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Open Education Roundup: Where We’re at Across CanadaLise Brin
Monday, February 25, 2019CAUL-CBUA February Forum on OER
Except where otherwise noted, this presentation is licensed under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike License
Agenda
1. Why OER?2. What are OERs and what is open
education?3. Cross-Canada roundup4. Library and librarian involvement5. CARL’s program of activities6. Helpful resources7. Questions and discussion
Why OER?
Why OERs?
https://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/MjAxMi1mOTZkYWVkYmUwZGM4NDg5
The following 2 slides are taken from this slide deck:
“Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)” by M. Paskevicius,, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
“Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)” by M. Paskevicius,, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
“Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)” by M. Paskevicius,, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
What are OER?
The following 7 slides are taken from this slide deck:
"Academic Librarians and OER: Access, Advocacy, and Activism" by B. Smith, R. Jhanigiani, and C. Daniels, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
"Academic Librarians and OER: Access, Advocacy, and Activism" by B. Smith, R. Jhanigiani, and C. Daniels, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
"Academic Librarians and OER: Access, Advocacy, and Activism" by B. Smith, R. Jhanigiani, and C. Daniels, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
"Academic Librarians and OER: Access, Advocacy, and Activism" by B. Smith, R. Jhanigiani, and C. Daniels, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
"Academic Librarians and OER: Access, Advocacy, and Activism" by B. Smith, R. Jhanigiani, and C. Daniels, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
"Academic Librarians and OER: Access, Advocacy, and Activism" by B. Smith, R. Jhanigiani, and C. Daniels, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
"Academic Librarians and OER: Access, Advocacy, and Activism" by B. Smith, R. Jhanigiani, and C. Daniels, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
"Academic Librarians and OER: Access, Advocacy, and Activism" by B. Smith, R. Jhanigiani, and C. Daniels, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Challenges around OERs
● Time! (faculty are already overloaded)● Technological challenges● Limited understanding of copyright● Limited understanding of OERs● Faculty are not typically rewarded for
creating educational materials, or for adhering to open education principles
● Large publishers have big R&D budgets to create flashy digital offerings
Cross-Canada roundup
Provincially Funded Programs
BCcampus (2012-)
eCampus Ontario (2016-)
AlbertaOER (2014-7)
OpenEd Manitoba (2015-)
Regional Support
● 2013 – MOU between BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan– to collaborate on the development of
common OER within their respective advanced-education sectors
– recognition of benefits of sharing existing OER with a focus on mutual areas of interest
Institutionally supported efforts
● Incentives for faculty (financial support, honoraria, or technical support)
● Financial incentives (grants for creating or adapting OERs)
● Some are library-led; some are led by Centre for Teaching & Learning, others are collaborative
National support
● Council of Ministers of Education of Canada (CMEC) discussed OER at a national meeting in 2012; then in 2013, unanimously endorsed UNESCO’s 2012 Paris Declaration.
● In its December 2017 report, the Canadian federal government’s Standing Committee on Finance included a recommendation to provide funding to encourage the creation of OER.
Guelph’s Student Textbook Survey
https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/sites/default/files/uofg_student_textbooksurvey_report.pdf
Guelph’s Student Textbook Survey
https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/sites/default/files/uofg_student_textbooksurvey_report.pdf
Guelph’s Student Textbook Survey
https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/sites/default/files/uofg_student_textbooksurvey_report.pdf
Guelph’s Student Textbook Survey
https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/sites/default/files/uofg_student_textbooksurvey_report.pdf
https://bccampus.ca/2019/02/19/canada-oer-group-2019-update/
Some Atlantic analysis
https://caul-cbua.ca/sites/default/files/CAUL-CBUA%20Open%20Textbooks%20Survey%20Working%20Group%20Final%20Report_0.pdf
Library and librarian
involvement
Positioning the library in OER
● Out of 6 “key insights” featured in SPARC’s Connect OER 2016-2017 Report, 2 are about libraries:
– #1: Libraries are the most engaged entity on campus in efforts to advance OER
– #2: Within libraries, the department most commonly engaged in advancingOER is Scholarly Communications
https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Connect-OER-2016-2017-Annual-Report.pd f
Input from OER librarian leaders
August 22, 2018 – Meeting at York U. of OER librarian leaders
What we heard from librarians in OER:
Important strategies:● OER Librarians● Campus-wide OER committees● Librarian project management support
and Open Publishing● Librarian support for discovery of OER● Cross-institutional OER collaboration● Librarian-led advocacy
CARL’s planned OER activities
● Responds to key feedback from librarians:– support and develop leaders– build capacity amongst all librarians– be available to all academic librarians– use the CARL voice for good– be a hub for national communication
around OER across libraries
CARL’s planned OER activities
● Targets several different communities:– Established and emerging leaders
(leadership bootcamp, communications efforts)
– Academic library community (distributed model across regions)
– Library directors (Mini-forum)– Other stakeholders and decision-makers
(communications efforts)
CARL’s planned OER activities
● One-year Visiting Program Officer for OER position
● OER Working Group● OER Mini-Forum for CARL Directors● Intensive OER Workshop● Roadshow of Regional Events “OER for
Librarians”● Communication Strategy
Some helpful resources
● CanadaOER list (maintained by BCcampus) – canadaoer@bccampus.ca
● BC-OEL website and resources● #OER channel on Scholcomm in Canada
Slack group● LibOER list (SPARC)
Questions?
Lise Brin, Program OfficerCanadian Association of Research Libraries
lise.brin@carl-abrc.ca