Starting at the Beginning: Building a New Program with OER

What if you were given the opportunity to build a new academic program at your college? How would you incorporate OER into the course design process from the beginning of a program? That is the question we are wrestling with at Martin Luther College. As we develop two online asynchronous competency-based programs to support our growing returning adult learner population, we are committed to leveraging OER and AER throughout our curriculum. Our presentation will share the roles of our faculty support team – the program director, instructional designer, and library director – as well as the resources we are using to educate our faculty on OER. We’ll also discuss how we are managing the exponentially growing catalog of OER materials we are uncovering and creating.