BCOER Librarians presentation at the BCLA 2016 conference Brenda Smith, TRU Caroline Daniels, KPU Erin Fields, UBC

1. Help!
I Want to Be Open!
Brenda Smith - TRU
Caroline Daniels - KPU
Erin Fields - UBC

3. Our Institutions
Brenda Smith - TRU
Caroline Daniels - KPU
Erin Fields - UBC

4. Getting Started
Top 6 Ways to Get Involved in Open

5. 1. Organize an Open Event
Start with the Easy! 2 Quick Wins:
November - Open Access Week
March - Open Education Week
- Gives you a concrete reason to meet with
instructional faculty
- Builds relationships during the organising
- Existing workshops, webinars and
promotional material for you to build on
- Local community to tap intoExample:
Open Access Week - panel on OA with featured KPU Stars
Open Education Week - Paul Stacey spoke on Creative Commons

6. 2. Find Faculty Advocates & Partner
Contact BCcampus and OpenStax to learn
who on your campus has adopted open
textbooks
Contact instructional designers and learning
technologists for campus examples of
open
Invitation to discuss open
Identify possible library connections and offer
your time
Example
UBC Library, the Centre for Teaching and Learning, and Faculty partner in the creation of
workshops, webspaces, and events titled “Open for Learning.”
Open Education Elevator Speech
Increase student retention by reducing costs
Assures academic freedom to modify or add
content to your specifications
Extends your academic profile
Provides more relevant and engaging materials
for your students
More customized and relevant

7. 3. Extend Your Support Role
Current Librarians Roles
Identify collection needs and assist in
developing collections that meet those needs
Assess resources for quality and make them
discoverable
Provide research support
Create content to support faculty and students
Assist faculty in finding appropriate, high-
quality OERs
Assess and collect high quality OER
resources in easily discoverable guides or
discovery tools (i.e. catalogue, etc.)
Assist faculty in identifying appropriate OER
repositories for their materials, assist with
uploading/indexing
Assist in the creation of OE content
Example
The Flexible Learning Librarian and the Biology Librarian partnered with the Department of
Biology in developing a workflow for finding, vetting, describing, and gathering permissions
for open education resources for use in a repository.

8. 4. Use What Already Exists
BCOER Librarians
https://open.bccampus.ca/bcoer-librarians/
Advocacy Poster
OER Repository Assessment Rubric
Faculty Guide for Evaluating OER
MediaWiki OER Guides
What we can do to make it easier for faculty and
for ourselves ...
Example
TRU’s OER Guides (http://libguides.tru.ca/openresources) draw from the
BCOER MediaWiki guides.

9. Forums
5. Build Awareness of Openness Issues
Online Courses
(e.g., Open Washington:
www.openwa.org/module-1/)
Blogs
(e.g., David Wiley “iterating toward openness”:
http://opencontent.org/blog)
Twitter
(e.g., #bcoer, #oerlib, #openeducationwk,
#openeducation, #liboer)
https://oerconsortium.org /

10. 6. Collections

11. Open for Learning Challenge Bank
Open UBC is building a set of open
challenges that will help you to
understand and apply concepts
about open teaching and about
finding, using and sharing the
open resources that you create.
Instructions
Team-up
Go to: http://openlearning.sites.olt.ubc.ca/
Review the challenges
Select a challenge and respond
Extra Time
Add a challenge to the challenge bank
Add a resource to one of the challenges

12. Getting Started - BCOER Strategy Document
The purpose of this document is to provide
generic items that could be incorporated into
any library’s policies, procedures, or strategic
planning documents. In most cases, libraries
will need to modify these components before
using them, but they can provide some
inspiration for ensuring openness is a central
part of your library’s future.
http://bit.ly/1TdrP33

13. Getting Started - BCcampus Textbook Adoption Workshop
● Instructional Faculty, Librarians,
instructional designers,
BCcampus facilitators
● 8 people, 600 post it notes, 15
Google docs, and 48 hours later,
a 2 hour adaptable course on
adopting textbooks is produced!
● Slide deck is available to anyone
to modify, and update!
https://cloud.bccampus.ca/index.php/s/qWn6qra
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14. How to Get Involved in BCOER Librarians
https://open.bccampus.ca/bcoer-librarians/
#bcoer

15. What is the Future of Open Education?
Brenda Smith - TRU
Caroline Daniels - KPU
Erin Fields - UBC

16. 24 Seconds that changed the game
● November 22, 1950, the Pistons defeated
the Lakers 19-18 in the lowest scoring
game in NBA history
● Shot clock Introduced by Danny Biasone,
owner of the Syracuse Nationals
● Biasone arrived at 24 seconds by
calculating the number of shots two teams
might take during a game, then dividing
that number by 48 minutes of play.
● Adoption of the clock is known as one of
the most important developments in NBA
history.

18. Thank You
Questions?