Kia ora koutou,
Welcome to Inside Out. In this issue, I thought I would give you a very brief update on a couple of things I have been working on that are slightly outside our usual business in the Learning and Teaching team.
Open Access Week 2022
I am on the group organising the southern hemisphere events for Open Access Week 2022 (25-28 October). This year the theme is “Open for Climate Justice”, which is very relevant to us all in the Pacific.
We are putting together a series of events that will run over the week, including panels on climate activism, and the role of open science in combatting climate injustice in Pacific Island nations. There will also be a group event over the whole week to create a Subject Guide with open educational resources for teaching – if you would be interested in joining in, we would love to have you!
Open Educational Resources
I am continuing to work on our aspirations around publishing open educational resources, with the most recent emphasis being on developing a contract that the Library can use when we fund the creation of resources. This has given me the opportunity to work with the UC Legal team, which has been a novelty for me and very interesting. I am hopeful we will have a legally sound, plain language agreement ready to use very soon.
Involvement in planning around the Learning and Teaching plan
Aurelia and I are contributing to two working groups as part of the UC-wide Teaching and Learning Committee. There are a series of groups working on teaching planning for 2023, with the aim to get planning completed in time for the academic audit next year. Aurelia will be on the group discussing the Learning and Teaching Plan, and I will be on the Engagement and Blended Learning group. Although we may not play a large role on these groups, it is still very useful to be part of the teaching planning for the wider university.
D365 and the Library
UC has adopted Dynamic 365 (D365) as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. This tool is being configured for different services and is being used by the Student Support units in Pātaka. We are keen to see if D365 can help us offer better service to our students, so as a beginning, Tomo, Dale, Sara and Stuart will have access to the system to monitor how it is being used and how it might be useful to us in the Library.
If you have any questions, or just want to have a chat about the above, please let me know. I attach a pictures of a pretty spider web and the fog on Ōnawe Pensinsula to compensate somewhat for the dry content!
Ngā mihi,
Sara