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
Sustaining an OER Advisory Council for the Connecticut State College and Universities System
Session Abstract
The CSCU OER Advisory Council is a group formed of members from the 17 CSCU institutions and UConn charged with supporting OER efforts across the system and the work of the statewide CT OER Coordinating Council. This presentation will provide an overview of the history of the Council including its formation, previous successes, and current initiatives and challenges.
Keywords
OER, council, consortia, sustainability, collaboration
Objectives of the Session
Encourage community collaboration
Scale OER initiatives
Full Description of the Session
The CSCU OER Advisory Council is a group formed of members from the 17 CSCU institutions and UConn charged with supporting OER efforts across the system and the work of the statewide CT OER Coordinating Council.
This presentation will provide an overview of the history of the Council including its formation, previous successes, and current initiatives and challenges through a sustainability lens. We will share details and circumstances surrounding the founding of this group, the original charge and how our work has evolved over time, the structure and regular function of the group, as well as a review of the different projects and initiatives the Council has developed and supported. Examples of this work include advocacy for the CT OER Coordinating Council’s grant program, implementation of course marking in CT State Community College, the creation/curation and distribution of resources to support CSCU faculty in adoption, revision, and creation of Open content, and more.
We will include interactive polls to engage attendees and moderate a Q&A discussion after our presentation. Since our topic is focused on administration of OER initiatives, we believe all levels of expertise could benefit.
Presenter Bios
Hayley Battaglia, M.F.A., M.S.L.S., is the Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian at Hilton C. Buley Library, Southern Connecticut State University. She is the co-chair of the CSCU OER Advisory Council, the editor of the OpenCSCU OER Blog, Chair of the Buley Library OER Committee, and a member of the Northeast OER Summit Steering Committee.
Jillian Maynard, M.A., M.L.I.S., is a Reference & Instruction Librarian at Central Connecticut State University. She works with students and faculty to enhance information literacy skills across the CCSU community, through teaching one-shot library sessions and a section of the credit-course, LSC150: Research in the Digital Age. She is a member of the OER Library Team, and co-chair of the system-wide CSCU OER Advisory Council. She has presented on implementing OER programs and scaling OER efforts, and has served as a fellow and later a mentor in the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program.
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Start Date
4-4-2024 3:30 PM
End Date
4-4-2024 4:20 PM
Sustaining an OER Advisory Council for the Connecticut State College and Universities System
The CSCU OER Advisory Council is a group formed of members from the 17 CSCU institutions and UConn charged with supporting OER efforts across the system and the work of the statewide CT OER Coordinating Council.
This presentation will provide an overview of the history of the Council including its formation, previous successes, and current initiatives and challenges through a sustainability lens. We will share details and circumstances surrounding the founding of this group, the original charge and how our work has evolved over time, the structure and regular function of the group, as well as a review of the different projects and initiatives the Council has developed and supported. Examples of this work include advocacy for the CT OER Coordinating Council’s grant program, implementation of course marking in CT State Community College, the creation/curation and distribution of resources to support CSCU faculty in adoption, revision, and creation of Open content, and more.
We will include interactive polls to engage attendees and moderate a Q&A discussion after our presentation. Since our topic is focused on administration of OER initiatives, we believe all levels of expertise could benefit.