In spring and summer 2020, LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network hosted two rounds of the LOUIS OER Commons Faculty Cohort Program. This competitive program enabled faculty from across the state to participate in a semester-long online learning community. The program intended to create an environment of support and shared learning as faculty explored and deepened their knowledge of OER locally in terms of their discipline and institutions, and broadly in terms of teaching, learning, and the higher ed landscape.
This session will provide a review of the program, from its intent to the call for proposals to the learning community design to the final deliverables and assessment. Participants interested in building community around open education online using existing resources will gain an understanding of this model so that they might be able to apply it to their context.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will be able to describe what a faculty learning community is.
Participants will be able to articulate elements of the faculty cohort structure that they could apply to their context.
