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. 

    • Page icon
      About Your Facilitator Page
    • URL icon
      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
    • Forum icon
      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 2

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    Welcome to Module 2! Now that we have gained a deeper sense of our librarian leader cohort and of the project itself in Module 1, we will dive more into the materials we will use for the leading faculty training. 

    Photo by Lindsay Henwood on Unsplash.

    • Forum icon
      Module 2 Discussion Forum

    • Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
      1. Describe open educational resources and the role of open licenses
      2. Describe the four different Creative Commons License components
      3. Distinguish between a textbook and a monograph
      4. Prepare approach for leading faculty session

      To achieve these objectives:
      1. Read Part I: Introduction (Defining Open Textbooks and Understanding Open Licenses) in Authoring Open Textbooks
      2. Review Parts of a Textbook, Developing a Textbook Structure
      3. Read parts II and III: Copyright and Finding OER in the OER Starter Kit
      4. Be prepared to share at least one takeaway and one question at our next meeting from the readings
      5.  Complete the activity searching for OER for your course.


      Be sure to check off all activities as you complete them in Moodle. 

    • URL icon
      Authoring Open Textbooks URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

    • URL icon
      Open Textbook Publishing Orientation URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

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      The OER Starter Kit URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

      • Read Part II: Copyright 
        • Copyright and Open Licensing and Creative Commons Licenses
        • (Just a note that this chapter states in the section on fair use "We do not recommend using fully copyrighted works in OER projects without written permission from the work’s rightsholder." The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OER outlines fair use contexts for using copyrighted materials in OER.)
      • Read Part III: Finding OER 
        • Evaluating OER, Finding Open Content, Repositories and Search Tools, Ancillary Content, and OER in Print

    • Students must
      Mark as done

      From the readings, be prepared to share at least one takeaway and one question at our next meeting.

    • Students must
      Mark as done

      Go to the Open Textbooks Library, OASIS, LOUIS OER Commons, or another repository you know of or that was mentioned in Finding Open Material.

      • Complete a couple of searches for materials that relate to the subject area for your course based on your understanding of that course.
      • Note which repository/repositories you searched. 
      • Note the availability of materials in the subject area based on your initial findings. 
      • Review 2-3 specific materials, thinking about the aspects to consider from Evaluating OER or using the Evaluating OER Checklist (written for instructors) from the reading. 
      • Note the items licenses and what these licenses allow/prevent.
      Be prepared to share your responses.