Resources - Faculty Communities of Practice on Open Educational Resources - a Toolkit - Research Guides at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

OER CoP Planning Worksheets and Sample Documents

Faculty Community of Practice Planning Worksheet
A Google Doc that may help guide you through some of the decisions you need to make when planning an CoP.
OER CoP - Content Plan
A spreadsheet that may help you plan your CoP content, particularly if you are combining media and text from multiple sources.

OER CoP Sample Schedule
This is the schedule we used for the CoP offered in Spring 2020. It includes topics and assignments, as well as the due date for deliverables.

Example OER CoP Assessment Form

Examples of Faculty CoPs on OER

These are a few examples of other OER CoPs that I found online. I hope to include information about the design of at least some of these CoPs in this guide at some point soon.

Suggested Reading

Bazeley, J., Haynes, C., Myers, C. S., & Resnis, E. (n.d.). Avoiding the “axe”: Advancing affordable and open education resources at a midsize university. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 7. https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2259

Cambridge, D., & Suter, V. (2005). Community of Practice Design Guide: A Step-by-Step Guide for Designing & Cultivating Communities of Practice in Higher Education. https://library.educause.edu/resources/2005/1/community-of-practice-design-guide-a-stepbystep-guide-for-designing-cultivating-communities-of-practice-in-higher-education

Cox, M. D., & Richlin, L. (2004). Building Faculty Learning Communities: New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 97 (1 edition). Jossey-Bass.

Elliott, E. R., Reason, R. D., Coffman, C. R., & Gangloff, E. J. (2016). Improved student learning through a faculty learning community: How faculty collaboration transformed a large-enrollment course from lecture to student centered. CBE Life Sciences Education, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.14-07-0112

Kimble, C., Hildreth, P., & Bourdon, I. (2008). Communities of practice: Creating learning environments for educators (Vol. 1–2). Information Age Publishing.

Laufgraben, J., & Shapiro, N. (2004). Sustaining and improving learning communities. Jossey-Bass.

McDonald, J., & Cater-Steel, A. (2016). Communities of practice: Facilitating social learning in higher education. Springer. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucc/detail.action?docID=4743079

Parker, L. C., Gleichsner, A. M., Adedokun, O. A., & Forney, J. (2016). Targeting change: Assessing a faculty learning community focused on increasing statistics content in life science curricula. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 44(6), 517–525. https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.20974

Peckskamp, T. (2010). Building community: Stories and strategies for future learning community faculty and professionals—Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. Graduate School Press.

Sipple, S. M. (Ed.). (2013). Developing faculty learning communities at two-year colleges: Collaborative models to improve teaching and learning. Stylus Publishing.

Tinnell, T. L., Ralston, P. A. S., Tretter, T. R., & Mills, M. E. (2019). Sustaining pedagogical change via faculty learning community. International Journal of STEM Education; Heidelberg, 6(1), 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40594-019-0180-5

Ward, H. C., & Selvester, P. M. (2012). Faculty learning communities: Improving teaching in higher education. Educational Studies, 38(1), 111–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2011.567029

Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W. M. (2002). Cultivating communities of practice. Harvard Business Review Press.