In this lightning talk, the Open Education Librarian from the University of Canterbury (UC) in New Zealand will outline some key milestones to date on the UC Library’s ongoing journey towards establishing an Open Educational Resources (OER) publication support service for academic staff. This narrative highlights the strategic steps, challenges, successes and progress so far in the journey toward an environment where OER adoption and creation thrive. By sharing experiences, the Open Education Librarian will provide insights and ideas for other institutions seeking to enhance their educational offerings through OER, who may be in the initial stages, or wondering where to start.
This session aims to spark ideas about possible ways to get started by sharing some of the steps UC took to get to their current position (currently around 2-3 on the OER maturity model https://pressbooks.com/news/maturity-model-for-open-education/) and their plans for the future. What will be covered:
- initial advocacy and outreach work
- open publishing via the university’s institutional repository
- working together with the University Press to publish open texts
- setting up a grant program to support authors to publish open texts
- establishing a dedicated OER librarian position
- participation in the CAUL collective and publishing via Pressbooks
- where UC are now, and what’s coming up
Alongside this, participants will also hear about an individual librarian’s learning journey into Open publishing, and the experience of building and developing knowledge and skills in an unfamiliar field and navigating a new role while advancing an Open text publishing support service.
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[Session 2A]: Open Publishing (Workshop and lightning talks)ReferencesGrowing Up: A Maturity Model for Open Education | Pressbooks
https://pressbooks.com/news/maturity-model-for-open-education/Author Keywordslibrary publishing, open education resources (OER), open textbook publishing
