Faculty Interview Jennifer Jorgensen-UNL

Brad Severa Author

03/24/2022 Added

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Dr. Jennifer Johnson Jorgenson, Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design-UNL

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[00:00:05.538]I had a
[00:00:06.022]couple of
[00:00:06.539]different ways
[00:00:07.374]for why I wanted to use OER.
[00:00:09.893]And I think the first reason
[00:00:11.478]was because I wanted students
[00:00:12.779]to be able to save some money.
[00:00:14.664]Textbooks are so, so expensive,
[00:00:17.567]and it just didn't make sense
[00:00:18.902]for students
[00:00:19.619]to be buying textbooks
[00:00:21.471]that they might not even use.
[00:00:23.807]So I wanted students to be able
[00:00:25.458]to have access
[00:00:26.242]to the content
[00:00:26.993]without actually having to pay
[00:00:28.428]that amount of money.
[00:00:29.996]And then the other reason
[00:00:31.498]why I wanted to use OER
[00:00:33.349]was because OER is more flexible.
[00:00:36.052]And I feel like with courses
[00:00:38.822]that need to be updated frequently,
[00:00:41.241]we just need to be able
[00:00:42.325]to have that flexibility
[00:00:43.643]to provide that information easily.
[00:00:49.349]I believe that OER could be
[00:00:50.934]for everyone.
[00:00:52.168]I feel like it takes some time
[00:00:54.270]to be able to create
[00:00:55.338]OER resources
[00:00:56.456]or to be able to find and alter
[00:00:58.541]OER resources,
[00:01:00.210]but ultimately it's well worth the time.
[00:01:03.213]So I do believe that everyone should look
[00:01:05.849]into OER opportunities
[00:01:07.967]and see if that would be right
[00:01:09.152]for the courses that they teach.
[00:01:11.304]And again, the flexibility that OER
[00:01:13.823]provides definitely helps just create
[00:01:17.627]course content and create excitement
[00:01:19.562]among students about the course content.
[00:01:25.969]The thing that surprised
[00:01:27.003]me the most about OER
[00:01:28.788]is that students
[00:01:29.823]actually recognized
[00:01:31.141]that I was trying
[00:01:31.975]to save them money
[00:01:32.959]by providing these OER resources.
[00:01:36.062]And I wouldn't have guessed that
[00:01:37.380]just because students
[00:01:39.082]hadn't taken my course before.
[00:01:41.301]And they realized that they had access
[00:01:44.521]to free resources
[00:01:45.805]during that particular semester.
[00:01:48.091]So students were recognizing
[00:01:49.609]that I was trying
[00:01:50.477]to provide content for them
[00:01:52.854]that was free
[00:01:53.730]and that was easily accessible
[00:01:56.249]wherever they were located.
[00:01:58.468]So I just feel like
[00:02:00.720]students recognize it,
[00:02:01.921]and it's something that
[00:02:03.773]every instructor should really consider
[00:02:06.059]to be able to support students.
[00:02:12.682]So within
[00:02:13.166]my course,
[00:02:13.950]I received
[00:02:14.667]feedback directly
[00:02:15.952]and indirectly.
[00:02:17.637]Directly
[00:02:18.421]I had students
[00:02:19.556]fill out a survey
[00:02:20.540]after they were exposed
[00:02:21.691]to different elements of OER.
[00:02:24.060]And with that survey,
[00:02:26.462]I was able to determine
[00:02:27.680]what was the most helpful
[00:02:28.882]for students.
[00:02:30.300]And students
[00:02:30.950]in my course
[00:02:31.668]indicated that they really loved videos
[00:02:34.220]and they loved learning from those videos
[00:02:35.989]and watching those videos.
[00:02:37.640]And then they also really loved
[00:02:39.843]just the flexibility
[00:02:41.477]of being able
[00:02:42.362]to watch different things at
[00:02:43.580]different times.
[00:02:45.481]The thing that they wanted the most
[00:02:47.239]were more guest speakers.
[00:02:48.918]So that's something
[00:02:49.652]I definitely will integrate more
[00:02:51.721]into different OER
[00:02:52.705]resources in the future.
[00:02:57.660]I believe that OER
[00:02:59.034]is of much higher quality
[00:03:01.314]than a published textbook,
[00:03:03.116]and it's because
[00:03:04.241]people can build on one
[00:03:05.668]another's knowledge
[00:03:06.953]to create the best resource possible.
[00:03:10.106]Also,
[00:03:11.218]it's
[00:03:11.875]something that has a lot of flexibility.
[00:03:14.811]So things can be altered
[00:03:16.012]as things change.
[00:03:17.997]So for example,
[00:03:19.402]in one of my courses,
[00:03:21.217]course content changes
[00:03:22.669]all of the time
[00:03:23.987]due to different changes
[00:03:25.772]in current events
[00:03:26.573]and those types of things.
[00:03:28.157]So with OER, I can easily change
[00:03:30.977]different things
[00:03:32.011]depending on what's happening
[00:03:37.200]So within my OER project, I had a Ph.D.
[00:03:40.270]student that helped me create content
[00:03:43.823]that graduates student, helped me
[00:03:45.775]create video content
[00:03:47.759]specifically
[00:03:49.379]and that particular graduate student
[00:03:51.864]also helped me edit videos
[00:03:54.767]and just help find different resources.
[00:03:58.888]It was great to have the graduate student
[00:04:01.291]involved in this project
[00:04:03.176]just because she was able
[00:04:04.494]to be exposed to curriculum development
[00:04:07.046]as well as OER development.
[00:04:09.749]So she has some great things
[00:04:11.100]that she can put on her CV
[00:04:12.952]and she hopes to ultimately go into
[00:04:16.189]a research one institution
[00:04:18.408]and be a professor at that institution.
[00:04:20.660]So it's some great experiences
[00:04:22.729]that she can share
[00:04:23.997]in her next opportunity
[00:04:30.803]The one thing that
[00:04:32.221]I think
[00:04:32.872]everyone should be thinking about with
[00:04:34.474]OER is it is easier to do than
[00:04:38.728]you think at the outset of the project.
[00:04:42.048]And it's really fun.
[00:04:44.217]It's really fun
[00:04:45.201]to be
[00:04:46.202]creative
[00:04:46.970]in how you deliver content to students,
[00:04:49.639]and it's so much fun to think
[00:04:51.557]about how students will interact
[00:04:53.092]with that content
[00:04:54.377]and how much they will appreciate
[00:04:56.245]saving that extra money
[00:04:58.348]from not buying a textbook.

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