Project Goals
- Expand OER in Pilot HBCUs
- Institutionalize OER Use
- Create Scalability
Goal #1: EXPAND THE HBCU OER COLLECTION and INCREASE USE: The HBCU-MERLOT library will have over 150 OER capturing African American cultural contextual digital OER content aggregated, curated and/or created by African-American faculty and students. At least 45 Faculty Teaching ePortfolios will be published, and the number of visits to the HBCU AL$ website will increase ten fold.
Goal #2: INSTITUTIONALIZE OER STRATEGIES IN HBCU HIGHER EDUCATION through the HBCU AL$ team and Leadership Council who will produce substantial evidence of sharing exemplary policies, institutional plans, institutional practices and support for collaborative network of OER advocates through high levels of participation in HBCU online community, face-to-face meetings, and webinars.
Goal #3: SCALE THE ADOPTION OF AL$ STRATEGIES AND SERVICES IN HBCUs by lowering barriers to institutionalizing AL$ programs so over 15 HBCUs and their affilliates have implemented an effective AL$ initiative. HBCU AL$ team and Leadership Council provide the outreach, training, professional development, technology infrastructure, and technical assistance to HBCU members to participate, learn, adopt and adapt exemplary polices, plans, and practices for OER use and reuse.