And now, on to Week 4 of my course, and this week “Now that you’ve explored a range of tools, strategies and approaches; you will consider what you might use to support the creation of an Open Pedagogy project of your own design   This conceptualization can be an assignment, set of assignments, course design, student co-created OER project, or any combination of the elements.”

For this project, I am taking something I am co-developing right now and integrate open pedagogy/open collaboration into the project.  I think this will be a doable project with easily attainable goals which will result in a definable outcome. And also introduce a open tool for online engagement to our college community.

1) A project title: Open Education Libguide Community Engagement and Collaboration

2) A project overview: The Libguide (library research guide) for Open Education at my institution (Camosun College) has been outdated for a very long time, and this term as I take on more responsibility for Open Ed initiatives at the college, and as the open education portfolio is shifted to another librarian, we have decided to revise the libguide and bring it up to modern times. 

We were fortunate to discover another institution’s (Okanagan College) libguide matches very closely with our vision, so just this last week received permission to copy it and adapt it.  As we work on the updates, however, we think it is important to engage with our community, from librarians, to colleagues in the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, to students, to faculty, to leadership, etc., but how best to do this?  Yes, we can have a survey or focus groups, and we will likely do some of this work in the new year, but what about ongoing commenting, feedback, and suggestions for additions?

Then I remembered Hypothes.is!  What a great way to get ongoing comments and feedback on any site on the open web.

3) List of your goals:

• The first goal is to adapt the libguide we have copied from Okanagan College and make any changes we think need to be part of our own Open Education libguide.  We hope to complete this work in December so that in January we can soft-launch the new Open Ed libguide to the college.
• At the same time, we need to come up with a communication plan introducing readers of the libguide to Hypothes.is and walking them through how to comment on the libguide publicly.
• This open consultation/collaboration using Hypothes.is will be a pilot for us at the college as well, so we will need to provide our Director with a purpose statement and measurable goals for this as well.
• After collecting feedback and comments for the Winter term, we can fully launch the new, collaboratively adapted Open Education Libguide to Camosun College and the world.
• The libguide itself will become a living resource, where anyone can give feedback, comments, or collaborate with us to keep it current and relevant.

4) A list of tools, strategies, and approaches that could support your project:

• Information about how specifically Hypothes.is can be used to collect collaborative feedback.
• Best practice documents around using Hypothes.is.
• Selecting faculty from across the college and providing them with information on how to use Hypothes.is to give feedback, and also what specifically we are looking for.
• Example communication/education plans for engaging communities around using Hypothes.is and providing good critical feedback.

5) A list of resources that you will use to support your plan

• Information on Hypothes.is from the University of Waterloo Centre for Teaching Excellence.
• Hypothes.is website
• What is Hypothesis, and how can it be used to annotate the Web for learning?
• FLO Tech Tool Tip: Writing in the Margins with Hypothes.is
• University of Western Ontario, Hypothes.is
• Annotating with Hypothes.is