In this lightning talk, we will explain how we transitioned from the abstract to the concrete by turning our OER advocacy into OER creation. We will outline the decision-making process and workflow model behind converting our existing Information Literacy tutorials into an OER eBook: The Niagara College Libraries + Learning Commons Information Skills Online Handbook (https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/ncinfoskills/).

The initial goal of our project was to demonstrate to our faculty that OER creation should not be feared. By demonstrating through example, we became more than just promoters of OER (our traditional role as librarians); we became creators of OER – a process which offered us insight into the faculty experience, and provided us with the lived experience necessary to be confident in our dealings with faculty who are looking to become fledgling OER authors themselves.

Participants will be able to:

1. evaluate their existing institutional material/resources for its potential as an OER

2. formulate a manageable process to convert their existing material to OER

3. articulate how to begin OER creation

ncLibraries + Learning Commons OER guide

ncLibraries + Learning Commons Information Skills Digital Handbook

ncLibraries + Learning Commons Escape Room Series Examples

Padlet for OER advice

Collaborative Practice: Critical Information Literacies in Open Pedagogy

Presenters: Erin Fields, Donna Langille

In December 2015 Daniel Heath Justice began a Twitter campaign to share the names of Indigenous writers. The reason for his efforts was to: “…push back against the frequent assumptions that our literary history is any less complex, robust, or diverse than that of other peoples” (Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter?, p.298).

In solidarity with his efforts, in 2018 a group of interested individuals from the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program, UBC Library, and the Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology at the University of British Columbia came together to develop the first #HonouringIndigenousWriters Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon.

This session will detail the process of developing an experience for participants that aligned with the social justice principles of open pedagogy- that of the collaborative, transparent, and open creation of knowledge for the improvement of an openly accessible information source. The session will outline the process of creating the event, how the design of the event focused on principles of good faith, and the ways that participation from diverse communities highlighted complimentary but unique interests in engaging with open knowledge creation.

APA Style Citation Tutorial by Sarah Adams and Debbie Feisst (Pressbooks)

The APA Style Citation Tutorial is created by staff at the University of Alberta Library to support students and faculty. The tutorial covers why it is important to use citations, elements of common source types, and how to create reference and in-text citations based on the 7th edition APA guidelines. This tutorial can also be used a reference resource. It is under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike license so it can be cloned for editing, remixing, and reuse for your courses.

Engaging LIS Students with OER-Enabled Pedagogy

Presenter: Christopher Hollister

The presenter will describe the experimental use of OER-enabled pedagogy as a framework for engaging graduate-level library and information science students in a course on international and comparative librarianship. In the case to be presented, students were assigned to create their own textbook as an OER. Each student authored a chapter featuring the libraries and the field librarianship in a non-North American country of their choosing, and the completed text was published on the presenter’s institutional repository. Given the experimental nature of this assignment, the presenter examined whether students who are required to create their own OERs perceive such work to be valuable, motivating, or rewarding, and whether they attribute particular challenges or shortcomings to that activity. The presenter will provide a brief overview of the textbook creation assignment described here and emphasize the results of the investigation in terms of student perceptions. In addition, the presenter will discuss lessons learned and propose implications moving forward.

Learning Outcomes:
(1) Recognize the potential of OER-enabled pedagogy as a framework for improving student learning.

(2) Identity renewable coursework as a potential pedagogical innovation for enhancing levels of student engagement and enthusiasm.

(3) Appreciate students’ perceptions of OER-enabled pedagogy in context of the present case study.

(4) Leverage students’ perceptions for the purpose continuous improvement in teaching and learning.

Taking OER to the LIS: Reimagining the Preparation of Library Science Students for Open Education

Presenter: Steven J. Bell

While there are open education continuing education programs for practicing librarians, there were no known courses focusing on open education in any of the ALA-accredited library science programs. This presentation will focus on the development and delivery of an online, one-credit course in Open Education Librarianship for the San Jose State University iSchool. Attendees will learn about the nature of the course, its learning objectives, structure and content.

The course was first proposed in January 2020 and accepted by the San Jose State University iSchool curriculum committee in February 2020. While the iSchool already offered a course in scholarly communication librarianship that offered an introduction to open access, the program director believed that students would want an even more in depth course focusing specifically on open education. The course was developed between March and May2020 and launched in July 2020. The initial enrollment for the course met the maximum number of 35 students shortly after registration for summer 2020 courses opened, indicating the level of student interest in this course.

The four-week course is designed to introduce student to two primary open education topics, open education resources and open pedagogy. Topics covered in the course include:

• Textbook crisis
• Open textbook publishing model
• Advocacy for open textbooks
• Role of the Open Education Librarian
• Open pedagogy projects
• Designing and delivering open education workshops
• Busting OER myths
• Understanding “free’ vs “open”
• DEI in open education
• Open education research
• Getting to know open education advocates

The presentation will also discuss what types of assignments and projects are used to expose students to the type of work that Open Education Librarians perform. The presenter will share student reactions to the course, how effectively it met their expectation for learning about open education and whether the course encouraged them to consider open education as a career path in librarianship.

To encourage aspiring librarians to develop an appreciation of or passion for open education it is desirable to incorporate it into the LIS curriculum. This presentation will consider the potential and effectiveness of this approach for developing the next generation of Open Education Librarian.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identifying the students enrolled in library and information science programs as future participants in and leaders in open education;
• Leveraging current library and information science students interest in social justice and diversity movements to create a new generation of open education advocates;
• Components of an open education course for LIS students and student reaction to participating in an open education course (how might it impact their future career path decisions).