typeform.com/to/tTvJah). 

• Kick-off a letter-writing campaign for students (https://boyoungc.typeform.com/to/AAuHr7) to thank instructors for switching to OER. Collaborate with WACTSA: https://www.facebook.com/WACTCSA/. 

From the Winter 2019 meeting:

• SBCTC has worked with Oregon’s Higher Education Commission and Senator Pattie Murray’s office to change the eligibility language for the upcoming OER grant from the Department of Education, so that our Washington community and technical colleges could apply as one consortium.

• SBCTC and ELC OER work group have actively supporting the House Bill 1702 to ensure that both OER and Low-Cost code will be part of the state law. It is the outcome of our system’s 2 year long journey, especially the student survey from the last year. ELC was by far the biggest & most consistent supporter to the work, so many of ELC totally rallied and connected with the student leads and helped increased the number. So if this bill passed, it is a victory of ELC as well.

From the Fall 2018 meeting:

• Discussed an OER open pedagogy track for WACC and InstructureCon.

• Discussed how open pedagogy interacts with equity and accessibility. What about when they conflict?