Health sciences libraries are largely absent in OER development. Yet, academic health science centers teach the next generation of medical providers and have education materials that could serve a worldwide need for quality OER in specialized medicine. This session presents findings from a study at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where the Research Medical Library used National Cancer Institute (NCI) training grants as a structural mechanism to engage faculty in OER creation through an improvement science framework. Using PDSA cycles, the library established workflows, built infrastructure, and proactively recruited faculty, resulting in 32 open access lectures. The study reveals how faculty/library partnerships can advance open education goals and amplify an institution's open science activity.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Identify strategies for using federal training grants as structural mechanisms for OER development.
- Describe the institutional support that enabled faculty participation in OER development at an academic health science center.
- Explain how library-faculty collaboration can bridge the gap between open education values and faculty pragmatic motivations to achieve shared OER goals.
