OER by Discipline Guide: Reducing Barriers and Building Sustainability for OER Adoption
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Abstract
Open Education Global Conference 2023 (Edmonton, Alberta) session description. Are you looking for a new approach to supporting educators in finding OER to adopt into their courses? In this lightning talk (15 minutes), learn about the development of an OER by Discipline Guide introduced by a Canadian research institution as a service to help reduce hurdles faculty and instructors face when adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) into their courses. We will first highlight some of the barriers educators experience when starting their journey in finding OER to adopt, followed by outlining how the OER by Discipline Guide developed by staff at the University of Calgary’s Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR) reduces these barriers for educators. The OER by Discipline Guide is an ongoing curated resource guide of OER organized by discipline for educators who prefer to independently review previously evaluated OER within their subject area. Similar guides are commonly used across Canadian higher education institutions to curate potential OER organized according to their institution with access provided through Pressbooks. Pressbooks is a publishing platform based on WordPress used by many higher education institutions globally for developing, adapting, and hosting dynamic, interactive Open Education Resources. During this talk, we will discuss what the OER by Discipline Guide is, how it was created, and the process for updating the guide over time. Library staff supporting this service utilize OER recommendations, adoptions, and newly developed OER from the university and open education community, including subject librarians, educators, and other relevant discipline experts for inclusion into the guide. We will also highlight the benefits of having our support staff assist with the sustainability of the OER by Discipline Guide, managed by the Open Education Librarian, along with our current service workflow. At the University of Calgary, this staffing model is a crucial piece in supporting the sustainability and growth of our OER services as interest in OER adoption continues to increase at our institution.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.020 | 0.022 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 0.013 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".