ERIC Number: EJ1453808
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 13
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EISSN: EISSN-2564-4726
Planning, Implementing, and Assessing an OER Faculty Learning Community: A Facilitator's Lens
OTESSA Journal, v1 n1 2021
A librarian-led Faculty Learning Community (FLC) focused on Open Educational Resources (OER) can be a practical, low risk way to sustain campus-based OER programs during and after initial start-up. Creating a space for sharing teaching successes and challenges is an important goal in the iterative journey toward open. The experiences and trust fostered in an FLC can help grow awareness of and commitment to adopting, deepening, and expanding a culture of openness. FLCs provide an opportunity to lean into open that enhances cross-campus relationships, identifies gaps, and emphasizes collegiality while moving toward enriched teaching and learning. They provide a launching point for sharing pedagogical practice, and a valuable venue for new ideas. Key strategies for planning, implementing, and assessing a multidisciplinary OER faculty learning community are highlighted. Practical advice is emphasized to support successful outcomes that can be easily replicated. Ten top takeaways are summarized from a year spent facilitating an OER FLC in a four-year, public, comprehensive college that included the shift to online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it concludes with suggested next steps for continuing the OER conversation among faculty, students, librarians, instructional designers, teaching and learning center staff, administration, and other stakeholders.
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Open Educational Resources, Librarians, Program Effectiveness, Cooperation, Collegiality, Teacher Collaboration, Program Development, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Faculty, Higher Education, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York
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