2024 Open Education Conference: Full Schedule

The 2024 Open Education Conference was held as a hybrid event on October 8-10, 2024 in Providence, RI and online. Recordings are posted for logged-in attendees to continue viewing indefinitely.

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11:00am EDT

Dual Enrollment & OER: Addressing Student Success and Equity in K-12 Settings

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

Watch Anytime

The session will provide a unique overview of the dual enrollment landscape, particularly as it relates to the needs of dual enrollment (DE) high school students in their secondary settings and through the lens of opportunities and challenges for OER implementation. Session presenters represent the community-led GoOpen National Network, ISKME and partner, College in High School Alliance, under Foresight Law + Policy. Together they are collaborating around advancing understanding of practices and policies focused on supporting DE high school student equity and success. This includes potential leadership roles for DE high school instructors and high school librarians to take on around OER to support their students, and in addition, state policy support for dual enrollment OER. A facilitated discussion will follow to share thoughts and questions, e.g. on potential ways to support K-12 and Higher Ed collaboration in DE and ways to advance OER to equitably support students.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe barriers encountered and supports needed nationally for high school students to participate and succeed in the dual enrollment landscape
Describe unique contributions that high school dual enrollment instructors and high school librarians can make to support their students in the dual enrollment landscape
Understand barriers to undertaking an OER leadership role for high school librarians and instructors and explore potential solutions
Consider approaches for collaboration that include OER engagement across secondary and postsecondary contexts

Speakers

Amee Evans Godwin

Senior Advisor, ISKME

Senior Advisor at ISKME, I have been active in directing applied research and facilitating networks focused on open educational practice, professional learning and strategic action for over 15 years. I was the founding Program Director of ISKME's digital public library, OER Commons... Read More →

Alex Perry

Policy Advisor, Foresight Law + Policy/College in High School Alliance

Alex Perry is a Policy Advisor at Foresight Law + Policy, and has spent the last decade working in policy and advocacy to advance the goals of his clients, and dedicated his career to specializing in education, appropriations, and immigration policy. He has specialized in postsecondary... Read More →

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
Watch Anytime

Lightning Talks & Pre-Recorded

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

Engaging OER Champions in the DOERS Equity Through OER Rubric: Purpose, Process, and Impact

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

Bristol/Kent

This session will share the purpose, process, and preliminary impact of a Hewlett-funded project to engage individual institutions and postsecondary systems in using the DOERS Equity Through OER Rubric. The Rubric is a comprehensive self-assessment tool, designed to guide students, educators, and others in better understanding and acting on the equity dimensions of OER. Its goal is to enable users to integrate OER in equitable ways across higher education leading to quality and equitable student access, outcomes and success. The project funded 5 universities and one system to work through the rubric dimensions. The session will feature lessons learned in applying the rubric across multiple and diverse institutions. At a fraught moment in higher education for doing equity work, the rubric provides critical approaches for deepening understanding and broadening participation across institutions and systems.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Articulate the purpose and structure of the Equity through OER Rubric.
Gather concrete strategies, inspiration, and ideas for acting on the equity dimensions of OER from a variety of roles, units, and functions with attention to the student experience with OER, OER practitioners, and leadership and accountability broadly understood across institutions and systems.
Learn about institutional experiences with, and adaptations of the rubric and thematic outcomes through a grant-funded process.
Contribute ideas and feedback on enhancing the Equity through OER Rubric.

Speakers

Merinda McLure

OER Co-Lead, University of Colorado Boulder Libraries

Merinda is one of the Libraries’ three Open Educational Resources (OER) Co-Leads. She is the Libraries’ subject specialist and liaison librarian for CU Boulder’s departments of psychology and neuroscience; integrative physiology; and speech, language, and hearing sciences. She serves as the Faculty Director of Academic Leadership Development in CU Boulder... Read More →

Caroline Sinkinson

Teaching & Learning Librarian, CU Boulder

Robert Awkward

Assistant Commissioner for Academic Effectiveness, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education

Robert J. Awkward, Ph.D.Dr. Bob currently directs a state-wide open educational resources and learning outcomes assessment program at the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. The mission of the open educational resources initiative is to increase the utilization of open educational... Read More →

Reta Chaffee

University of New Hampshire

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Hybrid sessions can be joined in person and online by attendees and speakers. The session will be held live in a meeting room at the conference venue and connected to Zoom through a webcam and microphones. Virtual attendees will be able to submit questions and comments through the... Read More →

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
Bristol/Kent

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

Leveraging OER to Communicate the Significance of General Education

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

Blackstone

The OER textbook Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education, published through the Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens (ROTEL) project, helps students think about why they take General Education courses and what significance they have. It allows students to do something they often do not have the opportunity to do: contemplate the potential reasons for developing certain learning outcomes and skills as well as the applications to their professional and personal lives. Sections include stories, research, testimonies and reflections about student success, and activities, which can be used in their entirety or in parts as needed. In this workshop, we will explore General Education through the main lens of the book: what the late Civil Rights activist and Congressperson John Lewis called "good, necessary trouble,” an approach that applies anti-racist and universal design pedagogy. We will workshop how to utilize the book inside and outside of the classroom.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Devise methods for using the OER textbook Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education inside and outside of the classroom.
Apply anti-racist pedagogy and an equity and inclusion approach to exploring the significance of general education with students.
Develop strategies supported by OER to provide students time and resources for engaging with the why of general education learning.

Speakers

Kisha Tracy

Professor, English Studies; Chair, General Education, Fitchburg State University

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

In person sessions are presented live in Providence, RI. These sessions are not available to join virtually, and they are not recorded. However, speakers will post their slides and other materials in Sched for all attendees to access.

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
Blackstone

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

What to Do with Data: Increasing the Visibility of OER Work through Academic Program Review

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

Providence I

Many OER programs strive to collect data about OER, textbook costs and affordability. This data is immediately useful to evaluate your OER program, plan internally, and tell stories, but how do you get it in front of decision makers? At UO Libraries, we’ve integrated textbook data into our annual and decennial university-wide program review process by using a flexible data model that lets us create customized dashboards for multiple audiences. By filtering these dashboards by department, we can provide academic leaders with ongoing, relevant, and timely data so they can set goals and monitor progress. Before 2023, the OER team had no role in the program review process. By creating these flexible dashboards, we gained greater buy-in from university admin who integrated us into program reviews; broadening our audience and increasing the visibility of our work as OER professionals.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Reflect on opportunities to incorporate OER data into existing university processes and initiatives
Describe the best practices for structuring data to support flexible use for different audiences and types of reporting
Identify strategies for making OER and library textbook affordability labor more visible to institutional leaders

Speakers

Rayne Vieger

Head, Digital Publishing & Pedagogy, University of Oregon

Allia Service

OER Specialist, University of Oregon

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
Providence I

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

Higher Education for Good Voices: Building an Open, Collaborative Authoring Community

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

Virtual 2

This interactive panel will feature authors of three diverse chapters from the open collection, Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures. Collectively, the panel will share insights on their authoring processes, open collaboration, participation in the authors’ community, and the value of coalition-building with diverse voices across global higher education to create more hopeful futures. The discussion will draw upon common themes across the chapters: reimagining teaching and learning, critical approaches, and open practice as a force for change. The three chapters represented in the panel draw on lived experience from North American, European, and African perspectives, mirroring the global breadth of the wider collection. This session is designed as a discursive space for the panelists to share their unique experiences as authors, collaborators, and community-members in the hopes of inspiring others to adopt similar methods of open collaboration and authoring.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Reflect on open authoring, collaboration, and the peer review process from a variety of diverse perspectives
Compare and contrast the common themes and challenges that prevail in higher education across the globe
Assess the challenges and opportunities of openly collaborating within wider networks
Appreciate the value of accomplishments in open scholarship and authoring

Speakers

Jim Luke

Professor of Economics, Lansing Community College

Commons, Open Learning, Domains of One's Own, Community Colleges, global, connections, scale, scope, economics

Kate Molloy

Instructional Designer, Atlantic Technological University

Clare Thomson

Heriot-Watt University

David Monk

Gulu University

Flora Fabian-Mbatia

Mwanza University

Session Type

Virtual (40 min)

Virtual sessions take place in Zoom. If you've attended the OpenEd conference before, this format will be familiar! Virtual sessions are recorded and posted by the next day. All attendees (including those in Providence) are welcome to join virtual sessions.

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
Virtual 2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Europe, Africa

11:00am EDT

Just In Time: Creating Dynamic Open Learning Resources Using GAI

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

Virtual 1

Historically, the development of open learning resources has been based on creating a library of static open learning resources (SOLR) that can be discovered, adapted and applied in a learning environment. This approach has suffered from numerous well-documented weaknesses: out-of-date content, obsolete technology, discoverability, context-sensitivity, localization and accessibility, up-front cost and storage overhead, and a general failure to adapt and reuse the learning materials. With the recent development of broadly effective generative artificial intelligence (GAI) this has led some to suggest that open learning resources can and should be developed at the time and point of need. The GAI could address each of the issues with SOLR by addressing it based on the learning need at the time of that need, as described by the specific prompt and the context of application. This presentation will provide an overview of the technology required to support such an approach.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify weaknesses in static open learning resources (SOLR)
Create dynamic open learning resources using GAI
Identify and address issues related to the use of GAI in open learning

Speakers

Stephen Downes

NRC

Session Type

Virtual (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
Virtual 1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus, Canada

11:45am EDT

Developing Open Educators Through K-12 and Higher Ed Connections

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

Bristol/Kent

This project, funded by the Hewlett Foundation, promotes open education in Oregon’s K-12 schools through expanding the educator network with an interest in open education for equity. Faculty who train preservice teachers are invited to a paid opportunity to redesign their curriculum using OER with an equity lens. Faculty receive training, support, and grant funding to redesign their curriculum. Preservice teachers not only benefit from using OER in their courses, but also learn about opportunities to utilize open resources and practices with an equity lens in the classroom. Learn about OER connections between K-12 and higher education, the project’s goals and plan, and lessons learned during its first phase; and consider whether this model could be adapted to your context.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explain connections between K-12 and higher education for open education and equity.
Describe this project’s goals and plan to expand the educator network with an interest in open education for equity and consider their transferability to other contexts.
Describe lessons learned from this project and their transferability to other contexts.

Developing Open Educators Through K-12 and Higher Ed Connections [Google Slides]
Recommended Reading for K12/Higher Ed Connections [Google Doc]

Speakers

Amy Hofer

Statewide Open Education Program Director, Open Oregon Educational Resources

Amy Hofer, Statewide Open Education Program Director, is the OER librarian for Oregon's 24 community colleges and universities. You can visit the Open Oregon Educational Resources website at openoregon.org. By night she is a fiddler and square dance caller.

Jennifer Lantrip

Health Sciences Student Success Librarian, Pacific University

Kim Read

Education Consultant, EvolvEd Consulting

When I'm not working on learning and education projects in the higher ed and K12 realms, you can find me wandering the trails, rivers, and lakes of the Pacific Northwest and writing and recording music.

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Bristol/Kent

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:45am EDT

Elevating Open: Uniting Equity, Inclusion, and Antiracism through Collaborative Programs

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

Providence II

The Community College Consortium for OER at Open Education Global is a community of practice for educators aspiring to expand access and empower students, particularly those who are marginalized. To encourage this collaboration, the panel will spotlight open education programs that prioritize the creation of equitable, inclusive, and antiracist learning through the use of open pedagogy and instructional design, with dedicated faculty, equity consultants, and advisory coaches, to name a few. The featured programs include the Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens project (ROTEL) from Massachusetts, the Open for Antiracism program (OFAR) from California, and the Targeted Pathways project from Oregon. Two of the three programs involve both universities and community colleges, while one focuses on community colleges alone. Attendees will be prompted to identify components of the programs they can incorporate into their own work and institutions through polls and discussion.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify aspects of the highlighted programs that they can implement at their own institutions to focus on the need for equity, inclusion, and antiracism in OER.
Gain insight into the structure of EDI open programs that demonstrate unique and collaborative approaches.

Speakers

Millie Gonzalez

Dean, Whittemore Library, Framingham State University/ROTEL

Joy Shoemate

Director, Online Education, College of the Canyons

Joy Shoemate is the Director of Online Education at College of the Canyons where she supports instructors’ successful integration of technology into teaching and learning to promote student success, persistence and completion in distance education courses. She also oversees the... Read More →

Heather Blicher

Director, Community College Consortium for OER, Open Education Global

Heather is the Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) at Open Education Global. Heather’s priority is to advance open education at community and technical colleges by building community among members and supporting practitioners in developing... Read More →

Kimberly Puttman

Open Oregon Educational Resources

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Providence II

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:45am EDT

Open Educational Practices and Epistemic Justice

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

South County

How can educators use their power in pedagogically just and effective ways? How does this relate to the aims and history of pedagogy and educational institutions? Epistemic injustice refers to someone being wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower, often in ways that correspond to broader power structures within their social context (Miranda Fricker, 2007). I argue that our inherited pedagogical norms, epitomized in Freire's discussion of the "banking method" (1970), constitute epistemic injustice in the form of epistemic dispossession. This works by selectively withholding the material, cognitive, existential, cultural, historical, and social resources required for effective learning. In a system that hopes to use institutions of learning to manufacture docility under oppression, I believe that Open Educational Practices offer a well of resources for epistemically reparative teaching. My conclusion will discuss some of the strategies I have used to "open" my teaching.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Define and explain epistemic injustice and epistemic justice
Explain the connection between epistemic justice, pedagogy, and Open Educational Practices
Relate epistemically just pedagogy and Open Educational Practices to figures in the critical/liberation pedagogy movement, such as Paolo Freire and bell hooks
Conceptualize more "open" course design and classroom facilitation techniques
Design and implement a renewable assignment

Speakers

Justin Leuba

Illinois Central College

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
South County

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Canada, Global Focus

11:45am EDT

Building the Open Education Movement through Student Power

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

Newport/Washington

Students should be seen as key players in the OER movement because they are not only using and creating OER, but capable of fighting for it too. Join the Michelson 20MM Foundation for a presentation on our Student Fellowship to showcase the curriculum we use to train students; our curriculum covers the A - Z building blocks of cultivating students into advocates. This portion will give the audience a framework for developing effective student leaders. Then hear from our Student Fellows: Katie Wagman is pushing up against automatic textbook billing on her campus, and Abba Schwartz is building visibility for the California Zero Textbook Cost program to elevate these issues to California policy makers. Our students will also talk about some common roadblocks to effective student advocacy, sustaining student-led work, showcasing what faculty and student leadership collaboration can look like, and the importance of investing in student power.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify some common roadblocks to effective student advocacy.
Learn tips to sustain student-led work on your campus.
Understand the integral role students play in pushing the OER movement forward.

Speakers

Marissa Martinez

Senior Program Coordinator, Student Engagement, Michelson 20 Million Minds Foundation

Katie Wagman

Michelson 20MM Foundation

Abbigail Schwartz

Michelson 20MM Foundation

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Newport/Washington

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:45am EDT

Leveraging AI for Localized OER: Breaking Language Barriers in Global Education

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

Blackstone

Language barriers should not hinder knowledge acquisition. Yet, in 2024, most OER are in English, limiting accessibility and impact. The 2024 OE Conference offers an opportunity to explore how AI can bridge the cultural and linguistic divides through OER localization. Our focus is on AI's role in translating and culturally adapting academic or pedagogical documents. We'll discuss AI's transformative impact on OER, its current applications, and potential developments for language diversity. Examining case studies, we'll engage the audience in assessing AI's ability to convey complex concepts in OER localization, AI's limits like contextual understanding and biases and discuss how collaborative efforts within the open education community could impulse community-driven AI training and strategies for embedding AI into OER development that would optimize AI localization tools' effectiveness to promote learners' engagement and multilingual accessibility in online learning.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain insights on the potential role of AI in providing OER Localization;
Enhance their knowledge on how AI-driven translation and localization tools can help adapt OER to different languages and cultural contexts, making academic or educational resources more accessible and culturally sensitive and adapted to OER users.
Explore how AI tools can handle the subtleties of cultural context and local dialects in knowledge documents or educational materials, ensuring content relevance and cultural sensitivity.

Speakers

Dominique Scheffel-Dunand

Associate Professor in Linguistics & Graduate Program Director Francophone Studies, York University

I am a professor of Linguistics in the Department of French Studies at York University. Over the past 20 years I have been awarded multiple government and Academic Innovation Grants to engage academic and professional communities in the nurturing of bilingual educational systems... Read More →

Sushumna Tadinada Rao

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Blackstone

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

11:45am EDT

“You’re so Brave!”: Critical Reflections from a Black Feminist Scholar Activist in Open Education

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

Providence I

This session will discuss the experiences of scholar activists in open education through sharing autoethnographic findings. With the increased anti-DEI and anti-justice legislation across the United States, it is critical to center stories of resistance, “resistance and..” (Roberts-Crews, 2023), as well as post-oppositionality or ways to move beyond resistance (Keating, 2013). Through Black feminist cultural analyses and using the “self as text”, this session will explore the labor of scholar activists and reveal the broader systems of oppressions that open education operates through, against, and maintains all at once. The discussion seeks to affirm scholar activists and practitioners in open education while providing audiences with specific ways to support their labor during contentious political and social times.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the experiences of activists and advocates and their vital work in the open education community.
Understand institutional and communal harm (both intentional and unintentional) against social justice-oriented scholars and practitioners.
Practices for support and solidarity with scholar activists and practitioners.
Strategies for scholar activists to continue their work in open education during anti-DEIJ attacks.

Speakers

Jasmine Roberts-Crews

Lecturer, The Ohio State University

Jasmine Roberts-Crews is an educator, speaker, writer and strategic communication professional.She earned her bachelor's degree in communication studies and Spanish at the University of Michigan and her master's degree in communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.She... Read More →

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Providence I

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:45am EDT

OER to Accelerate Access to Workforce Credentials

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

Virtual 1

In this session we will consider the unique ways in which OER can support and drive workforce credentialing programs. We will discuss OER’s adaptability and flexibility in relation to localization and customization, and also showcase the ways in which OER can be continuously improved and updated to meet changing learner and industry needs. We will focus on two exemplar categories of OER in workforce programs: (1) Durable, multi-industry skills that support student achievement; (2) industry-specific competencies required for certification and/or degrees in technical and similar fields. Finally, we will discuss practical ways that institutions, governments, industry entities, and OER producers can collaborate to create relevant and equity-centered programs accessible to all.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Develop knowledge related to microcredentials and workforce development.
Align the 5Rs and other OER characteristics with microcredential and workforce needs.
Evaluate workforce development opportunities (e.g. programs or grants) to determine if an OER solution or proposal will meet the intended outcomes.
Identify and pursue opportunities for industry-institutional collaboration.
Plan and implement productive project structures and approaches to incorporate OER into workforce development programs.

Speakers

Anthony Palmiotto

Director of Products, OpenStax

Lisa Young

Maricopa Community College District

Session Type

Virtual (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Virtual 1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Canada

11:45am EDT

Opening Assessment in Problem-Based Courses: A WeBWorK Pilot Case Study

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

Virtual 2

Slides available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10919/121325

Large-enrollment courses tend to produce assessment headaches for instructors in nearly any discipline. And when courses depart from testing and grading by hand, assessment can become even more complex. These assessment challenges can reduce the likelihood that an instructor chooses an open textbook. While subject matter experts have begun to generate human created and/or AI-written/human edited test banks for their topics, these testbanks typically align to QTI formats, which are multiple choice, lack graphics, and don’t meet the needs of some courses especially those in math-intensive disciplines. In 2023, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at Virginia Tech, with support from the University Libraries Open Education Initiative began piloting WeBWorK, an open-source hosted software solution already used at many institutions. We present a case study of this pilot project, discuss project framing, decisions, impact, WeBWorK and OER adoption, and our hopes for the future.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe programmatic efforts to explore homework software in a campus or system environment.
Meet other people dealing with math assessment and mathematically-rich homework software issues.
Find further information regarding low-cost and open homework systems
Be able to articulate the use case for a system like WeBWorK.
Summarize our programmatic efforts, reflecting on decisions made, the capacities of our team members, barriers and lessons learned, and results part-way through year two.

Speakers

Anita Walz

Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Virginia Tech (USA)

Anita Walz is Associate Professor and the Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech where she founded and oversees the Open Education Initiative and OER grant program. She holds a masters in Library and... Read More →

Heath Hart

Virginia Tech

Session Type

Virtual (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Virtual 2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

1:30pm EDT

It’s Time to Think Big: Alternate Visions and Models for Statewide Impact with Open Education

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT

Bristol/Kent

As open education begins to achieve traction, state- and system-level initiatives can play a significant role in developing policy and implementation paths to achieve broader goals around affordability, access, student success, and knowledge-sharing. They can establish models, align incentives, and provide infrastructure shared across system members. They can lend legitimacy and offer support, funding, scale, and collaboration opportunities around open education. But because every system is different, there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to defining a winning strategy and structure for effective initiatives that achieve meaningful impact with open education. This panel discussion invites three architects of statewide initiatives to share their distinctive visions and strategic choices aiming for system-level impact. They will also compare operational approaches and lessons learned for achieving large-scale impact with open education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand alternate visions and implementation models for operationalize support for open education on a statewide level
Find useful artifacts and resources practitioners and leaders may find helpful in architecting and building their own open education initiatives
Recognize considerations and success factors for implementing OER effectively at scale in complex organizations
Apply lessons learned from experienced practitioners who are leading impactful statewide initiatives supporting open education within varied political, fiscal, and organizational environments
Develop approaches for ensuring open education initiatives are designed in the service of broader strategic goals of state and system-level leadership

Speakers

Boyoung Chae

OER Lead, Washington State Board forTechnical and Community Colleges

Amy Hofer

Statewide Open Education Program Director, Open Oregon Educational Resources

Julie Curtis

VP Growth & Strategy, Pressbooks

TJ Bliss

Idaho State Board of Education

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
Bristol/Kent

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

1:30pm EDT

The Future of Open: A Positive Agenda for Access to Knowledge in a World with AI

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT

Providence II

* As the shift to subscription models accelerates and as platforms, tools, and content are tied together, how do we prevent open educational resources from being excluded? * How can institutions committed to equity and open education offer tools, platforms and models from within the open community to compete with closed models? * What is the positive agenda for members in the open educational community in the context of the growth and adoption of big tech artificial intelligence tools? What policies and implementation choices matter to enable openness and advocate for an equitable system of access to knowledge?

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand what policy and implementation choices are available to mitigate the impact of subscription models and to support existing OER programs
What are the opportunities for an barriers to the creation of tools, including specific purpose AI tools within the open community to provide for an alternative to commercial tools.
What are the policies and advocacy opportunities for members of the open community to support more equitable access to knowledge from their specific professional communities within education, research and librarianship?

Speakers

Meredith Jacob

Project Director - Copyright, Education, and Open Licensing, PIJIP/CC USA

Apurva Ashok

Executive Director, The Rebus Foundation, https://twitter.com/RebusCommunity

Apurva leads The Rebus Foundation and brings a tireless determination for systemic change in education at Rebus and through collaborative partnerships. She helps educational institutions build human capacity in OER publishing through professional development offerings such as the... Read More →

Hugh McGuire

Founder and CEO, Pressbooks

Would love to connect about: system-level OER strategy, the power of creating new resources, open pedagogy, instructional design and AI. Pressbooks is an online content & courseware development platform.For years, Pressbooks has supported the authoring and adaptation of open educational... Read More →

William Cross

NCSU

Karen Lauritsen

Senior Director, Publishing, Open Education Network

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
Providence II

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Canada

1:30pm EDT

Putting the “Open” Back Into Massive Open Online Courses

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT

Blackstone

Those who create MOOCs often consider the “openness” of their course simply to mean that anyone can enroll. At the University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation, we challenge that in order for a MOOC to truly be “open”, it must be openly licensed and accessible. With over 250+ courses in our portfolio supporting learners across the globe, we will retrospectively review and discuss the positive social impact of our openly licensed, accessible courses and share our hopes for the future to continue to remove barriers to lifelong learning. We provide faculty perspectives on their motivation to create truly open learning experiences and discuss case studies on how our MOOCs have been reused. Ultimately, participants will gain insight into how to nudge stakeholders into prioritizing the “Open” in Massive Online Open Courses.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explain why “open” also means accessible
Amplify and advocate for accessible courses
Explain faculty motivations for applying Creative Commons licenses
Generate an elevator pitch for faculty on why they should openly license their MOOCs and other online content

Speakers

Raven Lanier

Senior Copyright & Policy Specialist, University of Michigan

Caroline Damren

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
Blackstone

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

1:30pm EDT

Science Education for a Just and Sustainable World: Integrating Open Education and Open Science

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT

Providence I

Science education, like scientific practice, is primarily focused on competitiveness, where “superstars” are rewarded, and students who are not “good enough” get “weeded out”. But as global social and environmental problems grow ever more intractable, we need future generations of scientists to work from a different framework, one that is based on authentic, equitable collaboration and focused on the collective global good. The purpose of this session is to explore the powerful opportunities that intersections of Open Education, critically evaluated Open Science, and other calls for science education reform- such as the Decolonizing Science movement and science education for sustainability- can bring to the transformation of science pedagogy so that it can not only be more effective for students to learn science, but can support a new generation of scientists that can advance us towards a more equitable, sustainable, benevolent and creative future.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Learn about the intersections of various science education reform movements, open science, and open education
Explore ways that open education might help to transform science education so that prepares students to build a more sustainable and socially just world
Grapple with the complexities of both the benefits of open science, and its pitfalls, especially how it might exacerbate current systemic inequities- and how to leverage open pedagogy in order to teach all of this to our science students.
Engage with a community of science educators in open, and others interested in science education reform.
Learn about others that are working towards socially just, inclusive and open STEM education

Speakers

Karen Cangialosi

Director, RIOS/Every Learner Everywhere

As a Professor of Biology and student advocate for many years, I found my way to Open Education which I see as especially powerful for helping to bring about much needed larger-scale change in higher education. I am a Fellow for the RIOS (Racially Just, Inclusive and Open Stem Education... Read More →

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
Providence I

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Global Focus

1:30pm EDT

Finding the Right Words: Co-creating Metadata for OER Repository

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT

Virtual 2

The Salish Sea Curriculum Repository is a collaboration among educators at Whatcom Community College, Western Washington University, and other bioregional institutions to make available materials for use in developing and teaching lessons and courses about the Salish Sea. The repository includes original OER as well as an index of curated resources. Built in WCC’s Omeka S installation, the repository uses Dublin Core metadata standards, linked data, and submitter-generated metadata to support discoverability of learning objects. Through a short-term work opportunity lasting 35-40 hours total, three students have contributed to improving resource discovery within the repository. Hear from all three students about the work of and lessons from learning to write concise, keyword-rich, plain-language resource summaries and cleaning up item metadata to facilitate curriculum-sharing among an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional faculty group engaged in place- and land-based teaching.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Write a strong resource description for an interdisciplinary user group following a student-created human algorithm
Structure transformative work/learning opportunities for students
Collaborate with students and librarians on using Omeka S as an open source tool for resource discovery
Understand the value of the Salish Sea Curriculum Repository and land- and place-based learning more generally

Speakers

Neah Ingram-Monteiro

Western Washington University

Roe McKernan

Whatcom Community College

Bianca Custer

Western Washington University

Leo Joyce

Western Washington University

Heather Bergeson

Western Washington University

Session Type

Virtual (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
Virtual 2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Canada

2:15pm EDT

A Literature Overview: AI, OER, and Implications for Scaling Innovation

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT

Providence II

The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and open educational resources (OER) holds significant potential for transforming education and scaling innovation. This presentation will offer an overview of the existing scholarly literature to describe the current landscape, including the opinions, opportunities, challenges, risks, and emerging trends. AI can play a pivotal role in enhancing the adoption, adaption, and authorship of OER, both through small experiments and larger theoretical discussions. However, AI also presents challenges and risks, including data privacy concerns, algorithmic bias, and ethical implications, in addition to a broader potential impact on intellectual property rights and sustainability of the OER ecosystems. This overview will provide takeaways on the intersection between AI and OER, informing future strategies for leveraging their combined potential to drive innovation and accessibility in education and as a way to scale impact for the Open Movement.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Summarize themes, trends, and remaining questions from existing literature on the intersection between AI and OER
Recognize the challenges and risks associated with AI, including concerns about privacy, bias, and ethics
Consider the evolving landscape of educational technology research on how AI could support and enhance the adoption, adaption, or authorship of OER
Identify ways that AI could drive innovation toward program development in open education

Speakers

Sarah Norris

Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Central Florida

Sarah Norris is Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Central Florida Libraries. In this role, she leads the Libraries’ Scholarly Communication and open access efforts, with an emphasis on scholarly publishing and copyright. She has presented at local, state, national... Read More →

Amanda Major

Assistant Program Director, University of Central Florida

Amanda Major, EdD, PMP, ACP, CPTD has experience delivering results in higher education digital learning. She brings to her role as an assistant program director for the University of Central Florida's Pegasus Innovation Lab experience as a higher education faculty, staff, and administrator... Read More →

Lily Dubach

Textbook Affordability Librarian, University of Central Florida

Rebecca McNulty

Instructional Designer, University of Central FLorida

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
Providence II

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

2:15pm EDT

From Analysis to Action: Advancing Equity Through OER

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT

Newport/Washington

In this session, we will share the transformative journey of implementing the DOERS3 Equity Through OER rubric at a community college district and translating our analysis of the results into actionable change. Through a combination of storytelling and data-driven insights, we will demonstrate how our institution leveraged the rubric to assess and enhance the equity of our OER materials. Building upon this foundation, we will introduce our Equity Plus quality review program as a strategic next step toward fostering inclusivity and representation within our OER ecosystem. Join us as we explore the power of collaborative action in advancing equity through open education and discuss practical strategies for implementing similar initiatives in diverse educational contexts.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain insight into the process of implementing the Equity Through OER Rubric.
Understand the role of quality review programs in advancing equity within OER materials.
Learn about best practices for fostering collaboration and community engagement in equity-focused initiatives.
Identify concrete steps for implementing equity-driven strategies within open education initiatives.

Speakers

Debbie Baker

OER Coordinator & Instructional Designer, Maricopa County Community College District

Lisa Young

Maricopa Community College District

Stephanie Green

Phoenix College

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
Newport/Washington

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

2:15pm EDT

Project Management Approaches for Statewide OER Projects

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT

Bristol/Kent

Many OER practitioners find themselves in a familiar situation: their institution secures a grant for OER initiatives from the department of higher education. Securing the grant is merely the first step in a complex journey. This session will navigate the multifaceted challenges that come with managing a large-scale OER project, from the allocation of funds to the execution of project deliverables and a revision cycle. Participants will be guided through a curated set of project management tools and techniques, designed to optimize efficiency within the grant’s framework. Moreover, the workshop will address the pivotal role of adept management in ensuring project success. This session will be led by an OER Project Manager who helped lead a multi-year statewide grant project, The Ohio Open Ed Collaborative. Project work focused on reducing the cost of 20 high enrollment courses across higher ed institutions in the State of Ohio.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Effectively manage large-scale OER projects using a comprehensive project management toolset, including scope of work, timelines, Creative Commons license tracking, and reporting tools.
Implement actionable strategies to cultivate and maintain relationships with key stakeholders such as faculty members, steering committees, and project administrators.
Create and sustain a productive virtual environment for collaborative OER work, ensuring effective engagement and communication among faculty members.
Develop an iterative plan for the ongoing updating and maintenance of OER content, promoting continuous improvement and relevance.
Navigate the unique challenges of managing statewide grant projects, including building momentum within steering committees and securing continued state investment in the project.

Resources and Presentation from OpenEd 24
Please use the link above to access the tools discussed during the session as well as the slides.

Speakers

Amanda Postle

Project Manager, The Ohio State University

With nearly a decade of service at Ohio State, my current role is Project Manager with the Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) Team, in the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation. Our team works to build excellent and affordable learning materials at Ohio State. In my role as... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
Bristol/Kent

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

2:15pm EDT

An eBook of One's Own: Creating Open ePortfolio Templates

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT

Virtual 2

E-portfolios serve as important tools for students, aiding reflection and presenting samples of work to potential employers and graduate schools. However, ensuring accessibility for students with varying digital literacy levels remains a challenge. Join Terry from Trent University and Amber from Boise State University as they discuss this pressing issue. Drawing from Terry's project, “An e-Book of One’s Own: My Learning Journey,” and its influence on Amber's creation of “An ePortfolio Template for Language Majors,” we'll explore the development of openly licensed portfolio templates using tools like Pressbooks. Together, we’ll reflect on our experiences and discuss how these templates empower students from every skill level, working to ensure all students feel confident and comfortable showcasing and reflecting on their work with ease and inclusivity.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify challenges related to accessibility for students with a wide range of digital literacy levels.
Explain the concept of openly licensed portfolio templates and their potential benefits for student engagement.
Explore practical strategies for developing and implementing openly licensed portfolio templates using tools like Pressbooks.
Apply insights gained from the session to promote inclusivity and empower students of all skill levels in showcasing and reflecting on their work.

Speakers

Amber Hoye

Director, World Languages Resource Center, Boise State University

Terry Greene

Trent University

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
Virtual 2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Canada

4:00pm EDT

A Content Analysis of Female Psychologist Representation in OER Introduction to Psychology Textbooks

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT

Blackstone

Historically, female psychologists have been notably underrepresented in Introductory Psychology textbooks, perpetuating the stereotype that the field's trailblazers were predominantly male. Despite extensive research on gender bias in commercial textbooks, no research thus far has focused on the inclusion of female psychologists in OER textbooks. As OER scholarship looks beyond issues of cost to the realm of social justice, it becomes imperative to evaluate its efficacy in addressing female gender representation. For my study, I conducted a comparative content analysis of five commercial Introductory Psychology textbooks and three OER counterparts to examine the extent to which such OER textbooks are inclusive of female pioneering psychologists. Join us as we discuss evolving OER scholarship, the findings of our comparative content analysis, and consider strategies to enhance diversity within OER content creation, furthering the principles of recognitive justice in OER development.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain insight into the shift of focus within OER scholarship from cost-saving to broader social justice initiatives, with a focus on recognitive justice.
Explore the findings of the comparative content analysis regarding the inclusion of female pioneering psychologists in commercial and OER Introductory Psychology textbooks.
Consider strategies to enhance gender representation and diversity within OER content development, advancing the principles of recognitive justice.

Speakers

Michael Kahn

Instruction & Open Resources Librarian, Bronx Community College, CUNY

Michael Kahn, MLS, MSW is an Assistant Professor, Instruction & Open Resources Librarian at Bronx Community College, CUNY. His current research focuses on diversity and inclusion within OER content. In addition to working as a librarian, Michael has experience working as social work... Read More →

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Blackstone

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Artificial Intelligence in Education: Critical and Open Perspectives

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT

Virtual 3

This presentation explores the ethical, legal, and societal dilemmas posed by AI technologies in the context of open education. Open education approaches are often associated with related concepts (critical pedagogy, OER, OEP, open science). There are exciting visions for leveraging AI technologies but an authentically “open” approach to AIED is nascent. 'Explicable AI' (XAI) attempts to address AI's opaqueness, advocating for systemic, environmental and socio technical transparency. However, most XAI understates the complexity of finding language and concepts that are explainable and interpretable to all stakeholders. There are also unresolved legal questions regarding the use of AI to produce OER: is it an interesting subversion of copyright, or a mechanism for ‘stealing’ copyrighted content and transferring it to the public domain? It’s essential that we enculture transparency if we are to understand the full social and environmental impact of AI.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Nuanced understanding of the relationship between open education and AI
Exploration of the impact of generative AI on The Commons
Reflection on the relevance of AI for open practice
Refinement of concepts relevant to open education and AI in education

Speakers

Robert Farrow

Senior Research Fellow, The Open University

Open Education through a philosophical lens / Co-Director, Global OER Graduate Network / Co-Editor, JIME / Friendly Personhttps://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=j3-x3WwAAAAJ&hl=en

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Virtual 3

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus, Europe

4:00pm EDT

Reclaiming Our Social Networks for Open Edtech

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT

Virtual 2

How do you make innovation work when the day job as an educator gets ever busier? Where do you find inspiration and solutions to practical problems on fragmented social networks? Over the past 10 years, our organization has built a growing community of practice on the back of our day-to-day business activities, and we have experimented with moving these activities to social spaces that are run and owned by and for educators. In this presentation, we will share lessons learned from two such transitions: our move to Mastodon, a self-hostable, decentralized social networking platform, and Ghost, an open source blogging platform. During the sessions, we’ll use White’s Visitors/Residents foundational model and a "pre-mortem" evaluation to share our perspectives on the current state of social media and discuss the practical setup on new social platforms and highlight common pitfalls. We think it’s about time to assert your digital identity and reclaim your socials!

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Use federated social networks such as Mastodon for professional development, dissemination and networking;
Evaluate how engaging with different social networks aligns with their values and competencies;
Explore belonging and engagement via a visitors/residents model;
Carry out a ‘pre-mortem’ reflective exercise about social media for professional development;
Apply lessons learnt and practical know how to their own personal, professional or institutional social media use.

SLIDES

Speakers

Taylor Jadin

Reclaim Hosting

Pilot Irwin

Sales & Marketing Manager, Reclaim Hosting

Meredith Huffman

Reclaim Hosting

Maren Deepwell

Director, Maren Deepwell Coaching & Consultancy

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Virtual 2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Scaling and Sustaining Implementation of OER Materials in K-12 Settings

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT

Virtual 1

Digital Promise worked closely with community members to co-design and develop OER professional development and classroom resources for engaging secondary students in racial equity and social justice discourse. Now, these OER materials are being scaled to three districts through a cohort model in conjunction with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to support implementation. The resources are designed to increase cultural competency, community-school connections, and feelings of belonging. This session will focus on learnings from scaling the OER materials. The presenters will share what they have learned about the supporting factors needed to use these materials and facilitate conversations around racial equity. Educators will walk away with a deeper understanding of the OER resources and the support needed to increase the adoptability and scalability of the resources in secondary schools.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain a deeper understanding of the OER material “Socratic Circles to Engage in Racial Equity Discourse” and understand the support needed to implement this resource.
Identify the conditions that support the facilitation and implementation of OER materials in a K-12 setting.
Identify the ways they can implement this OER resource in their educational setting.

Speakers

Kristian Lenderman

Digital Promise

Latia White

Digital Promise

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Virtual 1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Reconsidering Success: Equity Goals for Open Education

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:55pm EDT

Bristol/Kent

Coordinators of OER development projects have effective ways of responding to perfectionism: save that idea for the next edition, the open license means that the community can improve your work, etc. When a project has equity goals in mind, though, there are additional considerations about sharing when more time in development could result in a product that is better aligned with those values. Combine these challenges with the unique opportunities and pressures that accompany working with federal funding to support OER, and it’s no wonder that authors and creators committed to equity and inclusion may be overwhelmed. This discussion will include a panel of participants who are working on ambitious OER development projects funded by the federal Open Textbook Pilot fund. We want to explore the tension between the logistics of sharing a usable product, and the process of working with an equity lens. We will do this through storytelling with live polling, as well as ample Q&A time.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Consider the relationship between working in the open and working with an equity lens
Analyze OER projects developed to increase equity at different higher education institutions
Identify challenges, and strategies for overcoming them, to support equity-focused OER projects within a multi-institution consortium
Explore techniques to incorporate equity into open content.

Link to slides

Link to handout

Speakers

Jamie Hazlitt

Associate Dean, Loyola Marymount University

Millie Gonzalez

Dean, Whittemore Library, Framingham State University/ROTEL

Amy Hofer

Statewide Open Education Program Director, Open Oregon Educational Resources

Vince Mussehl

WisTech Open Director, Chippewa Valley Technical College

Vince is the Project Director for WisTech Open, headquartered at Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. WisTech Open is a consortium project of the Wisconsin Technical Colleges charged with the creation and maintenance of Wisconsin’s open educational... Read More →

Jennifer Jordan

OER Librarian And Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico

Session Type

Hybrid (55 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:55pm EDT
Bristol/Kent

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:30pm EDT

Leveraging Generative AI for Interactive and Culturally Responsive Open

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

South County

In this presentation, we will explore the potential of generative AI in creating interactive and culturally responsive Open Educational Resources (OER). Drawing from the experience of developing the "Culturally Responsive Computing" textbook through the ROTEL grant, which teaches computer science and information technology through a cultural lens, we will discuss strategies for building traditional OER content and interactive tools using generative AI. Attendees will gain insights into the current possibilities of AI-assisted OER development and witness demonstrations of interactive AI-powered activities designed to support the textbook. Join us to discover how generative AI can revolutionize the creation and delivery of engaging, inclusive, and culturally relevant educational materials.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the potential applications of generative AI in creating interactive and culturally responsive OER content.
Understand strategies for building traditional OER content using generative AI.
Recognize the importance of incorporating cultural perspectives in computer science and information technology education.
Explore interactive AI-powered tools and activities that support engaging and inclusive learning experiences.

Speakers

Marilyn Billings

Coordinator, Publishing Support Team, ROTEL Project

Please talk with me about the ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks with an Equity Lens) grant-funded program. As one of the consultants, I coordinate the ROTEL Publishing Support Team and serve as the faculty advisor & advocate. This program is funded by a U.S. Dept. of Education Textbook... Read More →

Sue Tashjian

Coordinator, Instructional Technology, Northern Essex Community College

Sue Tashjian is the Coordinator of Instructional Technology and Online Learning at Northern Essex Community College where she provides leadership for NECC’s Adopt Open project. She is co-chair of the Massachusetts DHE’s OER Advisory Council and was a member of the core planning... Read More →

Devan Walton

Northern Essex Community College

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
South County

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually, Recording Posted
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Canada

5:30pm EDT

BCcampus OER Equity Rubric

Tuesday October 8, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT

*Narragansett Ballroom

The BCcampus OER Equity Rubric is a tool to help identify opportunities to adapt and improve the equity of an open educational resource (OER). It is organized around five areas of focus: access and usability, student engagement, language, representation, and ways of knowing and sources of authority. It breaks down each area of focus into a set of criteria that can be used to evaluate an OER. This rubric is a remix of the following: BCcampus open textbook review questions, Improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Course Materials by OpenStax, BranchED Equity Rubric for OER Evaluation, and Framework for Reviewing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Open Educational Resources by University of Southern Queensland; content has been edited, reformatted, and combined to create something that works for a BCcampus context and adapting open textbooks.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the concrete ways that "equity" can show up in an OER.
Use the rubric in evaluating their own OER or OER created by others.

Speakers

Josie Gray

Manager, Production and Publishing, BCcampus

Josie is the manager of production and publishing at BCcampus. She oversees OER creation work at BCcampus and manages a project looking at sustaining shared educational resources and technologies in the B.C. post-secondary system. Josie has been learning about and teaching accessibility... Read More →

Session Type

Poster

Posters take many forms, but each captures a presentation's information in a static format. Posters can be viewed live on Tuesday, October 8th, or they can be browsed online in Sched anytime.

Tuesday October 8, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
*Narragansett Ballroom

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Canada

5:30pm EDT

Generative AI in OER: Uses, Considerations, and Best Practices

Tuesday October 8, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT

*Narragansett Ballroom

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has potential to make the work of creating OER a lot less labour-intensive. From generating images or multiple-choice questions to translating OER into local languages, the possibilities are endless. However, generative AI also has significant flaws and ethical issues that need to be considered carefully before deciding to use generative AI in OER projects. This includes things like bias and closed training data, copyright violations and uncertainties, and environmental impacts. This poster provides OER creators with a list of key things to keep in mind when deciding if and how they want to use generative AI in their OER projects. The poster lists ideas of how generative AI could contribute, considerations and risks to keep in mind, and guidelines and recommendations for those who decide to move forward.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

List ways that generative AI could be used when creating or adapting OER.
Understand the limitations, flaws, and harms that are found with generative AI.
Critically reflect on why you might or might not use generative AI for specific purposes.
Identify practices to put in place to ensure your use of generative AI in an OER is transparent and results in accurate and equitable content.

Speakers

Clint Lalonde

Director, Open Education, BCcampus

Clint is an educational technologist and advocate for the use of open educational resources and open education practices in higher education. Clint has worked in the British Columbia post-secondary system for 25 years and is currently the Director of Open Education for BCcampus... Read More →

Lauri Aesoph

Operations Specialist, Open Education, BCcampus

Lauri Aesoph designs, implements and manages the operational elements of Open Education at BCcampus. As a natural organizer, she finds joy in writing procedural documents and support guides, building tools such as the Adoption Finder, administering the OE helpdesk, and counting... Read More →

Arianna Cheveldave

Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus

I am looking to connect with people relatively early in their careers and chat with them about what they do in post-secondary education and how they ended up there. If this sounds like you and you also want to chat with other people in a similar position, feel free to contact me... Read More →

Harper Friedman

Coordinator, Open Textbook Publishing, BCcampus

At BCcampus, I am a Coordinator in Open Textbook Publishing. Through my work in Open Education, I have developed an interest in accessibility and love doing the behind-the-scenes work of creating accessible resources. As a newly disabled person myself, I am always interested in learning... Read More →

Session Type

Poster

Posters take many forms, but each captures a presentation's information in a static format. Posters can be viewed live on Tuesday, October 8th, or they can be browsed online in Sched anytime.

Tuesday October 8, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
*Narragansett Ballroom

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Canada