Open Educational Resources for Allied Health Professions and Health Sciences

The proposed project is intended to support the sustainable creation, adaptation, and use of Open Educational Resources OER in allied health professions and health sciences fields at large. Our faculty fellowship is designed to include training in relevant health sciences resources from the NNLM, training in OER authorship and use, and support in using the resources from the NNLM to create OER. Faculty fellows will meet monthly with the OER Librarian to work on their OER project and monthly as a group facilitated by the OER Librarian to discuss OER theory and advocacy in order to create a community of practice where they can find support. We will also hold a librarian training, which will cover how to assist faculty in adopting, adapting, and authoring OER; how to establish and maintain faculty partnerships; and how to advocate for OER. We will deliver this program to Touro College librarians, but the materials will be made openly available afterward, so that other libraries can hold their own program; we will incorporate NNLM materials into this training.

Project Details

Organization Name

Touro College Libraries

Organization Type
Academic institution
Health sciences library
Project Lead

Sara Tabaei

Location
New York
Start Date
June 11, 2020
End Date
April 30, 2021
Funding Amount
$18242
Demographics
Educator, College & Post-grad
Library or Information Professional
Researcher
Adults (19-64 yrs.)
Teens (13-18 yrs.)
International
Suburban
Urban
Behavioral/Social Determinants of Health