Topic outline

  • Welcome!

    Description:

    The Librarian Cohort is a spring learning community and delivered in synchronously and asynchronously online. We will continue to use this space throughout all phases of the grant for information and resource sharing. 

    This learning community is intended to provide train-the-trainer instruction. Collectively, we will explore open education, open educational resources, textbook publishing, and related issues, technology, and impacts in terms of curriculum and teaching and learning. Through this train-the-train, you will gain the confidence and capacity teaching the materials to your faculty cohort. 

    Cohort Goals:

    • Create a community by connecting librarians from across the state in a supportive learning environment,
    • Provide introduction to open education and to the infrastructure for open publishing (Pressbooks) and open course design (Moodle template) and corresponding tools and skills,
    • Provide professional development to enable librarian leaders to apply their expertise and iterate on this training to share information to their faculty cohorts effectively, respond to participant questions, and lead work.

    Instructional Technologies:

    Through this experience, participants will use Google Drive, Moodle, Pressbooks, Zoom, and OER repositories.

    Schedule:
    Our cohort activity is structured into two-week module. The specifics of each module will be shared via this Moodle, with activities/readings to be completed prior to that module's Zoom meeting.

    Creative Commons attribution license This course and its contents are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network, except where otherwise noted. 

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      About Your Facilitator Page
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      Publishing Resources Guide URL
      This guide includes relevant resources to support various parts of this project. It will evolve as we add more resources. [Opens in new window]
    • Forum icon
      Announcements Forum
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      Q & A Forum

      Use this forum to ask the facilitator any questions you have about the experience. I encourage you to post here instead of emailing me if it is a questions others may have. 

  • Module 1

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    Welcome to Module 1! In this module, we will gain a deeper sense of our librarian leader cohort and of the project itself.

    Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash


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      Module 1 Discussion Forum
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      Mark as done

      Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

      1. Know one another to begin to establish a supportive librarian leader community
      2. Articulate goals of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project and of the librarian cohort training,
      3. Develop understanding of the stages involved in this project, the intended outcomes, and roles of stakeholders,
      4. Comprehend the project management tools and methods

      To achieve these objectives, complete these activities prior to the group meeting:

      1. Review Librarian Leaders Guide, note any questions/concerns 
      2. Skim Introduction and read Chapter 1 Building a Team and Chapter 2 Project Scoping in the Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks
      3. Review Chapter 6: Defining Your Role in Authoring Open Textbooks
      4. Read Part I: Getting Started of the OER Starter Kit
      5. Be prepared to share at least one takeaway and one question at our next meeting

      Note the check boxes to the right that help you track your progress: some are automatic, and some are manual.

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      Librarian Leader Guide URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

      This provides an overview of this project, including goals, objectives, and timeline, and identifies the librarians and their respective courses.

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      Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks URL
      Students must
      Mark as done


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      Authoring Open Textbooks URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

      Review Chapter 6. Defining Your Role

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      OER Starter Kit Workbook URL
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      Mark as done

      Read Part I: Getting Started