OER Item Sharing Template
Overview
OER Fundamentals are invited to remix this course planning template to design and share their OER project plans, course information and syllabus, and reflection.
Project Planning
My OER Goals & Purpose: I have learned about the variety of tools that are available for reducing textbook costs and creating more tailored materials. OER is one piece of that and I feel more confident about the entire OEAR (Open Educational and Affordable Resources) landscape.
My Audience: My OER item is designed for administrators who can benefit from an OER process document that is closely tied to instructional design best practices.
My Team: This would be helpful for deans, librarians, etc. It starts with needs analysis, which is ALWAYS the correct starting point and considers the possibility that building an OER from scratch is not always the best solution to the defined problem that is being solved. As I always say, OERs are great, but they are not the only answer.
Existing Resources:
New Resources:
Supports Needed:
Our Timeline:
OER Item - ADDIE Backwards Designed Checklist for OER Adoption/Adaption/Builds
ADDIE Backwards-Designed Checklist for OERs
Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate
Step One: Analysis – Does OER Meet Course Needs? | ||
| 1A. Discuss your OER Project with your Division Dean, Department Chair and peers to determine whether your OER ideas and plans fit into program and department level-needs. What problem are you trying to solve? | |
| 1B. Determine If Course Needs are being/can be met with other options. OERs can be complex and time-consuming. Sometimes they are not the best answer and are often confused with other types of low-cost materials. | |
| Affordable Course Content (ACC) No > Consider using Library-Licensed Materials. |
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Library Licensed Materials (LLM) Yes > Work with Dean & Electronic Librarian to source, serve, & negotiate fees. No > Consider using Open Access Materials. |
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Open Access Materials (OA) No > Consider adopting, remixing, and creating OER Materials in that order. |
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Step Two: Backwards Design Plan – Are Objectives & Assessments Adequate? | ||
| 2A. Verify Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes are current, approved and acceptable to you. You must locate/develop OERs based on them. Yes > Proceed to Course Assessments Not Sure > Consult with FSC Curriculum Development Manager No > Discuss concerns with division dean / department chair / peer instructors and rework them within Cochise College course change policies. |
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| 2B. Revisit Course Assessments to make sure they align clearly with course learning objectives and outcomes and to be sure you are confident they tell you everything you need to know about student achievement. Yes > Proceed to Skills to Materials Mapping Not Sure > Consult with FSC Instructional Designer No > Discuss concerns with division dean / department chair / peer instructors and develop a plan to rewrite/add major assessments. |
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| 2C. Map Skills to Materials Needs by determining knowledge & skills learners need to perform successfully on assessments and identifying existing materials gaps, inadequacies, replacement needs, additions and eliminations. Use resulting list to search for OER materials to adopt, adapt/remix and develop materials, open source textbooks and/or OER courses in that order. |
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Step Three: Develop - Find / Modify / Create OERs | ||
| 3A. Adopt, Adapt/Remix or Create OER Course Materials by searching vetted OER materials databases for content that you can effectively use or modify. | |
| Are There Existing OER Course Materials to Adopt? |
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Are There Existing OER Course Materials That Can Be Adapted/Remixed? No > Consider creating new materials under Creative Commons license. |
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If OER Course Materials need to be developed… |
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| 3B. Adopt, Adapt/Remix or Create Open Source Textbooks by searching vetted Open Textbook databases. | |
| Are There Existing Open Source Textbooks to Adopt? No > Consider adapting/remixing elements of OER open source textbooks. |
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Are There Existing Open Source Textbooks You Can Adapt/Remix? No > Consider creating a new OER open source textbook. |
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If an Open Source Textbook needs to be developed… |
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All adopted, adapted/remixed and developed open source textbooks must clearly align with existing approved course outcomes. If the selected OER will significantly alter your course, discuss this with the Faculty Support Center Curriculum Development Manager. Such changes may necessitate you to go throughh the curriculum development process to insure the course is compliant and transferrable. | ||
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| 3C. Adopt, Adapt/Remix or Create an OER Course beginning with Curriculum Scope & Sequence Mapping from learning objectives and assessments with an eye to program articulation, logical progression, transitions, progressive information spiraling, etc. Before OER course development, make sure you fully clear on how it fits into, drives, and/or support the curriculum? | |
| Is there an existing OER course that meets curricular and accreditation needs? |
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Is/Are there existing OER course(s) close to what you need that could be reworked or combined for your purposes? Is it/Are they licensed under a Creative Commons that allows remixing and redistribution? No > Consider creating a new OER course. |
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If an OER course needs to be developed… |
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Step Four: Implement – Review, License, Store, & Distribute OERs | ||
| 4A. Conduct Subject Matter Expert Review to vet chosen, modified, and created materials/textbooks/courses. Have your materials been adequately vetted using external and/or internal reviewers? No > Discuss with Division Dean and/or department chair. Instructional Designer can assist with resources and/or performing/assisting with logistics. | |
| 4B. Ensure Copyright & Licensing Compliance by making sure all adopted, adapted/remixed and created materials are stored, accessed, and distributed according to appropriate copyright licensing conventions. All OERs in use at Cochise College need to have an Excel sheet on file in the College’s OER Database (we need to develop this) listing materials used, source locations, and creative commons licensing conventions. | |
| All Adopted Materials released for use AND redistribution under Public Domain, Fair Use, and/or Creative Commons licensing? |
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All Adapted/Remixed Materials based on original materials that allow for adaptation, remixing, AND redistribution as part of their licensing conventions? (Make sure materials from different creative commons licensing categories are not mixed together if any of their licensing conventions prohibit remixing.) |
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All Developed Materials have a correctly worded Creative Commons license that allows for free use, remixing and redistribution? In the case of materials paid for by Cochise College, do the materials contain a Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY Cochise College as per Policy 3015? In the case of grant-funded materials, does the Creative Commons license assigned to the materials fall within those guidelines and no conflict present? |
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| 4C. Assign Content Hosting and Distribution to make materials accessible according to licensing. True OERS (print or electronic media) can be hosted anywhere and distributed to anybody with proper attribution as per CC license. No > Discuss with Electronic Librarian and/or Instructional Designer. The Library can assist with access to web-based materials, databases, multi-media, etc. The Faculty Support Center Moodle team can also provide dedicated shells for materials as long licensing requirements are met. |
Step Five: Evaluate - Perform Ongoing Quality Assurance & Revision | ||
| 5A. Plan for Quality Assurance & Revision by determining timeline for OER review and revision based on norms of your discipline and a procedure for suggesting and adopting changes at least every five years. No > Discuss with Faculty Support Center instructional designer for quality control models and/or assistance building your own. |
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Author: Wendy Ashby, Ph.D.
Date: December 8, 2022
I hereby release these materials under Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution International license.
You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
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Reflection
I have not really been able to use it. As with most course and materials builds, ADDIE as an actual best practice standard is a hard sell. Everybody just wants to jump in making materials. It is almost impossible to get people to sit back, think about the needs analysis, think about the evaluation tools, map objectives, analyze existing materials to identify needed edits, source approaprate materials to fill gaps, etc. Everybody wants to be a poet/artist/author. Absent any intention on the part of my institution to require an Instructional Designer consult - let alone listening to one - we continue to have "look at me - I'm a creator" instead of "look at the student - I am a curator".