1. Introducing the NERCOMP OER Community of Practice (CoP)
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Northeast OER Summit
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2. Presenters: Robert Alan Harris (harrisr@wpunj.edu )
Assistant Director, Center for Teaching with Technology
William Paterson University
Aaron T. Flint
IT Director of Instructional Support Services
Southern New Hampshire University

3. 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?
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4. 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.
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5. 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
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6. 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?

7. Questions or Final Thoughts?