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I'm Cameron, the Academic Advisor for our campus' Teacher Education Program. I'm here to learn more about OER and hope to create some OER materials for our future teachers (i.e. Praxis Test Prep, Creating Electronic Teaching Portfolios, Model Code of Ethics for Educators, etc.). See everyone soon!

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I'm one of your facilitators for this workshop as well as serving the Interim Learning Commons and Library Coordinator. I've been involved with OER since 2014 and have facilitated workshops like the one you signed up for since 2015. You're joining a growing group of UH faculty (100!) to participate. I hope to learn about your plans for OER, your challenges and concerns, and how we can support you in teaching with OER. Thank you for being here and I hope you find your time well-spent!

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I am Tasha Williams, ENG 98B Facilitator and Language Arts Peer Mentor Coordinator. I am really excited to continue to utilize OER in my classes and to continue to build on this knowledge to share best practices for OER use with faculty and students. Thanks Junie and Wayde. I am looking forward to working with everyone.

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It’s nice to have this opportunity to learn more about OER and other resources to make a better student experience, especially, focusing on a goal of redesigning my Fall courses to better keep my students engaged despite not being able to meet in-person.  I’m hoping to explore more about assessment and activities that could be incorporated into the online realm to give the students an introspective view of the concepts in a relevant and current way.                                                                                Appreciate your team for putting together this workshop for us!

Opps! I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Dani, a Lecturer in the Business Division.

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Hi everyone, I’m Junie Hayashi, one of the librarians at our Library. We took this photo at last year’s OpenEd conference in Phoenix, Arizona. A lot of happened since we went to our first OpenEd conference in 2014. In Spring 2020, 42% of our courses were TXT0 (Textbook Cost $0). I am grateful to be part of this journey in helping our students and faculty.
I look forward to working with all of you. See you soon!

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Hello everyone, my name is Chai (pronounced "Kai"). Iʻm a lecturer and I teach PACS108 - Pacific Worlds: An Introduction to Pacific Islands Studies. Iʻm looking forward to exploring existing OER related to Pacific Islands Studies and well as potentially creating new ones. Like Dani mentioned, I hope to use OER to make my classes more interactive and engaging for students.  Iʻm excited to be here with you all and learn together. Aloha!

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Hi! I am Hyeyon Kim, a Korean language lecturer. I am here to learn about OER and hope to use it in my classes. I am looking forward to the workshop!

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I'm Dayle Turner,  a longtime (i.e. old) Language Arts/Writing Instructor.  Straight out of grad school, I began teaching at Leeward in the 1990 Fall semester.   In those early years, I taught English 22 (Developmental Writing) as a lecturer in the now defunct PASS program and was fortunate to be mentored by a couple of top-drawer teachers--Jack Pond (Language Arts) and Cindy Dempesy (Math/Science).   Also in those early years, I developed a fascination with computers and tech and even still have some course-related stuff from back then on the 'net.  Pioneer OER material?  Heh.  In recent years, I've been doing a good part of my teaching load online (Eng 100, Laulima), and have, for the most part, used OER materials. So why am I here?  I suppose this old dog still wants to learn some new tricks, so I look forward to talking story and learning with you all.  Aloha!

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I'm Jason, and I've been working with Wayde and Junie on OER services for about three years. I'm a librarian but am in the process of transitioning to the role of Interim Learning Resource Center Coordinator. I look forward to meeting you and sharing with you some of the exciting possibilities in utilizing OER! Thank you for your time and participation.

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My name is Taylor Tashiro and I will be a new lecturer for Microbiology at the Leeward CC Wai'anae Moku Campus.  I am fresh out of grad school and have just earned my Master's in Tropical Medicine.

I'm here to learn more about OER and how to implement it in my lessons.  When I was still a student I appreciated when professors used OER, so I hope to do the same for my students to make education more accessible and feasible.  Looking forward to learning more about this!

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Aloha!  I am Judy Lee, economics professor at LCC.  I have been at LCC since the late 70s.  I have enjoyed learning new tools in teaching.  I am here to learn about OER and see if OER is for any of my economics courses.  I am ready to look at various options to help our students.

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Aloha!  I am Judy Lee, economics professor at LCC.  I have been at LCC since the late 70s.  I have enjoyed learning new tools in teaching.  I am here to learn about OER and see if OER is for any of my economics courses.  I am ready to look at various options to help our students.

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Reflections on OER stewardship and sustainability

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Reflections on OER stewardship and sustainability

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I agree with the authors of the article that good stewardship of OER makes it both sustainable and viable.   While the pros of innovation and accessibility were relatively intuitive, I hadnʻt considered the numerous other benefits of OER mentioned in the article, including making learning equitable and the inclusive (not only inclusive of student voice, but of other potentially marginalized voices, and including the voices of other languages as well).

I like the CARE (Contribute, Attribute, Release, and Empower) Framework because it reminds us not to simply use resources, but to be a responsible participant in the OER network - for example, remembering to credit the original authors, or making any of our own additions or "remixes" available to others as well.

The points highlighted in CARE are also reminders to be both responsible educators and to serve as OER role models for our students.  It is important for students to see their teachers acknowledging colleagues and giving them due credit.   The collaborative nature of OER demonstrates to students that knowledge production is NOT beyond them and that scholarly information doesn't have to be locked away in an ʻivory tower."  On the contrary, learning is a continual process that we can all be a part of and can benefit from.

In my opinion, this collaborative, social-centered perspective is what is most valuable, because it seems to be an essential part of sustaining and stewarding OER.  It is a shift in perspective to see collaboration, sharing, and revising as an asset rather than a threat to an individualʻs research.  Instead of the (outdated) academic philosophy of guarding one's work in an atmosphere of competition, it views the knowledge dissemination as the ideal way to elevate and expand the knowledge base for everyone.

As I begin to integrate OER into my lessons and curriculum, I will make sure to practice good OER stewardship by properly recognizing authors/content creators, doing my best to disseminate that work in my networks (in and beyond the classroom), and finding ways to make any new or modified content accessible to other instructors and the broader community.

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What Good Stewardship of OER Means to Me

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To me, good stewardship of OER means to actively address the access, affordability, equity, and inclusion issues on our college campus. Like Wayde mentioned in the presentation today, the CARE framework fits nicely with our campus’ Mission Statement and is one of the small things that faculty and staff at Leeward can invest in that will profoundly impact our students' success in college and beyond. I look forward to learning more about Creative Commons licensing and to begin collaborating with colleagues to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute digital content.

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The CARE framework that was recapped was informative and gave me new perspective.  It reminded me that we have to actively and consciously find ways to support the cause and movement; by instilling ethical standards and practices of citing properly and as Ms. Junie has mentioned, finding way to make it relevant and share the voices of different cultures in the subject matter.  The “Empowerment” tier had resonated with me the most, I suppose it relates to taking ownership, demonstrating advocacy, and seeing it as our “kuleana” to ensure we respect the rules, ethical standards and ensure we are accountable for our actions.

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In their discussion of the CARE framework for Open Educational Resources, Petrides, Levin, and Watson assert that "OER stewards elevate the participation of new and non-traditional voices in OER production and remix."

Pondering their declaration, I wondered how and what I might do to elevate and foster students’ production of OER.   Via some cursory research, I found some answers here:  Students’ Vital Role in OER.

To my surprise, I was reminded that at several points in my teaching career, I had indeed been an elevator of participation (of student production of OER).  For example, I had students write entries for Wikipedia (read more about it here).

I was also reminded, to my dismay, that I’ve been guilty of giving students “disposable assignments” which OER advocate David Wiley characterizes as “assignments that add no value to the world--after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away.”

Yup, I’m guilty of giving my share of those.

But I can repent.  And I plan to.

So, I’m grateful for this workshop and the impetus for change provided.

Mahalo.

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Hi, I'm Christy Takamure, speech professor in the Language Arts Division.  I'm excited to participate in this workshop because I know just a little about OER but, I know there is more to learn so that I may be able to take advantage of all of the benefits for my students.  I hope to include more of the resources in my lessons.

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Hi, I'm Christy Takamure, speech professor in the Language Arts Division.  I'm excited to participate in this workshop because I know just a little about OER but, I know there is more to learn so that I may be able to take advantage of all of the benefits for my students.  I hope to include more of the resources in my lessons.

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I agree with the authors of the article that good stewardship of OER makes it both sustainable and viable.  I had not thought about the other benefits of OER such as making learning equitable and inclusive.  OER is rather new to me.

I look forward to learning more about Creative Commons licensing and to begin collaborating with colleagues to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute digital content.

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I agree with the authors of the article that good stewardship of OER makes it both sustainable and viable.  I had not thought about the other benefits of OER such as making learning equitable and inclusive.

I look forward to learning more about Creative Commons licensing and to begin collaborating with colleagues to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute digital content.

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I hope to apply the CARE framework as I begin to use OER in my course.  It is helpful for me to align my course goals with the shared values of the OER community.

C- by implementing the OER resources, I will be able to contribute to the support and endorsement of OER
A- it is always good practice to give credit when credit is due
R- support the use and collaborative revision and remix
E- empowerment through making materials to better serve a more inclusive and diverse set of learners and educators

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When I signed up to participate in the 3-day UH OER Booksprints, I was inspired to contribute to the making of a comprehensive textbook that would be affordable for students and meet my classroom needs. By the second day, we were half way to the finishing line. I was exhausted, but in a good way.  I learned more about what it means to be a good steward, which surpasses merely contributing to a text. Rather it involves conspicuously attributing credit to whom credit is due. Contributing my own original thoughts and ideas gave me the gift of  paying particular attention to the information that is shared with potential audiences in diverse spaces. As a student, I did not read many textbooks that spoke to my experiences as an African American, first generation college student.

This was my first experience with OER, and I have been a contributor ever since because the movement greatly aligns with my values and philosophy of teaching. It provided me with a foundation to understand how contribution, attribution, releasing, and empowerment work hand and hand. Due to this positive experience, I created the College Success Essay: Build-a-Chapter renewable assignment with Rachel Inake for the LDORA grant award. I too was guilty of assigning disposable assignments, so my students created a college success chapter for the textbook that I co-authored during Booksprints. Instead of throwing away their assignments, we saved them and are in the process of creating a college success chapter in their own words. The process has been rewarding as it was a great bonding, empowering experience to learn from their unique individual and shared student experiences. Being a good steward of OER means to practice all of these values simultaneously because it is difficult to embody just one of the principles without adhering to the others. In order to truly share OER sustainably, one should begin with CARE. I look forward to continuously contributing to the growth and sustainability of OER.

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What good stewardship of OER means to me

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I gained an appreciation for what my former mentors and professors have done for me as a student learning from OER.

After reading the article, being a good steward of OER means that I understand my role as a steward to give back to the OER community that provides these resources that we use, properly use OER myself, and teach proper ethical sourcing.

After this workshop, I hope to apply the "CARE" framework in my own teaching.

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What good stewardship of OER means to me

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I never thought about OER being applied to my courses. However, after reading this article and seeing all the benefits that the CARE framework provides, I believe that it will benefit all the students and community.
I would like to hear more about the 5Rs tomorrow and see how it can be used as a resource in my course.

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I learned much about OER, Creative Commons and Copyright licenses and feel more confident about using various OER resources.  It was very important for me to understand these since I expect my own students to use and cite sources accurately and appropriately.

I really enjoyed the activities that helped to clarify what I learned, such as figuring out the type of source and adding my own photograph in Flicker.  I would like to continue to contribute more of my own works to OER, either photos or lessons, and integrate an OER textbook in my course.  I was excited to learn about more OER repositories that I may be able to peruse.

Thank you for very informative and well-organized workshops these past 2 weeks!

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Thank you to Wayde, Junie, and Jason for putting together this OER & CC workshop.

Before going into this workshop I had no idea what OER was or how licensing worked.  Now coming out of this workshop I now see the importance of usage of OER is in student learning and how I can implement it in what I do, but also in how it is distributed.  I did not expect to go into the details of creative commons licensing and distribution, but I'm so glad we did because now I know how to credit sources and use information wisely -- Ultimately, saving my butt from a possible law suit!

From this, my students will have more resources readily available to them because I am now educated on where I can get my sources and I can enlighten my own students so that they can appreciate OER like I do now.  I feel like this workshop/lesson  should be implemented (in some sort) to all faculty and even students because what I learned from this was invaluable.

I feel more confident in my knowledge of how to properly source and distribute OER.  As an educator, I will be doing my part in educating my peers and students on OER, its importance and CC and licensure through communication and maybe implementing a short lesson into my teaching curriculum.

Thank you all for a very informative workshop!  I look forward to more like these.

Aloha,
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Coming in, I had some knowledge of OERs, having used them for my Eng 100 classes for a few years now, but, through the workshop,  I was reminded of a few things.

One was that I had employed assignments in the past that had students generate OER materials.  However, in recent years, I've gotten away from those assignments because I felt students weren’t so engaged and enthusiastic about them.  I’m doing a reassessment of those assignments and just may use them again, likely in a modified way.

Another reminder was that OERs require appropriate attribution, an undertaking familiar to me because I teach students about attribution (using MLA conventions) for the discussions I ask them to write.

Probably the most important reminder the workshop brought to me was that significant learning comes into play when there’s tension (here’s a nice piece about the benefits of embracing tension in the classroom).  And I’ll tell you I felt a good amount of tension when I was trying to ascertain the trademark or license for the Pele and Hi’iaka source during the breakout session (I ascertained wrongly, btw, but that’s okay because I learned something from the process).

I’ll conclude with an expression of appreciation to Junie, Wayde, and Jason for a job well done in walking us through the workshop.  I learned much and am grateful.

Aloha, Folks!

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I learned a lot about OER, Creative Commons and Copyright licenses. This is the first OER workshop that I have attended.  There were a lot of information cramped into 2 weeks.  I will need to review and continue to learn more about how to use these sources of information and integrate OER in my courses.

I use a lot of videos in my courses and students discuss and apply economic principles in the videos.  I learned that using the links of the video is the proper way.

I did not know how to find the trademarks or license for OER material prior to this workshop.

Thank-you Junie, Wayde and Jason for all the information in this workshop.

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I would like to start saying mahalo to Wayde, Junie and Jason for this wonderful workshop for us.

It was my first time learning about OER. I learned a lot about it, but still I need to review what we learned for two sessions.

I used to use lots of images and videos for my courses. Now I can properly use the materials while being aware of copyright and license issues.

In addition, I would like to research some OER materials suitable for my classes and create OER materials in the future.

Thank you so much for having us! Have a great summer! :)

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What? What happened? What did you learn? What did you expect and what was different?

The 2-part course provided a good overview of information pertaining to OER.  I learned about different kinds of licensing OER licensing as well as how to distinguish between material that is copyrighted, open access, and in the public domain.  This course also exposed me to some of the numerous OER resources and websites.  Not knowing much about OER prior to the course, I didnʻt know what to expect or have any specific expectations.   One outcome was increasing my awareness of the varying types of copyrights and open access licenses that exist.

So What? Why does that matter? To you? To your students? To the college? To society as a whole? Describe your experience learning about OER and its potential to impact teaching and learning.

I really like OER because I see it as an important part of making education affordable and thus equitable.  Beyond the financial aspect, the OER philosophy (as highlighted in the CARE Framework, for example) is more collaborative as well as potentially inclusive of students in the process of knowledge production.  Considering the bigger picture, OER is a big part of making education equitable and democratizing education.  There is great potential in OER for Pacifc Islands Studies, especially because it is a field of study inherently centered in community sharing and networking, and because there is such a vast amount of distinct yet related information (great opportunities for collaboration or varying levels of modification/derivatives that could be allowed with OER licensing).

What Next? Now what? What will you do differently? What have you learned? How will you participate in the OER movement?

Now that I am more aware of varying types of restrictions, ranging from copyrighted material to materials in the public domain, I will be more mindful before I utilize resources in my class.  This includes reviewing websites that have useful images for any kinds of licensing restrictions (Certainly, the OER for images will be helpful when creating PowerPoint Presentations); and actively seeking materials either have an open license or are in the public domain.  I will also be more mindful and look into the Fair Use Exemption when utilizing copyrighted materials.  This process is something I never thought to do before.   To participate in the OER movement, I will be more diligent in attributing the sources I use: I expect my students to cite properly; I should do the same!  I also hope to participate in the production of OER in the future.

Thank you Wayde, Junie, and Jason for an informative training workshop!

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Thank you for an informative session, Junie, Jason and Wayde!  In addition to these new information and resources on OERs, I have learned additional technology such as how to integrate team building exercises in an organized and interactive way.  Thank you for offering us these additional resources and showcasing our options for adding value to the OER community.  I was also left inspired by our colleagues, where it offered me ideas to give more meaningful assignments to our students to add value to the next generation through their comfort level (varying options for copyright sharing).  The exercise with finding the license and attributions disclaimers was enlightening as well.  It’s good to know that we can share links but once we download it, we have to become more attuned to the different copyrights.  Your slides and resources list was so valuable!  I echo Taylor in saying that it should be offered to all faculty and staff at some point in their journey here!

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What? What happened? What did you learn? What did you expect and what was different?

I was pleasantly surprised to have engaged in hands-on activities and small group discussions around OER, Copyright licenses, and Creative Commons! I still have much to learn about attributions, but am confident that with more practice I will get the hang of it. I walked away with resources carefully curated by Junie, Wayde, and Jason to continue my OER journey and most importantly, feel a closer connection with the OER community at Leeward.

So What? Why does that matter? To you? To your students? To the college? To society as a whole? Describe your experience learning about OER and its potential to impact teaching and learning.

Not only does OER save our students money, it helps to contextualize our curriculum making it much more relevant for students. It also fosters creativity, inclusiveness, and accessibility amongst faculty, staff, AND students--something we need now more than ever as we navigate our “new normal”.

What Next? Now what? What will you do differently? What have you learned? How will you participate in the OER movement?

I look forward to combining the skills I picked up from this OER workshop with the additional skills I gained from the Accessibility workshops (hosted by the KI office), to revamp the Teacher Education Program’s website, applications, and other forms and docs!

Mahalo Junie, Wayde, and Jason!

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What
Thank you to Wayde, Junie, and Jason for the opportunity to learn more about OER over the past two weeks. This has been helpful because a great deal of my involvement with OER has been project-based. It has been nice to combine these experiences, which contributes to this process of lifelong learning and continual growth. I have benefited greatly from learning more about Copyright, Creative Commons Licenses, Attributions, Using Images,  OER stewardship, the CARE frameworks, and so much more. I eagerly anticipated more growth in these areas. I was also pleased to experience Junie’s presentation about ways to find OER and Jason’s facilitation of hands-on activities to apply the knowledge learned about copyright and CC licenses. In addition, I enjoyed learning about faculty interest in OER and ideas about future use.

So What?

In the past, I have learned about OER through an organic,  project-oriented process. I co-authored an OER textbook, College Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate, and I am  in the process of adding a College Success Chapter with all ENG 100 (3X) courses to it. In addition, I created the College Success Build-a-Chapter Renewable assignment including a guide for teachers, applying a Creative Commons license to it, and sharing it in the UH OER Repository.

What Next?
A more thorough understanding of Copyright, CC licenses, and ways to find OER materials has informed the ways I will incorporate OER in my classes moving forward. The CARE framework helps me to consider the skills I learned in this two week workshop with regard to how an individual, institution, and organization can contribute to the growth and sustainability of OER with community values. "... [T]he ecosystem of OER stakeholders will diversify, the use and adoption of OER will grow, and the future of education and learning will benefit from greater access, equity, affordability, and relevance." I am pleased to conceptualize OER through this intersectional lens with regard to teaching and leadership. In the future, I will complete the aforementioned college success chapter project. I will also explain OER to students and peer mentors in greater detail while emphasizing how they may contribute to it. I will also create additional OER textbooks, images, and teaching materials.