Open Educational Resources Committee Meeting: January 10, 2023

Zoom / Conference Call

Members attending: Dorinne Banks (Adler University), Amber Burtis (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Catherine Galarza-Espino (Morton College), Kim Hale (Columbia College Chicago), Lauren Kosrow (College of DuPage), Dan Matthews, co-chair (Moraine Valley Community College), Christina Norton (Bradley University), Dee Anna Phares (Northern Illinois University, Chris Sweet (Illinois Wesleyan University)

Member absent: Tineka Scalzo, co-chair (City Colleges of Chicago)

CARLI Staff attending: Anne Craig, Michele Leigh, Nicole Swanson

Visitor: Milind Basole (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Decisions

• The December minutes were unanimously approved.
• The meeting adjourned at 12:57p.m.

Tasks Assigned

• Minutes taken by Dorinne Banks.
• CARLI staff will create a webpage for Open Education Week resources and programming.

Announcements

• Member Announcements: None
• CARLI Announcements:
  • Illinois SCOERs – Six projects were awarded during Round 2 funding. CARLI has opened up Round 3 funding with proposals due February 28.
  • CARLI has moved to 100% remote staff.
  • Nicole – registration open for overrservicing at your library (Angelique)

Discussion

• Milind Basole (visitor-presenter) from the Center for Innovation, Teaching, and Learning (CITL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shared information about their services.
  • ETexts at IL = Etexts@illinois.edu
  • CITL has created a series of 1-hour modules; accessible online ebooks that are germane to courses taught at their campus: Students earn Completion Certificates
    • Finance Course – self-study module (1 hour); taken by several hundred students in college 101 classes
    • Dollars and Sense: an Intro to Finances
    • Media Literacy - “Media Matters”
    • Nutrition – to come
    • Wellness – to come
    • Ethics – to come
  • Access:
    • Hosted on Kaltura.
    • Currently only available to those with a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign login.
    • He’s interested in exploring a way to let anyone in the world access.
    • Milind will set up access for the CARLI OER Committee  members. Each must use a Google login.
    • Hosting costs are an expense. They are looking for an underwriter for hosting costs.
  • Committee members suggestions: host in MERLOT if the modules have a CC_BY license.
    • The content is currently free, but it is not openly licensed.
• Continuing Education:
  • Understanding and Promoting Open Educational Resources schedule for February
  • CARLI OER Faculty Workshop: Supporting Academic Success: Open Educational Resources and Affordable Course Materials
    • Register to attend one of three opportunities:
      • January 26, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.,
      • February 1, 11:00 a.m-1:00 p.m.,
      • February 23, 10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
  • Open OER Office Hours
    • February 21
      • Tineka = moderator
      • Christina Norton = note-taker
    • March 21
      • Lauren = moderator
      • Amber Burtis note taker
    • April – date to be determined
      • Chris Sweet = moderator
      • Nneed a note taker
    • May (need a moderator and note taker)
• Open Education Week:
  • Nicole: CARLI will create an Open Ed Week page on CARLI website.
  • OER Faculty Panel
    • Dan (Biology instructor)
    • Kim (in process of talking to faculty)
    • Lauren
  • Michele: Illinois SCOERs awardees will share their projects.
  • Nicole: SPARC speaker(s)
  • Chris - OER Success Stories.  He will create form to gather success stories and will share out mid-February.
  • Dan will set up Padlet – will be posted on Open Ed Week page that folks can populate on their own.
• Website Review due February 7th.
• Student Survey
  • Survey materials submitted to IRB and waiting to hear back.
• Open Pedagogy Program
  • In March, committee members will give the presentation will be given to a NIU Cohort.
  • On April 25th  at 1:00, committee members will give the presentation to CARLI. The program will be offered to members teaching faculty.
• OEN Certificate in OER Librarianship
  • Currently collecting applicants’ receipts/giving reimbursements.
  • CARLI support is only for  Illinois academic librarians.
• Creative Commons Certificate Program
  • There was an announcement in the December Newsletter, funding is available for 30 participants for the program that begins in either January or  June 2023.
• Illinois SCOERs Grant Update
  • Awarded Round 2 to six projects.
  • Opened up Round 3 with proposals due February 28.
  • CARLI is working with LibreTexts so that it will be a platform for sub-grantees to publish the OER created via the Illinois SCOERs Grant.
• IACRL OER Award
  • The ILA funded program will provide five  $500 awards for OER.

Next Meeting Dates and Deadlines

• The next committee meeting will be: February 7, 2023 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
• Note taker will be Christina Norton.

Committee Meetings:
March 7, 2023, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Minutes: Dee Anna Phares
April 4, 2023, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Minutes: Chris Sweet
May 2, 2023, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Minutes: Lauren Kosrow
June 6, 2023, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Minutes:

Deadlines: