Office Hours: How to Engage Leadership in OER
Channel: Open Education Network
Date: 2021-02-04

The special guests at this month's session of the Rebus Community and Open Education Network Office Hours were Josh Bolick (Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Kansas), Teri O. Gallaway (Executive Director and Associate Commissioner, Louisiana Library Network (LOUIS)), and Carrie Gits (Head Librarian/Associate Professor, Highland Campus Library, Austin Community College).


In this Office Hours session we talked about how a more engaged leadership doesn’t guarantee programmatic success, but can make a significant difference when working to promote OER use on campus. Guests at the departmental, institutional, and state levels talk about strategies for engaging administrative leadership to support OER adoption and creation. This includes faculty incentives, advocacy, course markings, and positions dedicated to OER. Our guests share how conversations with leadership got started, how relationships were built, and the impact of engaged leadership on student savings and learning.


The audio and chat transcripts of this session are available on the Open Education Network website: https://open.umn.edu/otn/2021/02/04/oh-jan21/