Articles

Open Educational Resources: Collaboration between Community College Librarians and Faculty

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Abstract

Open educational resources (OER) provide college students with course materials on the first day of class, ensuring an equitable learning experience for all. Faculty are the driving force behind OER but need more support to understand, locate, and evaluate resources. Faculty and librarian collaboration can bridge together ideas and resources to benefit students. The researchers used a qualitative case study to understand how faculty and librarians collaborated at a community college to adopt OER. The primary researcher interviewed librarians and faculty to understand their experiences of working together to promote and adopt OER at their campus. The researchers analyzed data from the participants which revealed seven primary themes consisting of communication, student benefits, faculty hesitancies, departmental and administrative decisions, librarian partnerships, and campus repository building. Findings revealed how the collaborative efforts of librarians and faculty helped move OER initiatives forward.

 

Keywords: librarian, community college, open educational resources

How to Cite:

Smith, A., Workman, J. L., Hartsell, T. & Hill, D. L., (2023) “Open Educational Resources: Collaboration between Community College Librarians and Faculty”, Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education 2(1), 160-175. doi: https://doi.org/10.13001/joerhe.v2i1.7723

Rights: © 2023 Amy Smith, Jamie L. Workman , Taralynn Hartsell, and D. Laverne Hil. Published under a CC-BY 4.0 license.