Guides: OER: Resources for JBCL Reference and Instruction Librarians: Texas OER Core Elements Academy 2021

Texas OER Core Elements Academy 2021

Description

Librarians, instructional designers, and faculty are invited to participate in this unique professional learning opportunity. The Academy will cover three core elements of Open Educational Resources: Introduction to Open Educational Resources & Practices Exploration of the what, why, and how of OER, highlighting use cases involving successful adoption and implementation of OER. Discovery & Curation Hands-on training aimed at supporting effective search, quality evaluation, and curation strategies to collaboratively identify, evaluate, and organize OER relevant to desired use. Authoring & Remixing Deep dive into courseware improvement, developing collaborative workflows to utilize authoring tools to design, create and remix resources. Leverage supports for peer review, reflection, and refinement of resources.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) welcome applications for the first Open Educational Resources (OER) Core Elements Academy. Academy workshops will be held virtually on Wednesdays in June from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. CT. Faculty, librarians, and instructional designers at Texas public and independent institutions are invited to apply.

The OER Core Elements Academy will consist of three synchronous, virtual sessions:

June 2: Introduction to Open Educational Resources & Practices - Exploration of the what, why, and how of OER, highlighting use cases involving successful adoption and implementation of OER at Texas institutions.

June 16: Discovery & Curation - Hands-on training aimed at supporting effective search, quality evaluation, and curation strategies to collaboratively identify, evaluate, and organize OER relevant to desired use.

June 30: Authoring & Remixing - Deep dive into courseware improvement, developing collaborative workflows to utilize authoring tools to design, create and remix resources. Leverage supports for peer-review, reflection, and refinement of resources.

OER Core Elements Academy June 2021 Resources

OER Core Elements Academy June 2021 Resources
Introduction to Open Educational Resources & Practices
In this session we explore the what, why, and how of OER, highlighting use cases involving successful adoption and implementation of OER.

Goals:
Connect and get to know each other.

Discuss OER goals, supports, outcomes, and expectations.

Explore exemplar resources and use cases from Texas institutions of higher education.

Discover how to utilize OER tools to find, contribute, collaborate, and share.

Certification from the OER Academy

OER Core Elements Academy June 2021 Resources
Engagement, Practice, Reflection & Advocacy:
• Engagement - Reach out to an OER Leader to learn more about their work
• Practice -
o Join our Group, you can create new folders and subfolders in our group resources by clicking +New
o Use discovery tools Search / Advanced Search / Filter Results to find a resource you can use
o Save the resource you find to our Group
• Reflection - Share your goals, needs, and priorities in our Group discussion
• Advocacy - Share something you learned today with someone in your community

Engagement, Practice, Reflection & Advocacy:
• Engagement - Create your own evaluation criteria
• Practice - Evaluate a resource with your evaluation criteria by adding a comment. Save the resource to a folder or subfolder in our Group
• Reflection - Share your evaluation criteria in the Group discussion
• Advocacy - Share something you learned today with someone in your community

Engagement, Practice, Reflection & Advocacy:
• Engagement - Complete the survey and share feedback on the OER Core Elements Academy
• Practice - Design and publish a resource in our Group and save it to the drafts and published resources folder
• Reflection - Share your next steps for advancing your OER work in the Group discussion
• Advocacy - Share something you learned today with someone in your community