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Open Partnerships: Identifying and Recruiting Allies for Open Educational Resources Initiatives
OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians
  • Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Kansas State University
  • Matt Ruen, Grand Valley State University
  • Sarah Beaubien, Grand Valley State University
  • Jeremy Smith, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Publication Date
2018
Abstract

Cummings-Sauls, Ruen, Beaubien, and Smith extend conversations about OER-enabled partnerships by exhaustively describing the roles and responsibilities harbored by potential stakeholders in OER initiatives and highlighting the ways in which librarians might instigate partnerships between these groups. By clearly identifying the stakes of library, faculty, student, administrative, instructional design, information technology, and bookstore partnerships, the authors promote a sort of inventory for how and why we might meaningfully engage these local audiences in support of OER. Looking beyond our institutions to the broader external communities, legislation, and services related to OER, this chapter introduces the importance of considering how conversations might (and ultimately 8 OER: A FIELD GUIDE FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS should) scale to include metrics that are worth sharing outside of our respective institutions.

ISBN
9781945398797
Comments

See https://commons.pacificu.edu/pup/3/ for the complete Field Guide.

Pages
165-192
License
UMass Amherst Open Access Policy
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Citation Information
Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Matt Ruen, Sarah Beaubien and Jeremy Smith. "Open Partnerships: Identifying and Recruiting Allies for Open Educational Resources Initiatives" OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians (2018)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeremy-smith/15/