Carolina OER Committee

COER Committee Purpose

Coordinators of the Carolina Open Educational Resources (COER) initiative at UNC seek to raise awareness of the benefits, strategies, sources, and support for creating and using shareable teaching and learning materials. Other goals are to make use of OERs a practical way of rethinking pedagogy, integrating existing content into courses, expanding the reach of faculty instruction, and lowering student course materials’ costs.

COER Committee Contact

Brad Hemminger

Email: bmh@ils.unc.edu

Website: http://ils.unc.edu/bmh/

COER Committee Members

	Hemminger is an Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Science. His main research area of interest is scholarly communications, and he has chaired the UNC Electronic Theses and Dissertations committee, and the UNC Scholarly Communications committees.
Brad Hemminger (Chair) 2012 – Present
	Allegri is involved in initiatives that enable faculty to take advantage of content, expertise, technology, and tools that have potential to improve student learning. Open Educational Resources are a source of content that has potential to spawn different approaches to teaching and learning. Allegri is the Interim Assistant Director and Head of User Services at the Health Sciences Library.
Francesca Allegri 2012 – Present
	Gilliland is the Scholarly Communications Officer at UNC Chapel Hill. She provides service to students, faculty, and staff on various issues related to copyright, open access, and intellectual property rights.
Anne Gilliland 2013 – Present
	Henshaw is an Educational Technology Consultant at UNC and serves as staff liaison between the Center for Faculty Excellence and Information Technology Services.
Bob Henshaw 2013 – Present
	Hunter is the Deputy University Librarian and Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services.
Carol Hunter 2012 – Present
	Muller is the Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the UNC School of Law. He served as the Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence.
Eric Muller 2012 – 2015
	Sherer is the Director of UNC Press.
John Sherer 2013 – Present
	Solis is the Coordinator of Liaison Services at Davis Library.
Jacqueline Solis 2014 – Present
	Vassiliadis served as Head of User Experience for the UNC Chapel Hill Libraries. She is now Digital Solution Manager at Information Technology Services.
Kim Vassiliadis 2013 – 2015
	Foster supported the Carolina Open Educational Resources (COER) Committee as a research assistant at UNC's Health Sciences Library. She created and developed initial versions of the COER guide.
Erin Foster 2013 – 2014