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Utah OER & Pressbooks Community

The Utah OER & Pressbooks Community is open to all faculty and staff at each of Utah's higher education institutions. We're librarians, professors, tech specialists, program directors, and OER advocates, and our community of practice aims to create opportunities to share OER resources and develop digital publishing expertise. Most importantly, though, we're a welcoming group—we would love for you to join us. Subscribe to our mailing list or join one of our meet-ups. We look forward to hearing from you.

Meetings

May

8

2024
Meeting Topic: Updates to Consortial Networks in Pressbooks
10:00 am – 10:45 am

July

10

2024
Meeting Topic: OER for Tech Colleges & Workforce Programs
10:00 am – 10:45 am

September

11

2024
Meeting Topic: Collaboration within Pressbooks
10:00 am – 10:45 am

November

13

2024
Meeting Topic: TBD
10:00 am – 10:45 am


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Past Meetings

Adapting OER for Diverse Learner Needs
March 13, 2024 | 10:00 - 10:45 am

During this meet-up, Braxton provided a brief overview of the upcoming Teach and Learn with Open Education Resources virtual symposium. John McLeod of Pressbooks then shared how to adapt existing OERs to meet specific course or instructional needs, and he shared a number of resources for creating accessible Pressbooks and OERs more generally (slide eight in his presentation).

  • Teach and Learn with Open Education Resources virtual symposium:
    • Keynote speaker (Gerry Hanley)
    • Sessions and session types
    • Today’s conversation as a condensed version of a longer session during the symposium
  • John McLeod (Pressbooks) on adapting OER for diverse learner needs
  • OER highlights, updates, and questions from individual institutions and organizations

OER & Tenure
January 10, 2024 | 10:00 - 10:45 am

During this meet-up, Dr. Kathy Essmiller of Oklahoma State University shared how she has used departments’ RPT documents to find “shared vocabulary” between their promotion requirements and faculty members’ work in OER. Dr. Essmiller also shared Marjon Baas’s dissertation as a guide for using OER and a sample letter, typically signed by the dean of the library, that a faculty member might use in their dossier.

  1. Introduction of Guests:
    1. Kathy Essmiller (Oklahoma State University)
    2. John McLeod (Pressbooks)
    3. Amy Song (Pressbooks)
  2. Kathy Essmiller on OER & RPT
  3. OER Highlights, Updates, and Questions from Individual Institutions and Organizations