In-service Day
October 22, 2014
We had a great In-Service Day with Una Daly and Kate Hess. The keynote recording is below, along with Una's presentation.
Keynote Recording
Presentation
Handout
Una is the Community College Outreach Director at the Open Education Consortium. The College is now a member of the consortium, so please avail yourself to all of the benefits and resources that our membership provides. Una is also open to talking with faculty individually--you can contact Una through the consortium website. If you want to talk about OER and/or if you are considering using open access textbooks in your course, contact Brett Coup and your librarian.
The Community College arm of the Open Education Consortium is very active. Check out the webinars, and the committees and listservs you can join here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-oec/about-cccoer/
In-service Day Workshop
Kate Hess and Una Daly's In-Service workshop covered finding, evaluating, and adopting open access textbooks. The Library faculty developed a sample list of OAT's and a list of repositories to get people started. Supporting materials for the workshop are below.
Presentation Slides
Presentation Handout
Open Access Textbooks Petting Zoo and Repositories
Find OER: http://oerconsortium.org/find-oer
Kirkwood Community College OAT Guide: http://guides.kirkwood.edu/opentextbooks