OER & Library Information for Student Success
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 want to create bite-size information that assists our campus instructors in navigating information resources that will be useful to their students. We have a wealth of resources that are not being used and I think creating explanatory resources migh have instructors to inbed them in their classes.
My Audience: The audience is instructors. I think most people gravitate toward information that is simple and shows obvious benefit. I would want content that guides an instructor to use several different resources, including OER.
My Team: Our design staff and other librarians. Higher education is often divided into those who instruct and those who support instructional endeavors, so I would like to unify the support side in designing this information. Our campus has one person who handles professional development and they would be a key person to add to this project.
Existing Resources: There were some wonderful information literacy resources that would be for advanced information. I am hoping to start a bit smaller at first. One of these advanced information literacy slides has been saved for future use.
New Resources: At the moment I would suggest adding some form of review. I anticipate creating new content and would want a review and revision stage to be included to make sure it's as simple as possible.
Supports Needed: Time. I really think one of the biggest problems for anyone working in this area is the time to research and develop their content. I am concerned that there isn't enough time to add this commitment to what is already needed. I think research into the audience and how they might appreciate information would be great to add.
Our Timeline: Right now, I don't think there is a deadline.
OER Item
This OER content is not associated with a current class or course.
Reflection
This process has been very insightful. I discovered how many people were working through OER creation issues on their campuses. I really appreciated hearing what other schools and other similar educators were doing. I discovered that there is a tremendous amount of information that is already available and that there are a lot of different approaches to using OER. Even though, I don't teach a class, there are ways that OER creation can be thought about and produced. My plan is two-fold: more library support and OER creation activities on my campus and creating library information for campus.