2 Chapter 2 – Charge to the Task Force and Membership

 

Penn State OER Task Force

 

Executive Vice President and Provost Nicholas Jones charged the Penn State OER Task Force in February 2015.

 

Charge: Develop approaches for systematically implementing open educational resources to support Penn State teaching and learning and contribute to President Eric Barron’s agenda for student access and affordability. The use of OER, including open textbooks, can significantly reduce costs for students, provide more control for faculty for their course content, and enable or empower enhanced pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning.

 

Task Force Membership:

  • Barbara I. Dewey (Chair), Dean, University Libraries and Scholarly Communication
  • Fred Aebli, IST Instructor and Internship Coordinator, Penn State Worthington Scranton
  • Kate Domico, Executive Director, Learning Design and Public Media, Penn State Outreach and Online Education
  • Steve Falke, Head, Penn State Barnes & Noble Educational Operations
  • Yvonne Gaudelius, Assistant Vice President and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
  • Lee Giles, David Reese Professor, College of Information Science and Technology
  • Andrea Gregg, Online Learning Researcher, Penn State World Campus
  • Emily Miller, student representative, University Park
  • Przemyslaw Maslak, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University Park
  • Joseph A. Salem, Jr., Associate Dean for Learning, Undergraduate Services, and the Commonwealth Campuses, University Libraries
  • John Shank, Head Librarian, Penn State Berks
  • Ann Snowman, Head, Access Services, University Libraries
  • Jennifer Sparrow, Senior Director of Teaching and Learning with Technology, Information Technology Services

 

Penn State OER University Libraries Task Force

 

Dean Dewey charged the Penn State OER University Libraries Task force to specifically work on leveraging library resources, technologies, and expertise to advance OER at Penn State.

 

Charge: The Libraries OER Task Force will work specifically to develop a multi-pronged approach to advancing OER at Penn State including building on our course reserve, LMS integration work, textbook program, publishing program, ScholarSphere, and other initiatives.

 

The task force will consider a branding and marketing approach increasing open education resources and leveraging to the fullest licensed educational resources which support the curriculum.

 

Task Force Membership:

  • John Shank (Co-Chair), Head Librarian, Penn State Berks
  • Ann Snowman (Co-Chair), Head, Access Services
  • Linda Ballinger, Metadata Strategist
  • Anne Behler, Information Literacy Librarian & Instruction Coordinator
  • Linda Friend, Head, Scholarly Publishing Services
  • Chris Holobar, Manager, Lending and Reserve Services
  • Patricia Hswe, Head, ScholarSphere Services and Digital Content Strategist
  • Brandy Karl, Copyright Officer
  • Tom Reinsfelder, Reference Librarian, Penn State Mont Alto

 

 

 

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