2024 Open Education Conference: Full Schedule

The 2024 Open Education Conference will be held as a hybrid event on October 8-10, 2024 in Providence, RI and online. Questions? Email contact@openeducationconference.org. Excited to attend? Register now.

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9:00am EDT

Welcome

Tuesday October 8, 2024 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

General

Speakers

Board of Directors

The Open Education Conference Board of Directors is elected by the community and serves as governance for the conference. The Board of Directors leads the conference according to the Strategic Vision... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid

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 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
General

Plenary

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

9:30am EDT

Keynote: James Glapa-Grossklag & Joy Shoemate

Tuesday October 8, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am EDT

General

Beyond Cost Savings: Open Education as Resistance

Coming together for this first hybrid Open Education Conference provides an opportunity to celebrate the community’s accomplishments while also reflecting on where we are now: gathering amidst crises of climate change, wealth gaps, and declining trust in education and democracy. We will recall the early goal of Open Education to “have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint.” (Cape Town Declaration, 2008) Today, in the face of platform capitalism and open-washing, this type of freedom can seem far away. By highlighting the Open for Antiracism Program and other community efforts to re-tool the master’s tools, we will show how practicing Open Education can be an act of resistance, driving social justice and crafting a community-informed vision of the future.

Speakers

James Glapa-Grossklag

Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, College of the Canyons

James Glapa-Grossklag is the Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons (California, USA). He supports the 115 California Community Colleges implementing the Zero Textbook Cost Degree Program. James is past Board President of... Read More →

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 →

Session Type

Hybrid

Tuesday October 8, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am EDT
General

Plenary

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

10:30am EDT

Break (30 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EDT

General

Session Type

Break

Tuesday October 8, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

11:00am EDT

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

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

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 →

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
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

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

Head of the Researcher Engagement Section, University of Colorado Boulder Libraries

Merinda leads the CU Boulder University Libraries’ Researcher Engagement Section and serves as 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. Merinda joined the University Libraries in 2017 and has previously worked at Colorad... 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.Biographical SummaryDr. 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... Read More →

Reta Chaffee

University of New Hampshire

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

Social Justice in Open: Rethinking Process, Partnerships, and Paradigms

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

New technologies and research around learning offer opportunities to more authentically implement social justice in Open Educational Resources. In the current paradigm, individual faculty generally receive one-time funding (and little to no technological and pedagogical support) to produce largely unreviewed products. While this paradigm is shifting to a more supported, accountable, and sustainable structure, there is a golden opportunity to reimagine OER creation practices with social justice as the foundation. In centering a social justice framework, our project compelled us to reconsider our assumptions about who, how, and what was involved in the OER creation process. To infuse redistributive, recognitive, and representational justice into our OER, we reconsidered personnel, design, and tools. Our session invites participants to imagine what placing Lambert’s Social Justice Framework at the center of OER means for the world of Open in a rapidly evolving era.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Analyze current and developing Open Educational Resources for their implementation of the three R’s of Lambert’s (2018) Social Justice Framework.
Assess the implications of current practices in OER development for key challenges such as quality, searchability, and sustainability.
Determine strategies to shift the current paradigm in OER creation to prioritize both the aspirational and the practical.

Speakers

Melissa Williams

Instructional Designer, Minnesota State

Melissa Williams is an instructional designer who supports Open Educational Resource (OER) development and co-facilitates Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) that promote equitable teaching and learning across the colleges and universities of Minnesota State. Her Ph.D. in American... Read More →

Fran Kennedy

Instructional Designer, Minnesota State

Fran Kennedy is an instructional designer at Minnesota State, where she supports the development of Open Educational Resources for both Z-TP and OTP projects. Her educational background is in English studies and higher education, and she is currently completing an Ed.D. in educational... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Advanced
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

“What Do You Do Again?” Connecting the Dots from Your Role to Open Education

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

Open Education work is typically categorized in one of two ways: either it's not explicitly outlined in your job description, yet you recognize its relevance across all roles, or it constitutes the primary focus of your job, necessitating communication with leaders, boards, and community partners to ensure its value and sustainability. In either case, how do you convey how open education functions within your position? Join us for a facilitated discussion where the presenters will share their experiences integrating open education effectively within their roles. Learn strategies for marketing open education to your department, organization, or community, and discover how to build connections that highlight its value in your specific context. These connections serve as a form of self- advocacy and self care, fostering understanding and community engagement with open education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Discuss approaches to explicitly make connections between the value of open education and your role for relevant parties
Identify strategies to advocate for your open education work
Reflect on your current workload and consider where open education fits most effectively with your role

Speakers

Abbey Elder

Iowa State University

Shannon Smith

University of Wyoming

Amber Hoye

Director, World Languages Resource Center, Boise State University

Amanda Larson

Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant, The Ohio State University

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States, Canada

11:00am EDT

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

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

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
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
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

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
V1

Session: Virtual

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

11:45am EDT

Building the Open Education Movement through Student Power

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

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

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

11:45am EDT

Developing Open Educators Through K-12 and Higher Ed Connections

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

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.

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. You can also chat with me about my favorite breakfast spot in Bristol!

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
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

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

Joy Shoemate

Director, Online Education, College of the Canyons

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. OEGlobal is a global, non-profit supporting the development and use of open education worldwide. Heather’s priority is to advance open education at community... Read More →

Millie Gonzalez

Dean, Whittemore Library, Framingham State University/ROTEL

Kimberly Puttman

Open Oregon Educational Resources

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

11:45am EDT

Open Educational Practices and Epistemic Justice

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

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
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

11:45am EDT

*OER to Accelerate Access to Workforce Credentials

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

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
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
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

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 approaches of three different groups - LibreText, BCCampus, and our WeBWorK pilot.
Meet other people dealing with math assessment and mathematically-rich homework software issues.
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, University Libraries at Virginia Tech

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
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

12:30pm EDT

Lunch / Break (60 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT

General

Session Type

In Person

In person activities take place in Providence, RI. These sessions are not available to join virtually, but there may be concurrent virtual programming options.

Tuesday October 8, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

1:30pm EDT

*Leveraging OER to Enhance Equity in Dual Enrollment: Findings from New Research

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

States and institutions are leveraging dual enrollment (DE) and OER to advance postsecondary affordability and success, particularly for underserved students. Underrepresented students can benefit most from coordination of these equity-minded approaches; yet the cost of traditional textbooks may place DE out of reach of the very students who could benefit most from these opportunities. Little research documents best practices in OER implementation in dual enrollment courses. This session will provide insights from 2024 research on OER in DE, including a national overview of state OER and DE textbook policies; barriers to local OER adoption; and a playbook to guide OER and DE supporters in advocating for and integrating OER in DE—and DE in OER—at the state and local levels. The presenters will highlight approaches that support OER implementation in DE programs serving underrepresented student populations.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand how their state’s OER and dual enrollment textbook policies compare to policies nationally, and how state policies may support or inhibit integration of OER in dual enrollment programs.
Have a solid grasp of successes, challenges, and lessons learned from state and local efforts to integrate (1) OER into dual enrollment programming, and (2) dual enrollment into OER policies and programs, particularly in dual enrollment programs whose participants are primarily students from underserved populations.
Apply step-by-step guidance on advocating for and integrating OER into dual enrollment, based on state and local experience nationally. As appropriate, the playbook will identify:
Recognize information gaps that OER in dual enrollment advocates can address to build support for using OER in dual enrollment programs
Articulate arguments proven effective in persuading state and local decisionmakers to incorporate OER into dual enrollment policies and programs

Speakers

Jennifer Zinth

Founder and Principal, Zinth Consulting, LLC

Enhancing state and local policies to support more equitable student access, participation and success. Areas of specialization include dual and concurrent enrollment, corequisite support, STEM, and computer science.

Jenny Parks

Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC)

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

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

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
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

1:30pm EDT

Millions Served and Billions Saved: The Impact of OER Marketing

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

Discuss actionable strategies to promote the awareness and benefits of OER with OpenStax! Raising awareness around OER can be challenging and many authors, creators, and/or advocates aren’t sure where to begin. OpenStax can help! With 70% of US colleges and universities using at least one OpenStax resource, we invite you to learn from our experience and connect with your ideal audience. Join this presentation to hear some of our experiences and obstacles, share your experiences and ideas, and ask questions. This session will include polling, storytelling, conversation, and live questions and answers designed to help attendees drive interest, increase traffic, amplify event attendance, and attract media attention. Attendees will be provided with free templates and a digital toolkit to help them get started.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Participants will gain insights into practical, affordable marketing strategies for effective promotion of OER
Participants will evaluate real-world examples and experiences to enhance their understanding of successful OER marketing practices
Participants will be equipped with actionable ideas and a foundational tool kit to improve the visibility and accessibility of open educational resources

Speakers

Lindsay Josephs

Demand Generation Specialist, Rice University/OpenStax

Sarah Bidwell

Assistant Director, Content Marketing, OpenStax

Sarah Bidwell is a committed advocate of open education. After a decade of serving students in the classroom, she transitioned to helping other educators on a national scale through advocacy efforts and the open education movement. She helps others access high-quality educational... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
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

* 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 →

William Cross

NCSU

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 →

Karen Lauritsen

Open Education Network

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

1:30pm EDT

Empowering Collaborative OER Development and Undergraduate Research

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

In this session, attendees will engage in dialogue about the fundamental challenges encountered in collaborative OER development. We'll delve into a faculty member's experience using open pedagogy to guide a student through undergraduate research, resulting in a remixed OER textbook for Animal Physiology. We will describe how faculty's expertise, the student's perspective, and foundational support of an OER Librarian converge to create a multi-pronged approach to course transformation, integrating adoption, adaptation, and creation of course materials. Additionally, we'll discuss barriers students face in OER involvement, reasons to involve students as OER project partners, strategies for student funding and training, and mutual benefits for faculty-student collaboration in educational development.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Recognize the essential components of successful collaborative OER projects, including faculty expertise, student perspective, and OER principles.
Evaluate barriers faced by students in OER involvement, including creation, adaptation, and adoption.
Develop strategies for gauging student readiness for OER projects.
Navigate the complexity and scope of collaborative OER initiatives.

Speakers

Rachael Hannah

Associate Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage

Building a Pressbook on Animal Physiology with an undergraduate student as an educational research project.

Edward Joo

University of Alaska Anchorage

D'Arcy Hutchins

University of Alaska Anchorage

Session Type

Virtual (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

1:30pm EDT

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

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

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
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
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

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

University of Central Florida

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
H1

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
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

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 Community Colleges

Lisa Young

Maricopa Community College District

Stephanie Green

Phoenix College

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
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

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.

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
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

2:15pm EDT

Synergizing Best Practices: Student Advocacy and Open Education Resources

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

The state of student advocacy in the United States is constantly evolving, with a rising generation of Gen Z leaders using contemporary technologies, emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, and in a divided political climate. This study examined the current challenges and strategies of student advocacy in K-12 and higher education, with a focus on how student advocacy can support the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. This study summarizes learnings from 30 in-depth interviews from participants from a wide variety of community-based to national nonprofit organizations, informing how student advocacy could best be leveraged to promote and accelerate strategies around OER implementation, and vice versa - how OER could be incorporated into new workflows of student advocacy.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Delineate student advocacy workflows in youth-led and intergenerational-led nonprofit organizations
Apply OER best practices to incorporate into student advocacy for different types of causes
Leverage student advocacy for various facets of the OER movement, whether in schools, university campuses, community spaces etc.

Speakers

Monica Chan

ISKME

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
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

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
V2

Session: Virtual

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

2:15pm EDT

Symbiotic Creation of an Open Textbook That Fosters the Next Generation of Open Education Leaders

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

Background: Open education resources (OER) textbooks can benefit courses, but are often unavailable for niche topics. Creation of novel OER is worthwhile but may require more effort than is feasible for a professor. Methods: We describe a novel process for engaging undergraduates (UG) in OER creation, including the strategy, roles, instructions, and potential impact of this experiential learning project. Results: Currently, 16 UG are collaborating on 7 chapters, using 7 SOPs covering source curation, citation, hyperlinks, content writing, and auditing. A modular database facilitates task sign up and monitoring. Discussion: Our approach is effective and can be refined to further serve our team and others. Engaging UG in OER creation is symbiotic and fosters future OER leaders by increasing awareness and skill-building.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe obstacles to finding OER for some academic courses.
Discuss the substantial effort needed to create novel OER.
Apply novel process for involving UG in OER textbook creation, including relevant organizational systems.
Create accessible OER textbook using SOPs and monitoring systems to guide the team in strategic content writing, editing, image creation, and attributions.
Evaluate effectiveness of OER textbook processes utilized by our team.

Speakers

Nico Osier

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Kylie Bui

Osier Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin

Amaniya Hayat

Osier Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin

Yoori Yoon

Osier Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin

Vedin Barve

Osier Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin

Sunwoo Kim

Osier Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

2:45pm EDT

Break (15 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT

General

Session Type

Break

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

3:00pm EDT

Breakout: Emerging Technologies and Open Education

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

Session Type

Hybrid

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
H3

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

3:00pm EDT

Breakout: Getting Started with Open Education

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

Session Type

Hybrid

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
H4

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

3:00pm EDT

Breakout: OER Publishing

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

IP2

Session Type

Hybrid

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
IP2

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

3:00pm EDT

Breakout: Open Education Research

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

IP1

Session Type

Hybrid

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
IP1

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

3:00pm EDT

Breakout: Open Pedagogy

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

Session Type

Hybrid

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
H1

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

3:00pm EDT

Breakout: Self-Care and Recognition in Open Work

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

Session Type

Hybrid

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
H2

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

3:45pm EDT

Break (15 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT

General

Session Type

Break

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

4:00pm EDT

Adapting Generative Learning to Open Pedagogy in a Literary Research Course

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

The presenters have created a Pressbooks-based research skills course called Strategies for Conducting Literary Research. This course was awarded an MLA-EBSCO Collaboration Prize for Information Literacy. In this presentation, the creators discuss how they incorporate generative learning strategies such as motivational design and concept mapping to support the scaffolding of skills throughout the course. The presenters explore how the scalable and adaptable nature of OERs will allow students to participate in the development of the course in real time and chart their progress by implementing the active learning techniques discussed here.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Use OER to support the development of iterative processes for student revision.
Adapt OER toward research in the humanities.
Build scaffolded assignments in an OER.
Use motivational design to keep students on track.
Include students as collaborators in building an OER.

Speakers

Rebecca McNulty

Instructional Designer, University of Central FLorida

Barry Mauer

University of Central Florida

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Canada, United States

4:00pm EDT

Artificial Intelligence in Education: Critical and Open Perspectives

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

This presentation delves into 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

Senior Research Fellow @openuniversity / Open Education through a philosophical lens / Projects: @oer_hub @gogn_oer Project URLS:https://encoreproject.eu/http://go-gn.net/https://emc.eadtu.eu/emc-lm/http://oerhub.net/

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
H3

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
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

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.

Speakers

Taylor Jadin

Reclaim Hosting

Pilot Irwin

Reclaim Hosting

Meredith Huffman

Reclaim Hosting

Maren Deepwell

Reclaim Hosting

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
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

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
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
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

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.

Speakers

Jamie Hazlitt

Associate Dean, Loyola Marymount University

Amy Hofer

Statewide Open Education Program Director, Open Oregon Educational Resources

Vince Mussehl

Library Director, CVTC

Vince is the library director at Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) - a two-year institution in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. As director, he has focused on customer service, the student experience, and student resource affordability, including open educational resources (OER). As... Read More →

Millie Gonzalez

Dean, Whittemore Library, Framingham State University/ROTEL

Jennifer Jordan

University of New Mexico

Session Type

Hybrid (55 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:55pm EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

4:00pm EDT

Winning Strategies for Building Leadership Support: OER Edition

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

Winning friends and influencing others is a useful skill in open education, and doing so among executive leaders can prove invaluable for OER advocates working to secure support, funding, and sustainability for open education projects. This panel session brings together seasoned OER champions who have achieved success in educating and managing upward—building productive alliances with executive leaders to align priorities and advance open education. Representing diverse zones of influence, operating styles, institution types, and populations served by their organizations, panelists will share proven strategies and lessons learned about how to effectively engage institutional leadership to support long-term open education initiatives when institutional priorities, resources, and leadership are liable to change. To capture and promote community wisdom, this session will use an “open fishbowl” structure to invite participants to join the conversation and share their collective expertise.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify advantageous executive leadership alliances that productively advance the interests of open education
Implement practical tools and best practices for growing open education advocacy in the contexts of their own institutions, to enhance the effectiveness of their OER initiatives
Align OER initiatives with institutional goals and priorities to sustain support, Increase visibility, and maintain representation for open education at the decision-making table
Apply strategies for adapting to leadership transitions and ensure continued support and advocacy for OER projects with new leaders

Speakers

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Director, FLVC

Jamie Holmes

Reference & Instruction Librarian, Tulsa Community College

Brad Griffith

Associate Vice Chancellor of Innovation, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

I work with public colleges and universities in Oklahoma and we have built an initiative called UpskillOK which now features over 350 micro-credentials offered by 25 of our institutions, including 120+ industry partnerships. I'm an open book and will happily share what works, what... Read More →

Julie Curtis

VP Growth & Strategy, Pressbooks

Jonathan Lashley

Academic Technology Program Manager, Idaho State Board of Education

Session Type

Hybrid (55 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:55pm EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
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

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

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 is a member of the core planning... Read More →

Devan Walton

Northern Essex Community College

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 →

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

4:30pm EDT

Searching for Wonder, or, Teaching Literature with Student-Selected Texts

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

Even when syllabi feature open resources and inclusive reading lists, we still encounter students who don’t read assigned texts. We believe the problem might stem from the way literature is brought into the classroom. Inspired by Angus Fletcher’s Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories (2022), we have moved away from assigning literature (and asking students to interpret it for hidden meanings). We have transformed Fletcher’s brilliant book into an open resource for use in literature courses. In Searching for Wonder, students are encouraged to choose texts according to their own goals for reading, chronicle their reading experiences, and complete creative projects that don’t require interpretation or argument. These resources were built in collaboration with an intrepid group of students in a literature survey course. Our presentation will introduce the approach through the experiences of four students in this course, with guidance on adapting the method.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Recognize the role of choice in one’s experience reading literature
Reflect on the value of students actually experiencing literature
Shift from assigned reading to student-directed exploration
Replace argument-driven literary analysis papers with creative assignments that students want to share with their classmates (and, perhaps, future students)

Speakers

Mary Isbell

Associate Professor of English, University of New Haven

I am an Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Haven. I have published on adaptation, open pedagogy, and scholarly text encoding, while also engaging students in projects guided by these principles. From... Read More →

Angus Fletcher

The Ohio State University

Tristan Onofre

University of New Haven

Gina Beattie

University of New Haven

Monica Dobson

University of New Haven

Aferdita Emini

University of New Haven

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:30pm EDT

Empowering K-12 Education: Leveraging AI with OER for Enhanced Learning Outcomes

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

In the contemporary digital landscape, the integration of Artificial Intelligence with Open Educational Resources is catalyzing a revolution in K-12 education. This session will delve into how AI enhances the educational experience by providing personalized learning pathways that enhance learning outcomes for students. AI's capability to analyze vast datasets allows for the optimization of learning resources, ensuring that they meet the unique needs of each student. The presentation will not only highlight current trends and practical applications but will also engage with the future possibilities of AI in expanding the reach and impact of OER. By harnessing AI, educators can significantly enrich the learning experience, making education more accessible, personalized, and effective for every K-12 student.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

After participating in this session, attendees will be able to understand how AI and OER can be integrated into K-12 classroom instruction to personalize learning.
After participating in this session, attendees will be able to explore the use of AI in developing and curating tailored OER for their students.
After participating in this session, attendees will be able to understand the importance of evaluating the impact of AI- and OER-driven instruction and assessments and feedback mechanisms.
After participating in this session, attendees will be able to consider the future of K-12 education with AI-enhanced open educational resources.

Speakers

Rebecca M. Henderson, Ed.D

Curriculum Services Supervisor, Westmoreland Intermediate Unit

I am excited to assist organizations as they develop student-centered instructional strategies that are designed to support the learning styles of today's learner. I believe in innovation, disruption, and strategic thinking to promote continuous improvement and am dedicated to developing... Read More →

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:30pm EDT

It's Literally About Time: Managing Urgency and Wrangling Calendar Culture in Open Education Labor

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

Open education requires slow, sustained relationship-building and creative thinking, but this work is often built around funding deadlines, or crammed into the small spaces between other projects. Taking the theme of the conference literally, this session explores what it means to “manage” and "spend" time in open education work. Through group discussion, we will connect our personal experiences to concepts like calendar culture, precarity, urgency, and slow movements. We will reflect on how to balance different approaches in our work and organizations, and hopefully come away with renewed self-compassion and a few practical strategies to try. This session is designed for open education practitioners at every experience level and organization type, although the presenter comes from a U.S. higher education context.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Approach the challenges of time-bound open education work with more clarity and self-compassion.
Implement 1-2 new strategies for navigating time in open education work, such as a calendar practice, software/app, or self-care and boundary-setting approach.

Speakers

Sarah Clinton-McCausland

University of Maryland

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States, Global Focus

5:00pm EDT

Break (30 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

General

Session Type

Break

Tuesday October 8, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually