International Journal of Open Educational Resources Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 2019/Winter 2020 | Page 59

Advancing an Open Educational Resource Initiative through Collaborative Leadership
变革管理、战略规划、和 OER 劳动力不平等时 , 阐述了在促进一项校园 OER 初期运动时 , 建立一个透明、灵活、协作式工作流程的实践过程。关键词 : 开放教育资源 ,OER, 变革管理 , 无形的劳动力 ,
战略规划
Introduction
What are the best practices in
collaborative leadership for
open educational resource
(OER) initiatives within higher education?
While the literature on OER
implementation often emphasizes the
importance of garnering support from
numerous key stakeholders on campus,
there can be an absence of dialogue about
the work required in the critical first
stages of teambuilding and establishing
an OER working group. Although
traditional roles for librarians typically
include OER advocacy and resource
searching, designated OER leadership
positions for librarians have not always
been considered (Braddlee & VanScoy,
2019). Similarly, the OER-related work
provided by academic support staff can
often be unnamed and hidden within
the OER teams that perform the critical
work of open course adoption and advancement
within institutions (Hanley
& Bonilla, 2016). While both top-down
institutional support and advocacy at
the ground level are necessary for sustainable
OER adoption, the authors
discuss first steps that can be taken to
energize a campus and spur institutional
awareness and commitment to the
open educational cause.
The collaborative OER effort
took place at the University of Maryland
Baltimore County (UMBC), a
public research university with an enrollment
of 11,060 are undergraduate
and 2,540 graduate students. The
suburban campus is located about five
miles from downtown Baltimore and
draws enrollments from both U.S. and
international students. Just over 70% of
undergraduate students live on campus,
while the remaining students commute
(UMBC, n.d.-a). The university champions
both student academic success
and social justice in its mission to “redefine
excellence in higher education
through an inclusive culture ... [and]
advance knowledge, economic prosperity,
and social justice by welcoming
and inspiring inquisitive minds from all
backgrounds” (UMBC, n.d.-b).
Since 2013, a division of the
state university system has spearheaded
a statewide OER initiative, the goal
of which is to provide support in scaling
the adoption of OER by public and
private university and community college
institutions across Maryland (University
of Maryland System William
E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation,
n.d.-a). While the use of OER
often results in reduced student costs,
OER is also of interest because of the
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