Using Librarian and Faculty Personas to Design OER Discovery Solutions
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To achieve widespread adoption of OER in higher education, faculty must be able to easily find OER that aligns with their needs. The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) created and maintains the OER Commons, a digital library of open educational resources, as well as custom hubs and microsites for sharing and discovering OER. In an effort to better understand the challenges encountered by higher education faculty and librarians when searching for and selecting OER to use in the classroom, ISKME conducted a series of in depth think-aloud interviews with users across the U.S. From these interviews, five distinct types of librarian and faculty users emerged. In this session, we will go over these 5 user personas, and share how those personas and the research that informed them is guiding current work to create search experiences and metadata application practices that are more useful to faculty members. Session participants will be polled to see which (if any) of the personas they identify with and where additional research may be helpful, give feedback on some of the tools that were created in response to this research, and give input on other ways these personas might be leveraged to improve OER initiatives more broadly.
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2022-05-27
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