Please join CCCOER on Tuesday, February 26, 10:00 am (Pacific time) to hear about the critical work that librarians do to support OER adoption at community colleges. This webinar will feature three projects where librarians are leading the way in searching, curating, and creating OER to expand student access and improve teaching practices. card catalog cc-by-nc-sa reeding lessons Paradise Valley Community College, AZ –Sheila Afnan-Manns and Kande Mickelson, faculty librarians will share how they worked with students in International Business to find and create OER to support course learning outcomes. Houston Community College District, TX – Angela Secrest, director of library services, will share her libguides that support faculty in the process of finding and adopting high quality OER. Open Course Library(OCL), WA – Shireen Deboo, OCL and Seattle Community Colleges district librarian will share her work with faculty to find, create, and curate open content for inclusion in the Washington State Community and Technical College’s Open Course Library.

1. The Critical Role of Librarians
in OER Adoptions
Angela Secrest, Houston Community Colleges
Sheila Afnan-Manns, Kande Mickelsen, Maricopa
Community Colleges
Shireen Deboo, Seattle Community Colleges
February 26, 2013

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3. Welcome
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today’s webinar?
– Una Daly, moderator
• Community College Outreach Director at
OCW Consortium

5. Agenda
• CCCOER Introduction
• OER and the Library
• Empowering Students with OER
• Curating OER for Open Course Library
• Next Webinar, March 26
• Q&A

6. CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
– Expand access to education
– Support professional development
– Advance community college mission
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation

7. 150+ Community & Technical College
members in OCW Consortium
Community College Consortium for OER

8. Critical Role of Librarians
• Search experts
• Work with students to improve
information literacy
• Curators of educational content
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9. OER and the Library
Angela Secrest
District Director, Library Services

10. Open Educational Resources
Library support | Faculty success

11. Initiatives at all levels
• Board of Trustees initiatives
– Policy statements
• Administrative initiatives
– Task force
– Procedures
• Instructional initiatives
– 2 hour workshops
– Textbook working groups
• Faculty-led initiatives
• Library initiatives

12. Librarian involvement at HCC
• Instruction in adopting and adapting
• Customized search engine
• Links integrated with the library catalog and
website
• Presentations at HCC faculty conferences and
workshops
• Participation in textbook and resource working
groups
• Development of faculty input/search
• OER LibGuide

13. Providing self-serve resources
• Supplements other initiatives
• Provides access and discoverability
• Provides context – global, local
• Provides validation on several levels
– Community of colleagues
– Already vetted for quality
• One-stop shop (well, not really, but we try)

14. Customized search widget

15. Faculty input

16. Public search

17. LibGuides
• Cloud-based
• Alas, not open source, but at least built on
open source
• Relatively inexpensive
• Librarian buy-in for the product
• Integration with other free and open sources
• Easy to share among colleagues
• Responsive design

18. http://libguides.hccs.edu

19. What? We have a box for that.

20. How?

21. Discover: Search

22. Discover: Browse by Subject

23. Textbooks

24. Also included
• Open and free access materials to compliment
the use of commercial resources and OER
– Heavily used by our community
– Recognizable sources: PBS, DOAJ, Annenberg
• Organizations provide
– Scholarly community
– Validation
– Support
– Education
– Promotion
– Research

25. You are welcome to use it as a template!
Thank you!

26. Empowering Students with OER
Sheila Afnan-Manns
Faculty Librarian
Kande Mickelsen
Faculty Librarian

27. OER as Content /
OER as Pedagogy:
Empowering Students
as Partners in Learning
Using Scholarly Open
Educational Resources
Digital creativity, “is the life our
kids push for. They demand it …
We can't kill this instinct for Recipients: EBSCO Community
College Learning Resources and
creativity …We can't make them Library Achievement Award
passive again …” Lawrence Sheila Afnan-Manns
Reyes Medrano
Lessig Kandice Mickelsen

28. Background
 OER Experts: Library created a buzz by embracing OER
with a unique professional spin:
OneClick Digital©: The technical and intellectual act of
blending proprietary and open scholarly resources in
ways that meet official course competencies, are
copyright compliant, and feel free to the end user.
 OER as Content: In Spring 2010 PVCC Business Division
asked Library for help to replace an expensive textbook.
 OER as Pedagogy: Soon realized that with a little
information literacy, students could curate their own
living textbook!

29. Classroom Nuts & Bolts
 Students as curators of digital scholarly content:
IBS101 unleashed a paradigm shift in which students
responded to course lectures not with rote memory,
but as curators who by researching, evaluating, and
mixing relevant digital content created a “living
textbook.”
 Students as peer teachers: In addition, students
became peer teachers by presenting their content
under the excellent guidance of their instructor.
 Students as public speakers and team builders:
Lastly, students gained “real world” skills in digital
research, public speaking, working in teams, and
more.

30. Librarian’s role
 Technology infrastructure: Blackboard based
wikis
 Team schedule: Lecture, search, create,
present, follow up
 Information literacy instruction: harvest
keywords and concepts from lectures,
evaluate, use ethically, EZProxy and persistent
links
 Research Guide with Library and OER
resources
 Support inside and outside of the classroom
 Survey to measure impact

31. Findings
 100% strongly agree or agree that collaboration
between Faculty enhanced their learning
experience.
 100% strongly agree or agree that instructors
encouraged critical thinking and problem solving.
With 91% expressing better competence in critical
thinking, research and presentation skills.
 76% strongly agree or agree that research
instruction provided by the librarians assisted their
participation in creating the “living textbook”.
 95% found content for this course more engaging
than a traditional textbook.
 62% have found textbook costs to be an
academic barrier.

32. Comments:
 Saved money not having to buy a textbook – Epic!
 This course is amazing! Love the interactive learning,
working with classmates!
 Since this course is about current business affairs, it
makes more sense to do it this way. If we had a
textbook it would be outdated by the time we started,
I’ve enjoyed this class.
 I would like to give credit to two of our librarians … who
did an awesome amount of work to get this off the
ground. Without their help and humor, this class would
not have been possible. I just wanted to let you know
how much of a difference they made in showing us how
to do the research and putting together our Wiki pages.

33. The Next Step: Scalability for Mass Adoption
 This project demonstrated the efficacy of student
blended open and proprietary digital content while
spotlighting the hindrance of EZProxy to the process
 Open source code like Xerxes enables seamless
access between the library’s web scale tool (e.g.
Ebsco’s Discover, Summon, etc.) and the LMS of a
college or district (Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, etc.)
 Discovering, adding, and using Library resources with
OER content is just a click away, saving students
money while increasing the quality of course
materials

34. Credits:
 OER Research Guide:
http://paradisevalley.libguides.com/OER
 Contact:
Sheila Afnan-Manns:
sheila.afnan-manns@scottsdalecc.edu
Kandice Mickelsen:
kandice.mickelsen@paradisevalley.edu

35. Open Course Library
Image:Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
Shireen Deboo
Faculty Librarian
South Seattle Community College

37. Open Course Library
Phase Two—40 additional courses developed
5 librarians—each assigned to 5-8 courses

38. Open Course Library
Librarians’ role:
• Assist with finding/identifying/evaluating open access
textbooks and course materials
• Assist with determining copyright status for non OA materials
• Assist with securing permissions for non OA materials
• Assist with documenting/tracking all materials used
• Assist with building and incorporating information literacy
components into each course

39. Open Course Library
Librarian role change
• Phase One—passive/advisory/voluntary involvement
• Phase Two—approval authority, more pro-active role, more
opportunity to include IL component

40. Information Literacy
Outcomes Assessment Worksheet
Conduct effective searches using ● Effectively use search tools, such as Week 2 writing assignment: find an article
appropriate tools the library catalog, periodical about the electoral college.
databases, and web search engines
● Develop and revise search Week 5 writing assignment: identify
vocabulary, including synonyms and something that will be changing over time,
broader and narrower terms and locate data or graph.
● Apply appropriate search
techniques, such as Boolean logic
Week 7 writing assignment: find an article
and truncation
describing a recent study.
● Use tables of contents, indexes,
database features, and other tools
to facilitate searches
● Use information in search results,
such as keywords, article titles, and
subject headings to refine and
improve search results
Analyze content to choose the best ● Determine relevance of information Week 2 writing assignment: evaluate
information for the need found as it relates to the topic whether an article is biased, and determine
● Revise overall search strategy, if it is opinion or factual.
search tools, information types, and
keywords as needed to complete
the task Week 5 writing assignment: locate data or
● Apply appropriate reading graph that is showing something changing
strategies, including browsing, linearly or exponentially.
skimming, selective reading, and
close analysis Week 7 writing assignment: find and
● Summarize information and findings analyze an article describing a recent study.
to assess whether and where to
continue searching

41. Open Course Library
Challenges and Observations
• A mandatory component helps
• OA materials are still less than perfect
(quality/searchability/quantity)
• Faculty are on a learning curve about
copyright issues
• It’s not all textbooks!

42. March 26 Webinar
OER Authoring Tools
• OpenStax College, Connexions OER
• BCcampus Pressbooks
• SoftChalk Tool and Cloud Repository
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43. Thank you for attending!
Please type your question in the chat window or
raise your hand to speak
Contact Information
Una Daly unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
Angela Secrest angela.secrest@hccs.edu
Kande Mickelsen kandice.mickelsen@paradisevalley.edu
Sheila Afnan-Manns sheila.afnan-manns@scottsdalecc.edu
Shireen Deboo Shireen.Deboo@seattlecolleges.edu

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