 Good afternoon or whenever it is for you in your current state I am Dr. Kathy S. Miller. I have my notes written out so that I don't talk for 40 minutes So if all goes well, it will be eight minutes and 13 seconds But I talk too fast as I've been reminded by a couple of people from South Africa this week So I'm concentrating really hard But that means I'm gonna forget what I'm saying by the time I get to the end of the sentence So I'll also put the notes in the slides when we finish so we can recap I am the coordinator of open okay state at Oklahoma State University where I'm an assistant professor and OER librarian for the Oklahoma State University libraries. I Present as a 54 year old woman with mid-length messy graying hair and today I'm wearing mostly black with a black and white pattern blazer if I remember them which I did I am also wearing reading glasses. Thank you for joining us to discuss open practices as scholarly and creative works The purpose of this lightning talk is to identify how diffusion of innovation theory Rogers 2003 Or 2004 one is a book and was an article and so I sometimes get a missed it But provides a lens through which identification a shared vocabulary can highlight the compatibility of open practices and scholarly and creative work This shift can facilitate immediate consideration of open practices as appropriate for retention promotion and tenure tenure as an alternative to lengthy processes required for inclusion of open practices as a standalone element in faculty dossier Did that come through making sense? It's we're trying to make it so that faculty Can speak of open practices as scholarly work for tenure It is my hope that together we can identify shared language highlighting the compatibility of open practices and Creative and scholarly work You're invited to consider how your own open practices are compatible with research creative and scholarly work in your own fields and Begin to consider strategies for communicating open practices as compatible with creative and scholarly work You're also invited to say well done Kathy you tie that in very well to the abstract you submitted Yes, that doesn't always happen So the slide to you. Oh, I'm the boss. I mean, what do I point to? hopes and dreams Many thanks to the gogian for coming alongside Oklahoma State University libraries Yes, oh, I forgot my penguin chill. Hold it up. There's Okay To fund my travel To and participation in both the gogian 10th anniversary workshop and OE global 2023 It's a sort of lightning talk we would stop and sing but we won't The full study informing this lightning talk will be available in the doers three publication Anticipated publication fall 2023 Which yes, it also seems to me like That's where we are now Resulting from the OER and tenure and promotion case study project. I realize that there may be several in this room To whom the doers three organization is unfamiliar And I did link to their website in my slides So you can download those ho-ho click on them and get me an altmetric and read about the doers three organization But they're doing some cool stuff in the United States. So hopefully we'll Draw on some of the work a lot of you are doing Open okay state program development is informed by diffusion of innovation theory Which means that I am developing that project that project based on diffusion of innovation theory You can read a more about this theory in The gogian research methods handbook as well as an other as well as other theories You might find helpful in building out your work and open for this particular study that we're discussing today Supporting open practices as scholarly work in promotion and tenure. I leaned heavily on the portions of the theory diffusion of innovation which described Compatibility as a characteristic that influences the diffusion of an innovation Before we move forward though, I invite you to consider how this idea of shared vocabulary resonates with and likely was preceded by The idea is shared in today's keynote presentation About to I'd seen so I haven't dug into that but is he was speaking this morning I thought oh, yeah that that came first and it's the same thing and we maybe westernize it So we can turn back to the way. It's been seen for ages. Um, oh, I'm the next slide What is this? I'm supposed to be on slide five. Yes. All right, Oklahoma State University Is a doctoral granting University in the Midwest Southern United States our enrollment of about 25,000 people includes undergraduate and graduate students online and face-to-face students and concurrent high school students We are classified as very high research or R1 and tenure track faculty are expected to have a meaningful impactful research profile We're also a land grant University which in the United States means that fully a third of our work should be outreach and extension and One of our goals in our strategic vision right now is to be the land granteeist University For real, that's what they said. I haven't found the operational definition of that Or how being land granteeist fits in with collaboration, but we'll we'll explore that later I'll also acknowledge some of the Challenges and opportunities for reconciliation that come with being a land grant University if you want to give that a quick Google But we won't talk about it more because I'm sure the president of my university is also watching So she's not So anyway, the library included open in its strategic plan in 2013 And since then we have grown from a series of projects to sustainable program aligned with the mission and vision of our institution in 2019 our provost expressed support of open practices as appropriate for consideration as scholarly work and retention and promotion and The faculty council is on board as well. So that was a that was a pretty big deal And and they came out and they said it and we got it in print and we have it in minutes And we point to it a lot and say you've already you've already said this is okay We don't need to you don't need to debate it anymore The RPT document revision process, however is lengthy and unwieldy as many of you know So in the meantime, we've opted to move the other direction rather than revising the documents We are trying to help faculty see how what they are doing actually aligns already with open practices and come at it from that Direction Rogers defines innovation as an idea or practice perceived as new Which means as Sarah Hammer shame and I'm probably butchering how to say her name, but it is in my references and she's sitting back there And others have noted it's likely faculty are engaging in these processes Unaware that they have a fancy name so this identification of shared vocabulary Also invites reconsideration as Dr. Joe Funk said during the gogian workshop of the rationale for determining measuring and communicating high impact The impact of research on communities and the world and so I'll just step into my librarian side for a little bit and point out that a lot of the things we depend on to communicate our metrics are actually black boxes particular To that publisher and it's in their best interest right to keep that proprietary if if we have a science can tell everybody What is there's the H factor or whatever if we can allow if we can outsource our expertise and allow someone else who is Beholden to stakeholders by law has to guarantee them a profit We outsource our expertise let them tell us whether or not we're worth anything so that's a whole nother Long exciting lunch at librarians ask your librarian about that say hey, what do you think and you'll you'll hear some you'll hear some fun stuff So stepping away from that Reconsidering our rationale for high-impact practice also Recenters our faculty expertise and allows us to elevate the importance of what's going on in our local context see how all that fits in with open Right. Yeah. All right, so let me see where I am. Oh, I wrote that in a really nice way when I chat Let me see if I can impact on communities and rule when I chat with faculty we remind ourselves that research isn't Just beakers and lab coats not that those aren't important, but research is a systematic inquiry Which includes identification of a question and a search for either solutions or more questions Rather than relying only on brands or ingrained practices to communicate scholarly impact our faculty are encouraged to truly engaged Engaged with the goals of their departments and fields of research and consider how their work and open actually aligns with those goals Oh, that sounded much nicer than my little rant didn't it so Pretend that's how I said Sometimes we just need to change a word instead of a classroom resource faculty realize They've actually designed an opportunity for students to actively engage in systematic inquiry Which can impact the field the community and the world it's a lot and has taken many one-on-one consultations formal letters of support and sparsely attended campus presentations to bring energy to this shift But it is working my faculty are now actively seeking out letters of support Articulating their work using their this shared vocabulary And what we do is we write a letter that then is signed by the associate dean and Send it for inclusion their dossier and copy their department head Our materials grant open okay state fellows grants include a section that says to describe how this open project They're proposing aligns with and supports their area of research And it's absolutely fascinating to read about how it does from their perspective they use their vocabulary the vocabulary of their field and I'll be doggone. It really it's like oh, yeah We really are everywhere and we matter every place even better faculty are beginning to nominate each other to be open Okay, state fellows. There's a link to that in my slide Lean Marco SV very much copying his work and sending me emails by saying hey Someone says doing this work, too Can we include them as a fellow and I love that they're getting excited about how work and open has impacted their work their field Their trajectory as far as research and tenure is concerned and they're wanting to bring their collaborators know that people on board with it so um, I have Linked some talking points in the slides I've curated from some of the Oklahoma State University Retention promotion and tenure handbooks Feel free to click through those and you'll be excited to see that what we're doing is in many ways what we want to be doing so when I skim through those documents and I see Those lofty standards, right that we're supposed to be achieving as researchers and scholars. I Realize we're doing it in open and so it'll be great as we come together Celebrate each other's work and continue to move forward and get better We are just using different words in my dream world which requires no sleep I'd like to link scholarly work done by you all to each of the points in that document to strengthen understanding of their alignment Feel free to click through the link and share articles. You think would be appropriate as a comment I think it's set so you can't edit it, but you can put a comment in there But I really would love to say hey here's a list of Scholarly work that's been curated that shows the shared language in open I'm trying to stay on top of that, but I know there's stuff that I'm missing For real so grants frequently require information to be shared openly or and so I hear from faculty saying Hey, where can I read more about this and I'd love to have what's shared with them reflect a broader perspective than just mine I send them links to your stuff So put your stuff right in the dock make it easier for all of us And then also we can get you some clicks as long as the scholarly ecosystem is what it is We might as well help each other out. So feel free to put your publications in that and we'll read each other stuff and You know our age index will go up. So I've probably Talked too fast and I've left stuff out. So watch for the doers three book read Dr. Jeff one stuff She might be about to change everything In the world not her own life like yeah, but doing great work over there Thanks again to go G in for the community research and support Our program at Oklahoma State University is also impacted by those in the open education network community the alt OER community, Arizona very much influenced by them open ed and Really everyone willing to talk to me in a hallway or be patient with how slowly I enter emails So thank you for sharing your wisdom experience and curiosity Questions and I have there were two forty seven. So I don't know what that means. He's holding something up I'm a reading glasses. I don't know what it says Two minutes. Okay. Thank you Hopefully you're all busily clicking through that dock putting in your journal. Yes Excellent. So basically Marin's asking if I'm It for OER at Oklahoma State and how we've managed to spread the word on it and right now I am primarily it although I do scoop up everyone around me. So we've got Our website lists a team COVID shrunk it down right as we're less connected, but we're trying to branch back out and and broaden it So that's as we broaden it. It will grow grow more and as far as how I Managed to connect with so many faculty. I just I go I go to everything I can I go to the faculty council meetings I go to reading groups. I just try to make sure they know my face To the point where maybe they're starting across the sidewalk, right when we and that's why when we're online It's like you can't leave we're in the same meeting, but so just lots of that Interpersonal communication and so if you look at a vision of innovation theory it talks about mass media and then you're gonna then you go to smaller communication channels and that's we're passing mass media Part into where it's that interpersonal communication But it's interesting that you ask that okay. No, this is recorded. So thank you for asking that All right, and we can have another talk later. That's not recorded and I'll expand upon that but The way I came to this notion of shared vocabulary is Okay, I didn't come to it. I didn't make it up. We just heard a presentation right a keynote about how it's not new but I grew up in an educator family for generation educator I'm also a music educator and So as you know K-12 education is it funded arts education definitely not funded so grew up where the family business was really sharing and borrowing and iterating on other people's work and when I came into Higher ed and found out that doing that had a name and could get grants. I thought I can change the name for what I do and Take your money and then going out to faculty and saying that same thing You're already doing that someone decided to find it. Let's make a workforce. So yeah, thank you for asking that Thank you. Oh gosh, and that was recorded So All right. Yes one more question Thank you. Thank you. So she's asking how we're stepping away from traditional understandings and I'm traditional ingrained understanding of what scholars scholarly works are and you know We have an IP policy intellectual property policy that was updated in 2019 That has definitions in it as they're trying to say who owns what and at our institution faculty on all their work There's a definition of scholarly work in there that aligns with what we're doing And so that's what I would say is go. Hey friend. What's your operational definition of scholarly? Oh looky there It it didn't say publish in that journal it says doing things that increase engagement and impact the world at large and so one of the very specific ways and I'm Not a shill for them, but we publish our stuff and press books which gives it an international exposure I'm like give me your stuff and bam you've had an international impact on the world So if that's helpful, but really if you dig into actual operational definitions is where you find the magic Okay, I'm being pointed to you. All right. Thank you