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Incorporating Accessibility into Library OER Programs & Initiatives

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:40:44 +0000

"You are invited to join LAA Webinar: Incorporating Accessibility into Library OER Programs & Initiatives. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Date: October 27 2022 at 1 PM

Registration: https://emory.zoom.us/webinar/register/W...78SHcvhdlA

Open Educational Resources (OER) are meant to be as open and available as possible, but if they’re not accessible or on accessible platforms, how “open” are they really? In this webinar, staff from the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries will share how they’ve integrated accessibility into their OER initiatives and OER grant program to improve the accessibility of OER created at MSU.

In order to hopefully implement similar OER accessibility processes at their libraries, attendees can expect to learn about

OER Accessibility Resources,
MSU Libraries’ OER Accessibility Checklist & Grant Program Accessibility Requirements,
MSU Libraries’ Staff who Work on OER Accessibility,
MSU Libraries’ OER Accessibility Evaluation Workflow & Procedures,
Specific OER Accessibility Challenges/Issues and
OER Accessibility Tips and Lessons Learned.

Speakers:
Heidi Schroeder: Accessibility Coordinator, Michigan State University Libraries
Chandlee Marcyk-Taylor: Digital Course Materials Coordinator, Michigan State."

How to: Generate a shelf list

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:01:49 +0000

This is how to take a set of records and generate a shelf list.

How to generate a shelf list.docx (Size: 708.15 KB / Downloads: 9)

Summary of VIVA-level options to engage with open and affordable course materials

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:58:59 +0000

As of Fall 2020, VIVA offers five distinct library-led options to support teaching and learning through use of open & affordable course materials:

VIVA Open Repository
OEN Workshops & Reviews Stipend (formerly OTN)
Faculty Textbook Portal
Open Adopt Grants (new in Fall 2020)
Open Course Grants (formerly Course Redesign Grant)

VIVA Open Repository

OER adopted, adapted, and/or created by colleagues at VIVA institutions. Grant-funded work lives here.
Latest development: VIVA Open offers a VCCS Transfer Course Mapping Hub, a listing of OER selected and aligned specifically for VCCS transfer courses.

OEN Workshops & OER Reviewer Stipend (formerly OTN)

The OTN (Open Textbook Network) is changing the name to OEN, Open Education Network.
Current and aspiring campus leads should watch for another OEN workshop facilitator training this fall.

Faculty Textbook Portal

VIVA covers any costs for ebook adoption.
This is the Textbook Portal access URL for VCCS faculty only: http://ezproxy.vccs.edu:2048/loggedin/staff/vivatext.html -- Do not post this link on the open web.
This is the Textbook Portal access URL for your A-Z list / the open web: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?a...=facportal

Open Adopt Grants (new in Fall 2020)

$2,000 to instructors to support the time it takes to integrate existing open / affordable materials into a syllabus.
Next applications for VIVA Open Adopt Grants are due October 19, 2020.

Open Course Grants (formerly Course Redesign Grant)

$2,000 up to $30,000 to support individuals and teams in adopting, adapting, and creating open and affordable course content.
The next application cycle for VIVA Open Course Grants will begin in December 2020.

New 9-month Certificate in OER Librarianship from OTN

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:13:17 +0000

The Open Textbook Network is accepting applications for a cohort of librarians to be certified in OER Librarianship. Applicants should be, or anticipate becoming, newly responsible for building open education programs at their institutions.

The Certificate in OER Librarianship offers formal training, a community of peers, and expert mentors in order to build sustainable, collaborative, and effective open education programs on higher ed. campuses. Librarians who successfully complete the full program will receive a Certificate in OER Librarianship from the Open Textbook Network.

Details and application at http://research.cehd.umn.edu/otn/oer-cert/

Lunch & Learn Webinar 10/10: Lumen Course Materials

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:58:19 +0000

Lunch & Learn Webinar: Lumen Course Materials (Open to all VCCS Faculty & Staff)
October 10, 2019
Noon - 1pm

REGISTRATION REQUIRED - ACCESS DETAILS will be sent 72 hours prior to the session via your email address.

Lunch & Learn: You bring the lunch, we'll bring the learn. The VCCS has access to Lumen Learning through the end of June, 2020. You can provide course materials for your students at no cost to them.

Lumen courseware is available for 50+ general education subjects and every course includes supplements and the responsive, faculty-friendly support Lumen is known for. Lumen is a no cost solution for your students for the 2019-2020 Academic Year. Visit the VCCS Lumen Catalog here.

Lumen provides easy-to-use course materials that work seamlessly inside Canvas with the supplemental resources open education resources don’t always have, like quiz banks, PowerPoints, assignments, and automatic grading. The courseware options, Waymaker, OHM, and Candela, include interactive simulations, practice questions, online homework, personalized learning tools, and other learning activities to engage students and help them become better learners.

Contact:
Sheri L. Prupis, MA
Director, Teaching & Learning Technologies
Virginia Community College System
sprupis@vccs.edu

Open Educational Resources (OER) Attribute in SIS

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:52:19 +0000

Dear Colleagues,
I have received several questions about how this works, please see the attached document. It is my understanding that this option is not yet in regular use at all colleges, but that could change in light of VIVA-led Course Redesign efforts and other factors.
-Tara

OER_Attribute_SIS_Guidelines - XOER.pdf (Size: 334.88 KB / Downloads: 6)

ACRL/CJCLS OER Task Force Survey

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:15:48 +0000

In case you didn't see this on any listservs, please take a couple of minutes to help the task force with our charge!

Thanks,
Heather Blicher
NVCC

Dear Community College Librarians,

Please participate in this survey from the ACRL/CJCLS OER Task Force. We are depending on your responses to provide information to ALA about the OER landscape at community college libraries.

The survey will remain open until Monday, April 16th, 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time. The survey will NOT be accessible after that time.

Depending on your responses, the survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete, and individual survey results will be kept strictly confidential.

If you want more information about the OER Task Force, please visit: http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/cjcls/acr-cjctfoer. If you have any questions regarding the survey, please feel free to contact Walter Butler at wdbutler@pasadena.edu .
Survey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CJCLSOER
Thank you in advance for providing information to help the association to serve community college libraries better!

Sincerely,

The ACRL/CJCLS OER Task Force

GMU's OER Metafinder search system is live

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:10:17 +0000

From the VIVA-OER listerv:

Working with Deep Web Technologies, George Mason University has created an OER Metafinder search system that works across a number of sites that offer open educational resources. This system returns the first 100 or so hits from each source, de-duping as items are retrieved. With a checkbox, you can include or exclude sources from a search. Here's a link to the tool: https://library.gmu.edu/OERmetafinder.

GMU also has a new series of pages that explain and assist with understanding and discovering open and/or affordable educational resources:
https://publishing.gmu.edu/communication...resources/.

OpenEd16 Program, Registration, Venue, and Hotel info

Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:08:03 +0000

The OpenEd16 Program is Now Available

Conference Registration
Conference registration is open! Save $150 when you register today at the early bird rate of $249. Your registration includes lunch each day of the conference. Thank you to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for their sponsorship that is keeping this year's registration costs so low!

Conference Venue and Hotels
The venue for this year's conference is the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, Virginia! Get more information about the venue and nearby airports in order to plan your travel.

Special room rates are available for OpenEd16 attendees at the three conference hotels. These discounted rates are only good until October 1 or until our room blocks sell out - whichever comes first. Also, please be aware that there are other events in Richmond during that week which will likely make last-minute hotel rooms difficult to find. So please don't procrastinate! Book your hotel room today.

Virginia Scholarly Communication Interest Group

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:50:27 +0000

This in an open membership group for Virginia librarians who are interested and involved with matters of scholarly communications, including open access materials. See Scholarly Communication & Copyright (GMU) for more information on what this group's focus includes.

Subscribe to the listserv to keep up with statewide news, interest group meetings, and events.

Open Va Webinar: The State of OER 4/15/2016

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:48:22 +0000

The State of OER
Open VA will launch its first webinar on April 15th from 11:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. to highlight the open educational resource (OER) material faculty are creating and/or teaching around the state.

Webinar: The State of OER
Friday, April 15th 11:00a.m. - 12:00p.m.
Featuring: Dr. Greg Hartman from VMI - OER for APEX Calculus Dr. Ioulia Rytikova from GMU - OER for IST for class Dr. Jane Roberton from VT - OER for Statistics class

This webinar will feature Dr. Greg Hartman from Virginia Military Institute on his authorship of APEX Calculus, which is CC-licensed, Dr. Jane Robertson from Virginia Tech who teaches with an open statistics platform, and Dr. Ioulia Rytikova from George Mason University who teaches Information Systems Technology (IST) with OER material. Each faculty member will give a 15 minute presentation on their experience in creating a course with OER, their experience teaching it, and student feedback. There will be a short question and answer session afterwards. The information to log into the webinar is below:

Link to Join WebEx meeting

Meeting number: 641 193 930

Meeting password: 1OERwebinar

Join by phone

1-877-668-4493 Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada)

1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)

Access code: 641 193 930

Toll-free calling restrictions

Add this meeting to your calendar. (Cannot add from mobile devices.)

Dr. Richard Sebastian to be Director of Programs and Policy at Achieving the Dream

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:40:29 +0000

From Dr. Sebastian's message to the OER Peer Group list:

"I wanted to let everyone know that I will be leaving my position as the VCCS’s Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies on March 15 to become the Director of Programs and Policy at Achieving the Dream. In my new role I will be overseeing ATD’s new OER Degree Initiative (if you haven't already, check it out! http://goo.gl/OoAYcj) which will fund the development of OER degrees at 20-30 institutions in the US and Canada.

This national initiative would not have been possible without the dedication and hard work of all of you, Virginia's OER pioneers. The OER movement is beginning to have a real and significant impact on students across the country, and you, the faculty and staff of Virginia's community colleges, deserve credit for taking a risk, rolling up your sleeves, and doing the hard work that has turned the promise of OER into a reality.

I am hopeful my work with the VCCS will continue in my new role, and I look forward to supporting VA as it continues to lead the way in scaling and supporting open education.

All the best,

Richard Sebastian, Ph.D.
Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies
Virginia's Community Colleges
(804) 819-4795
rsebastian@vccs.edu
http://edtech.vccs.edu"

5/13 OER Extravaganza @ UMW

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 20:57:53 +0000

You are invited to attend an OER Extravaganza at the University of Mary Washington on Friday, May 13, 2016. The event is being organized by Steve Greenlaw, Professor of Economics at UMW. Please promote with your faculty!

Details will be available on the EdTech @ VCCS blog.

Save the Date: Nov. 06: Cable Green (Creative Commons) @W&M

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:09:16 +0000

The College of William and Mary will host Cable Green, Director for Global Initiatives at Creative Commons, on Friday, November 6. You are invited to join us! Please register to attend.

Please join CWM for a half day of programming with special guest Dr. Cable Green from Creative Commons. Dr. Green will present a keynote talk on how OER benefits learning, access, and student success in our institutions and why now is the perfect time to look more closely at adopting OER at our institutions. There will also be a special session for Librarians and Academic Technologists to talk about how we can be leaders of OER initiatives on our campuses and foster successful collaborations for OER implementation.

All related activities will take place at The Earl Gregg Swem Library in the Ford Classroom located within the Charles Reeder Media Center on the lowest level.

Agenda:
9:00 - 10:00 AM - Cable Green Keynote

10:30 -11:30 AM - How can Librarians and Academic Technologist be Open Leaders?

Visitor parking is available in the parking garage at 201 Ukrop Way adjacent to the Parking Services Office, and a short walk to the Earl Gregg Swem Library. Visit the Parking Services Office for your daily tag before pulling into the garage. Visitors traveling in state cars are exempt from the $5 daily parking fees.

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For additional information, please contact Kathleen DeLaurenti, Scholarly Communication Librarian, College of William & Mary
kmdelaurenti@wm.edu

Save the Dates! Nov. 02 & 16: OER Commons & UGA Open Text Initiative workshops @ VT

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:56:36 +0000

The University Libraries at Virginia Tech have two exciting days of guest speakers coming up in November! All events are free and open to the public. Complimentary on-campus parking permits may be obtained at the Visitor Center, 925 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg. Campus maps are available online.

Monday, November 2nd
The University Libraries are pleased to host Andy Mink from ISMKE/OER Commons. Master teacher, Andy Mink, will lead a morning workshop for faculty, graduate students, and others involved or interested in tools for forming authentic and collaborative partnerships toward public education.

Agenda:
10-11:30 AM - Elevating Public Educators as Agents of Change: Collaborating Toward New Approaches in Education (Light refreshments will be served) - Newman Library 1st Floor Multipurpose Room

2:30 - 3:45 PM - New Approaches in Education: OER and OER Commons for Librarians, Instructional Designers, and Instructional Design Faculty/Students - 1100 Torgersen Hall

Details & free registration for the 11/2 workshops here.

Monday, November 16th
The University Libraries, Center for Instructional Development & Educational Research (CIDER), and Technology enhanced-Online Learning Strategies (TLoS) will welcome Eddie Watson, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia and expert on open educational resources, to lead several workshops. Open Educational Resources have saved UGA students $2 million in textbook costs (2013-2016).

11/16 Agenda:
10:00 AM - Noon - Open Educational Resources in Teaching and Learning: What, Why, and How (Light refreshments will be served)

1:30 - 2:30 PM - Supporting Faculty OER Exploration, Adoption, Adaptation, and Authoring

2:45 - 3:45 PM - Open Educational Resources: Institutional Costs and Benefits

All 11/16 sessions will be held in the Newman Library Multipurpose Room (first floor). Details & free registration for the 11/16 workshops here.

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For additional information, please contact Anita Walz, Open Education, Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian, VT University Libraries arwalz@vt.edu. Please share this information broadly.