Advancing a Community of Practice Among Faculty OER Grant Recipients
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How do librarians encourage faculty to make the move to OER and open educational practices? They provide faculty with incentives to engage with one another! Knowing that faculty learn from and work best with their peers, this presentation tells our story of advancing a community of practice among faculty OER grant recipients. The Textbook Affordability Project at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) is one of the longest-running OER grant programs at an academic institution in the United States. Through this project, faculty are awarded grants to adopt, adapt, or create open educational materials for use in their classroom. This grant may also be used to engage in open pedagogy assignments. This presentation details the shift from an in-person half-day event to a series of self-paced online training modules delivered via Canvas. The presenters will also highlight their experiences creating learning objectives and module content. A goal of this training was to foster faculty participation, so strategies for building community will be shared. We’ll briefly touch on designing assessments. Finally, the presenters will consider change opportunities for future faculty grant award cohort trainings. The presenters will share their open curriculum with attendees. This presentation is best for any level of interest (beginner to advanced) and is ideal for librarians, instructional designers, and administrators interested in faculty training. Attendees will reflect on their own faculty needs and brainstorm possible outcomes for their own community of practice.
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2023-04-04
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