Current Projects
This page brings together some of my recent projects. Click on the links below for more information. Much of my recent work has focused on my work as a Fulbright Scholar in the EU focused on international copyright literacy.
Code of Best Practice in Fair Use
The Best Practices for Fair Use in Open Education is a tool for educators, librarians, and authors to evaluate common professional scenarios where fair use can enable them to incorporate inserts to create OER. It can provide groups working on OER projects with a shared framework for evaluating and understanding when and how to incorporate existing content to meet pedagogical needs.
The Code of Best Practices has been presented at OpenEd20 and OpenEd21 as well as the Open Education Network’s Summer Institute. It is generously supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (RE-250053-OLS-21 ) and the Hewlett Foundation.
OER + Scholarly Communication
The OER + ScholComm project brings together a corpus of open educational resources (OER) for teaching library students and professionals about scholarly communication librarianship. We are under contract with ACRL to develop an open textbook (expected in spring of 2023) and have funding from IMLS to develop an online community/repository called the Scholarly Communication Notebook that will be the locus of an active, inclusive, empowered community of practice for teaching scholarly communications to emerging librarians.
The OER + ScholComm project has been presented at OpenEd18, The Library Collective, The Library Publishing Forum, CNI Winter 2021 and full-day preconferences at The Charleston Conference and ACRL19. It is generously supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-72-17-0132-17; LG-36-19-0021-19).
Library Copyright Institute
The Library Copyright Institute is a project to develop a program of systematic, deep instruction in copyright law for librarians. The Institute is specifically targeted at training librarians at institutions with fewer resources and no copyright expert on staff. The premise of the Institute is that we’re all better off when the whole library community is widely and deeply engaged with the legal issues that most directly affect our ability to help users. It is designed to provide immersive training for librarians to master copyright fundamentals, develop competencies in copyright limitations and exceptions such as fair use, and complete hands-on training in the application of copyright to specific areas of librarianship. By design, the immersive experience we aim to provide through the Institute is also meant to encourage the development of a regional community of practice that itself can help participants further learn from each other.
The Library Copyright Institute is generously supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (RE‐87‐18‐0081‐18; RE-246377-OLS-20) and our materials are available at our OSF site.
OEN Certificate in Open Educational Practices
The Certificate in Open Educational Practices (OEP) is a professional development program that will create actionable pathways for faculty and librarians to implement open education for the transformation of learning. It offers formal training in open educational practices grounded in the principles of social justice, a community of peers, and expert instructors in order to transform learning to be more accessible and inclusive.
The Certificate is generously supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (RE-250023-OLS-21). All materials are openly licensed and will be available on the OEN site at the conclusion of the pilot.
UNC System Course Collections
The UNC System Digital Course Library and OER Implementation Collection is a companion to the UNC digital course enhancement collections. It gathers reliable open resources and provides videos of presentations from authoritative speakers to answer the most frequent questions faculty ask about how and why to use OER in their courses. The OER Implementation Collection will provide a guide to finding and using OER for faculty and instructors who are interested in working with the UNC digital course enhancement collections and using other open educational resources in their teaching.
The OER Implementation Collection was presented at OpenEd20 and is generously supported with federal CARES Act funding.
Open Pedagogy Incubator
The Open Pedagogy Incubator is a semester-long program designed to incentivize faculty to go beyond the first step in open education – adopting open course materials – to implement multiple open-enabled practices in their courses. Modeled on the Libraries Alt-Textbook program and the 2019 pilot of our OPEN Incubator, the Open Pedagogy Incubator brings together a cohort of faculty instructors to develop competencies in open pedagogy through a series of hands-on workshops, curated readings, and cohort discussions.
The Open Pedagogy Incubator was presented at OER20 in London and OpenEd20 and was featured in the 2020 Horizon Report. You can read more about the program in this story and see all of our materials in our OSF site.