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Laying the Foundation

Building a Collaborative OER Community at the University of Hawaii

Hawaii Library Association Conference, 2015

Sara Rutter, Wayde Oshiro, Leanne Riseley, Junie Hayashi, Sunny Pai

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Open Educational Resources

Short history nationally

Early development at University of Hawaiʻi

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World Wide Web Fosters Openness

1990s Internet and World Wide Web

2001 Wikipedia begins

2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative

2002 MIT Courseware

2002 Creative Commons Licenses

2003 1st Annual Open Education Conference

2008 NIH Public Access Policy

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Open Education at the University of Hawai‘i

Cable Green April 2014 , (Director of Global Education for Creative Commons)

Introduced by Dean of Outreach College

Supported by UH Manoa VCAA

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Affordable education in UH Strategic Plans

University of Hawai‘i Strategic Directions 2015-2021 includes “Reduce cost of textbooks”

UHCC Strategic Directions 2015-2021 includes “Adoption of Open Education Resources to replace textbooks, with most textbooks replaced by 2021.”

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Branding and developing an identity

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July 2014

Outreach College and UH Mānoa Library appoint OER librarian to develop OER Repository, Website, and Faculty outreach

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UH Librarians Unite to Promote OER

January 2015

UH OER Team

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May - October 2014:

An array of separate stakeholders

UH ITS
Outreach College at Mānoa
Leeward Community College
Kapi‘olani Community College
Honolulu Community College
UH West Oahu
other campuses

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UH ITS

UH Mānoa Library

Leeward CC

Kapi`olani CC

Outreach College

Two KEY Team building events…….

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Open Education 2014

At the November 2014 conference, librarians from Mānoa, Kapi‘olani CC, and Leeward CC agreed to form a core working group
OER Librarian facilitated the development of the new UH OER Team
Team is an informal gathering -- not directed by an administrator or senior faculty

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We were all attending the same or similar sessions. Because this was new to us, everything that people were doing was really exciting. We kept asking ourselves “can we do this, what do you think?” We were using each other as sounding boards. “Do you think this would work at your campus, what would be the stumbling blocks, how could we institute these ideas at our campuses”. Because we spent 4 days together sharing ideas. Because we were all together,with Sara being the OER Librarian for the system, we decided to bring in other campuses together. We brought in the Law School, Carol Hasegawa from HCC, etc. Later we brought in instructional designers, and Sara began to invite more instructional designers from across the Manoa campus.

Building on the bonding we did at the conference, resulting in collaborating during PRLS.

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Pacific Region Learning Summit PRLS

Continued collaboration with OER team members
Inclusion of librarians from other campuses (Mānoa, Kapi‘olani CC)
Clear evidence of the importance of not only collaboration but inclusion of instructional designers for complete project

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Interaction and collaboration

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Monthly meetings
OER brochure
Faculty survey
OpenStax webinar
Repository uploads
Training
Textbook Cost: $0

UH ITS

Repository
Wordpress site
Dept. of Labor TAACCCT

Outreach College

UH Manoa Library

OER Librarian
Venues

UHCC

Research & Grant
OER Fellowship Program

Leeward CC

Hawaii Strategic Institute
PRLS Training
Student survey

Kapi`olani CC

C4ward Training
Workshops, meetings

Honolulu CC

Course development

SP:

I don’t have a well-researched timeline, but it seems that one of the first things done was Outreach College and UH Manoa Library’s agreement to establish a 2-year OER Librarian position. Sara Rutter transferred from UHM Library to Outreach College and from there she worked with UH System’s Information Technology Services department to develop a website, a repository for OER materials, and a set of libguides for OER resources.

UH ITS provided the main push for technology at the system level by supporting the programming of the repository and the wordpress site. Recently they facilitated the adding of a large number of OER materials for a Department of Labor grant. TAACCCT: Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grant

UHCC librarians spent a good deal of time doing research on textbook costs, high impact courses, and community college system OER initiatives on the mainland. Kapiolani and Leeward joined forces to obtain a grant from the VP for UHCC. Leeward has built a very strong program for professional development which they will cover later in this presentation. Kapiolani has focused on training and meeting with stakeholders. Honolulu CC is actively working on OER course development.

Working together, Outreach College, UH Manoa Library, and UHCC have collaborated on several fronts supported by monthly meetings. In spring 2015 a system-wide faculty survey was run, garnering 354 responses from 12 campuses. We collaborated by airing webinars simultaneously at multiple campuses, have shared training ideas, and Outreach College, Leeward, and Kapiolani have started a “Textbook Cost: $0” initiative at their campuses, asking instructors to self-identify all classes that are taught without textbook costs. If you can imagine, one class with 30 students saving $100 apiece in textbook costs will save those students $3,000. Multiply this by the number of Kapiolani classes that are textbook cost free next semester (76) and you will have saved $228,000 for one semester.

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UHCC OER Grant

OER work takes WORK!

Proposal to UH Community College System Vice President to fund OER training at all community college campuses. Used faculty and student surveys to make our case.

Directed to implement a 2-campus plan and funded $100,000. We made presentations to the Chancellors and the Faculty Senate leaders of the UHCC System

Funding is devoted to professional development of faculty and supporting OER development efforts

Working to get more early adopters on board to build momentum

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The Leeward CC model:

Library & Educational Media Center Team

Image from “Decision Support Systems for Benefits: Framework and Evaluation” 2 Dec 2015. <http://www.boucheyclarke.com/our-services/private-exchanges/decision-support-systems-benefits-framework-evaluation>

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Building awareness

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Key professional development activities

2014-15

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Acquiring knowledge & building a team

Introduction to all aspects of openness, including OER
Cemented partnership and close collaboration between the EMC and Library

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Learning from experts

2014

Learn from OER pioneers
Identify models and strategies
Understand role of librarians & instructional designers
Begin cross-campus collaboration

2015

Gauge our progress after one year
Re-strategize
Explore alternative models and external partnerships

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Supporting faculty

Week long facilitated workshop
Objectives

Identify & evaluate OER
Write a review
Adopt free, affordable, or open resources
Share, adapt, and remix
Develop a project using OER

Takeaways

OER is not always feasible
Integrating OER is not always simple or easy
Many faculty will need support

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Training and support continues

7 week flipped workshop series
Format

Why OER?
What is OER?
Find & evaluate
Creative Commons
Attribution
Championing OER

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Our Process

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Lessons we are learning

OER demands a new way of thinking about collaboration and community

Learning how to work across silos and hierarchies

Key role librarians have in driving awareness and supporting faculty

Leveraging competitiveness for the good of everyone and celebrating everyoneʻs progress

Still communication gaps

Perfect is the enemy of the Good

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Hi folks,

I think this is where we can share what we’ve learned? I hogged up 4 bullets :-(

OER demands a new way of thinking (SP): Upon joining a few listservs and working with people in the OER field, I was surprised to see the high level of sharing and collaboration taking place. Despite the number and types of academic institutions involved, everyone was bent on discussing common problems and sharing out solutions. The conversations taking place in the OER space are voluminous -- I can hardly keep up, but whenever I tune in I come away with so much information and advice. On another note, libraries have an organizational tradition of sharing resources (e.g. cataloging information), so this is a good fit for us.

Silos and hierarchies (SP): I understand now that our system, not unlike many others, is rife with silos and real or imagined hierarchies. The lesson I learned here was to focus on an ideal that everyone could agree with; helping students achieve their educational goals, and that helps to get across these barriers.

Leveraging competitiveness (SP): I will shamelessly admit I used “But Manoa and Leeward CC are doing this!” to get the attention of my administrators.. Having said this, everyone’s success at solving a problem, in a sharing environment, helps everyone else. It is a silly waste of scarce resources to reinvent the wheel.

Still communication gaps (SP): There are still communication gaps, especially with UH System and among our respective administrators. But that is one of the main reasons why I hope our cohort keeps working together.

Perfect as an Enemy of the Good: It is critical to maintain a strong definition of OER to avoid “openwashing,” but this can also create a dynamic where efforts that take a step in the right direction, but do not meet our definition, are excluded and not given recognition. Movement Challenges http://www.oerstrategy.org/home/read-the-doc/

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Where do we go from here?

After Open Ed 2015….

Textbooks across campuses

Full OER, beyond Textbook Cost: $0

Faculty rethink course design to move from textbook driven instruction

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Thank you!

Questions?

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