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Jennifer Englund Post 1

• 13 June 2018, 6:09 PM

Instructional designers and technologists for OEP

I posted a short update via Twitter for today, and can expand a bit here too. 

Warning - it may be a bit rambling and disconnected as I'm right in the middle of thinking thorough it all, plus trying to figure out how I can make it work for my dissertation.

A bit of background...I'm in a learning technologies doctoral program and am employed full-time as a designer and technologist. I'm also part of a professional organization, AECT, that's home to folks in the same area of focus. 

Over the past couple of years, I have been increasingly interested/obsessed with the notion of instructional designers and technologists in the open education discussion. Similar to librarians, they are often in direct contact with faculty and can have influence on course design (or at least offer input on course design :) 

To help with this, I'm taking the Creative Commons certificate course, starting in July. whoot! I am also interested in remixing content from a few sources: the Becoming an open educator course, the Librarians as Open Education Advocates book, and some of the resources from this course to put together some type of resource. I am also interested in conducing a research study that gauges designers' perceptions and understandings of open education. I'm also interested in how open ed is represented (if at all) in ID graduate programs, and how new grads experience OER in their work with instructors. Ultimately, I'd like to make the case to show that the traditional ID models need to be revised to reflect the need to include OEP, but I am a long ways from that. One of my goals for my doctoral program is to figure this out over the summer, so hopefully I will have more concrete paths going forward in a couple of months, and will be able to more clearly articulate what's swirling around in my head.

Steven Secord Post 2 in reply to 1

• 13 June 2018, 6:19 PM

Jennifer, you have some great ideas here and a great project ahead of you with the doctoral program. Good luck with the CC certificate course. I considered it but do not feel now is a good time for me to be working on something like that. Maybe in the future though, for sure. 

Thanks for sharing the link to the Becoming an Open Educator course. I had completely forgot that I signed up for that a while back but never followed up with it. After I am done with this MOOC I think I will start going through those modules next. The librarians as Open Education Advocates looks really interesting as well. I am passing that link on to our library in the Faculty of Education. 

I look forward to hearing about your research in the future.

Claire Coulter Post 3 in reply to 1

• 13 June 2018, 8:04 PM

Thanks Jennifer!

I am a technologist also, with a graduate degree in instructional design - and so I am sure many of our challenges and interests are the same!

I 100% agree with you that we need to be more involved in these conversations on our campuses - in particular as we often have the relationships with faculty and the influence to move the proverbial needle.  On my campus, I have essentially "partnered" with our OER librarian (the co-author of today's module) and we work as a team on almost all of our initiatives so far.  It brings a great balance of skills and perspectives to the work.  

I look forward to seeing your dissertation some day!

Claire

Jenni Hayman Post 4 in reply to 1

• 13 June 2018, 10:26 PM

Hi Jennifer, hot diggity! My friend Maureen Glynn and I just developed and delivered a two-part workshop called "Integrating OER into the Course Development Process."  Maureen's Online Course Development team consists of several instructional designers, web tech specialists, a copyright specialist, video and audio developers and a programmer. Varying levels of understanding of OER, and various ways that conversations about OER, and actual use of OER (in videos, images, graphic design) might be incorporated. They work (as most design teams do) in partnership with faculty members and administrators, so it was a great conversation about this critical pathway to ensuring OER is just one part of an existing process.

Here are links to the two workshop folders with materials for you to steal:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wJmOQvLrpzAQ9XG7R0PvvHvABXBZwMVd

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GsrCu1_P8ZjHJSWY8yWWOelUhp429Dz5

We'd be more than happy to talk about how this model might mature. Someone's dissertation might be just the place!

Jenni


Ali Versluis Post 5 in reply to 1

• 14 June 2018, 3:39 AM
Jennifer, it's so excellent that you're taking the CC certificate program. I've heard such good things -- it'll really allow you to understand the nitty gritty when you have conversations about the implications of adapting or creating OER. Many of the conversations that I have with folks who are interested in using OER in their courses relate to their intellectual property and what a CC license might facilitate (or inhibit!), so I think that's very strategic. Plus, it's an achievable, measurable goal!


I can't wait to read some more about this in your dissertation at some later date. No pressure though... ;)