The OER Collaborative Dining Table

A response to the The Collaborative Dining Table Activity
created by Holly Ashbourne (@hashbourne)

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Project: Medical Terminology OER Textbook

Modes of Communication used:

Email
Synchronous, virtual meetings
MS Teams
Twitter

Synchronous virtual meetings and MS Teams worked really well as COVID took away our ability to meet in person. Chatting on Teams, sharing files, and creating a Team dedicated to this project was extremely helpful in wrangling files and keeping messages together. It helped to keep me better organized than trying to sift through emails. Twitter was used more to promote the finished product. I am not a heavy user of Twitter, so I did miss out on some posts.

Patterns and Gaps:
COVID threw us a curve ball when we were trying to move into the final stages of development, so that impacted our communication and ideas for a Sprint to get a jump on development.

People grouped together based on either their department or what they were contributing to the project: SME’s chatted primarily among each other, library staff among each other, I was working directly with the main author so I considered myself a bit of a liaison between the library and authors.

There were many different roles that the contributors had: faculty, library staff, copyright, developers, students. We each took on different roles within the project as well as we adapted to COVID restrictions.