View the team-created materials on OER metadata in the presentation and in this Shared Resources Google Doc. Librarians and instructors are collaborating to create a wealth of OER, but what about ensuring the discoverability of these resources? Absent clear standards and practices for sharing OER, how should we spend our effort making OER discoverable, both regionally and globally?
To complicate matters, the majority of OER work traditionally has been handled by public services librarians outside of any technical services department within libraries. Without consistent collaboration and communication between these two entities, the Discoverability of OER materials is often limited to a list of links on a libguide or other website.
Panelists from Georgia Southern University and Affordable Learning Georgia will address these questions and complications in the context of both institutional and statewide OER initiatives. We'll highlight some of the main barriers to discoverability, and suggest some possible paths forward with specific examples derived from our own work.
Participants will be invited to contribute to the conversation through the use of Mentimeter, and also invited to brainstorm how we can all work together to increase the visibility of these valuable resources.
--Bothmann, B. (2020). A Recommendation for Core Metadata Elements for Use in OER Repositories.
By attending this session, attendees will be able to:- Understand multiple challenges to ensuring the discoverability of OER materials for faculty and students
- Evaluate at least two sets of current standards that will provide guidelines in providing strong metadata for OER materials
- Gain both consortial and institutional perspectives which will help to guide decisions about the discoverability of OER at their institution, consortium, or state system
