OER Project Planning
by Megan Simmons 1 year, 10 months agoDescribe your OER Project by outlining your plan below:
Our OER Goals & Purpose: Why you are doing this OER Project and what are you hoping to accomplish?
Our Audience: Who are you designing this OER Project for and what are their learning needs and preferences?
Our Team: Who is on your OER Project Team and what are their roles and responsibilities?
Existing Resources: What existing resources can you utilize for your OER Project? You can curate these resources in our Group Folders
New Resources: What new resources will you need for your OER Project?
Supports Needed: What additional supports do you need to complete your OER Project? Do you need to gather more research and data to inform the design of your OER Project?
Our Timeline: What deadlines do you have for your OER Project deliverables? Your OER Project draft will need to be ready to share during our peer review session on June 28.
Our OER Goals & Purpose: Convert a graduate managerial communication course (BUAD 5310) to OER
Our Audience: Online MBA students
Our Team: Dr. Danica Schieber (faculty), Lisa Shen (librarian), Mike Power (instruction designer)
Existing Resources:
New Resources: OER examples of research proposals or business reports for more advanced business students
Supports Needed: Template for building OER TX content
Our Timeline: June 28 (draft) and August 22 (revised)
Our OER Goals & Purpose: The OER project idea is to create a Texas Success Initiative Assessment 2.0 prep curriculum for Mathematics in Spanish.
Our Audience: Spanish-speaking pre-college/developmental students.
Our Team: The ORE team is T. Gonzales,
Existing Resources: The released TSIA2 test information and sample from College Board and is available https://accuplacer.collegeboard.org/students/prepare-for-accuplacer/tsia-texas-success-initiative-assessment
New Resources: I will need to ensure the correctness of the academic vocabulary for the math items
Supports Needed: I will need to consult a Spanish translator or professor to confirm the readability of the created resource.
Our Timeline: The deadlines are draft July 28, 2022, to final draft January 28, 2023.
The deadlines completed are divided by topic
Review 1: July 28, 2022
Quantitative Reasoning: August 28, 2022
Algebraic Reasoning: September 28, 2022
Geometric and Spatial Reasoning: October 28, 2022
Probabilistic and Statistical Reasoning: November 28, 2022
Practice Test 1 December 28, 2022
Practice Test 2 January 28, 2022
Our OER Goals & Purpose:
The Lone Star College (LSC) OER Project Team will develop an Introduction to Open Education Resources (OER) Course. The Course will be shared with faculty, administrators, and staff at the eight LSC campuses which collectively serve 90k+ students. The Introduction to OER Course will include definition, examples of OER, as well as information on identification, use, adaptation, licensing, and publication of OERs. The course will be made available via LSC’s learning management system - D2L, the LSC website, and campus library guides. The team’s Introduction to OER course will be presented in Fall 2022 in a variety of formats including presentations, library resources, inclusion in D2L course shells, and professional development sessions.
Our Audience: LSC Faculty
Our Team: Chitra Janarthanan (Chemistry Professor), Seetha Natarajan (Instructional Designer), Alex Suchon (Instructional Design Manager), Dorrie Scott (Librarian/Professor)
Existing Resources: Permissions guide, Assessibility checklist, Rubrics, existing OER guides/tutorials
New Resources: Template, course outline
Supports Needed: D2L Community, Administrative backing
Our Timeline: August 15, 2022
Our OER Goals & Purpose: This course will be part of a new Premium Distance Learning (PDL) program offered from the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University. This new program is being offered in collaboration with SHSU Online Professional Learning team (of which Jacqueline Bowler, the instructional designer is newly apart of). The high-enrollment courses will strictly feature free and OER resources.
Our Audience: Currently, these courses are being offered to all Criminal Justice undergraduate majors. However, the goal is to attract students to a new, wholly online specification. Additionally, the course is part of new certifications within the CJ major that are being offered to students.
Our Team:
Jacqueline- Senior instructional designer in the Online Professional Learning department at SHSU. Jacqueline works with contracted SMEs to design and develop high-enrollment academic (and non-academic) courses in the Blackboard Ultra LMS platform.
Mary- Associate Professor of Practice/Director, Crime Victims’ Institute—College of Criminal Justice/Dept. of Victim Studies
Susan- librarian; identify instructional materials for faculty/student use; assess Creative Commons/copyright issues; identify faculty/student information needs
Existing Resources: This course will be created using the latest OER learning materials that focus on older individual demographics from state and national informational data and material that target a specific design consideration that relate directly to older individuals as crime victims, criminals, and offenders.
New Resources/ Support Needed: This is something we are looking to identify as we progress through this conference.
Our Timeline:
The course will be delivered in the Fall 2023 Semester. However, it must be completed by September of 2022. The goal for this project is to develop the entire reading list for the course. We should be able to deliver that by June 28.
Our OER Goals & Purpose: ENGL 2314: Technical Writing is a General Education course taken by students from different majors. This course is included in multiple degree plans across disciplines as part of the students’ Gen. Ed. core. With support from the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK), the online version of this course is currently being converted into a zero-cost course using Open Educational Resources available online. However, we need to develop supplementary video lessons that will better integrate the OER materials from diverse sources for better student engagement. We propose to produce short interactive video lessons using the video editing software Camtasia and the Whiteboard Animation software VideoScribe on topics such as: doing proper research and documenting sources, designing a project website, conducting field observations and taking field notes; writing different types of formal reports, writing a strong résumé and application letter, etc…The advanced OER trainings as designed by THECB’s OER Creator Communities Academy will provide the tools and knowledge we need to further enhance a Technical Writing course that is crucial for the professional development of students at a historically Hispanic-Serving Institution.
Our Audience: Students in the course in a synchronous online course students need interactive learning materials to hold their attention and research shows students engage better with audio visual modes
Our Team: Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay- content creator, Mariya Pachman – Instructional designer, Elizabeth Goode- Librarian
Existing Resources: Camtasia, VideoScribe and OER resources on technical writing and videos from previous courses
New Resources: OER course material found on OERtex with video lessons additional software like Vyond and Canva
Supports Needed: Not really
Our Timeline: One video by the end of June on the topic of writing emails, memos and letters
Our OER Goals & Purpose: Students struggle to understand Poe as anything other a writer of weird pieces of literature, or someone who might be exhibiting some symptoms of some sort of insanity. However, Poe has a major role to play in American literature. He is one of the first to employ the short story as his primary genre. His own words in "The Philosophy of Composition" illustrate his insights into the literature of his time as well as later times. The unit of study we propose will examine “The Philosophy of Composition,” “The Raven,” and two short stories chosen from his fiction. The major learning outcome for this unit is this: This unit will enhance students’ critical thinking skills as they pertain to one author in particular; inquiry, analysis, evaluation of, and synthesis of information from various sources will be emphasized.
Our Audience: Students at a 2-year, sophomore level literature course
Our Team: Faculty member (content expert), Director of Library Services (research), Director of Learning Technology (design)
Existing Resources: none
New Resources: Videos, interactive/gamification, ancillary activities
Supports Needed: Gather more research and data, OER repositories
Our Timeline: Preliminary draft by 6/24, peer reviews 6/28
Our OER Goals & Purpose: The Humanities Department is developing OER textbooks and courseware for American Literature courses (ENGL 2327 and 2328). Creating a representative unit would ensure alignment and create a pathway for the development of a textbook with supporting courseware and learning modules. Therefore, the specific goal is to create a unit for American Literature from 1890-1916 with three authors representing multiple genres. Works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, and Susan Glaspell would be included, as well as embedded lecture videos, student activities, and quantitative assessments. Furthermore, two critical articles focused on discourse and its relation to literary themes will enhance the unit while connecting to a qualitative, formative assessment. The members of the cohort will utilize materials created by the Instruction Librarian, including the Open Educational Resources (OER) Library Guide, Copyright for Educators Library Guide. The OER Library Guide includes resources from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Washtenaw Community College, Eastern Michigan University, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Ultimately, the creation of this unit will allow faculty to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute information, as it will be created so that the design may be adapted to various authors, literary themes, and assessments. Since members of the cohort represent faculty experienced with teaching a variety of courses and an Instruction Librarian with instructional design experience, the product and process should serve as a model to the institution and contribute to the OERTX so that additional disciplines may create OER to benefit students.
Our Audience: Primarily, the unit will be designed for Sophomore-level students. Their needs vary, but the unit will need to consider differentiated instruction and UDL. A secondary audience for the project is faculty who will be using the unit as a model or source of inspiration.
Our Team: Dr. Christi Cook -- faculty/content expert; Kathy Renken -- Instruction Librarian and design collaboration; Dr. Dana Brewer -- faculty/content expert
Existing Resources: individual pieces of literature; critical articles
New Resources: videos; assessments
Supports Needed: accessibility of critical articles in relation to OER/public; additional support likely needed but will be determined through discussions/research
Our Timeline: TBD on a weekly basis; but draft will be prepared by 6/28; current resources will be shared among cohort members by 6/15
OER Materials to Support the Course: SOCW 3303: Community Navigation with Older Adults
This new elective in the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program will be offered for the first time in Summer I in 2022. This course incorporates basic OER materials that will be used for the 5-week summer elective; however, the course requires more development with OER materials when it is offered again in subsequent semesters. The opportunity to work with a UHD librarian and tech design person to develop this course and its OER options further is one of the main goals of applying to the Open Educational Resources (OER) Creator Communities Academy. All courses in the social work program in the Department of Criminal Justice and Social Work under the College of Public service are textbook-free. As BSW faculty, Dr. Angela Goins has former field experience converting five courses in the BSW curriculum at the University of Houston-Downtown to include OER materials for students taking them including the following courses:
SOCW 3313: Case Management, SOCW 3331: Practice with Aging Populations, SOCW 4302: Issues in Field I, SOCW 4304: Issues in Field II, and SOCW 3332: Practice with Children and Adolescents. This hand-on field experience has provided Dr. Goins advanced skills and experience in researching, collaborating, designing, and refining OER materials. This former experience also allows her the ability to make her courses accessible for students and reduce the costs of materials they need for their courses. UHD social work faculty view the use of OER options for our courses as a social justice issue for our students who are already strapped with college-related costs. By applying for these trainings through the OER Creator Communities Academy, we seek to learn more knowledge and skills related to OER (collaboration, research, define and refine). As project leader, Dr. Goins particularly looks forward to improving and sharing with other cohorts existing materials she has for SOCW 3303 and exploring courseware improvements, leveraging supports for peer review, reflection, and sharing resources. She also looks forward to working with other institutional professionals across the university including a librarian and tech design person.
Existing Resources: A Course Shell exists which includes components of Service Learning activities. Ebook for students for students exist through the library for free.
New Resources: desire for more video/training resources (e.g. elderly abuse simulations; reminisncence therapy, validation therapy); but especially the specific area of community navigation with older adults.
More OER resources for Service Learning activites and course-related activities to bolster existing curriculum assignments.
Supports Needed: Still developing/reviewing the content needs of the course. Content is not quite at the standard desired.
Timeline: The course is already underway for Summer 2022, but it will be offered again.
UTD COHORT
Dr. Clint Peinhardt, Roopa Vinay, Alexander Rodriguez
Our OER Goals & Purpose: Why you are doing this OER Project and what are you hoping to accomplish?
For almost two decades, I have taught an advanced political science class called International Political Economy, the study of markets and power and their complex interplay in world politics. In spring 2022, my undergraduates embraced the work of creating a new OER textbook in the field. Next year’s class will use these texts as their primary reading material, and they will improve on them with edits and new contributions. Each successive class will continue to improve on and update the material, and each UTD student will have the opportunity to contribute their own voice to the introductory text.
We now have a rough draft of fifteen chapters, but those chapters vary in quality and formatting, and they do not include resources like quizzes or learning objectives. We intend to use this academy course to develop one chapter – on the History of Globalization – to a professional level that all chapters will eventually attain. We will edit and format with accessibility in mind, develop student learning objectives and review quizzes, add other OER resources like maps, and solve compatibility problems with Pressbooks and bibliographic software. By turning one chapter into a presentable product, we will effectively be creating a template for the rest of the book, but much more than that, we will provide a model for other faculty members at UT Dallas, where OER has so far not found much interest.
Our Audience: Who are you designing this OER Project for and what are their learning needs and preferences?
UTD students (narrowest audience) – any undergraduate level with interest in topic.
Our Team: Who is on your OER Project Team and what are their roles and responsibilities?
Dr. Clint Peinhardt, University Professor (providing content and context)
Roopa Vinay, Instruction Designer (student learning design and assessments)
Alexander (Sasha) Rodriguez, Senior Research Librarian/OER Librarian (supportive content OER)
Existing Resources: What existing resources can you utilize for your OER Project? You can curate these resources in our Group Folders
Unknown at this time, subject to change
New Resources: What new resources will you need for your OER Project?
Introduction to Open Author
Supports Needed: What additional supports do you need to complete your OER Project? Do you need to gather more research and data to inform the design of your OER Project?
Options for additional graphics, visual design, overall editing or template, etc.
Our Timeline: What deadlines do you have for your OER Project deliverables? Your OER Project draft will need to be ready to share during our peer review session on June 28.
Raw material/content – already completed
Edit materials – next week
Add additional materials – before deadline
Our OER Goals & Purpose: Why you are doing this OER Project and what are you hoping to accomplish?
Working on curriculum for A&P and hoping to develop a collection of systems OER resources
Our Audience: Who are you designing this OER Project for and what are their learning needs and preferences?
Undergraduate A&P lab students. They like interactive components.
Our Team: Who is on your OER Project Team and what are their roles and responsibilities?
Tracy Webb and Xyanthine Parillon we are the cocreators from UHD
Existing Resources: What existing resources can you utilize for your OER Project? You can curate these resources in our Group Folders
Videos and pictures from the lab
New Resources: What new resources will you need for your OER Project?
Looking for interactive OER components for our students
Supports Needed: What additional supports do you need to complete your OER Project? Do you need to gather more research and data to inform the design of your OER Project?
Yes, supports will be needed. We will find out what we need as we create.
Our Timeline: What deadlines do you have for your OER Project deliverables? Your OER Project draft will need to be ready to share during our peer review session on June 28.
We would like to deliver a body system by June 28th.
Our OER Goals & Purpose: Why you are doing this OER Project and what are you hoping to accomplish?
The project will introduce into the Humanities I (HUM-2023) Open Educational Resources (OER) to solve the problems of access to textbooks due to cost, and use readings and texts that are easily accessible through the OER Creative Commons (CC-BY).
Our Audience: Who are you designing this OER Project for and what are their learning needs and preferences?
Undergraduate Students: Online Learning
Our Team: Who is on your OER Project Team and what are their roles and responsibilities?
DeeAnn Ivie (Librarian)
Rachel Elliott (Academic Innovation)
Existing Resources: What existing resources can you utilize for your OER Project? You can curate these resources in our Group Folders
https://library.achievingthedream.org/fscjphilosophy/
4.World Humanities
https://pressbooks.cuny.edu/worldhum/
5.The Human Experiences: From Human Being to Human Doing
https://slcc.pressbooks.pub/humanexperience/
6. Introduction to Humanities
https://opendora.minnstate.edu/islandora/object/MINNSTATErepository%3A587/datastream/OBJ/download/Introduction_to_Humanities.pdf
7. Humanities 122: Medieval to Modern History
https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/76857
8. Humanities 121: Early Civilizations
https://oercommons.s3.amazonaws.com/media/courseware/relatedresource/file/HUM_121_OER_Textbook_Spring_2021_Edition_GX78Z8k.pdf
New Resources: What new resources will you need for your OER Project?
NA yet!
Supports Needed: What additional supports do you need to complete your OER Project? Do you need to gather more research and data to inform the design of your OER Project?
I need to gather more data on the period covered in the course.
Our Timeline: What deadlines do you have for your OER Project deliverables? Your OER Project draft will need to be ready to share during our peer review session on June 28.
At UTSA, we have a year to implement the text.
Describe your OER Project by outlining your plan below:
Uchenna Emenaha, UTSA Other faculty from UTSA Jude Okpala and David Han, but we are all working on different OER’s within our individual disciplines.
Our OER Goals & Purpose: Grant Writing for Social Justice
Our Audience: Graduate Students in education
Our Team: Uchenna Emenaha, Dee Ann Ivie (UTSA Libraries) and Rachel Elliott (UTSA Academic Innovations). Existing Resources:
Potential Book
Resources that I will link out:
Additional Resources for students
New Resources: Books, podcast, and videos
Supports Needed: Assistance in using UTSA Pressbooks to create resource.
Our Timeline: One year. MY goal is to gather materials form this OER I will create.
Our OER Goals & Purpose: We are working on an internal grant-funded pilot OER for Fall 2022 in Social and Behavioral Aspects of Patient Care, a required course in the 3rd year of the pharmacy curriculum. We are creating a guidebook to add currency and to better incorporate diversity and inclusion in the course.
Our Audience: Pharmacy students in their last year of didactic learning before rotations involving clinical care. They are exploring factors of patient care and their own unique role on the patient care team. Students in pharmacy school should be aware of the diversity of patient experiences as well as the role they will play as pharmacist, necessitating active learning and reflective activities. Students in this phase of their educational pursuit are highly focused on clinical aspects of patient care and less on understanding the social behavioral implications that may affect clinical outcomes. Students prefer not to purchase textbooks. The OER will provide access to more current and readily available material.
Our Team: Frank North, Pharmacy faculty, Christina Seeger, Librarian, Babette Perkins, Instructional Designer
Existing Resources: We are basing our project template on a published OER: Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: A Casebook 2nd Edition https://milneopentextbooks.org/public-health-in-pharmacy-practice-a-casebook-2nd-edition/, and are collecting openly available resources on each topic in a shared Teams channel. There is not a published OER for us to adapt, and a single recognized textbook that has been required in the past but is outdated and expensive.
New Resources: We have curated a group of collaborators with expertise for several of the topics, and new content will need to be written. We may need to buy permissions for some of the work, which the grant will cover. New resources may become discoverable as the project evolves.
Supports Needed: We are exploring additional funding sources to allow dedicated time for the project, in addition to the small grant we were awarded. Continued guided educational opportunities, such as this one and the Library’s OER and Information Literacy Development cohort.
Our Timeline: We have a deadline of August 8th, the first day of classes, to have at least 3 chapters complete and ready to present. We expect to have a completed chapter ready for review, and will use that feedback to inform the other chapters as they are submitted by contributors.
Our OER Goals & Purpose: Why you are doing this OER Project and what are you hoping to accomplish?
This OER project is intended to help move our Speech Interpersonal Communication course from a traditional textbook to an OER supported course. By the end of the project I intend to adapt a current OER I found for the course. Moving this course to an OER, will make our department a fully OER supported department.
Our Audience: Who are you designing this OER Project for and what are their learning needs and preferences?
This OER is designed for students completing a Higher Education Course within North Central Texas College’s Speech department.
Learning Needs & Preferences: Online Modality & Instruction
Our Team: Who is on your OER Project Team and what are their roles and responsibilities?
Our OER Project Team consists of:
Justin Hawkins: Speech & Foreign Languages Division Chair at North Central Texas College
Dax Stokes: Librarian at North Central Texas College
Tamar Bell: Speech Faculty at North Central Texas College
Existing Resources: What existing resources can you utilize for your OER Project? You can curate these resources in our GrouInstructional Design and Open Educational Resourcesp Folders
OER Research:
The OER Starter Kit Workbook
OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians
Instructional Design:
Instructional Design and Open Educational Resources
Accessibilty:
ISKME Accessibility Checklist & Creating Accessible Documents
New Resources: What new resources will you need for your OER Project?
More instructional videos in additional to the current OER textbook.
Supports Needed:
What additional supports do you need to complete your OER Project?
Feedback from Campus Instructional Designers & Student feedback.
Do you need to gather more research and data to inform the design of your OER Project?
Yes, we’d like to also get feedback from our campus Instructional Designers as input into the process to insure instructional design is emphasized in addition to accessibility.
Our Timeline:
June 28 for our draft & August 1st thereafter for curriculum development.
Our OER Goals & Purpose: To create OER textbooks and learning materials that are available at no cost to students, accessible from mobile devices, and available from class day one. Research has shown that OER can improve student engagement and course outcomes.
Our Audience: I am designing this OER Project for advanced undergraduate students in statistics and data science. This course provides students with a foundation of probability theory and statistical concepts, including random variables and their probability distributions, for applications in scientific and engineering research.
Our Team: me, student assistant and library staff
Existing Resources: Illowsky, B. and Dean, S. (2013). Collaborative Statistics (https://cnx.org/contents/XgdE-Z55)
Grinstead, C. and Snell, L. (2007). Introduction to Probability (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/amsbook.mac.pdf)
Sahoo, P. (2013). Probability and Mathematical Statistics (http://www.math.louisville.edu/~pksaho01/teaching/Math662TB-09S.pdf)
Shayib, M. (2013). Applied Statistics (https://bookboon.com/en/applied-statistics-ebook)
Shayib, M. (2018). Descriptive Statistics (https://bookboon.com/en/descriptive-statistics-the-basics-volume-1-ebook)
Shayib, M. (2018). Inferential Statistics (https://bookboon.com/en/inferential-statistics-the-basics-volume-2-ebook)
Matloff, N. (2016). From Algorithms to Z-Scores: Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling in Computer Science (http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/132/PLN/probstatbook/ProbStatBook.pdf)
Lavine, M. (2013). Introduction to Statistical Thought (http://people.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.pdf)
New Resources: I am writing the lecture materials myself.
Supports Needed: Preliminary research (material search and review) is done.
Our Timeline: One year from now actually but a preliminary draft is ready.