Is Your Institution Ready for OER? SUNY’s OER Institutional Readiness Process Tony DeFranco, Tompkins Cortland Community College Mark McBride, Monroe Community College Allison Brown, Open SUNY Textbooks & SUNY OER Services
Is Your Institution Ready for OER? SUNY’s OER Institutional Readiness ProcessTony DeFranco, Tompkins Cortland Community College
Mark McBride, Monroe Community College
Allison Brown, Open SUNY Textbooks & SUNY OER Services
FACT 2 Task Groups
FACT 2 OER Task Group
Goals✓ Standardize a definition of OER
✓ Engage the SUNY community and other OER experts to determine the necessary elements for a successful campus-wide OER implementation
✓Use the Open SUNY Institutional Readiness Process as a model to adapt for assisting campuses to build their own capability to implement a successful OER initiative
✓ Create tools to assist campuses with OER implementation
✓Determine where there would be benefits for benchmarking and sharing best practices between campuses to advance the development and implementation of OER across the SUNY system
✓Guide SUNY campuses in using OER to improve the academic quality of educational offerings
Subgroups1. Faculty
2. Support
3. Institutional Readiness
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Outcomes/Deliverables
✓A recommended set of quality criteria campuses need to be successful with a campus-wide OER implementation
✓A recommended process for campuses to assess where they stand relative to the quality criteria, to determine what actions they need to take to advance their own OER initiative, and support each other in the development and implementation of OER
✓A recommended set of tools to be used in the process
✓ Recommendations for the roles of campus and SUNY System Administration in conducting and sustaining the process
Rubric, Process, and Assessment ToolsProcess allows campuses to explore benefits from an OER implementation
Successful implementation strategy
✓ Financial and HR commitment✓ Infrastructure and support ✓ Sustainability✓Accessibility✓ Copyright and licensing
Rubric, process, and assessment tools identify necessary resources to move forward with OER
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The OSF is an OERYou can find the rubric and all the associated implementation tools in the SUNY OER Repository:
http://bit.ly/sunyosf
Start with the Overview
OER Success Framework Rubric
Category 1: Institutional Support of OERCategory 2: Technology Support of OERCategory 3: OER Integration into Course Development &
Instructional DesignCategory 4: OER Course DeliveryCategory 5: Supporting Faculty in the use of OERCategory 6: Supporting Students in the use of OERCategory 7: Evaluation and Assessment of OER initiative
There’s a Tool for Each Step
Individual Assessments
Group Assessment
Identifying the Gaps
Documenting Best Practices
Creating an Implementation Plan
QUESTIONS?