Campus Entities Most Active in Efforts Advancing OER:

• Faculty Champions(s)
• Library

Library Departments Active in Efforts Advancing OER:

• Collections & Technical Services
• Scholarly Communication
• Subject Liaisons

Academic Subjects With Greatest OER Traction:

• Biological and related sciences
• Chemistry
• Library, information and archival studies
• Mathematics and statistics

This plan describes the proposed strategies of Bucknell University's Library and IT department for implementing an OER initiative at the university in 2018. The plan includes proposed activities and assessments for the current year.

Duration: 01/2018 - Present

Policy Type: Plan

Policy Scope: OER (open course content)

Governance Level: Department

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During Open Education Week, we asked students to post on a whiteboard in the library responses to the question "If I didn't have to purchase textbooks, I could..." Their responses were surprising. Student responses can be viewed in the scrolling gallery box at the top of our OER LibGuide.

Date: March 5, 2018 - March 9, 2018

Event themes:

• Open Education Week

Approximate Attendees: 35

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Work with members of Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship and Research Services in this 1/2 day workshop to explore OER repositories related to your courses, locate and evaluate teaching or learning objects, and write brief open reviews. Participants should bring a course syllabus for which they want to find a supplementary or primary OER. Review of OER will be shared within the relevant repository and a link will be added to the library’s OER Research by Subject guide. Light breakfast and beverages included.

Date: May 7, 2018 - May 7, 2018

Event Type:

• Workshop/Professional Development

Event themes:

• Other

Scope: OER (open course content)

Approximate Attendees: 6

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Slides

Work with members of Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship and Research Services in this 1/2 day workshop to create OER from scratch or through the redesign of an existing teaching or learning object, and apply appropriate Creative Commons licenses. Your OER will be shared publicly for reuse. Light breakfast and beverages included.

Date: May 8, 2018 - May 8, 2018

Event Type:

• Workshop/Professional Development

Event themes:

• Other

Scope: OER (open course content)

Approximate Attendees: 3

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Slides

Work with members of Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship and Research Services in this half-day workshop to create a plan for a larger-scale OER. Examples of projects might include an open textbook, course module, or major assignment. Snacks and beverages included.

Date: May 8, 2018 - May 8, 2018

Event Type:

• Workshop/Professional Development

Event themes:

• Other

Scope: OER (open course content)

Approximate Attendees: 3

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Event Summary
Slides

Join us to meet with Katie Steen, Open Education Fellow for SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). Katie will discuss how high textbook costs create a barrier to student success, and how open textbooks can be part of the solution. We’ll have opportunities to explore and discuss strategies for L&IT engaging in this issue and moving the open textbook movement forward on campus.
Immediately following, we are having a follow-up discussion with Katie Steen about the steps Bucknell can take on our campus to ensure that students have equal access to materials and resources to improve their chances at academic achievement.

Date: Sept. 13, 2017 - Sept. 13, 2017

Event Type:

• Talk/Presentation

Scope: OER (open course content)

Approximate Attendees: 30

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Go To Resource

This LibGuide represents the content of our spring 2018 OER faculty workshops on Discovery, Creation, and Design Planning to encourage faculty on Bucknell's campus to use, evaluate, and create OER and develop a culture of sharing. The "What We Created" tab includes the OER evaluations, small-scale OERs, and large-scale OER design plans that resulted from the workshops.

Resource Permissions:
CC BY NC