The Role of Libraries in Collaborative OER Development

L Wiitablake, D Boyer, Y Wu - 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & …, 2022 - peer.asee.org
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Libraries and librarians at post-secondary institutions are in the unique position to promote
and advocate for Open Educational Resources (OER) by engaging in the interdisciplinary
process of effectively creating and implementing OER. Librarians have the knowledge and
skills to work with faculty to meet the needs of their individual learners by working as co-
designers in the use and modification of existing OER and the creation of new OER [1] They
are also useful guides on OER since many faculty members are unaware of these resources …
Abstract
Libraries and librarians at post-secondary institutions are in the unique position to promote and advocate for Open Educational Resources (OER) by engaging in the interdisciplinary process of effectively creating and implementing OER. Librarians have the knowledge and skills to work with faculty to meet the needs of their individual learners by working as co-designers in the use and modification of existing OER and the creation of new OER [1] They are also useful guides on OER since many faculty members are unaware of these resources [2]. Having important expertise in areas like permissions and copyright and finding and assessing information [3], librarians are also essential to ensuring the effective creation and implementation of OER materials. Previous work had expressed the need to explore the use of OER in engineering libraries [4]. The work we share in this paper involves the creation of OER in mechanical engineering, being led by an academic librarian, with several other project members situated in that university, as well as other important collaborators at other post-secondary institutions and libraries. The purpose of this paper is to share our ongoing design-based research focused on an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional collaborative OER development project for Robotics textbooks and ancillary materials, with the context of this work being the role of librarians and libraries in the process. Libraries provide the organizational network and resources for leading the collaborative development team as their knowledge base is built to support interdisciplinarity, given broad access to sources of information and the tools to evaluate and attribute appropriately. In our situation, we have access to a robust university press and an Open initiative, as well as a statewide academic library network to support access to and distribution of project OER. The design of this project is centered on the role of librarians and libraries from post-secondary institutions given their situated access and expertise for creating OER. An important intention of our work from the perspective of a Predominantly White Institution serving [5] as lead is to collaborate with faculty from essential stakeholders, which in our case is a Historically Black University and a two-year institution in our state, along with project partners from PASCAL (Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries), the statewide library network, which the three project institutions belong to and serves “nearly 200,000 students at 55 colleges and universities.”[6]. To increase equitable access to information and attention to diverse learners, our resources have learner-centeredness as a primary instructional design aspect using the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning [7] as a structure for creating learning activities that make knowledge invitational and engaging to a broad range of motivated learners. In addition, our design process integrates principles and practices from Open Science and Open Pedagogy movements.[8] Here, we share results of our ongoing design-based research and development project and argue that librarians and libraries should be provided with central roles in the collaborative development of OER at post-secondary institutions. We are implementing work to explore this practice and invite your feedback. Works Cited [1] C. Leachman, and T. Anderson," Open educational engineering resources: Adoption and development by faculty and instructors." 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2017.[2] JE Seaman, and J. Seaman," Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in US Higher Education, 2017." Babson Survey Research Group, 2017.[3] T. Cassidy, O …
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