Genesee Community College

Liz Simmons

CC BY-ND

Prompts #4 & #6 – Ways to help OER work for faculty, students, librarians, and instructional designers  & how it can encourage collaboration

• A centralized effort where collaboration can happen
  • Panel/ committee (We just formed one at GCC and our director is on it)
  • Promote contacts for seeking help and information for faculty
• Librarian liaisons assigned to assist faculty to locating and adapting OER
• Libguide that helps introduce faculty to Open Access & OER (done) and also highlights quality OER for top subjects (goal)
• Great opportunity for administration, librarians, and faculty to work toward a common goal. This could even involve students to help edit and revise chapters of a new OER text.
• Role of librarians as information specialists with expertise in locating and evaluating sources should put us at the forefront of this movement, which means it is a great opportunity to reaffirm our value and connect with our constituents.

Judith Littlejohn

CC BY-SA

What you would do with OER or open pedagogy if you had unlimited time and resources?

If I had unlimited time and resources I would create OERs for World History courses that include some type of adaptive formative assessments. The content in Ancient World and Modern World courses is massive, and it is difficult to generate enough mastery quiz questions to ensure students are comprehending the breadth of the courses as well as cause and effect. Adaptive mastery quizzing would, ideally, track students’ progress through various content areas and challenge the students with additional questions and feedback in areas in which they are struggling. I would love to have students generate questions, too.