OER: Best Practices

The Affordable Learning Georgia Faculty Learning Community on OERs will be made up of 8 - 12 Campus Champions and Library Coordinators. The experience is intended to enhance each participant's understanding and implementation of OERs in a variety of instructional settings.

The goals of the USG Faculty Learning Community on OER are to:

• Build awareness and community around OER efforts on your campus and system-wide
• Identify institutional and system-wide processes that support or hinder OER adoption, and make recommendations for changes where appropriate
• Identify and evaluate sources for quality OER that can be shared at the institutional and system level
• Identify and evaluate OER-­enabled pedagogical approaches that may lead to student success
• Learn how to establish faculty learning communities to promote a campus‐wide dialogue about OER adoption, creation, and develop

Members of the ALG Faculty Learning Community on OERs

Denise Dimsdale, Education Librarian, Georgia State University, Email: mdimsdale@gsu.edu

CJ Ivory, Instruction Librarian, University of West Georgia, Email: cjivory@westga.edu

Tamara Powell, Director, College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Distance Education & Professor of English, Kennesaw State University, Email: tpowel25@kennesaw.edu

Nikki Rech, Research Services Librarian, Georgia Southern University, Email: dcannonrech@georgiasouthern.edu, Phone: 912-478-7822, Co-Chair

Bonnie Robinson, UNG Press, Director, University of North Georgia, Email: bj.robinson@ung.edu

Brenda Rutherford, Resource Sharing/Serials Librarian, Gordon State College, Email: brendar@gordonstate.edu

Susanna Smith, Acquisitions Librarian, Georgia Highlands College, Email: sussmith@highlands.edu, Phone: 706-802-5197

Deborah Van Petten, Reference Librarian, Valdosta State University, Email:dvanpett@valdosta.edu, Phone: 229-245-3749, Co-Chair