Open Educational Resources Committee Meeting: September 12, 2024

Zoom / Conference Call

Members attending: Joslyn Allison (City Colleges of Chicago), Dorinne Banks, (Adler University), Zachariah Claybaugh (Dominican University), Kelly Hallisy (DePaul University), Lauren Kosrow, (College of DuPage), Jayna Leipart Guttilla (Illinois State University), Shelly McDavid (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), Dee Anna Phares (Northern Illinois University

Member absent: Colby Cilento (Illinois State University)

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

Decisions

• Minutes approved with minor corrections.
• Dee Anna Phares and Jayna Leipart Guttilla were confirmed as co-chairs.
• Future meetings will be in Teams on a trial basis barring any issues from members.
• Topic decided for the CARLI Annual Meeting Table Talk: OER engagement and belonging.
• Tentative meeting days 1st Wednesdays 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. (pending Colby’s availability).
• Consensus reached that CARLI should continue to support the Open Education Network and Creative Commons certificate programs for members

Tasks Assigned

• Minutes taken by Joslyn Allison.
• Future minute takers scheduled by last name starting with Shelly McDavid.
• Dee Anna will discuss Open Pedagogy workshop with Shelly.
• All should look at availability for teaching continuing education programming for the year and sign up in Box for the dates and workshops that they’re interested in.
• CARLI staff will confirm availability of all for the monthly meetings and schedule as appropriate.
• CARLI staff will share draft documents to propose support for the OEN Certificate in Open Education Librarianship, the OEN Certificate in Open Pedagogy, and the Creative Commons Certificate, after review, these will be submitted to CARLI for approval.
• CARLI staff will update the OEN communication channels as noted in the discussion.

Announcements

• Member Announcements:
  • Lauren Kosrow (College of DuPage): COD has introduced course marking for OER courses and so far, it has been a success! Also launched a zero textbook cost initiative. They did a press release and got some media and community coverage. https://www.cod.edu/news/2024/july/open-educational-resources.html
  • Jayna Leipart Guttilla (Illinois State University): ISU was able to commit 40k to an eBook program where they were able to purchase some etextbooks on reserve for students.
• CARLI Announcements:
  • CARLI Annual Meeting: October 22, 2024
    • Registration is available.
    • Committee Involvement: Possible Table Talk? Suggested topic: “OER: Engaging faculty, Engaging Students”
  • Nicole: PDA: Florida Virtual Campus OER Continuing Education series starts October 10. Registration is available.
  • OEN Communications
    • The Open Education Network now allows anyone interested from a member to access the OEN Dashboard and allows limited access to their Google Group email list.
    • Committee Members interested in access to the OEN Dashboard: Dee Anna, Zachariah, Kelly, Joslyn, and Lauren expressed interest and Shelly shared that she has access already.
    • Committee members interested in access to the OEN Google Group Email List: Dee Anna, Lauren, and Zachariah expressed interest.

Discussion

• Discussed meeting environment for future meetings with Teams or Zoom.
• Review of Committee charge.
• Recap of last year’s committee work.
• Possibility of having another survey in 2025.
  • Suggested having a faculty survey.
• Continuing Education
  • OER Community Chats: The committee will hold two each semester. Teaching workshops/courses: dates and call for volunteers in the next week or two as CARLI staff prepares to promote the upcoming offerings in the newsletter etc.
  • Community Chats: Lauren will lead one in October on the topic of course marking and Zach will lead one in November a topic to be determined.
  • Open Education Week (March)
• CARLI support of member OER continuing education. There was consensus that support should continue.
• Illinois Secretary of State/Illinois State Library OER Grants and Illinois SCOERs program report.
• Open Illinois Hub: Should we be actively reviewing resources?
  • There is some language that implies that resources have been vetted by the Open Illinois.
  • Possibly changing the language or including a definition of what reviewed by means.
  • We can discuss further in future meeting.
• Activities Brainstorming session: tabled to next month’s agenda
  • Illinois OER Summit. Jayna expressed interest in joining the planning group.
  • National Coordination on Open Education: If anyone attends the upcoming sessions please report out to this committee.

Next Meeting Dates and Deadlines

The next committee meeting is October 2, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Note taker will be Shelly McDavid.

Committee Meetings:
October 2, 2024; Minutes: Shelly McDavid
November 6, 2024; Minutes taker: Dee Anna Phares
December 4, 2024; Minutes taker: Dorinne Banks
January TBD, 2025; Minutes taker: Colby Cilento
February 5, 2025; Minutes taker: Zachariah Claybaugh
March 5, 2025; Minutes taker: Kelly Hallisy
April 2, 2025; Minutes taker: Lauren Kosrow
May TBD, 2025; Minutes taker: Jayna Leipart Guttilla
June 4, 2025; Minutes taker: TBD

Deadlines: