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Get on Your Feet and Up To Speed: Ways to Start-Up or Scale-Up an OER Initiative
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How can you get started with or “scale-up” OER practices at your institution? And how will the library fit in? Two or three years ago, “OER Librarian” wasn’t even a title, but in a relatively short time librarians at all 24 campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY) have taken on a multitude of different roles to support OER initiatives. Each campus has come on board with its own timeline and developed its own structure and workflows to accomplish this work, in alignment with campus culture. While many have taken positions in support of individual faculty OER developers and become fierce advocates for open initiatives, the full range of how librarians contribute plays out very differently on each campus. At the same time, librarians collaborate across the campuses via an OER committee/working group overseen by the CUNY Office of Library Services, uniquely positioning us to observe and discuss best practices as well as the varying models of OER support. Join us for a panel featuring individual case studies and a facilitated conversation among CUNY OER librarians about developing, evolving, and scaling up OER initiatives at community colleges, four-year colleges, and graduate research institutions. We will explore questions such as: Which entity on campus is in the driver’s seat? How does intra-campus collaboration play out? What are the labor implications of these new initiatives for librarians and other faculty? Where do definitions of OER, ZTC (zero-textbook cost), and open pedagogy intersect and overlap?
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2019-05-22
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