Introducing the NERCOMP OER Community of Practice (CoP) Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Northeast OER Summit This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Presenters: Robert Alan Harris (harrisr@wpunj.edu ) Assistant Director, Center for Teaching with Technology William Paterson University Aaron T. Flint (a.flint@snhu.edu) (@aflint) IT Director of Instructional Support Services Southern New Hampshire University

NERCOMP overview Consortium licensing agreements A professional society for University and Collegiate Information Technology professionals 301 member institutions in Northeastern U.S. Consortium licensing agreements Professional development opportunities Communities of Practice (CoP) Job postings Very brief overview of NERCOMP. Ask if anyone is from a member university? Source: https://nercomp.org/membership/member-benefits/

NERCOMP Communities of Practice (N=20) Analytics/Data Warehousing Accessibility & Inclusion Canvas Digital Libraries Emerging Technology Games in Teaching & Learning Help Desk Information Security Instructional Design Knowledge Management Networks Northeast Lab Managers Open Educational Resources in Teaching & Learning Project Management Service Management Student Employees Teaching with Mobile Devices Visual Learning & Technology User Experience Research & Design Women in IT Brief overview of the NERCOMP CoPs. Discuss revitalization. Participation was low so giving CoPs a reboot with new volunteer leaders. Source: https://nercomp.org/events/communities-of-practice/

CoP Communication Channels Primary mode of communication is listserv. Slack added for some groups this spring. Need to duplicate postings. Is there a better way? No cross-posting, must duplicate postings This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

Questions to consider as we build this CoP… How do we build engagement/participation? What is a good threshold for measuring engagement? What role should the CoP leaders play? What do participants want to see? Do we need another community for OER? Is a regional community of any benefit? Questions to consider as we build this CoP… How do we get people to be involved and share information? How many posts is enough? Should the leaders provide prompts and drum up participation? There are some national groups that have similar communities 1. Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (Google Group) 2. SPARC listerv (Google Group) 3. Rebus community 4. OER commons Is a northeast group of interest?

Questions or Final Thoughts?