Open Educational Resources Task Force Meeting: August 21, 2018

Open Educational Resources Task Force Meeting: August 21, 2018

Conference Call

Members attending: Connie Ghinazzi (Augustana College), Anne Shelley, co-chair (Illinois State University), Sue Shultz (DePaul University), Janet Swatscheno (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Linda Zellmer (Western Illinois University)
 
Members absent: Annette Alvarado (Loyola University Chicago), Anne Chernaik (College of Lake County), Kathy Ladell, co-chair (Northern Illinois University, Elizabeth Nelson (McHenry Community College)

Staff attending: Elizabeth Clarage, Anne Craig, Lorna Engels

Decisions

• Janet Swatscheno volunteered to take minutes.
• July minutes approved.
• Task Force will schedule an in-person meeting in the next few months.

• Announcements

• Member Updates:
  • Linda Zellmer will give a faculty workshop on OER in the next two weeks as well as a workshop during Open Access Week.
  • Anne Shelley will continue to serve on the Illinois State Textbook Affordability Committee, which started holding meetings again.
  • DePaul University Library and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries sent letters of support for the Open Textbook Network’s application for Department of Education Grant.
• CARLI Update:
  • Anne Craig spoke to Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) at the University of Illinois. CITL was supportive of doing a pilot project together that could the groundwork for a future Department of Education OER grant application.
  • The CARLI budget was flat funded for everything except for staffing.
  • CARLI also sent a letter of support for Open Textbook Network DOE grant.
  • The CARLI Annual Meeting is set for November 2nd.

Discussion

• Open Textbook Network Summit Updates:
  • Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani presented on open pedagogy and how to get faculty interested in adopting or writing open textbooks.
  • REBUS created a collaboration dashboard and open authoring guides.
  • The OTN is developing a member dashboard to replace the current manual process.
  • The OTN developed and OER Librarian Certification with ACRL and will holding a portion of the program prior to ACRL 2019.
• In-person OER TF Meeting:
  • Will discuss more training opportunities and the OTN training surveys.
• October OERTF Open Call for CARLI Members
  • The open call take place on October 16th at 1pm.
  • TF members will provide short introductions and Anne Shelley will moderate.

Tasks Assigned

• Task Force members agreed to update the sections of the CARLI OER website that they had each originally helped create.
• Elizabeth and Lorna will create a poll to schedule our in-person meeting.]
• Anne Shelley will draft an announcement for the members for the October OER Open Conference Call.
• Anne Shelley will send an email to the OERTF about Open Access Week.

Next Meeting Dates

Task Force Conference Calls:
September 18