Librarians as Open Education Leaders: Responsibilities and Possibilities

Conference paper (2018)

Authors

Quill West Open Educational Resources (OER)
Amy Hofer Open Educational Resources (OER)
Dale Coleman University of Washington
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Collaboration Library Open education Course design
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25-04-2018

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Abstract

A common claim in open education is that librarians are effective supporters in open education work because their talents for research, organization, and working with students make them natural supporters of faculty designing OER courses. This study seeks to understand how librarians and faculty interacted with one another in an deliberate cooperation in course design. Seventeen faculty-librarian partnerships were awarded $3000 stipends to cooperate in designing open courses. Each participant kept a weekly journal describing current contributions to the course project. Early findings from analysis of the journals shows that librarians are effective supporters, but careful planning and organization of the projects was very necessary for the collaborations to be successful.