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Communicating Capacity And Expectations Using A Call For Proposals, Karen Bjork

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Starting an open textbook publishing initiative? This presentation focuses on communicating capacity and expectations through the Call for Proposals (CFP).

Three Paths To Scholarly Articles, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Participants will gain a better understanding of how to introduce students to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. Participants will actively engage in searching in order to face some of the pitfalls and highlights of the research experience.

Moving Peer Review Transparency From Process To Praxis, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Scholarly publications often work to provide transparency of peer-review processes, posting policy information to their websites as suggested by the Committee on Publication Ethics’ (COPE) Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Publishing. Yet this falls short in providing peer-review transparency. Using examples from an interview-based qualitative study, this article argues that scholarly publications should move from peer-review process transparency to a praxis of transparency in peer review. Praxis infers that values inform practices. Scholarly publications should therefore use clear communication practices in all matters of business, and bolster transparency efforts, delineating rights and responsibilities of all players in …

Hot Neoliberal Commodities Or Tools For Empowerment? A Badges Case Study And Conversation, Emily Ford, Jost Lottes, Betty Izumi, Dawn Richardson

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In Fall term of 2014, three instructors of Portland State University’s School of Community Health, in collaboration with the school’s subject librarian, deployed digital badges to certify information literacy and critical thinking outcomes in their classes. The badge curriculum, which was developed by mapping library learning outcomes to course learning outcomes, was designed to teach and assess students’ understanding of and skills acquisition in website evaluation, information formats, database searching, citing and plagiarism, and contributing knowledge to the information landscape. Badges were issued using Credly, and before and after the term, students were asked to provide feedback about their learning …

Techniques For Electronic Resource Management: Terms And The Transition To Open, Jill Emery, Graham Stone, Peter Mccracken

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Growing Open Access (OA) options, Big Deal price pressure, fluid e-book purchasing models, and the need for ongoing assessment: it all adds up to a lot of moving parts. More than ever, you need a pragmatic framework for managing the many details of your online materials. TERMS—Techniques for Electronic Resource Management Systems—gave you one. Now its creators, incorporating five years of notes and input from many voices in the field, have updated their influential lifecycle model. In six sections you will circle through selection, procurement and licensing, implementation, troubleshooting, evaluation, and preservation and sustainability. Offering targeted guidance on both basic …

Students Perception Of Open Textbooks, Karen Bjork

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Textbooks have long been an integral learning platform in higher education. As the rising cost of textbooks continues to burden students, many libraries have begun to facilitate the creation and publishing of open textbooks. In 2013, with the support of a Provost-backed initiative, Portland State University (PSU) Library developed an open textbook publishing program that works with faculty to create open textbooks that are designed specifically for the courses that they teach. The publishing initiative, called PDXOpen, has published 21 open textbooks. The program has saved over 2,890 PSU students over $272,000 on the cost of their books.

PSU Library …

Navigating The Sustainable Stream: Academic Libraries Keeping Pace With Streaming Content Demand, Joshua Keyes, Elsa Loftis

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

With increasing student and faculty expectations of on-demand streaming video content, how are academic libraries keeping pace with costs and licensing models? As the common access models for video add additional subscriptions to the mix or feature Patron-Driven Acquisition (PDA) options that escalate costs as usage increases, collections librarians must perform a precarious balancing act to ensure vital information resources are available at sustainable cost levels. We will share the recent experiences of The Claremont Colleges Library and Portland State University Library, and how our models have adapted to meet growing demands on our budgets and staff time. This is …

Student Centered Design Components In Body Physics: Motion To Metabolism, Mick Davis

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Body Physics: Motion to Metabolism is an OER textbook designed for 100-level physics courses. (https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/bodyphysics) The poster will highlight the process of designing the textbook from a student-centered reference frame, including the overall contextual format and implementation of specific design features in the Pressbooks platform.

The Story Of An Oer: Creation To Collaboration, Alise Lamoreaux

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This poster will tell the story of how an OER designed for a class at Lane went from an idea to meet a specific need at Lane to a be included in a collaborative effort producing an OER that has now been adopted by over 15 colleges in multiple states and just won a Textbook And Academic Authors Association award.

A Community Of Oer Practice: The Intermountain Open Pedagogy Education Network (Iopen), Rick A. Stoddart

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Open Education Resource (OER) work requires an engaged community to be successful. This community can be leveraged to share expertise and experiences that can make local OER efforts more effective and successful. iOPEN started as a series of informal virtual conversations that has evolved into a regional practitioner community that plans OER strategy, advocates for statewide change, shares funding opportunities, and co-presents their research. This poster will share how iOPEN became a community of practice and suggest strategies to create your own OER community of practice.

Spanish For Native Speakers & The Oregon State Seal Of Biliteracy, Joe Romero

Open Educational Resources Symposium

OER provided the chance to create a needed text for an initiative to bring the Oregon State Seal of Biliteracy to Higher Education, starting at Chemeketa Community College.

This text differs from a traditional 200 level languages course as it includes a broader focus to incorporate ACTLF's four language domains, and the materials are presented in-context to meet the unique needs of a Heritage Language Learner. The relevancy of the content has also been updated to touch on contemporary issues and themes, as well as bring-in new forms of media.

Information on the Biliteracy Seal initiative and the role of …

Adapting, Remixing, And Adopting An Oer In General Chemistry I And Ii, Adelaide E. Clark, Seth Anthony

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Through the generous support of the OIT library and Open Oregon, General Chemistry I and II (CHE 201 and 202) at Oregon Institute of Technology has been able to switch to OER texts this academic year. It is estimated that this switch has saved each student up to $300 per year. The text was remixed from Openstax Chemistry as well as other texts and multimedia and is hosted online via LibreTexts. A printed version was also created to give students an option who prefer printed texts. Besides lowered student cost, benefits include specific tailoring of information for the course, supplements …

What Can Oer Advocates Learn From The Traditional Faculty Textbook Adoption Experience?, Rick A. Stoddart

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Previous research has demonstrated the positive impacts that Open Educational Resources (OER) can have on student retention and learning, but these connections may not be compelling enough to persuade faculty to adopt OER resources in lieu of traditional textbooks and materials. What are OER advocates missing? What could OER advocates do better or differently? To be successful with OER, it is important to understand not only what OER are replicating or replacing in the classroom, but also understand the whole faculty experience around textbook adoption. How do faculty hear about textbooks? How do vendors communicate to faculty? What are faculty …

Integrated And Open Interpreter Education: The Open Educational Resource Reader And Workbook For Interpreters, Elisa Maroney, Vicki Darden, Erin Trine, Sarah Hewlett, Sue Kunda

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This poster depicts the development of an OER for interpreting educators by Western Oregon University Interpreting Studies faculty, as well as the collaboration with the University Library to publish the final product. The goal of the OER is to offer faculty and students readings and practical application experiences that connect program specific coursework and concepts across the interpreter education curriculum emphasizing the holistic nature of the field of interpreting. The intent for this project is to create a space where emerging scholars in the field of signed language interpreting will make contributions with the ability to revise as the interpreting …

Math Literacy In The Global Climate Context, Paula Thonney

Open Educational Resources Symposium

The poster will show some excerpts from the Math Literacy workbook as well as examples of student work and assignments.

Third Edition of Math Literacy in a Global Context, by Paula Thonney. Some components originally written by Carrie Kyser and Kelly Mercer.

Creating Mathematics Oer Using Latex, Richard Beveridge

Open Educational Resources Symposium

I recently completed a 550 page Latex-based textbook containing material suitable for College Algebra, Trigonometry, and Pre-Calculus courses.

The poster will show examples from this work.

Owning Your Omeka: Teaching Diy Digital Scholarship Through A Scaffolded Workshop Series, Kate Thornhill, Franny Gaede

Open Educational Resources Symposium

In February 2019, UO Libraries opened the new UO Libraries Digital Research, Education, and Media (DREAM) Lab to be a space for faculty and graduate students to learn new digital scholarship tools, methods, and techniques, data management and visualization, instructional design, accessibility, user experience, and assessment. With a strong campus appetite to develop Omeka-based digital humanities projects, Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) librarians designed its first DIY digital scholarship workshop series called Owning Your Omeka with intention to empower researchers and educators to make their own digital exhibits using Reclaim Hosting.

Between December 2018-February 2019, DSS librarians designed a three-part six-hour …

Collaborating With Six Faculty On Oer Creation, Shanell Sanchez

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This poster will discuss Dr. Sanchez's experience as an Assistant Professor collaborating with her department to create an OER for their introductory course. It will provide tips, suggestions, and recommendations based on experience. Additionally, provide the opportunity to discuss authoring an OER.

Remix The Oer Universe With Libretexts, Jennifer Rogers, Delmar Larsen Mr

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Libretexts unites students, faculty and scholars to cooperatively develop online educational resources that are easy to adopt and use, simple to optimize, and are backed by educational research with advanced technologies. LibreTexts are totally cost free to students, institutions and faculty. LibreTexts’ technology enables any faculty member to easily and rapidly create OER textbooks and more that are optimized for their courses and students. The structure of LibreTexts solves two of the central problems limiting OER adoption: the time and effort that faculty need to assemble OER for their classes and dissemination. Libretexts are built by incorporating content from an …

Customizing A Business Law Textbook At Linn-Benton Community College, Keith Tierney, Michaela Willi Hooper

Open Educational Resources Symposium

In 2017 Keith Tierney, a business law instructor at Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC), was fed up with the high cost of his commercial textbook. Not only was it upwards of $300, it wasn't customized to his learning outcomes and editions went out of date quickly. He saw the announcement for LBCC's Textbook Affordability Grant and reached out to LBCC's OER Librarian, Michaela Willi Hooper, to learn more. Michaela helped him find an existing business law OER and get it into an editable format (Microsoft Word). Keith went through training with LBCC's Center for Accessibility Resources and learned how to use …

Why Chemeketa Press Doesn't Make Oers (Mostly), Brian Mosher

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Chemeketa Press does not make its books available for free because we are pursuing a self-funding publishing model that lives somewhere between the realms of traditional publishing and OER production. We want to present our model to people interested in the OER model to show how similar goals can be achieved through different means.

Pcc's Equity And Open Education Faculty Cohort, Jen Klaudinyi

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Learning materials used in the classroom are a social justice issue. Traditional textbooks can present barriers to students in the form of cost as well as in the narrative embedded within the content. This year PCC designed and implemented a 2-part professional development opportunity: the Open Education and Equity Faculty Cohort. We asked instructors to explore intersections between open education, culturally responsive teaching, universal design and open pedagogy and then to implement some of their learning in curriculum revision. This poster will provide an overview of the cohort design and our experience leading it.

Interactive Session: Authoring Oer, Karen Lauritsen

Open Educational Resources Symposium

While it may feel like you’re starting on page one, this workshop will focus on the resources, both human and technical, that are already in place to support your writing and publishing process. We’ll identify who can provide local expertise, how your open textbook will be different from others, as well as the publishing platforms available, with an emphasis on Pressbooks. By the end of the session, you will leave with a map for your path forward.

Additional files for this session can be found in the morning session record.

Interactive Session: Open Pedagogy, Chad Flinn

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This workshop will unpack the concepts of Open Pedagogy and Open Educational Practices and share how Chad has used these strategies in his own teaching as a vocational instructor. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with some of the tools and best practices that are being used in Open Pedagogy and have the opportunity to walk away with a new open educational practices toolkit.

Additional files for this session can be found in the morning session record.

Interactive Session: Equity, Diversity, And Inclusion In Open Education, Camille Thomas

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Participants in the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Open Education session will gain strategies on how to integrate equitable values into their workflows. This session will cover best practices for centering diverse perspectives. It will also explore design principles which harness the flexibility of OER to include a variety teaching and learning styles.

Interactive Session: Advocacy For Open And Affordable Materials, Mo Nyamweya

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This workshop’s goal is to prepare and/or better equip participants to be OER advocates on their campus. You’ll learn how to identify and recruit allies, communicate and collaborate with various stakeholders, and create long- and short-term goals for your campus. We will also tackle barriers to OER advocacy and map out solutions to your unique challenges.

Interactive Session: Open Pedagogy, Chad Flinn

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This workshop will unpack the concepts of Open Pedagogy and Open Educational Practices and share how Chad has used these strategies in his own teaching as a vocational instructor. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with some of the tools and best practices that are being used in Open Pedagogy and have the opportunity to walk away with a new open educational practices toolkit.

Interactive Session: Authoring Oer, Karen Lauritsen

Open Educational Resources Symposium

While it may feel like you’re starting on page one, this workshop will focus on the resources, both human and technical, that are already in place to support your writing and publishing process. We’ll identify who can provide local expertise, how your open textbook will be different from others, as well as the publishing platforms available, with an emphasis on Pressbooks. By the end of the session, you will leave with a map for your path forward.

Interactive Session: Advocacy For Open And Affordable Materials, Mo Nyamweya

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This workshop’s goal is to prepare and/or better equip participants to be OER advocates on their campus. You’ll learn how to identify and recruit allies, communicate and collaborate with various stakeholders, and create long- and short-term goals for your campus. We will also tackle barriers to OER advocacy and map out solutions to your unique challenges.

Students Perception Of Open Textbooks: Students Tell Us What They Think About Open Textbooks In Their Courses, Karen Bjork, Kristi Jensen

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Textbooks have long been an integral learning platform in higher education. As the rising cost of textbooks continues to burden students, many libraries have begun to facilitate the creation and publishing of open textbooks. While many colleges and universities have surveyed students about their textbook purchasing habits and interest in open textbooks, fewer surveys have captured student feedback on their actual hands on experiences with their resources. Portland State University (PSU) Library and the University of Minnesota (UofM) Libraries have both collected date from students about their experiences with open textbooks selected and created specifically for their courses.

In 2013, …