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Hello, I'm Alishia Huntoon, and I'm a professor
with the Oregon Institute

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of Technology, and

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I'm going to talk today
about collaboration

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with colleagues and open educational
resources.

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Open educational
resources are

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increasingly developed
and adopted.

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There are many
reasons for this.

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One, is student
affordability

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and another is accessibility.

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There are a lot
of options and

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resources available
for instructors,

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introductory level
courses due to

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the high enrolling
nature of those courses.

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With the specialized and
upper-level courses,

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there are more materials
being developed,

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but there's still some

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room for improvement here.

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So there are more
textbooks available,

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but oftentimes for those
textbooks out there,

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they do 

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not have ancillary
materials

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yet.

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When searching OERs for

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an upper level course,

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I was lucky in that
it was popular course.

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So there were some
textbooks available.

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which is great.

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However, none of the textbooks

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had the supporting ancillary
materials available.

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So, this gave me 

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a little bit of a pause,
but not too much.

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And I really
recognized this

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instead as being a
great opportunity for

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professional project
that I did with,

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I submitted a proposal

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to host the workshop at

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a large professional
conference

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in the area related to
the topic of my course.

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And what I found
was that there

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were quite a few people that
were interested

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in working together
to develop some OERs.

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What we did
together as a group

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was identify the topic.

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And the course in need; we all
agreed upon that.

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Um, and then looking
at the few textbooks

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available at the time

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we agreed on what
textbook to focus on,

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and then we agreed

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on what ancillary materials

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we wanted to develop for
that textbook.

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And then we also agreed on

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sharing the workload and
how that would look.

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When we're talking
about our needs,

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we wanted to of
course develop

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these for our own
use in our courses,

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but also to be
able to support

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instructors and encourage

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the adoption the OER
for other institutions.

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And so in doing so we wanted

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to use an open license.

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We focused on
developing slide decks

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as well as test banks
to go along with this book.

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With the slide decks
we wanted to

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make sure the formatting
was both accessible.

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And basic, so that

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each instructor could
go in and edit

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the slide decks as needed to fit

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the courses that they
were teaching and for

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students they
were reaching. For

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the test banks, we wanted
make sure it was

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formatted so it
could be easily

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integrated to an
LMS such as Campus.

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When we were discussing
roles and workload.

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Each collaborator offered,

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what they could
manage. They chose

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the number of
chapters that they

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would be comfortable
developing

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both the slide decks and

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test questions.

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They also chose
their chapter

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topics, testing

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what they're
most comfortable.

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No one

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was asked to
take on more or

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take on something they

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were uncomfortable with.

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Project leads 
would check-in with myself,

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manage the logistics,
the communication,

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and the compilation
process,

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and the compilation
process, that they

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prove that it's editing,

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making sure that
the materials

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we've put out there were

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sound and easy to
use right away.

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I managed this,
but I saw this

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as a good opportunity to

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involve student assistants

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and they did a great job.

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Most commonly, the
areas that we found

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were grammatical errors
in the slide decks.

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And then for the
test questions, 

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those test questions
were not always

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formatted in the
correct manner.

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Sometimes here and
there, they'd have to be

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adjusted.  In terms of

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getting the
resources out there,

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we had to be
careful with the

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sensitive nature
of the test bank.

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We wanted to
make sure not just

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anyone could access it.

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So the test bank

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was created on

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a password protected
Google Doc.

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It's not connected to

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any university. The website you

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see there is the
website that has

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both a slide
decks as well as

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information about
how to access

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the test banks by

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contacting me and a team.

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That's right that way.

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The biggest hurdles
we had was

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that we had people that
needed to drop out.

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And then find new
collaborators to help chip in.

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Uniformity, just making

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sure that the slide decks,

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all look the same
and the test,

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banks were all
formatted the same.

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And then also there were

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a few collaborators that

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needed to have more
time to work on it.

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And they did
well with what they did.

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We just needed to push our

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project back a little bit.

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Take a little time to

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finish.
Successes here are

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clearly outnumbering the
hurdles that we had.

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Ultimately, we had 
great finished products

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that we've all been using

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and also we've
been sharing,

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to encourage more
OER adoption.

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There's the

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careful editing
process we went through,

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I think it went
really well and was

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a great way to
incorporate students.

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We share the workload
well and ultimately,

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we got to work with
people that maybe

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otherwise would not have

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the nets or be 
available to meet,

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who were spread across
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and in different 
institutions.

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In conclusion,  OERs do offer

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many benefits for both

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students and instructors.

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More development and

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more resources are needed.

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And this is great
opportunity to collaborate.

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So don't
let that

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you know

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hold you back.

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Remember that there are

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colleagues out there
that would be willing

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to work with you as
well as a great way to

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utilize your students
and get them

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exposed to this
area of academia.

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Ultimately it was

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a worthy and
rewarding endeavour.

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You have any questions
or comments,

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please don't hesitate
to contact me.

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at the email address: Alishia.Huntoon@oit.edu