Adding OER to openNCCC
by Angela Davis 2 years, 11 months agoI have just submitted something to openNCCC to see how quickly the "Add OER" process works. If they allow it, I've submitted The OER Starter Kit by Abbey Elder. The only issue is trying to complete the form. Most everything is geared toward students - not things that teaching faculty might use.
For example, when asked about audience, the only options listed are things like basic skills, adult high school, curriculum students, continuing ed, etc. I just went with curriculum students as there is not a spot for "other."
This will be a good test, Angela! I wonder if there are any plans for openNCCC to change or add to the submission form they use? I will look into if suggestions are possible for openNCCC forms. Thank you for submitting Abbey's starter kit - such a terrific resource!
That's interesting. I guess it makes sense for the focus to be on student stuff. Maybe as part of the OER Task Force we can ask someone who helped design/maintains this could come and talk about the platform and how it's run.
The whole reason I ended up adding it in the first place was that I wanted to add something to our group resource section. Apparently you can only add things that are already in openNCCC(?). So since the OER Starter Kit wasn't in there, I wanted to add it, but didn't realize it would have to be approved first. I still haven't gotten anything other than a message from openNCCC stating the following...
Dear Angela Davis,
Thank you for submitting content on the openNCCC.
Our curation team will review your submission to ensure that it meets our OER quality standards. You can access your submission in your Submitted folder. While pending review, your resource is set to private and cannot be viewed by other users.
We will send you a confirmation message once your item has been approved for our digital library and is ready to be shared.
Thanks for contributing to the Open Education community.
I think that if teaching faculty want to use openNCCC with their own groups, etc. they will run into the same issue. I'm guessing that the system office just wasn't thinking in terms of people using this for OER that would benefit faculty/staff for professional development purposes rather than just a repository for student and course resources.