Adapting OER to Incorporate UDL (Mt. San Antonio College)
Overview
The Mt. San Antonio College team completed this as part of a Canvas course titled Adapting OER to Incorporate UDL.
The initial course was offered by ISKME to California Community College faculty and staff and was created with support from the Michelson Foundation's Spark Grant Program.
Background on the Resource and Collaborators
Team members:
- Ellen Caldwell, Professor, Art History
- Cristina Springfield, Librarian
- Esteban Aguilar, Electronic Resources Librarian
- Hong Guo, Online Learning Librarian
- Monika Chavez, Career Education Librarian
The resource we chose to interrogate is "Introduction to College Research."
Goals - Apply UDL principles to one chapter that is frequently used in Library Research credit classes.
Impact on students - Customizing the content to be more local and relevant, and offering students more ways to engage with the content and to demonstrate their learning.
Impact on other faculty and staff - Faculty will be able to adopt this chapter with more engaging resources. It will minimize the work that other faculty need to do to tailor the content to their students. Research is cross-disciplinary, and this can be used by faculty in many departments.
Adaptations to support Open Educational Practices
The Characteristics of OER tool isn’t going to be helpful to us because our resource already has the components. We are planning to revisit this down the road.
Adaptations to support Accessibility
The Characteristics of Accessibility tool isn’t going to be helpful to us because our resource already has the components. We are planning to revisit this down the road.
Adaptations to support UDL
We are incorporating UDL principles and activities that will incorporate multiple means of engagement, representation, and action or expression into the chapter.
We have not had the opportunity to involve students yet, but we plan to invite future LIB 1A students.
We are working in the two weeks following our course to finish this.
We have regular meetings centered on OER and ZTC. We intended to track our progress and changes through meeting notes. Addtionally, we will keep track of faculty and student feeback. For the impact on students, we will use the Student Success data as one measure of our impact. For faculty, we will track adoption statistics. In addition to quantitative data, we will survey faculty and staff to see their experiences and opinions on this resource.
Sharing your iteration
"Getting Started with Research" by Cristina Springfield, Hong Guo, Monika Chavez, Ellen Caldwell & Esteban Aguilar is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / A derivative from the original work
We came into this group knowing that we were not strong in UDL. This course gave us the tools and activities to stretch our thinking about putting students at the center. Writing and developing activities to help students express multiple means of engagement, representation, and action or expression in our chapter was a challenging and fruitful exercise for our team.
We are considering adapting another chapter in the same textbook. Additionally, we will share out our adaption, as well as the process so that it can be replicated across campus. We plan to delve deeper in UDL and promote its connection to OER campuswide.