Track Session Type
Sustainability: Grant Acquisition & Management, Sustainability, Engaging Student Leaders, OER for Resilience, OER Community Building, OER and Technology
Presentation Type
Presentation
OER Level of Expertise
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Audience
Faculty, Librarian, instructional designer, Administrator, Staff, Other
Session Abstract
We will present our experiences creating an infrastructure to support the Open Textbook Collaborative (OTC) grant project from scratch. Topics include resource allocation, knowledge building, and organization. We seek input from peers regarding their own experiences in such areas as recruitment, division of labor, infrastructure building, educational technology, and sustainability.
Objectives of the Session
- Attendees will learn how the OTC connected individual institutional goals to reduce college costs for students and improve student success by partnering together to utilize various resources and local and statewide initiatives to meet common goals.
- Attendees will learn how to build a statewide OER infrastructure that is sustainable, flexible, and inclusive of all sectors of higher education.
Full Description of the Session
Led by Middlesex College, NJ statewide partners were awarded $1.44 mil by the U.S. Department of Education OTP program for the Open Textbook Collaborative (OTC). This consortium, consisting of New Jersey’s community colleges and Rowan University with support from Rutgers University and New Jersey Institute of Technology, is in its second year of a project to create, disseminate, sustain, and incorporate open educational resources (OER) in high-cost STEM career and technical education programs. Partnering with the NJ Council of Community Colleges, we consciously aligned our goals with their New Jersey Pathways to Career Opportunities (NJCCC) initiative which will contribute to the post-secondary ecosystem providing on-ramps to career pathways in high growth occupations over the next 10 years. Focusing on four growth industries, we work with NJCCC to find collaborators across secondary and higher education, community and faith-based organizations, state and local governments, and business and industry. Moving forward together, our initiatives can remove economic and other educational barriers keeping many in minority and other underserved communities from accessing these high-growth, high-paying careers. This session will cover our approaches to creating an infrastructure to support the OTC, including resource allocation, knowledge building, and organizing to build a collaborative state-wide entity in a state without the centralized Higher Education System enjoyed by many of our peers. We welcome a discussion with members of other statewide OER projects to exchange ideas and find ways to continually improve our processes in such areas as recruitment, division of labor, infrastructure building, educational technology, and sustainability.
Presenter Bios
Presenter 1
Name: Steve Chudnick
Email: schudnick@middlesexcc.edu
Phone: 732 433 5434
Steve Chudnick is the Project Coordinator for the US Department of Education Open Textbook Collaborative FIPSE grant managed at Middlesex College. Steve is responsible for much of the day to day administration of the grant as well as for the Professional Development, Website and Sustainability efforts. He was previously the Director of Library and Learning Resources at Brookdale Community College before transitioning full time to Open Educational Resources work. Steve first became involved with OER at Brookdale and later served as co-chair of the VALE-NJ OER Committee as the Consortium began its involvement with the movement. He has also served on the Executive Boards of LibraryLinkNJ, CJRLC and the New Jersey Library Network Review Board.
Presenter 2
Name: Marilyn N. Ochoa
Email: mochoa@middlesexcc.edu
Phone: (732)906-4252
Marilyn N. Ochoa is the Library Services Director at Middlesex College and the Principal Investigator and Director for the US Department of Education Open Textbook Collaborative FIPSE grant. At Middlesex, Marilyn actively seeks to implement educational technologies to transform library and tutoring services, and leads her areas in digital library development and use of open educational resources. She was previously the Associate Library Director at State University of New York at Oswego and Interim Head of the University of Florida's Education Library. She serves on the Society for Instructional Technology and Teacher Education Executive Board and was a Director-at-Large on the ACRL Board of Directors from 2012-2014. Her research covers topics including OER, embedded librarianship, digital collections assessment and outreach, and collaborative teaching and learning tools.
Presenter 3
Name: Robert Hilliker
Email: hilliker@rowan.edu
Phone: (401) 419-6457
Robert Hilliker is the Associate Provost of Library Information Services at Rowan University and Co-Chair of VALE’s Open Educational Resources Committee. He also serves as the Curriculum Manager for the New Jersey Open Textbook Collaborative, a US Department of Education-funded project to promote access to career-oriented education for all New Jersey residents.
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Start Date
26-5-2022 4:30 PM
End Date
26-5-2022 5:00 PM
Sustaining the Open Textbook Collaborative: Leveraging Partnerships and Relationships Statewide
Led by Middlesex College, NJ statewide partners were awarded $1.44 mil by the U.S. Department of Education OTP program for the Open Textbook Collaborative (OTC). This consortium, consisting of New Jersey’s community colleges and Rowan University with support from Rutgers University and New Jersey Institute of Technology, is in its second year of a project to create, disseminate, sustain, and incorporate open educational resources (OER) in high-cost STEM career and technical education programs. Partnering with the NJ Council of Community Colleges, we consciously aligned our goals with their New Jersey Pathways to Career Opportunities (NJCCC) initiative which will contribute to the post-secondary ecosystem providing on-ramps to career pathways in high growth occupations over the next 10 years. Focusing on four growth industries, we work with NJCCC to find collaborators across secondary and higher education, community and faith-based organizations, state and local governments, and business and industry. Moving forward together, our initiatives can remove economic and other educational barriers keeping many in minority and other underserved communities from accessing these high-growth, high-paying careers. This session will cover our approaches to creating an infrastructure to support the OTC, including resource allocation, knowledge building, and organizing to build a collaborative state-wide entity in a state without the centralized Higher Education System enjoyed by many of our peers. We welcome a discussion with members of other statewide OER projects to exchange ideas and find ways to continually improve our processes in such areas as recruitment, division of labor, infrastructure building, educational technology, and sustainability.