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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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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

Library Faculty and Staff 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, …

The Impression That I Get: Reference & Instruction Uses / Preceptions Of Primo In A Consortial Environment, Anne M. Pepitone, Barbara Valentine, Molly Gunderson, Holli Kubly

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

The Discovery and User Experience Team conducted an open-ended survey designed to gather information about how Primo works within the context of the daily work of patron-centered staff and librarians. We felt that this information and feedback was important because it provided the only avenue in which reference and instruction librarians could give direct input to the Alliance about how to improve our current discovery interface. The survey asked reference and instruction librarians about their specific experiences with Primo with the goal of identifying ways that the Discovery and User Experience Team could better support these users.

Primo [Library Catalog]: Towards A Socially Just Search System, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair, Molly Gunderson

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

At the Portland State University (PSU) Library, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion and have demonstrated this commitment by design with the new, responsive Primo. Designing the new Primo for ease of use for discovery and delivery for 30,000 students was the tantamount motivation for our new Primo launch, fall term 2016. In this session, we will cover why the PSU Library uses the open search field rather than scope selection on the homepage; what is an equitable approach to faceted navigation; and why a “less is more” design approach addresses accessibility and the affective for first generation college students, …

Engaging The Global Community, Christopher V. Hollister

Communications in Information Literacy

No abstract provided.

Opening Up Open Access Institutional Repositories To Demonstrate Value: Two Universities’ Pilots On Including Metadata-Only Records, Karen Bjork, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Ryan Otto

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Introduction: Institutional repository managers are continuously looking for new ways to demonstrate the value of their repositories. One way to do this is to create a more inclusive repository that provides reliable information about the research output produced by faculty affiliated with the institution.

Description of Program: This article details two pilot projects that evaluated how their repositories could track faculty research output through the inclusion of metadata-only (no full-text) records. The purpose of each pilot project was to determine the feasibility and provide an assessment of the long-term impact on the repository’s mission statement, staffing, and collection development policies. …

Unlock The Value Of Open Content, Jill Emery, Swetta Abeyta, Danielle Bromelia

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

The proliferation of open access content presents opportunities and challenges for libraries, publishers, and library service providers. This program provides a timely overview of the state of open access delivery, with examples of current solutions from the perspectives of librarians and library service providers.

Oer Authoring And Publishing, Karen Bjork, Amy Stanforth

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Explore the evolving landscape of open textbook publishing, share your own experiences creating or using open educational resources (not limited to textbooks), and learn what support is available from PSU Library to create Open Educational Resources (OER) to increase affordability and accessibility for students.

How Open Are You? Discussion About Oa Resources In Collection Development, Jill Emery, Peter Mccracken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Presentation provided at the The ALCTS Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) in Seattle, WA on 27 January 2019. The discussion will involve incorporating open scholarship into current collections management.

Heard On The Net: “Academic” And “Freedom” Are Two Words For Nothing Left To Lose, Jill Emery, Amy Buckland, Ashley Farley

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Opinion piece on the use of Academic Freedom as an argument against open access publishing.

Academic Librarians’ Experiences As Faculty Developers: A Phenomenographic Study, Michael Flierl, Clarence Maybee, Rachel Fundator

Communications in Information Literacy

Academic libraries are integral to the teaching and learning missions of colleges and universities. Yet, libraries continue to face substantial challenges in their work to advance student learning, especially regarding the sustainability and scalability of their instructional efforts. This paper describes a phenomenographic research project that investigated the varied experiences of Purdue University Libraries faculty members participating in the IMPACT faculty development program. The findings suggest that academic librarians are capable of acting as faculty developers who can engage faculty in conversations, which may or may not relate to information literacy, to advance student-centered teaching and learning environments.

Book Review: Coaching Copyright, Beth M. Sheppard

Communications in Information Literacy

No abstract provided.

Saluting Our Reviewers, Christopher V. Hollister

Communications in Information Literacy

Editorial

The More Things Change: The Collaborative Art Library, Elsa Loftis

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

The academic library’s art collection has a history of fluidity and flux. Teaching and learning materials that support visual art education can range from traditional formats like image collections and monographs to the curious, the rare, and sometimes the downright unusual. Art library professionals must plan for the future of the academic library collection with intention and sensitivity to the learning styles of their students while adhering to the environmental realities of their governing institutions. One constant is clear, which is that art students are not content to be mere consumers of information and images; they are creators. It is …

Pdxscholar Annual Report 2018, Karen Bjork, Sherry Buchanan, David Coate, Bertrand Robinson, Stacey Schlatter

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This report details the eighth year of operation for PDXScholar, Portland State University's institutional repository, as well as the growth of Portland State University Library's publishing services. The report covers the period between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018.

Investigating The Effectiveness Of A Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Course In Reducing Library Anxiety For Adult Learners, Roslyn Grandy

Communications in Information Literacy

This study examines levels of library anxiety in 30 adult learners before and after completing a two-credit information literacy course. A modified version of the Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale was administered at the beginning and end of the course to compare levels of library anxiety. An analysis of the data revealed that the course was moderately effective in reducing library anxiety in adult learners. Awareness of library resources, comfort with the search process, and comfort level with library technology significantly increased after course completion. No significant decreases in library anxiety were reported in the areas of comfort level with staff …