1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? OERs I have found or adopted

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer-time vision? I want to work on remixing an OER for my RN Refresher class

1. I will be able to share the information I locate on OER as possible content for the course I teach.

2. I would like to find more resources that could be used in lieu of our textbook and approach leadership/curriculum design team with opportunities to use more OER.

Have a great weekend!

Tanya

Hi Tanya,

You have great goais that I think we can all agree on. OER feels like wonderful place to both give and recive content for our subjects.

-Potts

1. OERs that I found useful for introdcutory courses.
2. I would like to build OERs at some point in the future.

Hey John, these are great goals as they would assist in the learning with our internship and potential LIS careers. Building OERs would definitely give us a better understanding of what makes quality OERs.

Agree! Reusing and building OERs would definitely give me a better understanding of the quality required to enable use!

Evaluating OERs has been a challenge for me. Last week was very helpful for me when we discussed this a lot.

Agree, especially when I'm not so aware of the subject of the OERs.

1. I am uncertain what I can share quickly at this time.  OER databases are a new resource for me and I am just learning to navigate the database. 

2. Eventually I will be able share the reources found online. 

At first, accessing OERs may seem confusing and messy, but once you get the hang of it, it'll be very easy and helpful.

I'm in the same place, Victoria.  Very new to OER, but excited by the possibilities. I will be retiring after this semester...40 years of teaching..and I'm looking forward to producing OER out of my stockpile of teachiing files I have. That's why I'm here.

1) I could quickly share links to useful resources I've come across that provide quick and easy OER/CC tips

2) Long term I would like to share strategies for finding quality OER and niche ones as well. 

It would be great to be able to share some of the credible materials we find so that it can streamline the process.  Finding things to use takes a lot of time.

Agree! Most of the useful OER that I use in classes are ones that were shared with me rather than ones that I found on my own (which also means I need to get better at looking for them)-

1.) OER from marginalized authors.

2.) How to craft OER material.

I would love to see some examples of OER from marginalized authors!  One of the things I really struggle with is finding diverse, contemporary primary texts for my students that are actually OER and not free but copyrighted material.

Yes Laura, I agree. Maybe the marginalized authors should create OER.

I agree Laura - I think one of the main limits of OER and requiring only OER material in classrooms is that it often excludes a lot of marginalized voices that aren't OER. Also, Susan, I think it would be cool to have some more explicit resources / funding to help promote the creation of OER that helps elevate marginalized peoples' voices. A resource I have found helpful is the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. 

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? OERs found during this course or in other resources available

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer-time vision? I want to create my course with OER text and resources instead of students needing to buy them

I love that, Gina! I want ot do the same! 

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? My OER lab manual that I have been using for 3 years.

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision? Remixing a microbiology OER text book.

Hi Graham, 

I am curious to know how you found the material to make an OER lab manual and if you have any tips for creating one for an online A&P course. 

Blake,

We were using a lab manual that we had written and the students purchased through our bookstore.  We have just imported this into the press books interface.  Within Maricopa this is called MOD press.

Let me know if you need more information.

Graham.

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group?

OERs that I have found.

1. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision?

Supplemental items for my OERs, like test banks, PowerPoints, Worksheets, activities, etc.

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group?

I want to start by requesting that Hospitality be added as a subcategory for CTE.

1. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision?

I want to build resources that other teachers could use. I also want to invite fellow HRM teachers in AZ to help develop course tools that could be shared across all of AZ.

Agree, I'd also like to add and develop OERs for other categories not included in the OEr networks. I.e. wokring in the GLAM sector, Collection Management, Cultural Heritage.

What is an HRM teacher?

Hello Amanda,

Building resources that other teachers could use sounds like a great long term vision. A handful of U of A interns, including myself are hoping to do something similar as to get teachers at PCC to offer their students OERs!

I will be able to share quickly the link to where we house the OERs we created. 

I will be able to share with more time how our entry point course approached jumping into OER. 

I like your goals here...OER seems to be a great way to provide information in entry point.

1.  Easy to quickly share valuable OER items found on the OER Commons site.

2. Create/adapt research and information gathering skills instructional materials.  Coordinate with a content area (I'm library faculty).

Adding a note to self: Consider creating OER materials for "intro to the EMCC library" and "Intro to research" that instructors could add to their own course to support student use of the library.  Would support students navigating the library site.

This is a great idea, I would love to create/find some OER for navigating the LibGuides at my inst

Hi Janelle!

I really like your second item you listed.  I am quickly finding that adding resources is farely easy, but searching, gathering, evaluating, and actually incorporating resources is a pretty tedious process. Id also like to see more easy-to-find instructional materials about these processes.  

Great comment!

John

Thanks John - I agree!  I found great resources, but have lots of questions about how remix works in specific situations.

Janelle

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? OER pertaining to my discipline 

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision? To have the proficiency to create OER thatc ould integrate in my current position 

Atami,

I would like to also create OER material, but right now I only feel comfortable using OER material other people have created.

Marie,

I agree that it is a new frontier and that remixing is a comfortable space. One of the ways I plan to dip my toes into the OER water is by creating something I want in my course. What do you think of that idea? 

We can do this! :-) 

Teresa

1. Something I can share quickly: Lots of tips for locating CC and PD images across the web, how to evaluate the licences, and how to license your own work.

2. I'd like to begin to work on creating/adapting a mini-textbook resource on information literacy for students. 

Hi Kali,

That's always a challenge - locating CC and PD images. I would love to hear your tips! Also, that's a great idea for a resource for students. I feel like students can always use a refresher on information literacy.

Elyse

Elyse, I am always ready to talk about locting images - there are so many cool resources out there, and more all the time as museums and librarias digitize their collections! In particular, I need to shout out the curation skills of Joyce Valenza, a librarian at Rutgers, who put together this amazing Copyright Friendly Toolkit and this curated list of CC0 image resources. 

Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!

I envision that I can share OERs for college courses with this group.

A longer time vision that I might want to work on to share will be the ability to outreach to students and create OERs.

1.  Current OER textbooks based on remixes and novel AI generated content

2.  Remixing textbooks for my courses.

1) The OER website resources I have incorporated into my courses.

2) Using OER textbook for one of the courses I teach.

1. Anyone else going to NCTE 2024 in Boston? I'm excited about the content, including OER learning opportunities. 

2. From the previous discussion, I want to help advance CAC's ENG-RHET textbook, an OER endeavor. 

Thank you for sharing the link to the rhetoric text.  How do the faculty in the department contribute to that?  Is it constantly being revised?

Hi,

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? What I can share quickly are the OER links we learned to identify today.

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision? Earlier this year I helped work on an OER project that was a bridge course for Maricopa (specifically Phoenix College) students waiting to enter the nursing program. The project sparked a debate between several colleagues and me as to which courses could benefit from a similar project. For example, I'd like to create a bridge course for Bio 201 (Anatomy & Physiology I) students entering the second semester, Bio 202. This is something I'd like to complete and be able to share with those teaching A&P and as an exemplar for other disciplines to model.

❤️ Cant wait to check this out! 

What an amazing concept, I would love to create something for Dental Hygiene students that are on waiting lists to begin their programs Students are always very eager to begin the program and so quickly feel overwhelmed.

1. I'm happy to share whatever I find useful, including interactive games and activities that students might like in my courses. I did see a really good resource on how to make PowerPoints more interactive, like click and reveal.

2. I really want to dig in to see what resources exist for Clinical/Medical Lab Science to share with my fellow MLT instructors and eventually our students.

Thank you so much for the resource, Elyce! It feels like I struggle with making things more interactive during in person courses. I feel like I'm going back to the old games I played when I taught junior high and high school! I love interactive powerpoints, and have been working on making more assignments in this vein.  

Oh totally! I recently started making "Choose Your Own Adventures" case studies in PowerPoint for my students in clinical lab science. They seem to really like it!

Oh that's fun! I like that for different topics within my overall topic. Thank you!

1) I can share an OER Toolkit with links to lots of different resources. It's licensed CC BY so feel free to customize it.
2) Longer term, I'm adapting resources from the Open Education Network's newly released OER Publishing Project Toolkit and 
OER Publishing Program Toolkit. 

I am very interested in intitiating an OER Design Studio at Pima College in the future and these publishing toolkits are great guides. We aren't there yet, but someday... I wonder what a UA/PCC collaboration might look like? :)

Let's talk! Will you be in RI for OpenEd?

Yes, let's! I will be there!

That OER Toolkit is so helpful! I love that collection of sources!

1. The small yet profound experience I have had with the ONLY OER I have used thus far (Calc I).

2. I need to determine/develop an OER for Brief Calculus that captures the vision of learning in my department.

As a student and OER intern I want to:

1. Insights on student behavior, OER I have found useful in classes and in research. 

2. Be able to share updates on the OER Playbook I am working on with my advisor and fellow interns!

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? I could share quickly some content I have created, although they are not textbook resources, I have created some H5P content/activities for nursing students currently taking OB, Womens Health and Newborn courses. 

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision? An OER lesson on High-Risk Anenatal Complications. 

Hi Shellece,

I recently learned that textbooks for the Nursing Program in some Maricopa (maybe all) costs around $1000. I applaud your efforts to provide students with OER activities!

Yes, they are very expensive. I know at Phoenix Collge, students textbook costs are close to $2,000.

1. I recently found OER content related to Emergency Medical Servies education that I could share.  I was honestly surprised to find anything at all, though.  Apparently there is not much out there compared to other academic or vocational classes. topics.

2. I would like to build OER related to EMS education that is more cost friendly to my students. 

Q1: Physics has a host of pretty great OER simulations resources on two separate sites: PHET and thephysicsclassroom. Probably not that useful to anyone other than me, but I'm curious to see if any other fields have similar digital resources available. I could immediately share an online lab I created based on one of these PHET simulations that explores wave characteristics.

Q2: Long term I'd like a database of POGIL-based physics labs that start with the online/diigtal resources I name above and incorporate aspects of peer and group learning. I dream of being able to use something like this in the digital classroom, but would settle for something  that I could do in person :)

1. I can share OER found on this website that interests me, or seems like it would be interesting to the group

2. I could work on collecting a selection of media/digital literacy OER and organizing them in an easily searchable format, like a google document, with additional links and resources

1. Quick Share- I've gone all OER in my courses, and am happy to share specific assignments/assessments as well as resources I've found helpful.

2- Long Term- My favorite project runs in my Honors courses and requires the students to make a five episode podcast on a broad topic within the scope of the course (I teach history). Long term, I'd love to have that polished enough to be able to share out what my students make as a possible resource for others.

I like the podcast project!  I've been recently introduced to the term "Open Pedagogy," (though the concept is not new to me, just didn't have a good name for it) and it seems to fit well with that.  

1. I would be able to share introductory communication course OER textbook that I'm currently using.
2. My longer term vision is to create (post-retirement) OER materials based on my many years of teaching.

I could refelct on some geology OER I currently use.

Long-term contribution - I am slowly but surely working on my own Geology OER. Book and lab manuals

I have made some H5P resources for some of my classes. Some of these would be items that I could share now. 

I would like to share the course setup that I plan to create for my HCR 220 course in the future to replace the purchased text book. 

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? I could quickly share "free" images.  The reason why I think this is important is while creating content, visual representations and interesting photos are, I feel, important for the reader to see. 

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision? Developing flashcards (with sound), and interactive activities.

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? I can share the resources I have found for possibile use in my courses.

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision? The shells for my new courses using OpenStax textbooks.

I can share the information I find on intercultural communication.

I hope to share components of a redesigned properly liscensed OER communication course. 

Would love to have an OER on intercultural communication! 

Thanks for the encouragement Peter!

I'm thinking this would be interesting to see play out in a math classroom.... any suggestions? Other than utilizing kinesthetics, aural, visual with culturally diverse background information such as games, sports, names, etc.... am I on the right idea?

Ruth, I too would like to see quality OER material for teaching intercultural communication as well as the introductory human communication course.

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group?

   1. OER books/courses that were created or adapted by faculty currently being used in Fall 2024.

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision?

   1. I would love to be able to adapt a subject that has been deemed too hard to make an OER out of or at least adapt it to fit our program specifically.

1. Resources that I could share quickly with this group are readily available resources from OER Commons, or OER textbook resources such as OpenStax and Pressbooks. 

2. A longer time vision is the development of OER courses using these readily available OER resources. 
 

1. I can share my experience in OER using already created courses vs selecting OER chapters and/or materials from different books that I could use in a course.

2. I want to review newer OER books to see if their content is better than the initial book chapters that I have been using as there are more options out there now.

Kathy, your longer-term project sounds great to me.  I've found that there are new options introduced that can really enhance the course quality.  I'm using a current textbook and had a student link to another OER textbook that was better able to present the material.  I'd like to be open to remixing my own version in the future.

1. An OER that has good quality images for A&P courses. 
2. Working on interactive labs for online students in Biology courses. 

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? I can share a career exploration activity.

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision? I can create a deeper and longer career exploration activity.

What I wish to share quickly with the group are examples of how I've used OERs in the past, as well as the experience of using OERs from my colleagues. Long term, I hope to share resources (whether that would be people or knowledge or both!) to enhance OERs I am creating, as well as support others in their process.

Hi Joshua, 

how have you used OER in the past? 

1)  I could share what I know about Open Source software.

2) It would take more time but I could also share what I learned about programming MyOpenMath

1. Being able to share no cost digital resources.

2. The OER book I would like to build on that aligns with the American Chemical Society standards 

I hope to be able to share the OER resources I discover with this group. I want to continue to learn more about OER and to discover additional resources that will be valuable to my future courses.

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? I don't have much to share as I am new to OER.

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision? Unsure at this time.

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group? 

I'm not sure I have any material that could be quickly shared with this group outside of the resources I found in the OER Commons. But I do have some advice to share: Don't be afraid to reach out for additional information to the OER authors or the school where it was created. I was looking for additional resources for an OER text, and I am now working with the OER librarian at that University to see if any supplemental materials are available. She was very happy to help. 

1. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision?

I am currently working on a presentation on mental health to share with students and colleagues. I would like to present it as OER material, but the slide Images I am using are images I have paid to use. I believe that prohibits it from being used as OER (can anyone confirm that for me?). If that is the case, I will remake the presentation using OER images before sharing it. 

1.  I have some OER resources that I regularly use and have been successful in my previous classes that I can share. 

I use this book for American Literature and like it: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/english-textbooks/5/

We have this handbook that we use in the English department that was created by our own Karen Palmer: https://pressbooks.pub/roughwritersguide/

I have been using this book a little bit in my ENG 102 class, and I am really interested in the way that it uses AI as part of its content creation: https://cwi.pressbooks.pub/lit-crit/

2.  My longer term goals with OER are to create an early American Literature class (ENG 240) to share to the commons and also to help my students start creating their own OER resources through their assignments.  I would like to revive the Yavapai College art and literary journal, Threshold, as an OER project. 

1.  Ways to brainstorm connecting materials in courses to broader concepts.

2. Developing more OER for leadership specific classes.

1. What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group?
   I could share OER on MyOpenMath and anything I have learned from navigating it over the last year.

2. What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision?
   Ultimately I want to help change classes from non-OER formats to an OER format through MyOpenMath and then share that out.

1. I would love to utilize the OER for MAT 142 in the spring session.

2. Modifying what I find so that it aligns with our college's teaching practices.

We use MyOpenMath for MAT 142 (which I take is the same as yours in Arizona?).   Well,  we use it for the assignments.  We use  https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-mathforliberalarts/  (with supplements) for the "text".

I link directly to the textbook sections via Canvas by adding external link to module but visible "in page".  That way the student is simply walking through canvas doing assignments on MOM along the way.

We have one that we adapted and started using this semester at Pima Community College in all our MAT142... Topics in Mathematics

1. OER material for Composition and Rhetoric.

2. Material for ENG 101 and ENG 102.

I envision having time to look at different OERs that will help me with my teaching.

How to format my own OER so that I could eventually contribute to the community.

Hi Maria, 

We are on the same page. I have found it extremely difficult in finding maternity and newborn OER textbooks for nursing students and the ones I have found are often lacking in what I need to cover the curriculum I am expected to teach. Combining information from a variety of OER resources would make them so much better and I would love to have time to create my own OER for Phoenix College Nursing. 

1. I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner, but I'm going to add some of the resources I've made for faculty into folders here and I can share those with the group. I'll start doing it that way from now on instead of sharing in Google docs like I've been doing I can share the link to OER Commons. 

Also want to share our Pima Open Digital Press

2. I have a couple of OER that faculty are creating in Pressbooks and can't wait to publish and share those too!

1) I will continue to use OER resources because it has improved my courses significantly.

2) I would like to come up with a textbook that can adapt to the changing needs of one of my courses.

1. Understand further why OER's matter and promote them effectively.

2. Work on building OERs via the 5 R's and share through the various networks in the US and Australia.

1. OER was much easier to navigate once I got Joanna's instruction & I was happy to quickly find some resources, while limited. I hope to develop other skills to find more content pertaining to Dental Hygiene.

2. Creating or finding more tags pretaining to Dental Hygiene to utilize in my discipline.

1. I would like to creat one-stop OER textbook for BIO181. Which includes past, present and future for each topic in one textbook and it includes activities, homework and exam as well in one textbook.

2. It might be taking long time to collect resources and do the reserch and leaning the technology to put all different form in one place.

What do you envision that you could share quickly with this group?

I could share resources on data analytics, such as open-source datasets, visualization tools, and introductory tutorials for beginners.

What might you want to work on to share that will be a longer time vision?

I’d like to develop a comprehensive OER course module on data analytics, including interactive materials and case studies, to share with educators.

The items that I can share quickly are assignment and activities that are designed for the courses I teach.

Future sharing might include some articles or content that has been created for my classes. 

My content area is early childhood education. 

~Victoria 

I could quickly share a list of useful Open Educational Resources (OER) for language learning and other subjects. For a longer-term vision, I’d like to work on creating a comprehensive OER guide that helps instructors find and adapt materials to fit different course needs.

Best,

Nick 

1. I envision providing easily accessible resources including OER materials, ready-to-use lessons, digital tools that enhance student engagement.

2. For a longer-term vision, I would like to develop customizable OER resources tailored to our specific courses, designed to meet students' diverse learning preferences.

Hello:)!

I envision sharing materials I have used in an OER course quickly.

I would like to create an inclusive course that has materials for everyone and throughout many periods of time.