Open Educational Resources Committee Meeting: March 14, 2024

Zoom / Conference Call

Members attending: Joslyn Allison (City Colleges of Chicago), Amber Burtis (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Kim Hale (Columbia College Chicago), Lauren Kosrow, co-chair (College of DuPage); Dan Matthews (Moraine Valley Community College), Shelly McDavid (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), Tineka Scalzo (City Colleges of Chicago)

Members absent: Dorinne Banks, co-chair (Adler University), Christina Norton (Bradley University), Dee Anna Phares (Northern Illinois University)

CARLI Staff attending: Elizabeth Clarage, Anne Craig, Nicole Swanson

Decisions

  • None

Tasks Assigned

  • Minutes taken by Dan Matthews.
  • Lauren will send a call to the OER Committee Members for volunteers for Illinois State Library OER Grant application review.

Announcements

  • Member Announcements:
    • Dan Matthews (Moraine Valley Community College): Will be presenting along with colleague Tish Hayes at the Harper International and Social Justice Education Summit on April 12th on using Podcasting, OER, and Open Pedagogy as a project to document and uplift the stories of those experiencing migration, displacement, and diaspora.
    • Lauren Kosrow (College of DuPage): Has been promoting the data from Illinois Course Materials Survey with her campus.
  • CARLI Announcements:
    • Call for committee volunteers went out this week, please volunteer by May 3.
    • University of Illinois System president asked CARLI and the UI Press to plan a two-day symposium, Free People Read Freely, to celebrate intellectual freedom on August 20 & 21, 2024.

Discussion

  • State Library Grant Review Committee:
    • The Illinois State Library is asking for a review committee to be established for their OER Grants Program. If any members of the OER Committee would like to participate, CARLI would appreciate your involvement. If you’ve submitted a grant application, you’ll need to recuse yourself from reviewing any application you are associated with. Hoping to establish a team of 15.
    • CARLI is putting together a rubric based on the application and the State Library’s position about this money. The ISL will review.
    • Review committee volunteers: Lauren, Dan, Amber, Tineka, Kim, Shelly, Joslyn.
    • Individual outreach for additional volunteers. Email to absent committee members to request volunteers.
    • Review Committee members would not need to read all of the applications.
    • Illinois State Library will make the final funding decisions with the input from the Review Committee.
    • Committee will likely meet more than once.
  • Student Course Materials Affordability Survey:
    • Students were fantastic in the Open Ed Week panel!
    • Statewide report shared last Friday, March 8.
    • Huge undertaking to review the data.
    • Important and powerful results.
  • OER Course: Understanding and Promoting OER
    • February offering: 12 in attendance
    • May: Elizabeth Nelson and Cari Didion
    • June: Melanie Armstrong and Amy Pinc
  • Faculty OER Workshops: No update.
  • Open Pedagogy Workshops
    • March 8, Dee Anna, Chris
  • OER Community Chats
    • April Open Pedagogy for DEI
    • May Lessons Learned
    • Both to be scheduled soon
  • Website Review
    • Most of the edits from the spreadsheet have been made.
    • Next steps: We’d talked about redoing the toolbox as a future project.
  • OEN Certificate: No update
  • Creative Commons Certificate Program
    • Spring semester was full
    • Next session starts in June
    • Will continue to promote that support is available
  • OER Commons: Open Illinois Hub:
    • No update.
    • Summit coming up, Elizabeth will share back
  • DOE Open Pilot Grant: Illinois SCOERs
    • Lots of excellent sessions during OpenEd week.

Next Meeting Dates and Deadlines

The next committee meeting is April 11, 2024 at 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Note taker will be Shelly.
 
Committee Meetings:
April 11, 2024; Minutes taker - Shelly
May 9, 2024; Minutes taker - Tineka
June 13, 2024; Minutes taker – to be determined

Deadlines: None