We are pleased to announce the Fall 2022 UH OER workshop sessions taking place virtually on the following dates:
OER and Copyright 101: Wed October 26th and Tue November 1st @ 12pm
Pressbooks and H5P: Fri October 28th and Thurs November 3rd @12pm
The OER and Copyright 101 sessions will focus on basic aspects of Open Educational Resources, with an emphasis on Creative Commons licensing for both reusing content and remixing or publishing your own. The Pressbooks and H5P sessions will focus on Pressbooks, the free and open source book publishing tool used to support many OER adoptions, and H5P, the powerful interactive tool built into Pressbooks for practice and assessment activities. No prior familiarity with OER is required.
Each session will run twice on Zoom at the above dates and times, and will be recorded for later reference. These sessions are open to all UH-affiliated persons. Email oer@hawaii.edu with questions.
Thanks to dozens of collaborators across the University of Hawaiʻi System, an online, zero-cost textbook for two popular anatomy and physiology courses—Physiology 141 and 142—will replace the textbook that was used by almost 4,700 students during the last academic year for an estimated total savings of more than $433,000. The various textbooks currently used for these courses range in cost from $160 to $210. The new textbook is anticipated to be ready for fall 2023.
Kapiʻolani Community College Assistant Professor Sheryl Shook and former UH Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Hae Okimoto worked with 37 faculty, 11 of them co-authors, across all 10 UH campuses on the multi-year Online Educational Resource (OER) project.
Congratulations to Sheryl Shook, our Kapiʻolani CC faculty and staff, and the A&P team for making this vision become a reality.
Botany in Hawaiʻi, a textbook authored by Leeward Community College Assistant Professor Daniela Dutra Elliott and Lecturer Paula Mejia Velasquez was selected as the 1,000th title added to the Open Textbook Library, a highly regarded and popular website for open educational resources (OER).
Each title in the Open Textbook Library has undergone a review process before inclusion in the collection. The addition of the 1,000th title is a significant milestone for the Library as it celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2022. The selection of Botany in Hawaiʻi for this honor is a reflection of the quality of this textbook and the uniqueness of its content.
The University of Hawaiʻi System is a consortial member of the Open Education Network, the organization managing the Open Textbook Library. The Network and its community of members across the US, Canada, and Australia have played an important role in the UH OER initiative through training opportunities, shared resources, and shared strategies, all of which have helped build our capacity to support local adoption, modification, and creation of OER like Botany in Hawaiʻi.
It all sounded so good. Like summer camp. We would all be together, yes, working hard, 9am-9pm, but we’d have good food, take walks together, keep each other going. In the spring of 2020, at the end of five days, the ten of us would have written a textbook for PHYL 141, the highly enrolled human anatomy and physiology course at University of Hawaiʻi four-year universities and community colleges. Best of all, instead of the textbook costing students over $100, it would be free. Zero-cost textbook, indigenized, localized, with the exact content desired by the 39 faculty representing all the campuses in this systemwide project. When published, every instructor is also able to modify the content in whatever way they like. But what happened? You know what happened. The pandemic.
We could not let go of this dream. I kept thinking about my wild-mind concept maps, taped to the wall beside our surfboards. Then with an adventurous group of colleagues who are endlessly inspiring, caring deeply about students, we took steps toward making the sprint happen…online. We knew a lot would have to change. Even the company, Book Sprints, with their years of experience, were navigating new waters. How can we do this online? How do you keep ten instructors, each with their full-time teaching load, engaged with a zoom session for all the hours it would take to write a book? And what about that good food and those walks to keep up our morale? To this day, it is still hard to believe we did it. In the spring of 2021. It truly took a village to make it happen. I am so grateful for everyone involved. That is a story for another day. In the meantime, if you are interested in a systemwide project to create an open educational resource for a class, count on me; let’s talk story.
As we wade into the summer season, we’re sharing news about our recently-finished Hub on OER Commons. This Hub will serve as a platform for collaboration and resource sharing, with a focus on both private co-authoring inside working groups and outward-facing collections that demonstrate some of the OER energy flowing throughout the University of Hawaiʻi system.
Our hub consists of several distinct parts:
Collections (OER and free resources created, adapted, or used at UH)
Member Groups (campus-based collections and discussions)
Working Groups (topic or project-based collections and discussions)
Open Author (templated module-based OER authoring tool)
Are you a UH instructor or faculty and would like access to our member or working groups? Sign up for an OER Commons account and then hit the “Request to join” button where you would like to take part. Over the next year we will be transitioning prior work done in our OER sprints into working groups, better capturing the in-progress work and supporting collaborative discussions that had no central home before.
Earlier this year the fine folx at ISKME (Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education) conducted a set of trainings that explain the ins and outs of our Hub, including collections and features we are just beginning to build out. One of the single most powerful features of our Hub is that we can not only upload our own OER into specific collections and groups, but can also draw on the thousands of resources already on the OER Commons platform. We first found inspiration for our Hub by browsing the Network Hubs already in existence OER Commons, getting an idea of how other higher education institutions and networks have organized themselves and worked together around shared content and ideas.
There will be more to share as the Fall semester approaches and we look to support the dozens of OER projects currently in the works at the University of Hawaiʻi. Aloha!
The UHM Outreach College is excited to announce a fifth call for proposals of OER textbook projects.
Want to make a difference in student performance? Consider taking on an OER adoption or creation project.
We are looking to increase the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) to improve student success through cost-savings and broader access to learning materials. To this end, the OC is providing funds to UHM faculty to the support collaborative adoption of OER textbooks during Summer and Fall of 2021.
OER textbooks are digital, freely available textbooks for students at UHM and beyond. OER textbooks are published with an open copyright license, such as Creative Commons, which permits free reuse and sharing. The openness of these learning materials makes it possible to customize content to better serve students and instructors, and we are seeking motivated faculty to take advantage of these opportunities.
Proposals will be accepted for projects that do one of the following:
Adopt an OER textbook to replace the primary text in a high enrollment course
Create ancillary materials (quiz banks, glossaries, etc) to pair with existing OER textbooks
Publish a new OER textbook from existing OER and faculty-authored content
Funding awards of up to $5,000 will be given to support projects creating new OER textbooks. Funding requests should be used towards faculty support, GA or student help, or other services related to the production of the OER textbook. Preference will be given to proposals with applicability towards high-enrollment undergraduate courses that currently require students to purchase a high-cost traditional textbook. Faculty members should be willing to share their experiences via blog posts and presentations.
Publishing and Design Support
Funded projects will have early access to OER publishing tools, and the option to receive instructional design support from UHM’s OER Technologist, Billy Meinke-Lau.
OER materials produced in this project will be archived in the University’s institutional repository managed by the UHM Library.
Deadlines
Priority deadline:
Proposal review starts: May 5, 2021
Awards announcement: May 7, 2021
Final deadline:
Proposal review starts: May 12, 2021.
Awards announcement: May 14, 2021.
OER projects are expected to be completed by the start of the Spring semester, 2023. Timelines may vary.
Applications
View the full application form at the following link:
Join us next week for a series of training workshops hosted by the folx at OER Commons! UH is nearing the launch of our own Hub on OER Commons, a place for curating useful OER and collaborating across the system. Trainings will be held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday February 9-11th at 12noon, run for one hour, and will be recorded for those who are unable to join synchronously. The OER curation session will be held a second time at 12noon on Wednesday, February 17th.
Session 1: Introduction to Open Educational Resources and Practices When: Feb 9, 2021 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Get to know our recently launched University of Hawai’i OER Project Hub. This informative session will provide participants with an opportunity to explore, contribute, and collaborate with our dynamic OER community, which is dedicated to improving teaching and learning throughout Hawai’i.
Session 2: Curating Open Educational Resources to Improve Teaching and Learning
When: Feb 10, 2021 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join us for a deep dive into OER curation and exploration of best practices for identifying, evaluating, organizing, and sharing high-quality course materials. We will discuss and practice how to effectively leverage collaborative tools and curation workflows to improve teaching and learning.
Session 3: Creating Open Educational Resources for Courseware Improvement When: Feb 11, 2021 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
This engaging webinar will provide faculty, librarians, and instructional designers with an opportunity to discover how to best utilize OER tools for courseware improvement, including design, authoring, and remixing. We will also explore exemplar resources and use cases from Universities and Colleges, and discuss workflows for peer review, reflection, and refinement of resources.
These sessions aim to familiarize instructor and librarians with Open Educational Resources, focusing on the OER Commons platform and our own customized Hub. The UH OER Hub hosts subject collections, helps organized group activities, and makes it easy for anyone to create bite-sized lessons from existing OER or from scratch.
The OpenEd Conference of 2020 will serve as a reminder that community is stronger than corporations, and that it is shared values and goals which bring together practitioners and researchers in the open education space. Stewardship of the OpenEd conference was left open after the 2019 conference, and it has been encouraging and inspiring to see many in the community prioritize and support the continuation of the event. Several members of our UH community offered synchronous and asynchronous sessions at the 2020 Open Education Conference, held virtually due to the COVID19 pandemic. From UH Mānoa, sessions included and English Department PhD candidates Māhealani Ahia and LynleyShimat Lys, OER GA, presenting a social justice themed session, “OER and Open Pedagogy in a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning,” and OER Technologist Billy Meinke-Lau presenting a lightning talk, “Open at the Edges, or the Edges of Open: Futures in Scholarly Collaboration.”
The session “OER and Open Pedagogy in a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning” focused on ongoing ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian), Pacific Islander, and Indigenous-centered OER and Open Pedagogy projects at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, as a university invested in Open and OER and a system designated as a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning. Māhealani and Lynley discussed their work as members of the editorial board of Hawaiʻi Review arts journal, a Native Hawaiian-led journal at UH Mānoa. Hawaiʻi Review engages in multiple ʻŌiwi-centered OER and Open Pedagogy projects, including the Mauna Kea Syllabus Project, inspired by the Standing Rock Syllabus and the BLM syllabus. The editorial board of Hawaiʻi Review comprises ʻŌiwi, Pacific Islander, and Indigenous women, men, and queer people who recognize the politics of publishing and have intentionally created outreach projects to encourage ʻŌiwi scholarship: creative writing residencies, and an OER textbook for English Studies and Humanities.
Māhealani spoke about ʻŌiwi education and the Mauna Kea Syllabus, which contributes to the growing body of scholarship produced around the efforts of Kanaka Maoli to protect their mountain Mauna a Wākea from continued desecration. In Native Hawaiian epistemology and ontology, Mauna Kea is the piko (umbilical connection and center of Hawaiian worldview). The most recent proposal of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) desires to build a 4.1 billion dollar observatory eighteen stories high in a designated conservation zone ignoring numerous environmental concerns; the mauna is part of the national Hawaiian lands set aside for Kanaka Maoli, exacerbating unresolved land and sovereignty claims.
Māhealani and Lynley also spoke about a Hawaiʻi Review project to create an OER Textbook grounded in Hawaiʻi-based pedagogies and community-centered forms of scholarship and research. The Hawaiʻi Review OER textbook will promote Hawaiian epistemologies through several important components: 1) introduction to teaching writing here in Hawaiʻi, 2) selection of teaching curriculum and literary materials that will come from Hawaiian writers, be situated in Hawaiʻi, and/or contain Hawaiian themes; 3) lesson plans to showcase possibilities for ʻŌiwi to share their curriculum to a wider audience, thus ensuring a Hawaiian Place of Teaching.
Billy’s lightning talk titled, “Open at the Edges, or the Edges of Open: Futures in Scholarly Collaboration,” focused on the future of “open” in the context of contemporary issues of politics and technology. Beginning with provocations meant to challenge the notions of “neutral technology,” the 10-minute prerecorded session, the larger message was for all folx participating either directly or tangentially in the open education movement to question their relationship to technology, and from there question their relationship to “open”.
All content and session recordings are being shared through the OpenEd20 YouTube Channel, and we encourage all stakeholders in the UH community to peruse them as they find useful. The vibrancy of the open education community (or communities!) has never been brighter, and the ability of the community and its leaders to maintain the momentum we have been gathering for years, is inspirational.
The University of Hawaiʻi OER program wishes to not only provide cost-savings and accessible learning for students, but also support work towards equity and social justice, creating space for discussion of complex issues that may not be a part of the dialogue in all places. With gratitude for the work that has been done, we look forward to OpenEd21.
This post was co-authored by LynleyShimat Lys and Billy Meinke-Lau.
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The UHM Outreach College is excited to announce a fourth call for proposals of OER textbook projects.
Want to make a difference in student performance? Consider taking on an OER adoption or creation project.
We are looking to increase the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) to improve student success through cost-savings and broader access to learning materials. To this end, the OC is providing funds to UHM faculty to the support collaborative adoption of OER textbooks during Summer and Fall of 2020.
OER textbooks are digital, freely available textbooks for students at UHM and beyond. OER textbooks are published with an open copyright license, such as Creative Commons, which permits free reuse and sharing. The openness of these learning materials makes it possible to customize content to better serve students and instructors, and we are seeking motivated faculty to take advantage of these opportunities.
Proposals will be accepted for projects that do one of the following:
Adopt an OER textbook to replace the primary text in a high enrollment course
Create ancillary materials (quiz banks, glossaries, etc) to pair with existing OER textbooks
Publish a new OER textbook from existing OER and faculty-authored content
Funding awards of up to $5,000 will be given to support projects creating new OER textbooks. Funding requests should be used towards faculty support, GA or student help, or other services related to the production of the OER textbook. Preference will be given to proposals with applicability towards high-enrollment undergraduate courses that currently require students to purchase a high-cost traditional textbook. Faculty members should be willing to share their experiences via blog posts and presentations.
Publishing and Design Support
Funded projects will have early access to OER publishing tools, and the option to receive instructional design support from UHM’s OER Technologist, Billy Meinke-Lau.
OER materials produced in this project will be archived in the University’s institutional repository managed by the UHM Library.
Deadlines
Proposal deadline: March 20, 2019.
Awards announcement: April 6, 2019.
OER projects are expected to be completed by the start of the Spring semester, 2021. Timelines may vary.
Applications
View the full application form at the following link:
Kauaʻi Community College is a kahua that inspires, engages, and empowers learners and educators to enrich our community and our world.
Ke kū nei ke Kulanui Kaiāulu ma Kauaʻi ma ke ʻano he kahua e
hoʻoulu, hoʻā, a hoʻoikaika ʻia ai ka ʻike a me ka naʻauao o nā
kānaka aʻo aku a aʻo mai no ka hoʻowaiwai ʻana i ke kaiāulu a
me ka honua.
ʻO ke kahua ma mua, ma hope ke kūkulu.
First comes the foundation, then comes the building.
(ʻŌlelo Noʻeau, number 2459)
Campus OER Lead
Jay Baker, Instructor / Librarian
hjbaker@hawaii.edu
(808) 245 - 8322
Goals
Advocate for student access to low cost or no cost learning resources
Foster the development of educational resources by college faculty
Helpful Links
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Hawai‘i Community College aims to reduce barriers to lifelong learning for our Hawaiʻi Island community by supporting the pursuit of academic achievement and workforce readiness through the use and promotion of Open Educational Resources (OER).
Campus OER Leads
Leanne Urasaki
lurasaki@hawaii.edu
(808) 934-2647
Melanie Wilson
mfwilson@hawaii.edu
(808) 934-2519
Goals
Reduce or eliminate the cost of instructional materials to make college more affordable for students
Increase student success and close achievement gaps
Empower faculty to adopt and/or create quality OER textbooks and materials
Support and participate in UH system OER initiatives
Contribute to the success of the global OER community
The University of Hawai'i at Hilo aims to lower course textbook costs for students as well as increase awareness among our faculty of Open Educational Resources that support student learning and engagement in the classroom.
Campus OER Leads
Brian Bays
bbays@hawaii.edu
(808) 932-7310
Patsy Y. Iwasaki Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
piwasaki@hawaii.edu
(808) 932-7074
Goals
Improve student success and decrease time to graduation.
Reduce the cost of educational materials for students.
Promote opportunities for faculty adoption or creation of high-quality OER materials.
Build a campus community of OER advocates to sustain this cause.
Helpful Links
UH Hilo's OER initiative is one aspect of the Student Success and Admissions Committee and is the focus of the Subcommittee for Lowering Student Expenses. UH Hilo's OER efforts are just beginning.
The University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu aims to embrace the open education movement in an effort to advance dynamic, integrated learning experiences while removing costly barriers to education. By building awareness of Open Educational Resources and Open Pedagogy, UH-West O'ahu hopes to increase adoption and adaptation of openly-licensed materials. By empowering faculty to customize course content, students will ultimately benefit: first financially, but most importantly, because they'll be using course materials that were created specifically for them.
Campus OER Leads
Carina Chernisky
carinac@hawaii.edu
(808) 689-2710
Rian Barreras
rbarrera@hawaii.edu
(808) 689-2463
Goals
Strengthen faculty awareness and adoption of high-quality OER materials.
Make the process of obtaining a college degree a more affordable endeavor for our students.
Increase student success via the open movement, while also obtaining hard data and testimonials.
Build a community of OER advocates, faculty and students alike, to champion this cause.
Helpful Links
For more information about the University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu's OER Committee, please utilize the links below and explore the content on the pages it takes you to. For assistance and further information, please contact one of the campus leads, located above.