From Soil to Classroom: Cultivating Faculty Expertise in Open Educational Practices

How do librarians encourage faculty to grow their awareness of OER and open educational practices? They provide faculty with incentives to engage with one another! Knowing that faculty learn from and work best with their peers, this presentation tells our story of advancing a community of practice among faculty OER grant recipients who adopt, adapt, or create open educational materials for use in their classroom.

This session details the shift from an in-person half-day event to a series of self-paced online training modules delivered via Canvas. The presenters will also highlight their experiences creating learning objectives and module content. A goal of this training was to foster faculty participation, so strategies for cultivating community will be shared. We’ll briefly touch on designing assessments. Finally, the presenters will consider change opportunities for future faculty grant award cohort trainings. The presenters will share their open curriculum with attendees.