and I was part of that um first cohort of other types involved in that and it was great because we got to really talk about what uh the connection between uh the support units that exist on campus namely in my situation it's instructional support and then a lot of the Librarians support that they're so versed at so um we came up with this graphic and Lily and I have thought about it talked about it and looked at it a few times and a lot of it was based on relationships that already existed at UCF with the libraries and um we haven't quite edited it or modified it yet from its original state but I have shared it around the country and such so I'm curious if any others are floating around and I'll encourage you to make your own version of what is uh whether no matter who it is whether it's instructional library or what other other folks might be involved kind of the relationship between you two Lily I'd like to pass it to you for a second to talk about how you see this kind of working its way through at UCF sure I would like to emphasize just the collaborative nature of this and how if you don't already work with Librarians that your faculty and staff on the instructional support side would it would work out wonderfully if you reach out to your Librarians because there are so many overlaps in what you do for for the instructors and teaching faculty and research faculty even around your institution so uh we also use this graphic to kind of show those faculty that hey we we collaborate and then we we start to go into at what points in time would you reach out to a librarian or perhaps an instructional designer when faculty are interested in kind of going into the realm of helping their courses become more affordable for their students with their course material selection thanks that's actually a really good transition to the next slide because uh there's a choice on it um so here's another again uh artifact we'd like to share again you can utilize the QR code up in the top left here which will give you access to the flow chart and SVG and PDF formats and so this here is um just further I guess explanation for faculty members in particular but anybody really and okay if we're if a goal to create uh or to encounter or utilize affordable materials or open educational materials how do you go through that process what your thought process might be and so this graphic again was created a little bit more broadly for the aim initiative at UCF which includes inclusive access programs and affordability accounts and other such but um as little and I uh began talking more um we landed on a sort of we edited a version of that more about first one and made something that is a little more clean and and simplified I don't know Lily if you had any thoughts on this as well sure so when we kind of use this with the faculty who are thinking about their course goals we present it to them in such a way that they're thinking about maybe the textbooks that they're using or they're thinking about their quizzes and and test Banks those sorts of things so as I think about the support and the course materials in those classes we kind of guide them through is any area lacking do they need something or is is there such a high cost for their students now that this may Inspire them to look for alternative materials so you kind of see in the green area where it asks our course goals being met with existing materials and then if they're not which area is lacking or if cost is a concern and kind of either way it leads the faculty to well if cost is a concern let's think about those zero cost Pathways and those can be either open educational resources or perhaps materials through the library and depending on how your institution functions the way we function here at UCF if if they're thinking about creating or adapting oer then that often goes more towards the instructional designers side of support with collaboration from the library and if they're thinking about perhaps a library ebook then that would be routed to me or to the subject Librarians in in other institutions it may be an oer librarian or an e-resources librarian but just kind of contextualizing it for the faculty of well depending on what their decisions are who would they reach out to what kind of support would they get along the way great thanks Heather um yeah why don't you just maybe keep going and unpack a little bit about what's happening over in the library sure so um for those of you who may be a little less familiar with what the affordable course materials can look like from the library I did want to talk a little bit about what some libraries are doing and we're also doing it here at UCF um so the types of materials the library has that can fully replace a textbook in a course would be those ebooks sometimes we call them e-textbooks and what a librarian would do is they would look for an ebook that provides the right type of license so that the whole class can access it at once and then preferably it would also be an e-book where the student could download a PDF and keep that PDF in perpetuity so those are the two main things we look for for ebooks that that can match textbooks for courses very often what I do in my work is I I look at the list of textbooks that have been adopted for courses and then I look get all the ebooks we either have already in the library or could get and I find a lot of matches so that can be a really easy and quick way to increase affordability in courses at an institution uh I also wanted to point out that uh many of you may be familiar with course reserves that's a common feature of many libraries those can be digital or those can be physical items held at a physical library that students can check out for a brief period of time um so a textbook on course Reserve can definitely help a student in a pinch as long as that Reserve item it happens to be available at that time that the student is looking for it so although this is textbook support it does not act as a full textbook replacement and then I also just wanted to touch on again some more ideas on how you can collaborate with your libraries and Librarians and Library staff um the instructors need to know about these options so you may collaborate on how to give that information to instructors and faculty and professors maybe that's through a workshop through an online course through through emails going out to them and then maybe on the more exciting aspect maybe you'll collaborate on running events or giving awards to those that are choosing more affordable options um and then of course there's going back to the processes and automation of all these efforts um very often Librarians really want to automate something where maybe we're trying to check our library catalog against the big spreadsheet or something and we don't necessarily have the tools that they're ready but your team may have a programmer or something who could jump in and help with something like that so it's kind of thinking outside the box thinking about what skill sets your teams have and what resources the library has to help our students one example here at the UCF libraries that we have built uh the e-textbook portal so basically I have found about 470 e-books in our library catalog that directly match those textbooks that faculty have adopted for courses so I created a search interface very similar to what the bookstore has so that students are more familiar with looking things up by course number book title Etc and then it's a real quick button takes them directly to the ebook um I do have some instructions on how to use some of the different platforms to help get students connected with those free course materials yeah and and just to throw it out there because I know a lot of Florida institutions are on the call um course numbers are uh shared right across all of our institutions so even though this is a UCF uh lives on the UCF website you can likely see some of the materials that we're using that could be available or even in your libraries so the best course right good point Jim yeah that could definitely be an idea for you because those ebooks in the e-textbook portal could still be available for purchase um and just as a quick snapshot uh over 50 departments are represented in the e-textbook portal that we have now so it's it's kind of a really nice way to kind of fill in the Gap especially if there are no open educational resources for a certain topic yet and the faculty don't have time to develop new oer something like that so it really does suit a good purpose as we try to Target those affordable courses thanks Ellie that's that's great and all your work is so robust and just mind-blowing I know a lot of time and effort goes into that um so switching over or kind of like bridging over into the open educational resources side um the center for distributed learning maintains uh a website and a public kind of presence around the topic it's highly collaborative though and again as a second paragraph States it couldn't be successful without all including the library including students including our faculty Center just the list goes on and on um in terms of people who contribute to the work um it's not in a vacuum at all I think that's something I'm extremely proud of and I continue to work on and I think uh if you are have an initiative like an open education initiative or affordability initiative I would encourage you to include those even if they don't know they want to be included such as students a lot of people don't think about it but it's been a great help to have their voice represented but also their voice resounding at table tabling at events talking in their classrooms and just chit chatting and such and it creates activity around our media channels including student newspapers and stuff like that so all right this is our website again you can use the QR code to kind of check it out in an interactive mode um there you'll find basically it's like a home base I don't have multiple Pages quite yet for oer at the University but here you'll find as you see the button there and intro to open education it's kind of a short course that was adapted from um with the help of the team then uh just keep scrolling down and look down you'll see some of the Student Activity in a recent student resolution that was passed uh with student government and a lot of our registered student organizations working together to kind of make oer a priority I just learned this morning too that there's some activity around students wanting to write about conversations happening at the Board of Trustees I think we'll let you know about that because it came directed to your channel so that great more people more and more people are keen and wanting to know more about this and it's hap high level conversations are occurring which are really great for the University and for the world um we also maintain a pressbook site I don't know if all of your institutions do have pressbooks at your institution if you know if they do or don't but it's essentially an authoring platform we use this specific we use it kind of very much for academic and educational publishing not on scholarly side too much and again there's a QR code there if you want to take a look we have an open resource Library that's really visited our home page and that is more for the public facing part so as you may know if you have pressbooks at your institution you can easily clone any of these books uh oftentimes you'll see a download button there you can also download like docx format PDF formats and share them or read them offline or even just edit them from there so I would encourage you to go look there or just go look at our activity we're going to actually look at the directory which is not a pitch for press books per se there are other platforms out there as well which is what we what we use and kind of how we Channel a lot of our efforts with creation and dissemination um all right so the activity I would highly encourage you to actually utilize this QR code I can uh because this is an activity for all of us to kind of do so you can kind of see the power of collaborating with uh a website that's uh designed for sharing and for easy access to information and uh if you want I could y'all want me to just let's have a quick vote how many of you want me to do this on a phone so you can so you can see what I do in your phone or do you want me to do this on the computer so you have a bigger screen let's vote one for me doing it on a phone doing the search query on the phone or two for me doing it on the computer so we have a big screen could you guys put your things in the chat and I will do whatever it looks like resounding two here okay um fair enough I will do it on the on the screen I would encourage you are you able to see that or is you are you still seeing the slides only we can see it we can see it okay great all right it's on the phone it's slightly more vertical but it Stacks well um so if you did exercise on the phone same buttons the same interface it's just uh stacked instead of wide I can make this a slightly more wide slightly wide actually and as you can see this is a directory with around 5000 resources on it from 144 different networks UCF has one of those networks there are more networks out there that don't share their materials here or I'm sure and there are a lot of other repositories and places to look for open educational resources including openstacks Libre texts Etc but for today's purpose I'd like to bring us an activity here on how if you are engaging with faculty or anyone around open education and you want to provide them with a as you can see on this right side to share this query a nice Easy Link to a very specific query I would encourage you to play around with the tool so today I'm just going to do a simple keyword or two words it's interested in success and then I will take uh requests from the audience if we have time I need to keep an eye on that I look like we're okay so far so um all right first I'm just going to search Student Success and indiscriminately right this is all types of licenses um any title that or title or content that has the word student and success in it now if I'm like well that gave me 164 books I don't really feel like looking at that many maybe I can make my thing a little bit bigger here and have 50 books on a page but I'm like well let me try to narrow that down so what I can do I can use like quotation marks right to make it this word specifically right it has to be there so now okay that brought me down to 111. well let me see if as I scroll down I'm looking at the different license types as you can see here or I see one that's all rights reserved which means I wouldn't even be able to use that so well let me try to limit it to something that I know I can use right or adapt so let's go ahead and fill it down by license we'll do CC buy which is attribution only we'll do a very famous sort of like educational license here with a non-commercial share alike and then I'll do one just share it like okay so now we've reduced our filter down a little bit more to 91 and then I'm back well I don't want just a book right I want something that's going to have some interactivity in it because pressbooks allows for interactive exercises so I want at least five activities in the book that I that I choose okay now we're getting somewhere okay we're down to 18 books and actually one of the books published at UCF is here from a subject librarian John venicek and uh Barry mower who's an English faculty so let's say I'm interested in this book or I'm just interested in seeing books like this from around the networks that are related to Student Success okay and they all give you the number of activities and kind of if it's the root book or a clone all right so if you want to look at the activities you can just then if you're curious right you find a book you like it you want to share this query you're thinking about sharing this query with somebody if you're not sure if the activities are good or bad or quality or or or just put together in a sort of not such a great way you can come here and just kind of take a look and it's like okay I like that or you can look for specific types these are all question sets in this one you can just show them individually and take a look and be like okay I like the way this functions this has multiple questions oh it has some like kind of drop okay great all right I want to use that if you want to just use the one you can go ahead and just click reuse download it and upload it into an h5p if you're like whether you have h5p on your canvas Network or somewhere else or you just grab the embed code which is uh you can and then just embed it in a canvas page or something so it works you can just grab it and it'll be as long as the link exists that will exist or if you reuse you can actually clone it and you have your own file that exists right it's like okay I like that it's pretty good and I want to share this with somebody right I'm going to share this with um I don't know a group of Faculty or someone in my unit and go ahead and copy it and then it'll give that specific query with all of those filters in it so when I click it again you see how it all kind of goes through so they spend a lot of time in recent year over the recent past couple years developing this and I feel like this is one of the better uh filterable and easily shareable repositories out there again I mentioned I mentioned Liberty Tax and I know some of you may not have may not have press books at your institutions so you may see you may want something a little more robust it has more uh more ancillary materials or something like that if you've ever been here you can see and again not to knock this site over the other they're very different and have different purposes but as you can see you can pop in and look at bookshelves and it's all sort of there but you'd have to dig in and kind of get into okay organic chemistry now and go down this sort of nested journey and uh and when you want to share you know you you'd be able to share a little more broadly so again this is helpful and good um but if you operate a network for pressbooks or even if you're developing something of your own or have a repository I would encourage some of these I like these features and I think they're very well um they're very tasteful and effective so I would encourage you to take a look here next time you're looking for oer um and that's about it for that on the activity I did want to oh we didn't own time I don't have much time I will just take you're doing you're doing fine if you wanted to take any questions about the pressbooks directory search or maybe yeah oh we are searching yeah maybe I would maybe I will if anyone has one what just to at least allow for a little bit of dialogue are there any Search terms that you're interested or are there any questions about searching for oer whether it's in the pressbooks directory Google Liberty Tax wherever you might search for it and I'd love to talk maybe a little bit of strategy if anyone is interested that's interesting Pokemon okay yeah sure you can unmute um if that's okay with the top kit folks then or you can type it in the chat good point it's directly like what is CC by that's a very good point I believe this is not the actionable either so it's a good it's a good note you would probably have to go ahead and utilize yeah a site like the Creative Commons site to really see but I'm going to give that as feedback to them because this these I believe these little icons here should either be clickable or somewhere in here should allow me to see what the license means thank you for that question I put it in the chat the link to the Creative Commons licenses that kind of goes over um what each one means and it should have the same imagery the same icon on there that should match thanks Helen Meredith asked a question about post-secondary ESL Learners which are near and dear to my heart is I used to teach them at UCF prior to become an instructional designer um I'm curious though uh how how you mean so strategies to help like pedagogical strategies or are we speaking about open educational resources specifically sure um yeah well let's um just for fun I haven't ever put the search term in there let's see oops I gotta clear my other filters clear off all my filters there is a lot of work in languages and literature in in the open world and um so I just put in ESL because I was curious I didn't put in the keywords it looks like we have 14 books that come off immediately around um looks like ESL composition mostly composition It's All Greek To Me authentic readings 51 bite size lessons on verbs so very cool stuff I mean here's one with a lot of h5p activities so out of curiosity interesting I want to get my students some more engagement with um yeah Sal and then boom okay you find find some interesting sort of materials here that can be usable um thanks that's really interesting I've never searched for ESL so that's really fun I mean obviously Google is very powerful too I would encourage all of you to start there maybe right I mean you go to Google type in your keywords and put oer and you'll get more than enough information there and a lot of lib guides from the library again a way that the library helped us so much is there at least in my opinion very organized and about the way that they index and so um I'm not sure Lily what you think of this as a as a librarian this site for me I'm like oh this is great but Librarians may be like well this is so not great because we do way better uh index indices elsewhere but um no this is definitely one of my favorite um platforms to search for oer in because it's so clean it has functional facets it's really nice um kind of some of the other search interfaces that other people may be familiar with like oer Commons or the Mason oer meta finder those are really in-depth tools but very often um oer may not be tagged correctly in there so some of the search functions and in those platforms may not be as nice as I think they are here on the pressbooks directory yeah one of the main one of the main members of the of the community the old pressbooks Community steel Wagstaff is a uh you know has is a kind of a librarian at heart maybe even not in this role particularly but they work really well with um with that inclusive with libraries on this tool so great really I'm going to give you a little time to get into yours and Shawna Smith with hrp that's great um that could be a whole other session so I didn't mean to open a can of worms with all the different features uh that may exist within a press book but I'll encourage you to explore some open source tools again Price Books can be a hosted service but it can also be something if you have a development team that's the source code is open on GitHub you guys can stand up your own version of press books and it's it's an open source project that's maintained regularly same with h5p very heavily invested open source project out of Europe northern Europe and um they're doing great work in the open space they have a software as a service option as well right so both both companies are at their core open projects hyped and press books but they also provide services around their open core if in in need so well thanks again I'm going to actually stop sharing for her activity thank you Jim all right so as I start to get everything up for the chat GPT activity because we're trying to stick to that theme and recurring topic I'm going to put a link to an article that I found very helpful in thinking about Chachi PT and how it can help support um as well as um creating ancillary materials so let me post that link in the chat first and then I'll share my screen okay so that article was written by David Wiley about AI instructional design and oer which I found to be really fascinating kudos to Rebecca McNulty for sending that to me now I'm going to share my screen and we're going to kind of do a quick activity using chat GPT um and talk about that a little bit well she's pulling it up I want to mention that this this other machine and naturally and processing collaboration that we're talking about here is really interesting as it relates to oer development right one of the faculty members pain points right with time is always I don't have ancillaries I don't I can't create question sets well I think Lily's going to show you give you a little insight into how you might utilize it for that and I already have with some stem faculty on our campus so it's an interesting use case and um yeah I look forward to hearing what you say though definitely thank you Jim okay so everyone should see my screen which includes chat GPT and a PDF D both of those good all right so very often what happens when faculty try to transition over to either a library ebook or perhaps an oer that does not come with a test bank they um they find that to be a barrier because they would really like those robust resources that come with perhaps a traditional textbook package or a course access code something like that that does come with those test Banks and so on and so forth um well I've been involved in many of the discussions on Reddit kind of about what are all the capabilities of chat GPT what are different uses for it and um there are people of course who are using it to write their own essays for them which is not what we're we're talking about or supporting but there are those who are using it to help them save time and one of those use cases would be to help them create questions for a test Bank and one of the ways you can do that would be by actually directly asking chat GPT hey could you create a question about blank for me and I'm gonna I'm gonna do that a little bit later but what I'm going to start with is I'm going to ask chat GPT to create some quiz questions based on some text so here is a chapter I downloaded from a library ebook which is used as a textbook here at UCF so I'm just going to copy this one page from this book and I'm going to ask chat GPT to create two quiz questions based on the following text and I'm just going to paste it in there and now crossing fingers chat GPT is fully functional right now it uh will start to give me some answers so it starts off with one question I asked it to make two so it's saying what is anatomy and how did it traditionally involve the study of the body and it gives me an answer and then it looks like the second question what are the three subsystems of the anatomy used for speech production and what were they originally designed for and I've asked chat GPT to do this exact thing for the same amount of content the same chapter and it has given me different questions every time um so what you would do at this point hopefully you would be a subject matter expert or you would have one on hand to make sure that these questions are accurate but we don't have to stop here and you don't have to be as limited with two questions but I'm just I'm kind of trying to keep it a little bit more manageable for this exercise I want it to alter these questions um so I'm kind of doing these prompts in a step-by-step method when you could include all of these requests all in one but I'm going step by step so we have two questions I would like those to become multiple choice questions so what I'm going to say is revise the question staff for multiple choice answers and it stays with the same question and now it gives you four multiple choice answers and we see right here it's actually telling me what the answer is as well and I know that if this is your subject area or if you if you teach in anything related to this you could come up with these questions right but it's kind of that aspect of do you really have time and the Creative Energy to come up with several different answer choices to come up with so many different questions and this can kind of expedite this process if you need to do it um so what you would do is you would double check is the correct answer really correct you may alter these questions a little bit uh you may alter the answer choices a little bit but this is a really nice time saving feature for this now of course the downside is that students May then use chat GPT to try to find the answer but because chat GPT has been kind of taught on practically the whole internet even if you don't use chat GPT to come up with test questions it's probably going to help students find the answer anyway so kind of that concern of well if I if I make test questions in chat GPT will chat GPT know the answers even even more effectively in the I think the answer to that is chat GPT we'll probably be able to figure out the answer whether whether you came up with the question on your own or not so that's that's another whole topic and another whole session on pedagogical approaches and strategies and so on on how to deal with AI being a a really large presence in our lives now so that was just a really quick kind of picture on some ways you can use chat GPT to try to save you time I have also seen people who have used chat GPT to write entire oers and that is an interesting approach too so I think a lot of our thought processes and our um how we think about using a large language model or a chat GPT like AI is to think about how do we make the best prompts what is capable and how can it help me save time while doing everything ethically and legally all at once I'm gonna turn it back over here that's okay I can yeah I'll share again and kind of there's not another slide aside from the final slide um so I'd like to thank you all for bearing with us as we navigate through the space the time and space as and as we look collectively hopefully right as a community are trying to uh address some of the challenges that exist for the faculty students and faculty and staff that we work with on a daily basis in particular the time and money we'd like to open it up for questions if we have is our respective web pages for Lily and I would like to also open it up for questions as we have a few minutes one question in the chat um so the article I posted earlier it really really helps kind of and it's a really interesting topic right now which is still in development but because chat GPT um is the output of that is not created by a human it cannot be copyrighted so kind of the the law and cases that are being used about this sort of topic is kind of being based on when animals like elephants would create art and you can't copyright that so because it's not created by a human so in other words basically whatever is created by chat GPT in in one way or another sort of goes into the public domain this goes in the public domain exactly because computer generated no creative action on Human Action involved um I believe we have a question from Eric yes my question has to do with chat GPT because it's being integrated into the Bing search engine um as well as the Microsoft Windows operating system with Windows 11. how are we going to handle those types of inquiries because it's going to be more open open Forum compared to Chad GPT uh the sandbox of what you just demonstrated yeah I mean I can I can take a crack at it first kind of in just terms of I think that we're all really surprised and excited and nervous and have a mixed emotions about all of these things happening I mean obviously businesses are going to eat this up as a as an opportunity to generate more traffic Revenue whatever it might be right um ambivalence but um at the same time the way I'm looking at it at least is that it's just like me pulling the phone out of my pocket or any other convenience that I have it's just a matter of getting used to it and I'm not downplay and ignore it but at the same time just I've kind of just go on with my life as though it's just another collaborator out there in the world and just something we got to get used to and uh just a very interesting friend you know and I've kind of thought about it I mean spell Checkers are integrated in so many of these places too right yeah but as you can see some people effectively use spell Checkers and some people don't so ultimately it'll come down to how are we leaning into this technology how are we teaching students and peers and and everyone how to use it effectively and um and use it in your own pedagogy as well I I think uh it'll be really interesting to see as this develops and becomes more more widespread thank you I do believe it'll be so pervasive that we won't know I already don't even notice it or pay attention to it anymore because this is so it seems like just normal I wouldn't I wouldn't expect you not to have thought or used it or looked at it or somehow had it integrated into your your daily operation on a search engine or wherever it might end up right at the end of the day it's just right now I think this is just a it's just a a a positioning of a large cap companies Mega companies fighting over do I make try to make one better do I leverage this what are the implications of that and and I think we'll see a bit of a war there but I don't know how long it'll last but I do think it will be quick as the quickest will be quickest to the gun the quickest to the you know to the blocks will be the one kind of on The Cutting Edge and um as you said I wasn't even aware I'm not I'm a Mac User so maybe that's why but I wasn't even aware of the windows I use both I use both so and I saw windows it's also being baked into the Windows operating system too yeah interesting any other last 30 second questions or maybe I'm really happy that you invited us Charlotte and team um thank you and all for All of You Who Came um I'm I have an open door figuratively Open Door process policy I mean please reach out anytime I'm going to show the size of the QR code again yes in fact I'm going to give you um I'm going to share my screen one more time and just give you the front slide which is the one with the QR code to the actual slides and so if you were to um if you go if you uh hover your phone over that QR code at the bottom you'll have access to the slides which has all the access to the QR codes awesome thank you so much Jim and I think the big thing here is just there's so many implications for this you know just affordable materials and making your own with something like chat GPT um it opens a lot it's opening such a can of worms and it's like um it's kind of more like Pandora's Box honestly it's not less a can of worms or more like Pandora's Box because it's so infinite but thank you so much
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