OERC Teaching Commons Whats There and What We

OERC Teaching Commons: What’s There and What We Need To Do Briefing for OERC Executive Committee Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1

45 minutes of To-Do’s • Using Elluminate, overview of our 45 minute tasks and purpose of website. • What’s there: Blending of OERC and MERLOT open education services • What’s needed and who’s going to do what’s needed? • Summarize action plan 2

Elluminate How-To’s for Today • • Slide presentation to keep up on track Chat (written) for capturing our feedback – – • URL’s to go to website (slides don’t have links) Answer questions, make comments Voting to check on consensus 3

Overview of tasks today and purpose of OERC website • Tasks: – – • Get us all on the “same page” in our understanding of the OERC website Identify what needs to be done and by who so we can get v 1. 0 ready for marketing Purpose of website: Get community started so we can go after big money to develop the services: • Building our reputation as an organization • Building OERC collection • Contributing expertise and experiences 4

Go To http: //teachingcommons. cdl. edu/oerc • We’ll each open a new window in our browser so we’ll have both OERC and Elluminate open on our desktop • I’ll tell you where to “click” 5

Feedback time on existing pages • • Is the purpose of the page(s)/section clear? Is the purpose what we want? What’s missing? Will you do the missing work? Gerry will prompt you to use the Elluminate chat to provide your feedback 6

Content for empty pages • Content needed Healthcare Professionals and Patients and Families – What does OERC want to say to healthcare professionals? • Need different message for Patients and Families – Are you or a loved one facing cancer? Here is what you need to know……. . – At OERC you can find information on…………. 7

Empty Pages: Resources • Need to highlight a few resources for both groups – Here is a sample of what is on OERC… a PPT slide show on helping cancer patients work through cancer treatment. • Need to link them to others within the MERLOT community that can provide advise. – Here are people in your specialty (MERLOT member directory)… and email them. . – Point to OERC Voices – public discussions/chat 8

IN CASE YOU FORGOT WHAT’S IN MERLOT ITSELF… 9

Open Education Services: Available Now with MERLOT Your Library: World of Content: OER OCW Google MERLOT Collection annotated in your language with your descriptions Your Services through MERLOT Your Community World of People: MERLOT Member Directory Gmail Yahoo provide Open Identity * Email accounts annotated in your language with your descriptions 14

Engaging Our Community: Your Library: MERLOT Collection MERLOT Member Profile Your Service using MERLOT Personal Collections: Create your “syllabi” and resource lists Material #1 Plus Your description Learning Assignment Material #2 Plus Your description User Response Learning Assignment Material #3 Plus Your description Learning Assignment 15