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)
- Hub Trainings (recorded trainings for our Hub)
- 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!
