creating an oer unit: lessons and successes over the first 2.5 years
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Open Oregon State
Dianna Fisher, Director
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Land Grant
1862 Federal act to focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science, military science and engineering for the greater population -- in contrast to the historic practice of higher education focusing on an abstract liberal arts curriculum for the upper class
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Land-grant universities have a democratic mandate for openness, accessibility, and service to people
Land-Grant mission requires us to participate in OER initiatives
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Courses• Childhood Food
Insecurity• Basics of Grant Writing• Grad School Prep• Spanish for Health• Caregiver’s Guide to
Prevent Falls• Mastery of Aging Well• Recycling
• Watershed Education• Living Cemeteries• Basic Botany• Sudden Oak Death
Prevention• Industrial Hemp• Nursery Pathogen
Training• Forestry (various topics)
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Courses
• Two MOOCs– one was a “one time training”• State needed to quickly train all ESL teachers on some
new standards
– Second runs twice a year• Permaculture
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Modules
• Over 40 modules – Spanish– Chinese
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Textbooks
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Opportunities• Doesn’t meet your needs?• Can we help you reformat it?
• Doesn’t cover what you need?• Can we help you gather what does
• Don’t think the quality is good?• Can we support you while you write?
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Success & Failure
Success• Some modules• Courses• Textbooks• MOOC (special
circumstance)• Faculty –led• Full service• Partnerships
Failure• Most Modules• Faculty working
unsupported• Preaching• Expecting faculty to know
what OER is
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• Administration• Faculty• Students
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• Acknowledge that there are issues to address
• Ask for their help addressing them
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Student led events
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Faculty Led Events
• Successful models– Forums– Faculty Lunch & Learn
• Faculty talking to Faculty– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfbRDeAuww4– https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_t601xnoy
• Improvement in Grades
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Administration
• Talked to Deans, Vice Provosts and others at administrative meeting– Provost’s Council– Department Meetings– Faculty Senate
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Results
• Pub-ready materials• One faculty member took a sabbatical• Many new submissions of course materials
from full textbooks to lecture content• Seminar Series• Podcasts• Newsletter