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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8:00am EDT

Breakfast

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

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person

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

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

Leveraging OER to Communicate the Significance of General Education

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

IP1

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

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
IP1

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

IP2

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

Coordinator, eLearning and OER, 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
IP2

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

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

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

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

IP1

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
IP1

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

IP2

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
IP2

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

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

Putting the “Open” Back Into Massive Open Online Courses

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

IP2

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
IP2

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

IP1

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

RLOE Program Director, RIOS

I am excited to be the Program Director for The Regional Leaders of Open Education Network (RLOE). RLOE brings together leaders from across North American institutional and regional boundaries in order to vitalize Open Education initiatives that especially support underserved student... Read More →

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

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

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 Inclusive & Mindfulness OER Music Education: Teaching “Embodied Sonic Meditation” in Higher Ed

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

IP2

This work introduces an experimental OER pedagogy of "Embodied Sonic Meditation" to teach music in higher education. From UC Santa Barbara to the University of Colorado, from in-person to online remote teaching, the author designed and taught a music technology and mindfulness arts course that can appeal to students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines from music to math, chemistry, engineering, creative literature, and fine arts. In addition to a focus on technical skills, the course provides a non-hierarchical, inclusive, open, and student-centered "maker" theme, supported by state-of-the-art technologies and mindfulness practices. Through conducting course assessments, diverse in-class/out-of-class activities, and engaging students with OER materials, sonic meditation, and group activities, students enjoyed the OER courses and provided positive evaluations. The data shows that "Embodied Sonic Meditation" effectively enhances the creative open education learning experience.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the principles and practices of "Embodied Sonic Meditation" as an innovative OER pedagogical approach in higher education in music and related interdisciplinary STEAM fields.
Integrate technology and mindfulness arts into their creative teaching methodologies across diverse academic disciplines to promote DEI as well as students' creativity, academic performance, and wellbeing.
Develop skills in creating inclusive and student-centered learning environments that foster creativity and collaboration.
Implement state-of-the-art OER materials, open-source technologies and mindfulness practices to enhance their teaching effectiveness and student engagement.
Gain insights into the effectiveness of Open Educational Resources (OER) in promoting creative and open education learning experiences.

Speakers

Jiayue Wu

University of Colorado Denver

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

2:15pm EDT

Fighting Against Automatic Textbook Billing: The Data War

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

IP1

This presentation will focus on the gathering of data from both bookstore records and the class schedule catalogue with the objective of fighting automatic textbook billing. First, the methodology of the data collection process will be outlined, explaining how various metrics such as course credits, enrollment numbers, and the range of course materials offered in the bookstore were identified. Then, the data analysis will be presented, highlighting the proportion of courses utilizing commercial course materials available within the bookstore inventory. Our examination will extend to exploring hypotheses regarding equity implications, specifically identifying which student demographics stand to benefit most from Automatic Textbook Billing, and those that may be negatively impacted. Specifically, we will explore which demographic of students is bearing the financial burden for other groups. We invite you to join us with the data from your campus for a stimulating discussion.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Acquire the skills necessary to collect data from bookstore records and class schedule catalogues, including extracting information such as course credits, enrollment numbers, and the variety of course materials available.
Develop proficiency in analyzing the data collected, gaining insights into the prevalence of commercial course materials across different courses.
Critically assess the equity implications of textbook costs, identifying which student demographics are disproportionately affected by Automatic Textbook Billing.

Speakers

Nicolas Simon

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Eastern Connecticut State University

Maryanne Clifford

Eastern Connecticut State University

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
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

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

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

IP1

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

Bronx Community College, CUNY

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Built to Last? State Systems of Higher Education and OER Sustainability

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

IP2

In recent years, a growing number of states have been offering direct support for OER initiatives, contributing to the widespread adoption of open education across public higher education institutions. Yet, a persistent critical gap in our understanding of OER has to do with the organizational frameworks and sustainability prospects of these OER initiatives. Through a study funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Ithaka S+R conducted a case study research project assessing the impact and implementation of OER programs at and within four different state systems across the United States. This session focuses on findings from a series for 12 interviews conducted in early 2024, shedding new light on how OER leaders work towards a holistic understanding of sustainability, including insights related to assessment of effectiveness, communicating the value proposition of initiatives, risks, mission-alignment, and equity impacts.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the main risks for OER sustainability
Differentiate among maturity levels on sustainability spectrum
Understand the dynamics between state systems and their campuses when it comes to OER

Speakers

Angela DeBarger

Program Officer, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Angela Haydel DeBarger is a Program Officer in Education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Her portfolio addresses open education, with the aim of democratizing knowledge, creating inclusive and engaging experiences for learners, and advancing racial equity in education... Read More →

Ioana Hulbert

Researcher, Ithaka S+R

Mark McBride

Ithaka S+R

Deirdre Harkins

Ithaka S+R

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus 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

This is my first time at OpenEd! I'm co-directing an open pedagogy fellowship program at my university and working with faculty from many institutions to build Transforming Humanities Texts: Open Editions Built For and With Students (if you're interested, look for the project on Rebus... 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

Maverick Collaboration: Uniting Arizona's Open Education Initiatives to Cultivate Statewide Impact

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

IP2

While many active advocates for and practitioners of open educational practices have come out of Arizona, there has been historically no true organized statewide initiative. So a few of us decided that it was about time. This presentation will share our strategy of harnessing two open education initiatives, the Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona consortium and the OERizona Network, to establish a cohesive framework representing all public institutions of higher education statewide. By judiciously utilizing grants, we're fostering collaboration towards a shared open educational vision, supporting professional development, launching a community email, hosting a materials repository, and exploring opportunities for future growth and funding. Our approach showcases the power of collective effort in advancing accessible, high-quality learning resources across a diverse state which has no 'official' statewide initiative.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify best practices for formalizing an inter-institutional network for open education
Describe strategies for securing institutional buy-in in circumstances of resource limitations

Speakers

Megan Crossfield

Manager, Academic Initiatives & Special Projects, Yavapai College

Matthew Bloom

OER Coordinator, Maricopa Community Colleges

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:30pm EDT

Using Photovoice to Center Teachers’ Experiences with OER in Lebanon

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

IP1

Innovative research designs are needed to understand the experiences of teachers using OER in challenging contexts like the economic and refugee crisis in Lebanon. This presentation will showcase the use of photovoice in a research collaboration with Lebanese Alternative Learning (LAL), a local nonprofit that formed a knowledge partnership with teachers through Tabshoura, a digital learning platform that houses content aligned with the Lebanese curriculum for K-9 students. Photovoice invites participants to submit a photo and a brief caption in response to a prompt in order to share their full experiences. This approach captured how OER that is created locally with and for teachers can empower teachers to fill in the gaps for students who have been prevented from attending school consistently. This project centers the experiences of teachers to support LAL’s efforts in growing Tabshoura and to further understanding of how OER can support teachers in opening education for all.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the importance of local OER in non-Western contexts.
Recognize the innovative uses of OER in Lebanon.
Design and conduct research using photovoice.
Evaluate teachers’ experiences with OER for continued growth of OER.

Speakers

Bethany Eldridge

Phd Candidate, University of Michigan

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Southwest Asia & North Africa (SWANA)

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

5:30pm EDT

Reception & Poster Session

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

General

All in-person attendees are welcome to gather in Narragansett Ballroom to mark the end of day one with a reception and poster session. The reception offers hors d'oeuvres and a variety of beverages (one drink ticket per attendee). Attendees can grab refreshments and browse the 10 poster submissions while also connecting with other attendees and having fun. The poster session ends at 6:30pm, although the reception may go on a bit longer.

The reception portion is generously sponsored by OpenStax.

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.

Category

Refreshments provided are made possible thanks to generous support from one of our sponsors.

Sponsors

OpenStax

OpenStax is the world’s largest non-profit publisher of open education resources (OER) and an initiative of Rice University. With a commitment to making an amazing education accessible to all, OpenStax provides free, high-quality, peer-reviewed learning materials and interactive... Read More →

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

Plenary

Attendance Type Attend In Person

5:30pm EDT

BCcampus OER Equity Rubric

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

IP1

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Canada

5:30pm EDT

Exploring Early Career Microbiologists Experiences with OERs – A Preliminary Analysis

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

IP1

Early career microbiologists with master’s and doctoral degrees are considered experts in the fundamental concepts and application of scientific skills and practices in the microbial sciences. Many graduate programs require graduate students to teach at least one undergraduate course to develop teaching skills. However, many biology graduate programs do not teach pedagogical skills and practices. This poster session conveys the interactions of early-career microbiologists in academia with OERs through a social justice and equity lens. Early career microbiologists will complete a survey instrument on their experiences with OERs. This poster will articulate preliminary data to support preparation for a follow-up study that assesses effective methods for selecting and implementing OERs in biology and microbiology courses.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explain the importance of pedagogical skills and practices in the classroom.
Interpret the survey results of early career microbiologists’ experiences with OERs and apply the lessons learned in their courses and pedagogical practices.

Speakers

Adronisha Frazier

Assistant Professor, Biology, Northshore Technical Community College

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

Exploring the Impact: OER Grant Process and Outcomes at a Small Liberal Arts College

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

IP1

This proposal examines the efficacy and implications of OER grants in a small liberal arts college with a thriving undergraduate business program. As institutions seek alternatives to traditional textbooks to ease financial burdens, OER initiatives emerge. However, the specific processes and outcomes of OER grants in such colleges are understudied. The presentation analyzes grant processes, faculty engagement, resource development, and impacts on teaching and learning, focusing on an upper-division marketing course. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, including faculty interviews, student surveys, and course evaluations, this study aims to elucidate OER initiatives' multifaceted effects in the small college setting. By uncovering challenges, successes, and lessons learned, this research aims to offer insights for educators, administrators, accrediting bodies, and policymakers striving to promote affordability and equity in higher education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the factors influencing faculty engagement and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) within small liberal arts colleges.
Evaluate student perceptions and experiences regarding OER marketing materials compared to traditional marketing textbooks, including accessibility, affordability, and learning outcomes.
Assess the impact of OER adoption on teaching effectiveness and student learning outcomes based on course evaluations and academic performance data.
Identify challenges and successful strategies encountered during the OER grant process, including resource development, faculty training, and institutional support.
Discuss the broader implications for OER policy and practice within small liberal arts colleges, providing actionable insights for promoting affordability and equity in higher education.

Speakers

Bob Casper

Instructional Technologist, Instructional Design and Technology, Rollins College

Bob Casper's experience in academia combines a passion for instructional design with a deep commitment to accessible and innovative education. Currently, he serves as an Instructional Technologist in the Department of Instructional Design and Technology at Rollins College in Winter... Read More →

Raghabendra KC

Rollins College

Nancy Chick

Rollins College

Blake Robinson

Rollins College

Cassidy Watson

Rollins College

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

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

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

IP1

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

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Canada

5:30pm EDT

Girls. Subcultures and Fanfictions: One of the First Open Educational Resources?

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

IP1

My poster will demonstrate an assignment given to the students in my course titled “Phenomenon of Kpop and How It Is Changing the World”. The main assignment was writing fanfiction, to do that first - we read about how fanfiction, specifically slash fanfiction (queer fanfiction) is a way for women to challenge heteronormativity, explore their desires and show their creative side. Next, we learned about the main aspects of fanfiction and held a workshop on writing fanfiction. After the workshop, students were divided into groups and had to peer review each other’s fanfictions. And finally students had to share their experiences of writing and reading each other’s fanfictions. This exercise in itself is already a feminist act, as Virginia Wolf once said in one of her most famous essays “A Room of One’s Own” if only women had more access to education and maybe just a separate place to write, there would have been so many more great writers.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Learn new ways of engaging students
Learn about the experiences from the Central Asian region in teaching
How your classroom can be a place for creative writing and emancipating women
How to make your assignments feminist
Learn at least one subculture that is female dominated and provides girls with resources for achieving their subjectivity

Speakers

Aisuluu Namasbek Kyzy

Assistant Professor, American University of Central Asia

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Global Focus, Asia

5:30pm EDT

Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing

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

IP1

This poster illustrates the pedagogy of the OER textbook Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing, which is a method for students to think about the social changes that were prevalent during the COVID years and remain important in their wake. Heritages of Change is a lens for thinking and writing about these ideas. This textbook includes principles of writing and information literacy through the lenses of curatorial activism, cultural heritage, and curation/exhibition. Heritage topics that students are introduced to include (but are not limited to): anti-racism, #MeToo, indigenous peoples, women/gender/LGBTQIA+, climate change, etc. They gain a broader understanding of cultural heritage and heritages of change, particularly disability heritage, in general in order to apply the concepts through their writing. This textbook presents these topics, but more specifically how to communicate about and research them.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Assess the individual usability of the OER textbook Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing (https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/heritagesofchange/).
Apply concepts of cultural heritage and curatorial activism in their classrooms.
Demonstrate how the flexibility of an OER textbook can allow for more timely and/or significant content.

Speakers

Kisha Tracy

Fitchburg State University

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

Honoring Experience, Valuing Expertise: A Collaboration to Enhance Sustainable Open Pedagogy Support

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

IP1

Academic librarians are increasingly leading efforts to encourage and support open pedagogy practices with undergraduate students. Given the 1-to-many support model for open pedagogy at most libraries, long-term sustainability of these efforts requires intentional collaboration with colleagues who bring unique experiences and expertise. At the University of Houston, a need for new, asynchronous learning objects emerged, along with an opportunity to leverage expertise from across the Libraries. This poster will describe our collaborative process for developing learning objects that support open pedagogy assignments and the benefits of peer learning between the Open Education and Teaching & Learning departments.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe a collaborative process for developing learning objects that support open pedagogy assignments\n
Recognize the importance of interdependence and sustainability in programmatic open pedagogy efforts \n
Identify opportunities for cross-functional peer learning and experience sharing to enhance open pedagogy efforts

Speakers

Kate Carter

Open Educational Resources Librarian, University of Houston

Kate is the Open Educational Resources Librarian in the Open Education Services Department at University of Houston. In her role, she helps manage the Alternative Textbook Incentive Program, assists faculty in the adoption, adaptation, and creation of OER, and consults and partners... Read More →

Veronica Douglas

University of Houston

Ariana Santiago

Head of Open Education Services, University of Houston

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

Keeping the AI Playing Field Level

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

IP1

The introduction and continued evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought numerous advantages and challenges. In addition to teaching students to use AI tools responsibly, it is imperative that students who can pay for enhanced AI products do not gain an advantage over students who cannot afford to purchase subscriptions. The Google AI Platform offers free tools, but there is a monthly limit. ChatGPT is free, but a subscription is also available for ChatGPT Plus that gives access to the GPT-4 platform and promotes itself as providing more accurate responses. The free version of Grammarly is limited to basic grammar, punctuation, and spell checking while the Premium version offers a writing assistant. This poster session will provide lessons learned about how to structure writing assignments and digital projects on the college level that are limited to free AI tools. The session will also give examples of how to check to see what tools were used.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Show students how to use AI responsibly.
Develop writing assignments and digital projects that restrict the use of AI to tools that are free.
Detect use of AI, including subscription products.

Speakers

Karen Holley

Associate Professor, Georgia State University - Perimeter College

I am an Associate Professor of English with 40 years of experience.

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States, Canada

5:30pm EDT

Open Has a Marketing Problem: Integrating OER Into Workforce Training & Lifelong Learning

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

IP1

Open has a marketing problem, and the solutions I will look at today focus on getting OER into public spaces early & often. Here are a few potential solutions. * Creating curated item records for open resources for these resources to appear in local library catalog systems like those provided by the Open Textbook Library * More robust integration into Public Library services, K12 education programs, workforce education programs, and government, corporate, and nonprofit resources for professional development * Book clubs & other social sharing platforms * Integration into Meals on Wheels and other social programming and awareness * Public Library programing for K12 with open resources * Email campaigns for academic institutions – like the One Minute to Open Campaign

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the current OER marketing problem
Identify potential marketing opportunities for OER in their sphere of influence

Speakers

Isabelle Antes

Texas State University (TXST)

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

Strategies for Librarians to Mentor Upcoming Leaders and Champions for the Open Education Movement

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

IP1

Open education is a fundamental part of student success in institutions of higher learning. Many librarians are critical in advocating for and leading open education programming. This graphic poster aims to share how librarians have been at the forefront of cultivating the next generation dedicated to the open movement. It highlights ways librarians can influence students on campus and beyond to become advocates, leaders, or champions of the open education movement. The presenter researched existing literature and conducted a brief survey among librarians to gather qualitative data on ways the younger generation in higher learning institutions can mold into future leaders and advocates for open education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Apply strategies to mentor young leaders and advocates of open education in their environments.
Consult scholarly works about ways young open education leaders can be cultivated.

Speakers

Angela Chikowero

Open Access & STEM Collection Strategist, UCSB

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
IP1

Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Advanced
Regional Focus United States

8:00am EDT

Breakfast

Wednesday October 9, 2024 8:00am - 8:45am 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.

Wednesday October 9, 2024 8:00am - 8:45am EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person

8:45am EDT

Announcements

Wednesday October 9, 2024 8:45am - 9:00am 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.

Wednesday October 9, 2024 8:45am - 9:00am EDT
General

Plenary

Attendance Type Attend In Person

9:00am EDT

Embracing the Benefits of Digitally Interactive Open Math Resources for Instruction w/ GeoGebra

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT

This interactive session will explore the potential of technology and open educational resources to create new, exciting approaches to math instruction. Through demonstrations, walkthroughs, discussions and group activities, attendees will gain insight into how to use digital interactive math OER, initiate stimulating conversations with students, distribute lessons, customize lessons with animations and simulations, and leverage technology to engage with innovative mathematics content.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Navigate collections of OER math resources.
Customize and curate math resources for an interactive class experience.
Learn how to facilitate classroom discussions through dynamic experiences.

Speakers

Monique Zhou

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

9:00am EDT

Designing for Social Justice: A Decolonial Exploration of How to Develop EdTech for Refugees

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT

In this session we share the results from a research study that reflects on the lived experiences of young refugees located in Pakistan and Rwanda when interacting with OpenEd during and following displacement. We offer a decolonial commentary on issues related to the design and development of OpenEd for refugees, noting some of the prevalent historical trends. We are guided by critical questions such as: Who designs the products? Where are they designed? How are they designed? And, which power dynamics are at play during the design process? From this, we draw on qualitative data where we explore young refugees’ experiences. We present results of a creative element which invited research participants to imagine what a liberatory OpenEd practice would look like. We recommend and open a discussion around a set of justice-centred design principles for developers of OpenEd in refugee contexts.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Critically engage with (add to, critique and analyse) a set of justice-centered design principles for OpenEd, especially in refugee contexts.
Reflect on one's own work in OpenEd and how it adheres to justice-centered design principles.
Identify elements of coloniality in OpenEd designs for refugees.

Speakers

Nariman Moustafa

Open Development and Education

Aime Parfait Emerusenge

Jigsaw Education

Asma Rabi

Jigsaw Education

Noor Ullah

Jigsaw Education

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Global Focus, Africa, Asia

9:00am EDT

Embracing a ‘Spirit of Sharing’ and Using Open Education Tools for Capacity Building in Communities

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT

Open education conversations often focus on college-level teaching; however, there is a ‘spirit of sharing’ that imbues this work and has applications well beyond academia. This session will illuminate four pillars of a ‘spirit of sharing’ and invite participants to envision how they might think ‘outside of the classroom’ to apply these philosophies in their own communities, helping to share knowledge, build capacity, and foster in-person opportunities for mentoring and the nurturance of community. Following facilitators’ sharing of their own experiences with skill-sharing in non-academic settings — in makerspaces, in collaboration with community activists and advocates, in community-based educational co-ops, and in arts-based initiatives – attendees will take part in a hands-on activity and full-group discussion, allowing them to begin to imagine invigorated pathways through which they might apply open education philosophies to benefit their neighborhoods and fellow community members.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the connections between open education philosophies and other non-academic sharing-centered models of learning and community building
Brainstorm specific ways they might apply open educational practices and philosophies in non-academic contexts for the purposes of capacity building, mentoring, lifelong learning and fostering community
Determine potential collaborators for this community-based work (identifying potential grants, space sharing models, and approaches to sharing material tools and physical resources.)

Speakers

Spring Duvall

Salem College

Jessica Birthisel

Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Bridgewater State Univeristy

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

9:00am EDT

Student Partnerships in Open Education Addressing Power Dynamics and Belonging in STEM Teaching

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT

Traditional course materials are expensive. They are also biased towards white, male, heteronormative perspectives at the expense of marginalised contributors, particularly in STEM disciplines. This mis/underrepresentation results in the devaluation of student voice and identity, negatively impacting academic performance. Open Educational Resources (OERs) that are intentional in their connection with social justice can be an essential strategy in improving access and a sense of belonging in course materials as well as the classroom, enabling deeper engagement with course content. This presentation explores two innovative STEM initiatives focused on adapting and co-creating OERs in pursuit of inclusion, decolonisation, improved epistemic representation and inclusive pedagogy in the curriculum. It explores students’ perceptions of power dynamics in the process of knowledge co-creation and draws attention to issues related to institutional transformation and sustainability.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Engage with the ‘students as partners’ theoretical domain as pertains to power and belonging.
Draw insights on two initiatives addressing power and belonging in two different countries – South Africa and United States - and different institutional contexts.
Consider the unique challenges and opportunities of STEM-intensive education to pursue co-creation and collaboration across student-faculty-staff roles and create more equity and representation in STEM curriculum.
Engage in knowledge-sharing activities around open education initiatives for social justice with colleagues at their home institutions.
Acknowledge, address, and act in one’s own context regarding belonging, power dynamics, and social justice.

Speakers

Glenda Cox

Senior lecturer, Centre of Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town

Dr Glenda Cox is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT: http://www.cilt.uct.ac.za/) at the University of Cape Town and her portfolio includes postgraduate teaching, Curriculum change projects, Open Education, and Staff development. She holds... Read More →

Sarah Stanlick

Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies and Director, Great Problems Seminar, WPI

I direct WPI’s signature first-year experience program, the Great Problems Seminar. I also advise and support global project-based learning through the Global Projects Program, and teach social science research methods for students of all backgrounds and majors in preparation for the interactive qualifying project (IQP), a 7-week project with external sponsors. I am committed to transformative and inclusive learning that engages students as active agents... Read More →

Marja Bakermans

Teaching Professor, WPI

I possess a strong commitment to student education, and a goal of mine is to stimulate students' critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. Recently, students and I have been on a journey to open classroom content and discussions in an interdisciplinary and inclusive way. Students... Read More →

Anna Gold

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Lori Ostapowicz-Critz

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Courtney Kurlanska

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Bianca Masuku

Junior Research Fellow, University of Cape Town

Michelle Willmers

University of Cape Town

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

9:00am EDT

Tackling New Ways of Acquiring Skills and Producing Knowledge Beyond Theoretical Perspectives

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT

From 2017 to 2019, I conducted ethnographic research on the processes of learning and skills development using digital technologies within informal sales and repair communities in Haiti (Payen Jean Baptiste, 2022). These communities, mainly characterized by self-organization and self-management, operate according to a particular networking modus operandi named kolòn, that supports the production of knowledge and the development of skills.Much more than just a word, the term is a philosophy that underpins modes of work organization based on community of practice and the sharing economy (Wenger, 2009, Casséus and Payen, 2013). In this presentation, I will focus on the processes involved in building and maintaining this networked form of social organization, and how it contributes to the development and acquisition of new skills. I will also present the design and development of an open-source digital platform based on that model.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explain the ethnographic approach to repair communities and the link between these types of communities and digital fabrication ecosystems. Discover how communities of practice in these ecosystems helps support knowledge management and innovation.
Describe the concept of Kolòn and how it represents an organizational approach based on communities of practice and how this particular type of learning and doing with others in informal environment contributes to research on knowledge production.
Discuss the concepts of adapted technologies and technologies appropriation within socio-cultural environments of individuals and how these concepts may lead to a new way of innovation and construction of use to transform practices and design new ones.
Articulate the importance of taking an eco-systemic and holistic approach to understanding knowledge construction that considers cultural and historical contexts when engaging with communities.

Speakers

Valérie Payen Jean Baptiste

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Geneva

I'm Valérie Payen Jean Baptiste, Doctor in Education Sciences.My research interests focus on the multiplicity of ways of accessing, acquiring and producing knowledge, and on the mediation maintained between the appropriation of digital technologies and the skills developed in relation... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Latin America & the Caribbean, Global Focus

9:00am EDT

Using GenAI to Create OER Materials: Potential and Pitfalls

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT

IP1

High textbook costs can limit or prevent student access to needed instructional materials, complicating student learning and potentially leading to lower student success. Rich repositories of open educational resources (OER) play a crucial role in broadening student access to high-quality learning materials, and ancillary materials are particularly important among these resources as they supplement and enrich student learning experiences. However, compared to OER textbooks, ancillary materials are less readily available. With the content generation capabilities offered by Generative AI, what new opportunities exist for creating OER ancillaries, and which areas require special consideration? In this session, we will explore these questions, compare the quality of peer-reviewed ancillaries with AI-generated materials, and provide hands-on activities both during the session and for participants to complete at home.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify specific opportunities where Generative AI can be leveraged to develop OER ancillary materials, thereby expanding educational content for students.
Articulate key considerations and challenges in employing GenAI for the creation of OER materials, ensuring they are aware of both the potential and the limitations of these technologies.
Compare and assess the quality of AI-generated ancillaries against traditional peer-reviewed OER materials to enable informed decisions on their integration into teaching and learning.
Use GenAI tools hands-on to create and evaluate ancillary materials, thereby gaining practical experience and insights on integrating these tools into curriculum development.
Contribute to the discourse on the future of OER material creation using GenAI, providing feedback and insights that could shape the direction of future research and development in this field.

Speakers

Posie Aagaard

AVP for Scholarly Resources, University of Texas at San Antonio

Art Brownlow

Senior Fellow for Academic Innovation, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Dr. Art Brownlow is Professor of Music at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (Brownsville Campus). He has long been interested in the incorporation of technology in music education. On the strength of his innovative design of a hybrid music history class, Brownlow won the College... Read More →

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

9:30am EDT

Choosing Open Access for Books: An Author's Perspective

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT

The Open Book Collective brings together libraries and small-to-medium OA scholarly books publishers from across the world via a unique consortial funding model to enable the publication of OA books with no fee. As an author, I decided in 2023 to publish my third monograph open access. This paper explores and explains how I came to this decision, and why I would urge other academics to do the same. Academics cannot be asked to bear all of the risk of transition to a sustainable open access landscape for scholarly books – but, as we stand to benefit from this transition as educators, readers, authors and human beings , I contend that we must bear some. I briefly introduce the range of small-to-medium scholarly publishers who are currently members of the OBC, and encourage authors, librarians educators to explore these high quality publishers as options to work with and support.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Select a suitable OA scholarly publisher for future work, without the necessity of a fee.
Explore the range of OA books and publishers currently supported by the OBC.

Speakers

Judith Fathallah

Research and Outreach Associate, Lancaster University

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

9:30am EDT

Integrating Open Educational Resources in Online Courses

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT

Open Educational Resources(OER) represent a paradigm shift in educational access, offering a wealth of learning materials that are freely available for use, modification, and sharing. Organizations like UNESCO endorse OER to bridge educational gaps and foster an inclusive learning environment. The core attributes of OER—free access, reusability, flexibility, and redistribution—support a collaborative and adaptable educational framework. Integrating OER into curricula involves a systematic process of sourcing, assessing, customizing, and implementing these resources to align with specific educational goals. Creative Commons licenses facilitate the legal sharing and adaptation of OER. The integration of OER across various media formats is pivotal for advancing global education. These resources underscore the commitment to universal access, co-creation, and the democratization of education through OER, reflecting a collective movement towards inclusive and adaptable learning environments.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Recognize OERs purpose and importance in education.
Analyze and differentiate Creative Commons licenses with traditional copyright, highlighting the advantages they offer.
Learn how to mix and match CC-licensed works for adaptation and remixing, ensuring legal and ethical use.
Find OER (text, video, image, open textbook, open course)
Publish OER on platforms dedicated to Creative Commons or own institution’s repository.

Speakers

Dr.Kishore Mendam

Department of Zoology, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Open University

Prof. G. Pushpa Chakrapani

Department of Physics, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Open University

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Global Focus

9:45am EDT

Adoption Done Well: A Panel Discussion Across Institution Types

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT

In this panel discussion, representatives from a variety of institutions will tell their OER adoption story, more specifically they will share their initiatives, their faculty support systems, and their successes and challenges with implementing OER on their campuses. Panelists serve as campus representatives to AAC&U’s current OER research grant funded by the Hewlett Foundation. These campuses were identified as leaders within the OER movement, and have seen numerous adoptions across multiple divisions across their campuses. Sufficient time for audience Q&A will be provided, allowing audience members to ask questions they feel might be relevant to their own institutions.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Ask questions of seasoned OER advocates
Listen to OER success stories and bring back to their institutions concrete ideas to counter challenges they find on their campuses

Speakers

Emily Ragan

Metropolitan State University of Denver

Excited about reimagining effective education. Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and OER Coordinator at Metropolitan State University of Denver

Arenthia Herren

OER Librarian, Florida SouthWestern State College

Heather Miceli

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, American Association of Colleges and Universities

Heather Miceli is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Office of Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) where she is working on a project examining the implementation of OER and the outcomes for students as... Read More →

Micah Gjeltema

Open Education & Affordable Content Librarian, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Micah Gjeltema is the Open Education & Affordable Content Librarian within Course Materials Services at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. He supports open education activities and manages the University Libraries' Partnership for Affordable Learning Materials program.

Dr. C. Edward Watson

Vice President for Digital Innovation, American Association of Colleges & Universities

C. Edward Watson, Ph.D. is Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and formerly director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia. At AAC&U, he directs the Association's... Read More →

Chlesea James

Pima Community College

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

9:45am EDT

Collaborating with Students to Build Multimodal Open Educational Resources

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT

Columbia College Chicago has developed Authoring Culture: Foundations of 21st Century Writing, an OER for teaching/learning writing in college and beyond. Authoring Culture presents 12 key concepts in writing and rhetoric that equip students to handle any rhetorical situation skillfully. In addition to providing explanations of each concept in alphabetic text, this OER provides student-made videos and podcasts that explain each concept multimodally. Authoring Culture’s creators conceived the textbook’s multimodal orientation to appeal to Gen Z users accustomed to learning from podcasts and videos. To build student-friendly podcasts and videos, the creative team recruited students to make the podcasts and videos, sometimes as part of their college writing classes. This presentation shares the process, challenges, and benefits of collaborating with students to make a student-centered textbook.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

plan and execute projects that include student collaborators.
anticipate challenges of collaborating with students on large scale projects.
articulate how to re-envision curriculum to fit changing student needs.

Speakers

Brendan Riley

Coordinator of Professional Writing, Columbia College Chicago

Dr. Riley is the Coordinator of Professional Writing and an Associate Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago.

Kim Hale

Columbia College Chicago

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

9:45am EDT

Reflections from Leadership: What It Really Takes To Run An Equitable Educational Organization

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT

This session intentionally spotlights the often-overlooked aspect of embedding equity within the organizational fabric. Creating sustainable work environments is critical to the success of open initiatives and the people running and benefiting from them. Join organizational leaders and Board Directors as they share their reflections on running an equitable organization and how it manifests in team dynamics, Board interactions, strategic planning, goal setting, programming, and resource allocation. Speakers will share the lessons they learned from actively participating in and preserving cultures of care. They will reflect on their experiences participating in equity-focused strategic planning processes. What unexpected challenges and surprises have speakers encountered? Where does equity show up in leadership? Listen to this diverse and thoughtful group of leaders reflect on the business of equity and how truly embodying it can be rewarding beyond imagination.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain insight into the multifaceted nature of equity within educational organizations
Identify key principles of equity that are critical to the long-term success and sustainability of educational organizations
Discuss common challenges and barriers to implementing equitable practices within educational organizations and explore potential solutions and strategies for overcoming these obstacles
Be encouraged to reflect on their own practices, share insights from their professional experiences, and collaborate on actionable steps for advancing equity within their workflows and organizational settings

Speakers

Amanda Coolidge

Executive Director, BCcampus

Apurva Ashok

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

Hugh McGuire

Founder and CEO, Pressbooks

Caitlin Gunn

Georgetown University

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

9:45am EDT

The Cost of Doing Homework: Access Codes from a Social Justice Perspective

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT

The purpose of this study is to examine student experiences with and perceptions of online homework systems with access code costs. Postsecondary students (N = 966) completed a survey about online homework systems. Most students (79.5%) indicated that they had been required to purchase an access code for an online homework system and 29.4% reported their grade was hurt because they could not afford an access code. Black students reported more courses with required access codes for homework and reported that online homework systems were more helpful than other students. Latino/a/x students were more likely to report their grades were hurt by not affording access codes than other students. First-generation students reported they avoided courses with online homework systems (36.9%) more than continuing-generation students (23.9%). Overall, the findings indicate that the cost of online homework systems is a barrier to education, and alternatives should be further developed and promoted.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the financial burden of online homework systems with purchased access codes
Report the inequitable requirements of purchasing access to online homework systems across racial and ethnic groups.
Analyze the perceived benefits of online homework systems relative to the financial cost.
Evaluate the need for no/low cost open online homework systems in higher education.

Speakers

Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Associate Professor in Educational Foundations and Research, University of North Dakota

Virginia Clinton-Lisell, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota where she is a Rose Isabella Kelly Fischer Professor. She holds a masters’ degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from New York University... Read More →

Alison Kelly

University of North Dakota

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

9:45am EDT

Building Open Infrastructures and Encoding Open Practices Through Communities of Care

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT

IP2

The Teaching and Learning Center at the CUNY Graduate Center supports doctoral students who teach 150,000 undergraduates each year. It has been built intentionally as a manifestation of the open education movement: in dialogue with and responsive to its constituents; imprinted with the values of openness, sharing, access, and care; and focused on building sustainable communities of inclusive practice to make life, work, and learning at the university more just. This presentation will demonstrate how various projects at the TLC encode the values of openness, including open access publishing and OER initiatives, institutes and focused inquiry groups, a major multi-campus project exploring open education at community colleges, and various collaborative programs to build open infrastructures. We’ll detail the life cycle of projects, highlighting how open practices infused each, and engage attendees in a discussion of how these practices are adaptable to different contexts.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe the values and practices that are necessary to build sustain communities of care;
Articulate how programs on their own campuses align with open practices;
Imagine revisions to existing or new programs that meet the needs of their constituents while prioritizing communities of care;
Connect with colleagues elsewhere to build networks of solidarity around infrastructure and strategies for open practices.

Speakers

Luke Waltzer

Director, Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Preferred Gender Pronouns: He/himBio: Luke Waltzer directs the Teaching and Learning Center at the Graduate Center, where he supports graduate students in their teaching across the CUNY system and works on a variety of pedagogical and digital projects. He was previously the founding... Read More →

Laurie Hurson

Assistant Director of Open Education, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

9:45am EDT

They Won't Wait: Teaching AI Best Practices Within an Open Pedagogy Framework

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT

IP1

Artificial Intelligence (AI) made a definite splash in higher education over the past two years providing opportunities to transform how we teach students. We’ve noticed that students don’t wait to learn about ethics, privacy concerns, or best practices of AI use before incorporating it into their lives. This gap presents a place to intervene and teach AI literacy in our courses. In this presentation, we share how we designed our course “Arts&Sci 3120: Information, Citizenship, & Social Justice” using open pedagogy for a semester-long Pressbooks project and how we incorporate two scaffolded AI assignments that students might use for the content they create for their chapter. Our course assignments use several tools throughout the semester like H5P, Hypothes.is, goblin.tools, AI generative tools, and Pressbooks. Attendees leave equipped with ideas for integrating AI and Open Pedagogy into their teaching practices and templates for replicating our AI assignments at their institutions.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Cultivate strategies that embrace open pedagogy when integrating AI tools into assignments, fostering critical thinking and responsible engagement with AI technologies within teaching practices.
Reflect on personal teaching practices and pedagogical approaches to effectively integrate AI literacy into instruction.
Understand how to scaffold an open pedagogy project throughout a course while using AI as an option for students to complete course components ethically

Speakers

Amanda Larson

Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant, The Ohio State University

Hanna Primeau

The Ohio State University

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

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

10:00am EDT

Connecting Open Science and Open Education for an Open Europe

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT

In our journey towards fostering a more open and equitable Europe, SPARC Europe is embarking on a mission to intertwine the realms of OS and OE to support and build more equitable access to Open knowledge across scores of universities across Europe. We are keen to share the first step in this process. This presentation will allow us to discuss how to lead this change, leveraging strategic planning and capacity building to bridge existing divides and unlock synergies between these two crucial domains. We will do this by mapping stakeholders, documenting similarities and differences between the Opens at universities across Europe to also craft a compelling narrative and business case, and action plan, for a more connected open agenda in the area of Higher Education. We are laying the groundwork for a more integrated future, looking at how we can link bottom-up and top-down initiatives and action in a strategic and operational way.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Participants will be able to understand the intrinsic relationship between Open Science and Open Education, recognizing how their integration can amplify accessibility and collaboration in higher education.
Participants will acquire skills in effective strategic planning methodologies and capacity-building techniques essential for advancing the open agenda within their respective organizations.
Participants will develop the ability to identify and address organizational barriers hindering the collaboration between Open Science and Open Education, equipping them with practical strategies for fostering integration.
Participants will gain expertise in stakeholder mapping, enabling them to identify key stakeholders and networks crucial for driving forward the open agenda, and enhancing their ability to navigate diverse institutional landscapes.

Speakers

Vanessa Proudman

Director, SPARC Europe

Vanessa Proudman is Director of SPARC Europe where she is working to make Open the default in Europe. Vanessa has 20 years’ international experience working with many leading university libraries worldwide as well as research institutions, foundations, international policymakers... Read More →

Paola Corti

Oe Community Manager, SPARC_EU

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Europe

10:00am EDT

How to Catalyse Open Education in South African Schools

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT

South Africa not only suffers from a paucity of OER aligned to the curriculum in K-12 education, but the educational context is that of deep poverty, inequality, unemployment, crowded classes, intermittent electricity, and expensive internet data. We will focus on what processes are required to enable open learning, with a specific focus on CPTD. Using a human-centered design thinking approach enables reflections on how learning design content has to be sensitive to context in both offline and online environments, support teachers who may lack content knowledge and pedagogical skills, especially in out-of-subject teaching, note that a scaffolded approach is required as well as the risks of using AI within this context. We will address the policy and legislative changes required to enable more OER LTSM and advocate for the amendment of outdated copyright laws, and changes to tax donation laws which would be catalytic in enabling the production of OER.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Have insight into the challenges facing those implementing Open Education in contexts of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
Be exposed to ideas of specific catalytic actions that, despite seeming to be small, could transform an educational landscape at no further cost to the fiscus, through more effective policy and tax strategy.
Be inspired to find and encourage legislative changes that could lead to catalytic transformation in their own teaching and learning contexts.
Reflect on what processes must be enabled in overcrowded, poorly equipped classrooms with challenges in internet data access and cost.
Consider the issues of inequity in implementation of Generative AI in countries with a small number of mother-tongue texts and the implications of wholesale adoption that this would have in terms of culture and language.

Speakers

Kathryn Kure

STEAM Foundation NPC

Nomvuyo Mgoqi

Khulisani Development Academy

Andrew Rens

Research ICT Africa

Anne Waldek-Thill

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Africa

10:30am EDT

Break (30 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EDT

General

Session Type

Break

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

11:00am EDT

Decisions, Decisions: Interrogating Knowledge and Skills Needed for Open Educational Practices

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT

Open educational practices (OEP) embody learning approaches that draw on collaborative and flexible learning environments, participatory learning, knowledge creation and sharing, learner activity and agency, and open sharing. Explanations of how to plan for OEP are limited. The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework (TPACK) examines the complexities of integrating technology into instruction. When OEP is layered onto TPACK, educators become aware of the content, pedagogy, and technology knowledge needed as related to open practices and consider these aspects to design more socially just learning environments. Without an intentional and critical examination of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required by OEP in specific content areas, instructors risk reducing, rather than expanding, access, participation, and equity. In this session, attendees will examine how the TPACK framework can be used to design and facilitate thoughtful, intentional, and equitable OEP.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the content, pedagogical, and technological knowledge demands (TPACK) of open education
Interrogate the intersections of open educational practices and the TPACK framework through a lens of social justice
Identify specific open activities (pedagogies) and tools (technologies) that can be applied in various subjects and contexts (content)
Design thoughtful and intentional open learning environments and instruction through the TPACK framework

Speakers

Stacy Katz

Open Resources Librarian, Lehman College, CUNY

I am an Associate Professor and Open Resources Librarian-STEM Liaison at Lehman College, CUNY. I initiated, developed, and oversee the Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative for the college. My research to date has focused on OER, particularly how librarians develop and support... Read More →

Jennifer Van Allen

Assistant Professor, Lehman College

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

Using Open to Create Innovative Curricula

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT

OER provides the toolbox for modernizing higher education while curriculum improvements provide the design. Since 2016 Prince George's Community College and LibreTexts have used this synergy to build new STEM courses attracting significant external support. PGCC created new engineering OER in collaboration with LibreTexts. This was the basis for a NASA grant which also modernized teaching labs. PGCC then became one of the partner institutions in the inaugural Open Textbook Pilot program. The college provided additional support. To date, there are over 60 custom textbooks which have been used by over 1000 sections and by over 15,000 students. A second NASA sponsored grant is developing STEM majors at PGCC that are coordinated with the curriculum at the University of Maryland. Relieving the textbook cost burden on students has driven OER creation, but support of new, better and up-to-date curricula is where OER really shines.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

The benefits of refocusing the OER creation on curriculum improvement.
How the creation and use of OER can be used to support grant proposals attracting new external funding
How innovative OER improves and spreads the reputation of the authors and their institution

Speakers

Joshua Halpern

Member, LibreTexts

Josh Halpern has been developing new STEM curricula with Prince George's Community College colleagues for over 18 years, first as a faculty member at Howard University and since 2017 as part of the LibreTexts OER team. Originally attracted to OER to limit costs to my students, over... Read More →

Neeharika Thakur

Prince George's Community College

Nadine Houser-Archield

Prince George's Community College

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

Building the Boat as it Sails Down the River: The Publishing Support Team to the Rescue

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT

IP2

The ROTEL Grant project team has embarked on an innovative approach to support faculty authors through its Publishing Support Team (PST). As the first round of faculty authors were finishing their writing, it became apparent that support was needed to help faculty reach the end-goal of creating high-quality, inclusive, and accessible OER. This panel will explore the pivotal role of the PST in navigating the complexities authors face. Attendees will gain insights into the PST's comprehensive guidance, from initial content development through final publication, including content editing, media integration, and technical editing. Panelists will share their evolving roles in this innovative support model, using real-life examples to illustrate challenges overcome and opportunities leveraged in "ensuring the boat sails smoothly." Through interactive discussion, attendees will identify strategies to replicate this collaborative approach, empowering faculty authors to create impactful OER.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain knowledge of the ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens) Grant Project.
Describe the roles and responsibilities of the Publishing Support Team (PST) members.
Recognize the value of collaboration and open communication among authors, the PST, and local support teams throughout the publishing process.
Identify strategies for effective integration of content editing, media and interactivity, and technical editing expertise to enhance the overall quality and accessibility of faculty-authored open textbooks.
Gain insights into the challenges and best practices of providing comprehensive support to faculty authors from the initial stages of content creation through final publication, and how the PST model addresses these challenges.
Identify at least 3 specific content, technical or other support needs you have for creating or adapting open educational resources based on the model presented.

Speakers

Sue Tashjian

Coordinator, Instructional Technology, Northern Essex Community College

Minh Le

ROTEL Grant

Jessica Egan

Western Governors University

Vicky Gavin

ROTEL Grant

Rick Lizotte

ROTEL Grant

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

Chattering Openly: Talking about Open Access in an Increasingly Fragmented Social Media Landscape

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT

IP1

In this talk, I will explore the process of developing social media campaigns on X (formerly Twitter), Mastodon, and LinkedIn to encourage platform users to engage with open access texts and provide visibility to those who choose to make their work publicly accessible. In my role on the community team for Knowledge Commons, I've collaborated with both students and full-time team members to develop campaigns highlighting the works our users have added to our open access repository. The session will delve into the creation process for developing such campaigns, which have included a regular monthly spotlight as well as special virtual event features. Topics covered will include the pros and cons of various social media platforms, suggestions for managing workflows in a small team, and creative ways to celebrate openly published texts. This presentation is suitable for anyone interested in learning more about using social media to reach a wider audience for their open work.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explain the connections between the current social media landscape and open education
Describe the challenges of identifying a suitable platform for making connections with social media users
Develop a social media campaign highlighting open publishing
Implement basic and recurring social media campaigns to promote the values of open publishing

Speakers

Larissa Babak

Michigan State University

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

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

11:00am EDT

The Open Paradox: Keeping the Committee Closed to Keep the Textbooks Open

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT

If the spirit of open education is to create meaningful educational opportunities and materials that promote inclusivity, how does a single department at a small, midwestern university justify choosing to keep a small, closed committee of library and CETL staff rather than pursuing the formation of a university-wide committee to work on open initiatives such as textbook creation? In this session we will discuss the experiences, justifications, and emotions that led our committee to choose to remain agile and select. As a result of our work, we have found that a closed framework, if done with integrity, can be just as if not more effective by many standards than a university-wide committee. While unable to directly affect policy through shared governance, this small, agile group can create a movement that starts at the roots of the university and permeates in a way that top-down movements cannot.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Examine the roles and intentions of workers in an open education program
Describe the benefits of establishing a grassroots open education program
Identify the challenges of cultivating relationships on an academic campus

Speakers

Emily Moran

Instructional Designer, University of Wisconsin-Superior

Natasha Schumacher

University of Wisconsin - Superior

Stephanie Warden

University of Wisconsin - Superior

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

Building Advocacy Capacity for OER

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT

Since it's inception, the open education movement has spread worldwide and recruited countless advocates to it's cause. However, new textbook sales models such as "Inclusive Access" programs stand to compromise the progress these advocates have made over the past several years. In order to ensure that this progress can continue, it is critical that advocates are equipped with the skills they need to drive forward open education initiatives in their local context. This session will equip attendees with foundational advocacy skills that can be used to drive change at their institutions and beyond. Attendees will learn how to "think like an advocate", including how to frame problems, set goals, develop strategies, and pitch solutions. While the skills taught can be applied to advocacy on any topic, this session will specifically center the issue of “Inclusive Access” programs and the threat these model presents to the goals of open education initiatives.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Use problem and solution frameworks to set advocacy goals.
Assess stakeholders and understand their motivations with respect to an issue.
Analyze decision-making processes and develop strategies to influence decision-makers.
Effectively pitch an “ask” to decision-makers and respond to challenging questions.
Start an advocacy plan on an issue of importance to capacity building efforts in their local context.

Speakers

Hailey Babb

Open Education Project Manager, SPARC

Session Type

Hybrid (55 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

Governing Boards and Trustees: How to Engage High-Level Decision Makers in OER

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT

College and University Governing Boards and Trustees have fiduciary responsibility for the institutions they serve. What are the responsibilities of college and university trustees and governing boards? What is the best way to communicate and educate them about open educational resources, textbooks, and the impact high-level decisions have on the success of students? Join Dr. Tanya Spilovoy, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and Jeff Seaman, PhD, Researcher with Bayview Research, to explore the intersection of trusteeship and high-level decision makers’ impact on course materials. How can we work with College and University Governing Boards and Trustees to have a greater impact on awareness and use of open resources? Multiple factors are critical in an approach to Boards and Trustees, and you will be asked to create a strategic plan for board engagement.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Talk confidently about the role of governing boards and trustees of a college and/or university.
Plan an approach and/or communication strategy to inform board members about open educational resources, course materials, textbooks, and the impact on students.
Understand the data and research regarding board and trustees’ oversight regarding course materials, publishing contracts, funding, or initiatives.
Engage efficiently and effectively with trustees to communicate about OER

Speakers

Jeff Seaman

Director, Bay View Analytics

Tanya Spilovoy

Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges

Session Type

Hybrid (55 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

Open Pedagogy and AI: Creating Open Pedagogy-Based Assignments with AI

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT

Instructors and students using AI in their coursework raises both positive and negative issues. The negative include concerns over academic integrity, data privacy, and bias. The positive include access, collaboration, interactivity, and personalized learning. Protecting both instructors and students from such negative while promoting such positive outcomes also are at issue with open pedagogy. This session will consider how instructors may use AI to convert traditional assignments to open pedagogy-based assignments in ways that promote student access, collaboration, and personalized learning while also protecting students’, and their own, privacy rights, academic integrity, and critical thinking. The “what” (traditional assignments), “how” (publication/open access), and “who” (knowledge creators) of such conversions are critical cruxes for both AI-use and open pedagogy. Defining rubrics, voice, context, and audience for open pedagogy via AI prompts works toward resolving them.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Use AI to create open-enabled instructional materials while protecting academic integrity
Use AI to support student learning while protecting students’ privacy
Develop AI prompts to create open pedagogy-based assignments that are objective, appropriate for their context, and protect students’ privacy

Speakers

Bonnie Robinson

Director, University of North Georgia Press

Corey Parson

Managing Editor, University of North Georgia Press

Session Type

Virtual (55 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

11:30am EDT

A Decade of the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN): Where Next?

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT

The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) supports doctoral researchers from around the world working on open education topics (https://go-gn.net). GO-GN amplifies, connects and supports its members and their work in a number of ways including regular online events, face-to-face workshops, co-authoring of publications and scholarship schemes. As of April 2024, GO-GN included around 180 doctoral researcher and alumni members in addition to a wider community of more than 200 experts and friends. GO-GN celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2023. This presentation provides an update on activities and outputs, including: • Developing and modelling good practice in open research and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) which is core to GO-GN. • Co-authored, openly licensed publications, including The GO-GN Open Research Handbook. • Outputs from the GO-GN research sprint on open education and AI. • Future GO-GN strategic direction and insights from across the network.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Have a better understanding of current doctoral research on open education topics and trends.
Understand the aims of GO-GN, our latest activities and how you can get involved.

Speakers

Robert Farrow

Senior Research Fellow, The Open University

Beck Pitt

Senior Research Fellow, The Open University

Carina Bossu

The Open University

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Global Focus

11:30am EDT

Creator Fest for Affordability: An Innovative Support System for Faculty OER Curriculum Development

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT

Join us to learn how Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) has used data and the recent addition of a suite of new baccalaureate degrees to support faculty through the process of curriculum development in building Z-degrees. MCCCD established funds to support faculty interested in creating OER and zero-cost curriculum through an “OER Creator Fest.” Learn more about how MCCCD developed a scaffolded support structure, including professional development, a Canvas Course, one-on-one librarian assistance, and more to facilitate the Creator Fest.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand how to develop your own support structure to aid faculty in developing OER curriculum.

Speakers

Debbie Baker

OER Coordinator & Instructional Designer, Maricopa Community Colleges

Jacqui Higgins-Dailey

Glendale Community College

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

11:30am EDT

Empower Your Students as Open Course Content Creators

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT

IP2

Adapted open content is challenging the way we think about higher education and the impact on pedagogy. Course content creation is central to this movement spurring innovative strategies to empower students as creators. But what should students know about authoring content designed for open education? Seasoned-pros and new-to-the-profession participants will find the answer in this highly relevant “train-the-trainer” session. Participants will explore how open content impacts pedagogy with particular attention to the Social Justice Framework, disposable to renewable assignments, and privacy considerations with openness. Participants will also be introduced to how Creative Commons Licenses (CCL) may be applied to open content, learning firsthand the benefits to reevaluate any apprehension they may have. They will also be able to extract new and creative applications of these concepts for use in their own instructional activities to empower students as creators of their own learning.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify how adapted open course content impacts pedagogy.
Apply CCLs to open content.
Extract new and creative applications of CCL concepts for use in their own instructional setting.
Have an open and freely licensed CCL activity template that they may implement in their own instructional setting.

Speakers

Lori Lysiak

Reference and Instruction Librarian, Penn State University Libraries

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:30am EDT

Untapped Potential: The Role of Disciplinary Associations in Open Education

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT

IP1

Disciplinary associations (i.e. scholarly and professional associations) represent tremendous untapped potential to grow the open education movement. Association groups offer the networking tools to share information about OER, raise the visibility and prestige of open education, recruit authors and peer reviewers, and develop communities of practice around OER materials, providing a vital boost to their sustainability. This presentation will discuss the results of a study that used both semi-structured interviews and a series of case studies on association OER work. It will discuss the potential benefits and challenges of association engagement with OER. It will also address concerns about potential inequities that could arise if associations engage without fully embracing the values of the open education movement. Finally, a model will be advanced for open education advocates to begin conversations within other disciplinary associations.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the benefits to the open education movement that may result from OER advocates engaging with disciplinary associations.
Identify the challenges that OER advocates may experience when approaching associations about engaging with the open education movement.
Identify the potential benefits and challenges that disciplinary associations may experience from within, if they choose to engage in OER work.
Engage with the concern that disciplinary participation in OER work could reinforce existing power structures within academia, and identify ways to avoid this outcome.

Speakers

Kristin Whitman

Library Director, Portland-Metro Campus, Oregon Institute of Technology

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

11:30am EDT

Partner or Problem? Library-Led Affordability Services and Open Educational Resources

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT

Academic librarians have historically steered clear of using collections budgets to purchase textbooks. Within the last decade that has changed. Academic librarians now willingly leverage their collections to provide no-cost solutions for required materials. These programs take on various shapes and are sometimes managed alongside OER programs and strategically employed to deliver texts when no OER options are available or used by librarians in environments where OER has no foothold. Regardless of the specifics, these programs can be seen as conflicting with the goals of OER; instead of challenging the status quo of commercial textbooks, they allow for it to continue in a new form. In this presentation, we will share survey and interview data from a recent national study on library-led affordability programs and discuss the interplay between library-led initiatives and OER efforts, advocating for a partnered, holistic approach to equity and affordability.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Attendees will understand the evolving role of academic libraries in providing affordable solutions for required course materials.
Participants will understand and assess the effectiveness of library collection based affordability programs.
Participants will be able to identify conflicts and harmonies between library collection based affordability programs and OER initiatives.
Attendees can evaluate strategies for starting or integrating library led affordability programs with OER initiatives to create a more wholistic and systemic approach to equitable access and affordability.
Attendees will come away with actionable insights into collaborative approaches to equity and affordability.

Speakers

Rachel Scott

associate dean, illinois state university

Rachel E. Scott is associate dean for information assets at Illinois State University’s Milner Library, where she oversees the library’s access and technical services, collection development, scholarly communication initiatives, and cultural heritage activities. Scott conducts... Read More →

Mitchell Scott

Coordinator of Collection Strategies, University of Kentucky

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

12:00pm EDT

Building Sustainable Futures: Exploring Open Business Models in Education

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

In 2017 Paul Stacey and Sarah Hinchliff Pearson co-authored “Made with Creative Commons.” They introduced the open education world to the concept of open business models and shared case studies of businesses sharing to make the world a better place, generating revenue not for unlimited growth but to sustain the operation. Since 2017 the conversation on sustainability and open business models seems to have dissipated, and it’s a vital conversation for open education advocates to continue to have and to learn from each other. In this presentation we will share examples of sustainable open business models and share key questions to ask when developing a sustainability model. In addition, participants will actively engage in brainstorming and ideation to analyze past sustainability efforts, identify challenges encountered, and envision future possibilities.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain knowledge about the concept of open business models and how they differ from traditional models.
Participants will be introduced to case studies of businesses that have implemented open business models, demonstrating how sharing can contribute to making the world a better place.
Learn about the necessity of sustainability for the long-term operation of businesses in the context of open education.
The presentation will provide attendees with key questions to consider when developing sustainable open business models. This could include questions about revenue generation, community engagement, and impact assessment.
Attendees will be encouraged to continue the conversation on sustainability and open business models within the open education community. This involves learning from each other's experiences and sharing knowledge to further advance sustainable practices.

Speakers

Amanda Coolidge

Executive Director, BCcampus

Josie Gray

Manager, Production and Publishing, BCcampus

Amanda Grey

Open Education Strategist, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Chris Fernlund

eCampusOntario

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

12:00pm EDT

FrankenOER: Building Better Learning with Creative OER Creations!

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

Creating our own OER doesn’t have to be scary! Embark on an educational adventure with FrankenOER! Discover innovative approaches to stitching together existing Open Educational Resources (OER) to create new, impactful learning materials in uncharted territories. Gain insights into the process of adopting, remixing, and creating OER for educational purposes, all while engaging in lively discussions and activities tailored to your teaching or learning context. This session isn't just about learning—it's about collaboration. Share your ideas and experiences with fellow OER enthusiasts and be a part of the growing community of FrankenOER creators and adopters. Don't miss this electrifying opportunity to enhance your OER practices and bring your educational creations to life!

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Learn about innovative approaches to utilizing existing OER resources to create new ones in less-established areas.
Gain insights into the process of adopting, remixing, and creating OER for educational purposes.
Engage in discussions and activities to apply the concepts learned to their own teaching or learning contexts.
Collaborate with peers to share ideas and experiences related to OER adoption and creation.

Speakers

Carolyn McGary

Adjunct Professor, Metropolitan State University - Denver

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

12:00pm EDT

Robots Won’t Replace Us: Teaching Students to Read and Write with Generative Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

There’s a lack of consensus about how–or whether–generative artificial intelligence should be used in writing classrooms. As writing and literature professors, we were early adopters in using these tools to improve student learning and writing. We co-developed OER student training on LLMs and their uses. With our students’ consent, we use generative AI to provide formative assessments on writing. Our students want guidance from us. What are these tools? How can they be useful? When should their use be avoided? Who can students go to for help if they aren’t sure? What are the ethical concerns around these tools? This interactive presentation will provide a basic pedagogical framework for instructors starting with the development of an AI syllabus policy. We will share the AI training we require our students to complete, showing how generative AI can be used throughout the reading and writing process. Participants will consider how they can model best practices and ethical uses of AI.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explore use cases for generative AI for reading and writing.
Evaluate whether these use cases are ethical and appropriate.
Consider a variety of approaches to AI use.
Determine the policy approach that most closely aligns with personal values.
Explore trainings and tools for students.
Review openly licensed trainings such as what we provide in our OER Write What Matters.
Consider the role of ed-tech in generative AI use.
Empower students to learn about generative AI in their courses.

Speakers

Liza Long

Associate Professor of English, College of Western Idaho

I'm an associate professor of English at the College of Western Idaho. I am one of two 2024-2025 Idaho State Board of Education Generative AI Fellows. I blog about teaching and writing with generative AI at Artisanal Intelligence.

Joel Gladd

College of Western Idaho

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

12:00pm EDT

Where We Are, Where We’ve Been, and Where We’re Going: The Landscape of OER Scholarship

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

In this session, we will be highlighting a new OER research database developed by AAC&U. Modeled after the Publications on ePortfolio: Archives of the Research Landscape (PEARL) database, we have collected and cited formal publications whose main focus is on OER/OEP, and categorized and tagged each entry to enable visitors to the site to search easily. Entries were identified through database searches and collecting reports from relevant organizations. Each entry is categorized as descriptive or one of three categories of empirical research - affective, outcomes, or assessment/evaluation, and further tagged with a number of subcategories of interest. One of our research goals at AAC&U is to advance the conversation on OER beyond affordability, and having OER research collected in one database has allowed us to see how trends in OER research have shifted over time. We will collect feedback through an anonymous survey, as well as include a link to submit publications we may have missed.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Share the AAC&U OER Database with the OpenEd Community and beyond.
Discuss the state of OER Research in the current landscape, and review how OER research has shifted over time.

Speakers

Heather Miceli

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, American Association of Colleges and Universities

Nathan Henton

American Association of Colleges & Universities

Jessica Chittum

American Association of Colleges & Universities

Dr. C. Edward Watson

Vice President for Digital Innovation, American Association of Colleges & Universities

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

12:00pm EDT

Leveling Up Open Education Program Data

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

IP1

Since 2014, Jeff Gallant has been on a data odyssey, from managing Affordable Learning Georgia's humble data origins in annual cost savings estimates to wrangling a system of gigantic, unwieldy spreadsheets which only could communicate with each other through application-breaking formulas and a dice roll that Excel would not crash. It's about time that he fixed this mess - and you can fix it, too! Join Jeff in an exploration of dimensions, tall data, folders imitating databases, and ultimately a new level in data connections and visualizations.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explain the difference between dimension tables and fact tables
Convert a wide spreadsheet into a system of dimensions and tall data
Connect fact tables together using a folder system
Connect disparate data with each other through data modeling

Speakers

Jeff Gallant

Program Director, GALILEO/Affordable Learning Georgia

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Advanced
Regional Focus United States

12:00pm EDT

Time to Shift: Exploring Learning Evolutions in an Open Pedagogical Assignment's Journey

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

IP2

At many institutions, budget cuts, hiring freezes, and the push to increase class sizes leads to many core courses shifting to an asynchronous online model. Faculty facing this teaching shift may feel intimidated to attempt open educational practices within this asynchronous modality. Presenters will share and compare survey data across different cohorts of students, comparing student engagement and perception of an open pedagogical assignment between those enrolled in a face-to-face course and an asynchronous, online course. Specific attention will be given to student interaction with project materials, and tutorials on openness; providing insights into perceptions of asynchronous instructional materials and an open pedagogy project. Presenters will explore challenges and opportunities involved in adapting an open pedagogy assignment to an asynchronous course and share insights into what they would have done differently to foster student success and engagement.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the significance of open pedagogical approaches in fostering student engagement and ownership of learning.
Reflect on the importance of instructor flexibility in adapting open pedagogical strategies to meet the diverse needs of learners in asynchronous settings.
Identify potential challenges and opportunities associated with adapting open pedagogical approaches to asynchronous course formats, and develop proactive strategies to address them.

Speakers

Dawn (Nikki) Cannon-Rech

Information Services Librarian, Georgia Southern University

Associate Professor, Librarian. OER Librarian. Science Librarian

Autumn Johnson

Special Collections Librarian, Georgia Southern University

Autumn Johnson is the Special Collections Librarian and assistant professor at Georgia Southern University. In this role, she is responsible for coordinating instruction, outreach, and reference for Special Collections at the Zach S. Henderson Library. In addition, she serves as the... Read More →

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

12:00pm EDT

Open Education Recognition: A Long Time Coming

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

Camosun College has been engaging in Open Education for many years with no formal support and faculty working off the sides of their desk with little to no recognition, and certainly no recognition at the institutional level. In 2023, we awarded one faculty member with a certificate for his work developing an Open Textbook. But that was not enough. This year, during Open Education Week and with the support of BCcampus, we decided to highlight Open Education work in an Open Education Recognition Awards ceremony. The concept was simple: recognize faculty members who have made profound contributions to open education at Camosun College and demonstrated an impact on student learning and student costs by utilizing, designing, or adapting open resources in their instruction. This presentation will tell the story of why we chose recognition over achievement, how we chose the faculty we recognized, as well as give you some ideas of how you could do the same at your own institutions.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explore how one small institution with no formal Open Education office recognized 41 faculty members for their work in Open Education
Learn how you can also initiate similar recognition opportunities at your own institution
Gather tips from lessons learned around how to make such an event a success

Speakers

Emily Schudel

Instructional Designer, Camosun College

I am an Instructional Designer in the eLearning unit of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. I have worked as an instructional designer for 20 years, and have worked with faculty enhancing their courses with technology, faculty teaching blended courses (combining face-to-face... Read More →

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Canada

12:00pm EDT

Time Will Tell: Innovative Approaches to OER Student Savings Over Time

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

Library programs aimed at promoting the use of open educational resources (OER) can significantly enhance student affordability. Research shows that 70% of universities use standardized methods to determine cost savings, typically through before-and-after comparisons of course material adoption. However, these methods do not address long-term benefits, such as improved grades and dropout rates associated with OER. Additionally, quantifying OER's impact on fostering justice-oriented and student-centered teaching can be challenging. This session will explore how sustained savings fit into the greater landscape of assessment of OER/affordability programs. Presenters will share findings from an informal institution survey, as well as invite attendees to contribute their assessment practices. The aim of this presentation is to reframe the conversation around student savings, challenging both university administrators and OER practitioners to go beyond established categories.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand and explain the difference between before-and-after and sustained/compounded savings
Evaluate the assessment needs of OER and affordability programs at their own institutions
Engage in a discussion about student savings, which considers innovations and new perspectives

Speakers

Lily Todorinova

Open Educational Research Librarian, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Julia Maxwell

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Zara Wilkinson

Rutgers University-Camden

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

12:30pm EDT

Lunch / Break (45 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:30pm - 1:15pm 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.

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:30pm - 1:15pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

1:15pm EDT

Keynote: Richard Baraniuk

Wednesday October 9, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT

General

A pioneer in open education, Dr. Richard G. Baraniuk is professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University and founder and director of OpenStax. He launched Connexions in 1999 as a platform for open knowledge sharing, which evolved into OpenStax, the world’s largest OER publisher with more than 70 digital textbooks used by 7 million college and high school students this school year. He also leads SafeInsights, the US National Science Foundation’s national infrastructure for education research. Baraniuk has been active in AI theory research and education applications for 15 years, and is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, AAAS, and IEEE. He has received numerous research and education awards, including the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal and the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education.

Speakers

Richard Baraniuk

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Session Type

Hybrid

Wednesday October 9, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
General

Plenary

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

2:15pm EDT

Break (15 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:15pm - 2:30pm EDT

General

Session Type

Break

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:15pm - 2:30pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

2:30pm EDT

Bridging the Divide: Exploring Open Educational Resources (OER) and Bookstore Partnerships

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT

Enacting change within a higher education setting frequently poses significant challenges. Balancing the imperative of inclusive participation with the nuanced requirements of individual departments often presents obstacles for transformative initiatives such as OER. In this presentation, attendees will have the opportunity to hear insights from an OER librarian and a bookstore manager who spearheaded change at a 2-year technical college. Originating from a shared aspiration to mitigate the financial burden of textbooks and course materials, this initiative evolved into a collaborative endeavor. A pivotal component was the establishment of a Textbook Affordability Committee, which systematically evaluated conventional service provisions and remains engaged in ongoing enhancements reflective of evolving faculty and student needs. Attendees will learn actionable strategies and advocacy tools to champion their own OER and bookstore collaborations within their respective institutions.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the challenges of implementing collaborative OER initiatives in higher education, including navigating departmental interests and fostering inclusivity.
Gain insights into practical strategies for transforming textbook provisioning systems into collaborative OER and bookstore partnerships.
Develop actionable plans and advocacy skills to initiate similar partnerships within their own institutions.

Speakers

Rachel Becker

Librarian currently at Madison Area Technical College working with Open Educational Resources, instruction, technology, and copyright issues. Advocating for textbook affordability, affordable education, and equitable access.EdD student at Johns Hopkins School of Education SPARC Open... Read More →

Holly Deering

Manager Operations, Madison Area Technical College

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

2:30pm EDT

Evolving and Adapting: Reflections on a Decade of OER Implementation and Equity

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT

Over the last decade, Salt Lake Community College's OER program, Open SLCC, has progressed from piloting a handful of OER courses to implementing OER in 116 courses and 15,619 total sections. This significant achievement was driven by a decentralized model, saving students an estimated $28 million in textbook costs. However, amidst the celebration, we acknowledge persistent challenges, including inequity in unpaid labor within our grassroots program. To mitigate these challenges, we discuss the process of centralization and establishment of a grant program, along with our plans to rectify unpaid and unrecognized labor from the past and create formal recognition for OER work. We will share details about the application process, guidelines, and rubric used and adapted from open community resources. Our journey underscores the importance of transparency, collaboration, continuous learning, and adjustments as we strive to foster a more equitable and sustainable open education ecosystem.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Adapt ideas for an Open Grant Application, Rubric, and Compensation & Timeline Guidelines
Examine the challenges of inequities and unrecognized open education labor and the implications for program sustainability.
Learn methods and tools used to address inequities and improve transparency.

Speakers

Brenda Gardner

Associate Professor Math, OER Faculty Fellow, Salt Lake Community College

Andrea Scott

Director, Open Educational Resources (OER), Salt Lake Community College

I'm the Open Educational Resources (OER) Director for the Office of Learning Advancement and Co-Chair of the Open SLCC Advisory Committee at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). My primary responsibilities involve overseeing operations, including program growth, sustainability strategy... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

2:30pm EDT

Against Hope

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT

IP1

I've been involved with open education for years, and the work for me has always been about hope—hope that we could build a more equitable, humane, diverse, and sustainable ecosystem for learning and for the sharing of knowledge. This year I begin my 30th year working in US higher education, and I'm dismayed that my daily work seems to take me farther and farther away from a hopeful horizon. In this presentation, I'll take a page from climate activist Greta Thunberg, who often eschews a rhetoric of hope in favor of a rhetoric of panic and action. What are the forces that not only threaten our hopes, but violently twist our work until it loses potency? What is the meaning of “open” in a world where words like “access,” “inclusion,” and “diversity” are routinely co-opted for profit? What culpability do we bear if we (continue to) do our good work in contexts that minimize, appropriate, poison, or exploit that work? Feeling good about where we are headed? This is not the session for you.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Define neoliberalism and explain how it threatens work in open education;
Ask critical questions about their own complicity in systems that do harm to learning and to learners;
Reconsider the tenor of a movement focused around hope, and strategize about how we could revision open for a more dire and dangerous current context.

Speakers

Robin DeRosa

Director, Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, Plymouth State University

Robin DeRosa is the director Learning & Libraries at Plymouth State University, and a national advocate for public higher education in the United States. She was an English professor for fifteen years before becoming the director of a unique Interdisciplinary Studies program where... Read More →

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

2:30pm EDT

The Hope Project: Using OER to Shared Lived Experiences With Students

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT

I am a historian, a professor, a developer of curriculum and I also happen to have Multiple Sclerosis. In my journey, I have experienced many reasons why hope was all I had left. And I decided that I wanted to write my story as a means to help others deal with times they felt hopeless. As such, I published my story through OER. I then went on to develop the first Disability minor in any Ontario college, at the degree level. As part of the mandate of this program, it was essential that we include the lived experiences of people who have disabilities of all kinds. And thus, my story (and others) were combined into what I loosely refer to as the Hope Project. In this session, I would like to share how I have learned from the past, while teaching students about the present, and giving them hope for the future. And through the disability minor, I am helping develop disability advocates in my students. The joy in this privileged experience is worth sharing here.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Foster collaboration and innovative solutions for disability-related issues
Promote inclusive thinking, advocacy for social inclusion and help empower students to challenge societal norms
Advocate for accessibility and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities
Assist students in understanding the importance of sharing the lived experiences of others

Speakers

Laura Quirk

Conestoga College

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Canada

2:30pm EDT

Tracking OER Awareness and Adoption in US Higher Ed and K-12 Classrooms

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT

Digital classroom materials are ubiquitous across classrooms. Faculty and teachers are regularly using digital versions of textbooks, homework, quizzes and more, and the levels of use are high even for fully in-person courses. Open educational resources (OER) have become a major source for many of these digital materials, especially textbooks. This presentation reviews the level of awareness of openly licensed course materials demonstrated by teachers, faculty, and administrators using data collected from surveys conducted from 2012 through 2024. The results will be compared by grade level, from elementary school, middle school, high school, and through college. The factors associated with the growth of open licensing awareness and sentiments of the respondents will be reviewed. This project is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The responses come from nationally representative samples of Higher Education and K-12 administrators and teachers from all fifty states.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand how awareness of open licensing has grown over time among US education
Recognize factors that have impacted this growth of open licensing awareness
Draw connections between awareness of open licensing and awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources
Contextualize OER within broader digital course material adoption, including digital textbooks
Compare OER awareness and adoption across grade levels

Speakers

Jeff Seaman

Director, Bay View Analytics

Julia Seaman

Director, Bay View Analytics

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

2:30pm EDT

Mind the Overlap: The Power of Open UDL

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 3:25pm EDT

Join us in this interactive workshop for a hands-on exploration of Open UDL, a new pedagogical approach at the intersection of Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) that we developed for one of our advanced faculty workshops. After a short introduction to the ways UDL and OEP complement each other, we will dive into interactive group activities to map the overlap of the principles of both approaches, review assessments from various disciplines through the Open UDL lens, and develop next steps for your own Open UDL practice. There will be plenty of time for discussion, plus we will provide a digital swagbag of resources, hoping you will leave feeling inspired and equipped to explore Open UDL and apply it to your courses, programs, or instructional design practice. This workshop is designed to benefit instructors, course developers, program directors, instructional designers, and CTL staff.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Define Open UDL; ie., identifying how UDL guidelines overlap with the attributes of OER and Open Pedagogy.
Critique sample assignments and assessments through the lens of Open UDL.
Articulate one achievable next step for implementing Open UDL in their courses, their programs, or their instructional design practice.

Speakers

Antonia Levy

Associate Director, Instructional Technology and Faculty Development, CUNY School of Professional Studies

Kelly Hammond

OER Assistant, Scholastic

Session Type

Hybrid (55 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 3:25pm EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

2:30pm EDT

Openness As Attitude, Vulnerability as Practice: Finding Our Way With GenAI

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 3:25pm EDT

The presenters explore their uses of openness as attitude and vulnerability as a practice with educators and students discussing generative AI (GenAI) in higher education as we experiment with ways to build GenAI literacies. GenAI has been an overwhelming "shock" for many. Openness as attitude is sharing what we are doing and learning to support others in working with emerging technologies. Vulnerability as practice is our willingness to be wrong and learn from it. These strategies allow us to approach GenAI with curiosity and criticality, excitement, and concern in order to respond quickly and constructively. We will share recent examples where openness and vulnerability have helped further classroom, social media, listserv, webinar, and conference discussions of AI in higher education.. Then we will encourage participants to share how they lean into and have benefited from openness and vulnerability and discuss the concerns, risks, and challenges of learning in these ways.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Consider the degree of vulnerability that is appropriate for their own work in open education
Explore a variety of concrete practices to leverage openness as an attitude and assess strategies that may benefit them for their own needs
Discuss the challenge of sitting in the center of all the strong views about generative AI

Speakers

Lance Eaton

Director of Faculty Development & Innovation, College Unbound

I read. I run. I write. Add a dash of learning, a hint of reflecting, a handful of wonder, and a smidgen of technology. Repeat. Updates on books, education, pop culture, and anything else that comes to mind!

Maha Bali

professor of practice, American University in Cairo

Maha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org (a grassroots movement that challenges academic... Read More →

Anna Mills

College of Marin

Session Type

Hybrid (55 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 3:25pm EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

3:00pm EDT

Fostering OER Leadership through Facilitation Pathways

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT

Emerging OER leaders play a pivotal role in shaping the development of newcomers to open. Despite the plethora of professional development opportunities available, facilitation methods are not often recognized as a critical leadership skill. Presenters will reflect on 3 years of a Facilitator Pathway program, announced during the 2021 Open Education Conference, and how this skill set has affirmed their growth and standing as leaders. This session will delve into the creation and implementation of a professional development facilitator program tailored for faculty, librarians, technologists, and staff. Speakers will describe how increased training in facilitation methods empowered them to integrate their experiences into pedagogy, establish meaningful connections with students, and improve outcomes. We’ll also share the benefits of establishing a virtual community of practice amongst facilitators to improve their teaching practice, strengthen networks, and improve the pathway program.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Learn from emerging leaders who have intentionally embarked on year-long professional development programs to enhance their potential
Gain insight into the unique skill sets, responsibilities, and impact of emerging OER leaders as they influence faculty or contribute to capacity building initiatives
Understand how facilitation prepares individuals for leadership roles
Understand the critical role of facilitation in supporting OER initiatives, fostering collaboration, driving project success, and establishing OER champions
Explore practical strategies for integrating facilitation methods into their own practice as emerging OER leaders

Speakers

Stacy Katz

Open Resources Librarian, Lehman College, CUNY

Apurva Ashok

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

Bryan McGeary

Learning Design & Open Education Engagement Librarian, Penn State University

Liza Long

Associate Professor of English, College of Western Idaho

Joel Gladd

College of Western Idaho

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

3:00pm EDT

How Much is Too Much? : Lessons Learned from the UT System Data Collection Project

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT

OER Practitioners across the University of Texas system meet regularly to support, advocate for, and advance OER use across the UT System. In 2023, in collaboration with UT System's Momentum on OER taskforce, we were each asked to provide unified cost-savings metrics from courses using OER and/or free materials. In this session, we discuss our ongoing system-wide data collecting projects, including each institution's process for collecting OER data, limitations and challenges in reporting accurate data, and the value of working together to advance OER use across our campuses. Attendees will learn how to create a community to support "solo" OER Librarians, navigating reporting metrics at a system-wide level where each institution has distinct data gathering processes, and lessons-learned to help other institutions effectively gather data and advocate for OER.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Feel empowered to collaborate with other institutions to advocate for Open Education data collection.
Learn how data-gathering can vary across institutions, and our best practices for reporting diverse data.
Advocate for resources to better support standardized data collection.
Communicate how sustainability practices for collecting unified system metrics vary based on institutional support structures.

Speakers

Terra Gullings

Scholarly Communication Librarian, UT Tyler

Gabrielle Hernandez

Open Education Librarian, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Gabby Hernandez is the Open Education Librarian at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. There she coordinates the Textbook Affordability Project which supports the advocacy and implementation of open educational practices at UTRGV. With a background as a K-12 educator, she brings... Read More →

Jessica McClean

Director of OER & Digital Scholarship, UTA Libraries, University of Texas at Arlington

Maria Teresa Torres

OER Librarian, University of Texas at El Paso

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

3:00pm EDT

Forging Partnerships to Navigate Difficult Conversations

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT

IP1

Open education invites communities to envision a future in which access to educational opportunities is open, inclusive, and transformative. In the United States, realizing this vision requires intentional attention to issues related to both diversity and equity. The 2023 OpenEd conference track “Social Justice in Open” included 11 presentations across 3 days sharing practitioner experience with diversity, equity, and open practices; this suggests that those advocating for open are exploring their impact on the student experience. Some states, however, have passed legislation prohibiting public higher education institutions from using federal/state funds to support initiatives exploring diversity and equity, preventing participation in conferences, committees, and publications with an emphasis on diversity and equity. Participants in this session will engage in discussion about how the purpose and outcome of the work can be accomplished without using now prohibited language.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Consider whether it is meaningful, harmful, or helpful to find ways to discuss diversity and equity without use of those specific terms.
Identify ways in which laws prohibiting state funds from being used in DEI may or may not impact the ability of those in the open community to connect, share, and collaborate.
Explore definitions of the terms diversity and equity with an eye toward identifying how to move toward established goals without using prohibited language.
Integrate diversity and equity into practice in ways that reflect an understanding of the meaning of the terms.
Locate where related conversations have already or are currently taking place.

Speakers

Heather Blicher

Director, Community College Consortium for OER, Open Education Global

Kathy Essmiller

Assistant Professor, OER Librarian, Coordinstor OpenOKState, Oklahoma State University

I have grown two kids, a pack of dogs, and I love to camp in the mountains. Also happy to talk about Open Educational Resources, the arts (I am a former MS/HS band director), educational technology and instructional design, and how amazing it is to get to work in a Library.

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

3:00pm EDT

Course Design on the Fly: How to Design a Role-Playing Game in 1 Hour or Less

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT

Role-playing games can be a great way to get students engaged in class. Games make learning fun, promote deep learning, and can be done with OER materials. And, it's actually quite easy to write your own role-playing game(s) that is tailored to your courses and topics. In this session, we will show you the process for how to write a game, and provide with you a a game-design template. Once you know the basic process and design, you will be able to write a game on any topic in 1 hour or less. Additionally, you can teach this game-design process to students and have them write games as assignments.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Write a role-playing game on any topic, using OER materials.
Create game-design assignments for students.

Speakers

Donald Slone

Georgia Southern University, GA, USA

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

3:00pm EDT

Students’ Experiences With Open & Culturally Responsive Teaching: Findings From TN’s OER Initiative

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT

OER proponents hypothesize that OER may facilitate student-centered and culturally responsive practices, leading to gains in students’ academic and social-emotional outcomes. However, there is limited evidence documenting how professional development can support faculty in using open and culturally responsive educational practices and whether use of these practices leads to changes in students' experiences in these courses. SRI partnered with Achieving the Dream and the Tennessee Board of Regents to conduct a two-year, mixed-methods study to understand how 2- and 4-year college instructors use open and culturally responsive practices and how students experience them.

In this presentation, researchers will discuss the study framework and design. We will also share findings on how instructors implemented open and culturally responsive practices in their courses and how students experienced these practices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the impact and return on investment that front-end support for OER-enabled open and culturally responsive practices can have on instructors’ pedagogy.
Learn about students’ educational experiences in courses using OER-enabled open and culturally responsive practices as compared to courses using traditional materials and pedagogies.
Learn about the changes in instructors' practices that may explain differences in students' social-emotional outcomes in courses using OER-enabled open and culturally responsive educational practices.

Speakers

Jodie Lawrence

SRI Education

Ela Joshi

SRI Education

Rebecca Griffiths

SRI Education

Judy Westley

Columbia State Community College

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

3:30pm EDT

Behind the Book: Learnings and Reflections from an Open Textbook Equity Adaptation Project

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT

One of the benefits of open licenses is the ability for others to take an OER and adapt it to make it more inclusive. But what does that mean? What is involved in that process? Where do you begin? In this session, we share our reflections on a 10-month collaborative, multi-institutional project to adapt an Introduction to Psychology open textbook through the lenses of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We will share our process, successes, and insights we gained through this project. We will talk about collaboration, roles, how students contributed to the adaptation, and our one-day sprint to get all the content into Pressbooks. We will also share the challenges we experienced and explore the question: “If we could do it all again, what would we do differently?”

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Define what an equity, diversity, and inclusion OER adaptation project involves (or could involve).
Describe the roles people can play in a collaborative OER adaptation project focused on equity.
Critically consider the limitations of adaptation when wanting to create an OER that centres equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Reflect on your own OER projects to identify opportunities to make them more inclusive and collaborative.

Speakers

Krista Lambert

Designer: Learning or Instructional, Justice Institute of British Columbia

Josie Gray

Manager, Production and Publishing, BCcampus

Harper Friedman

Coordinator, Open Textbook Publishing, BCcampus

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

3:30pm EDT

How Far We’ve Come: Looking at Open Education from a Different Angle

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT

It’s common to hear the refrain that OER can’t meet the same needs as commercial publishers: they aren’t as specific, as broad... This angle leaves out a crucial point: considering the age of the OE movement, we’ve made tremendous progress! While open textbooks might not exist for every field, OER aren’t just textbooks. They come in every shape and size that has value in education, and that’s a strength! Ignoring this diversity discounts the work practitioners have done in creating, remixing, and leveraging diverse learning materials together. And that doesn’t even include OEP! The presenters will start a discussion about how looking at our work from another angle can help OE advocates have more productive discussions. We’ll share examples from across open movements to highlight how collaborative, open work yields more for the community than commercial actors can provide. Attendees will be invited to consider how they can acknowledge the progress they’ve made as well.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Recognize 3 major areas where the OE community has developed over time.
Identify new talking points they can leverage when promoting open education.
Contextualize the breadth of OEP happening in their local context.

Speakers

Abbey Elder

Iowa State University

Shannon Smith

University of Wyoming

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

3:30pm EDT

The Open Education Advocacy Playbook: Tailored for Your Needs

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT

The open education movement's success relies on cultivating a diverse community of enthusiastic advocates throughout the education sector. Drawing from experiences as a special education teacher, non-profit advocate, and academic librarian, this session explores strategies for empowering the next generation of open education leaders. We will examine the value of bringing together diverse perspectives - educators, librarians, students, instructional designers, and community organizations. Gain insights into raising awareness, providing professional development, fostering collaborations, involving students as partners, and recognizing champions. Learn practical strategies for tailoring advocacy efforts, building skills, and creating inclusive networks. Leave equipped with actionable methods to inspire and support advocates, ensuring sustainable growth of open education initiatives.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the value and benefits of engaging a diverse range of advocates from various roles and levels within the education sector for the open education movement.
Develop strategies to raise awareness and provide professional development opportunities tailored to specific audiences like educators, librarians, instructional designers, students, administrators, and community organizations.
Explore methods to foster cross-institutional collaborations and create inclusive knowledge-sharing networks that support open education advocacy efforts.
Learn approaches to actively involve students as partners in open educational resource creation and advocacy initiatives.
Formulate an actionable plan to cultivate, inspire, and support the next generation of open education advocates within their institution or community, ensuring the sustainability and growth of the movement.

Speakers

Nicole Baker

Research and Instruction Librarian, SUNY Brockport

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

3:30pm EDT

Open for Antiracism: What Have We Learned and What Can You Do?

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT

IP1

The Open for Antiracism program supports US community college faculty to transform their classrooms to be antiracist by using OER and Open Pedagogy. Participants add underrepresented viewpoints and create inclusive content in collaboration with their students, while blending Open Pedagogy with Antiracist Pedagogy In this presentation, we will review lessons learned in the Open for Antiracism program and share research on institutional impact, faculty perceptions, and student outcomes. We will also ask attendees to discuss how they can adapt or adopt the overall program or components in their own settings. We invite critiques of the program and ask attendees to share how their institutions promote antiracist teaching practices to improve student success, particularly for traditionally marginalized and underserved students. The interactive discussion will conclude with the question of how Open Education can more effectively engage with antiracist pedagogy.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Make the case that OER and Open Pedagogy can support Antiracist Pedagogy
Describe how inclusive and antiracist pedagogies can support student success, particularly for traditionally marginalized and underserved students.
Summarize the outcomes of the Open for Antiracism Program
Describe how they can leverage OER and Open Pedagogy in their own settings to support Antiracist Pedagogy

Speakers

James Glapa-Grossklag

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

Joy Shoemate

Director, Online Education, College of the Canyons

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

3:30pm EDT

AI for Access: Ideas to Boost Open Learning and OER through Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT

This session will explore how artificial intelligence can be applied to enhance access to open educational resources and advance equitable learning opportunities globally. Leaders in the fields of OER, AI, and accessibility will discuss innovative proposals for leveraging technologies like machine translation, personalized recommendation systems, and automated content curation to make open education available to all. Attendees will gain insight into cutting-edge approaches for using artificial intelligence to increase the discoverability, adaptation, and inclusive design of open content. They'll learn about projects aimed at reducing barriers and expanding the reach of OER through technical solutions. Examples of work piloting AI for translation, personalized pathways, and automated alternative media generation will be shared. This session presents an opportunity to engage with experts developing strategies that apply AI's potential to spread open knowledge and narrow digital divides.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Analyze how AI technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing and adaptive systems can be leveraged to enhance access to OER.
Develop innovative ideas and proposals for using AI to increase the discoverability, accessibility, inclusiveness and interoperability of OER on a global scale.
Evaluate the ethical considerations and technical feasibility of proposed AI solutions for advancing equitable learning opportunities through OER.
Understand how AI can be applied to reduce barriers to OER such as language translation, personalized recommendations and accessibility features.
Collaborate with others to refine proposal concepts that maximize the potential of AI to spread open education worldwide in an open and interoperable manner.

Speakers

Robbie Melton

Tennessee State University

Dr. Robbie Melton, Associate Vice President for the SMART Global Technology Innovation Center and Graduate Dean and tenured professor at Tennessee State University, serves as a global researcher and international consultant for Emerging IOE (“The Internet of Everything”) Smart... Read More →

Nicole Arrighi

Tennessee State University

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

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

3:30pm EDT

Enhancing Education Through Targeted Professional Development: A Case Study on OER Implementation

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT

This session explores a structured professional development approach designed to enhance Open Educational Resources (OER) implementation in higher education. It focuses on a model developed by Achieving the Dream, The Tennessee Board of Regents, and SRI Education, featuring a Summer Institute and a facilitated Community of Practice. This initiative supports faculty new to OER by pairing them with OER champions, fostering a collaborative environment for sustainable course design and teaching innovations while also providing sustained support throughout the lifecycle of their projects.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the structure and benefits of a Summer Institute as a professional development model for implementing OER in higher education settings.
Recognize the role of experienced OER champions in mentoring faculty new to OER and how this can enhance the adoption and integration of open resources.
Identify effective strategies for sustaining a Community of Practice to support ongoing development and problem-solving among faculty implementing OER.
Gain insights into overcoming common challenges in OER course design through collaborative learning and peer support.
Apply lessons learned from case studies and peer experiences to plan and execute OER initiatives within their own institutions.

Speakers

Susan Adams

Achieving the Dream

Nancy Stano

Austin Community College

April Crenshaw

Associate Professor, Chattanooga State Community College

April Crenshaw is an Associate Professor of Mathematics with two decades of combined experience in K-12 and higher education. An award-winning educator and sought-after conference speaker, she has gained national recognition for her innovative and inclusive teaching methods. Professor... Read More →

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
H3

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

3:30pm EDT

Let Us ROER: Radical OER-Reframing OER

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT

In our modern political landscape, the library is an inherently radical space and this is especially true for OER. Time and time again, OER is framed as a cost-effective solution. While this is one of the ways we can advocate for OER support, it can be a limitor in how we think about OER. Instead, we can understand the theoretical framework that makes OER radical and thus be better equipt to build OER departments that are sustainable, welcoming, and uplifting. In this presentation, I will discuss how to reframe OER as a radical act and how that translates into practice and action.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the library as a radical space
Understand how to advocate for more OER support

Speakers

Jeanne Kambara

University of Delaware

Anukruti Pulimi

University of Delaware

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Break (15 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:00pm - 4:15pm EDT

General

Session Type

Break

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

4:15pm EDT

Breakout Groups: Geographic Region

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

General

During this session, attendees can select a breakout discussion group by geographic region.

Session Type

Hybrid

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
General

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

4:15pm EDT

Breakout: Canada

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

IP1

Session Type

Hybrid

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
IP1

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Regional Focus Canada

4:15pm EDT

Breakout: Global (All Wecome)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

Session Type

Hybrid

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
V1

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Regional Focus Global Focus

4:15pm EDT

Breakout: Latin America & the Caribbean

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

IP2

Session Type

Hybrid

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
IP2

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Regional Focus Latin America & the Caribbean

4:15pm EDT

Breakout: U.S. Midwest

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

Session Type

Hybrid

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
H2

Breakout Groups

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

4:15pm EDT

Breakout: U.S. Northeast

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont

Session Type

Hybrid

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
H1

Breakout Groups

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

4:15pm EDT

Breakout: U.S. South

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

Session Type

Hybrid

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
H3

Breakout Groups

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

4:15pm EDT

Breakout: U.S. West

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

Session Type

Hybrid

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
H4

Breakout Groups

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

5:00pm EDT

End of In Person Day / Virtual Break (30 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

General

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

5:30pm EDT

Empowering Global Citizens: Integrating UN Sustainable Development Goals and K-12 Open Lessons

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals urge global action for a sustainable future for all. These goals are interdisciplinary and require collaboration within and across countries. They offer a framework for tangible progress and relevant context for developing global competence in our interconnected and interdependent world. Join us in this overview of openly licensed global competence modules from the World Affairs Council – Seattle. Lessons focused on the Sustainable Development Goals target local and global issues ranging from ensuring quality education for all to mitigating climate change. Available in multiple languages, these resources support students in developing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that will prepare them for college, career, and civic life. Resources are located on the Washington OER Hub - Washington's platform for sharing K-12 OER and providing equitable access to standards-aligned, high-quality instructional materials.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explore some examples of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) OER lessons.
Locate resources on the Washington OER Hub.
See what’s on the horizon for future SDG lesson development

Speakers

Barbara Soots

Assistant Director, Open Education & Instructional Material, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

In her role as Open Educational Resources (OER) Program Manager at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in Washington, Barbara Soots implements state legislation directing collection of K–12 OER resources aligned to state learning standards and promotion of... Read More →

Ryan Hauck

Director, Global Classroom, World Affairs Council, Seattle

Michele Anciaux-Aoki

International Education and World Languages Advocate

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

Enhance Student-Centered Learning: Boost Engagement and Alleviate Anxiety by Using H5P-rich OER

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT

In today's educational landscape, student-centered learning has become imperative for enhancing outcomes by catering to individual needs and interests. This proposal focuses on the transformative potential of H5P (HTML5 Package), an interactive content creation platform, in fostering personalized, engaging learning environments. Our presentation delves into how educators can utilize H5P to design interactive learning experiences, thereby boosting student motivation. Furthermore, we explore H5P's role in alleviating anxiety among students by applying multimedia principles using H5P in digital textbooks. Join us as we discuss practical strategies for increasing engagement and reducing anxiety in educational settings through H5P-enhanced student-centered learning approaches. Our presentation aims to share qualitative and quantitative research findings, equipping participants with the knowledge and tools to create inclusive, engaging, and effective learning experiences for all students.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the Impact of H5P-rich OER on Learner Engagement
Identify Strategies to Reduce Anxiety in Online Learning Environments
Evaluate the Effectiveness of H5P Activities in Promoting Active Learning
Optimize OER Materials for Enhanced Learning Outcomes

Speakers

Theresa Huff

OER Instructional Designer, Loyola Marymount University

Daphne Tseng

University of North Texas

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

Getting to ZERO from Textbook to Homework: A Collaborative Journey in Developing Spanish OER

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT

Four instructors from California community colleges share their transition from commercial textbooks to OER and innovative homework solutions in Spanish language instruction. They will focus on their collaborative projects, supported by the Academic Senate of California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative and LibreTexts: Entrada Libre (2020), Tarea Libre (2022), and Tarea Libre 2 (Summer 2024). Attendees will learn about the collaborative process, from conception to implementation, and the challenges faced during the development of the materials. The presentation aims to renew enthusiasm for reshaping the future of Spanish language education through innovative solutions. Emphasis will be placed on the creation of open and accessible resources that align with the ASCCC OERI IDEA framework of inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism. While accessibility is implied in the IDEA framework, we wish to increase visibility of accessibility issues.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain insights into the collaborative strategies used in the development of language learning OER.
Learn practical lessons from the Entrada Libre, Tarea Libre, and Tarea Libre 2 projects.
Leave with useful strategies and tools needed to start your own OER development.

Speakers

Sarah Harmon

OER/ZTC Coordinator, Adj Prof Spanish/Linguistics, Cañada College

I'm an Adjunct Professor of Spanish and Linguistics and serve as the OER/ZTC Coordinator at Cañada College, which is part of the San Mateo County Community College District. As the OER/ZTC Coordinator, I work with colleagues and students to implement the use of OER, open pedagogy... Read More →

Alejandro Lee

Professor of Spanish, Santa Monica College

I teach second-year Spanish and Spanish for heritage speakers (first and second-year) at a HSI community college.I am interested in learning more about assessments, addressing special needs of students with learning disabilities (ADHD, dyslexia, etc.), and proficiency-based curri... Read More →

Cristina Moon

Professor and OER/ZTC Coordinator, Chabot College

Dr. Cristina Moon is Professor of Spanish at Chabot College. She joined the college in 2006. She earned a BA in Spanish from UC Berkeley, and a MA and Ph. D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. She has developed online courses for first and second-year Spanish which... Read More →

Hugo Díaz-Rodil

Sierra College

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
V4

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

Roleplaying and Case Studies: OER STEAM Education Beyond the OER Textbook

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT

Education is more than what we teach. More memorable than the content of various textbooks is the interaction between students and their peers guided by their instructors. It is high time that Open Educational Resources evolve to support holistic teaching and learning experiences, in addition to providing accessible textbooks for content acquisition. This presentation invites participants to immerse themselves in an interactive, scenario-based activity, equipping them with the confidence to establish collaborative learning environments within their STEAM courses. Additional role-playing and case studies will be introduced, and participants will have the opportunity to create tailored activities that cater to their unique instructional needs. The activities presented will explore the concept of providing appropriate support for students with diverse abilities, levels of preparation and participation, and facilitate collaborative learning experiences that resonate with all students.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Implement a case-study activity in their classrooms with confidence.
Select and customize a scenario-based activity suitable for their purposes.
Appreciate the value of using scenario-based activities to foster an inclusive and collaborative learning environment.
Better appreciate their role as a facilitator in the classroom.

Speakers

Eszter Trufan

Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston-Downtown

I love to experiment! That passion extends to all areas of my life from the lab to the classroom and course design. I continually work on designing classes that invite all students to experience diverse activities that help foster interest and enthusiasm for learning and science with... Read More →

Elene Bouhoutsos-Brown

lecturer, University of Houtson-Downtown

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
V3

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

6:00pm EDT

Marking the Trail for OER/ZTC: Cañada College's Journey in the ZTC Landscape, Spring 2021-Fall 2023

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT

Cañada College started its OER/ZTC journey in Spring 2019, when the ASCCC OERI Liaison being named. Soon afterwards, the College and its District (San Mateo County CCD) delved into equity and anti-racism work, which included the expansion of OER adoption and use of other sustainable ZTC methods. Reliable accounting of ZTC and LTC courses started in Spring 2021. So much has changed in the world and in education since then—so what trends can be seen? Cañada has collected enrollment, success, and retention data on ZTC and LTC courses since Spring 2021. This presentation will discuss those findings, including demographic data, cohort data, and more. The presentation will also showcase data on disproportionately impacted groups; these results are helping the college identify new gaps and address previously known ones. What has Cañada already done to address some of these gaps, and what are some ideas for the future?

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain insights on social impacts of OER and other sustainable ZTC methods at a community college.
Identify key data points to track the impact of OER and other sustainable ZTC methods.
Leave with useful strategies and resources on how to track data on OER and other sustainable ZTC methods.

Speakers

Sarah Harmon

OER/ZTC Coordinator, Adj Prof Spanish/Linguistics, Cañada College

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT
V4

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

6:00pm EDT

OER Champions: A Model for Building an Open Pedagogy Culture at an Open Access Community College

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT

How can institutions leverage OER adopters to promote wider adoption across programs? At a two-year community college, instructors, deans, and librarians collaborated to create an OER Champion model to promote awareness and adoption of OER across the college. The presenters share openly licensed resources, success stories, and challenges for institutions who want to create dynamic communities of practice to promote open pedagogy across departments. We include the resources and processes we developed for promoting Z-degrees, providing internal marketing for faculty, and assisting faculty in our OER adoption process. We also note the positive effects of institutional and legislative supports that have funded and supported our initiatives and discuss ongoing advocacy for these initiatives. Our goal is to help similarly situated institutions save time and adopt best practices as they cultivate the next generation of open education leaders and advocates.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Appreciate a diverse community model in promoting open education resources.
Recognize the unique contributions of librarians, academic deans, and instructors in OER adoption.
Discuss common challenges: faculty buy-in, resource curation/hosting, course marking, and sustainability.
Share practical tips for overcoming obstacles and celebrating victories.
Showcase the OER Champions Learning Community
Discover ways to engage faculty, librarians, and administrators to advance OER adoption.
Inspire attendees to become OER advocates within their institutions.
Leave with actionable steps to champion OER adoption.

Speakers

Liza Long

Associate Professor of English, College of Western Idaho

Susan Aydelotte

Professor, College of Western Idaho

Greg Wilson

Open Education Coordinator, College of Western Idaho

Starting up a digital navigator program at our school and also working on other digital equity efforts such as getting devices into the hands of our students. I would appreciate any tips, experiences, links with organizations that are already doing this especially in the community... Read More →

Jason Roach

College of Western Idaho

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

6:00pm EDT

The Wikipedia Assignment: Where Open Pedagogy Meets Open Knowledge

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT

Almost 25 years since its inception, Wikipedia remains a timely and relevant part of the “open movement.” In 2010, The Wikipedia Student Program came onto the scene, bringing together Wikipedia’s drive for open access and open knowledge with the emerging world of open pedagogy. A simple yet powerful concept: Students at postsecondary institutions contribute to Wikipedia as a course assignment. Guided by their professors, they update critical information on Wikipedia by opening up knowledge typically behind paywalls. In this panel, you’ll hear from three faculty (in the fields of Geography, Computer Information Systems, and Composition) who are running Wikipedia-based assignments in their courses. We’ll explore how Wiki Education is supporting thousands of students each term in this open pedagogical practice. We’ll cover the critical role students can play in opening up knowledge and what they learn from engaging in this essential work.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Recognize the pedagogical value of running a Wikipedia assignment.
Summarize how to implement a Wikipedia assignment into a course.
Assess the role Wikipedia can play in open pedagogy.
Identify the role students can play in filling in critical knowledge equity gaps.
Appraise how the Wikipedia assignment can foster digital literacy and digital citizenship.

Speakers

Debby Kurti

Professor, Victor Valley College

teaching and learning!

Helaine Blumenthal

Senior Program Manager, Wiki Education

Gretchen Sneegas

University of Washington

Caroline Smith

George Washington University

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT
V3

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

6:00pm EDT

Time Well Spent: Crafting OER to Create High Quality ELA Materials for Underserved Students

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT

Just as introducing OER increased the success of students in higher education who didn't have access to textbooks, OER materials have the potential to deliver high quality materials into the hands of K-12 students who otherwise would not have them. However, if we don't learn lessons from the past, OER could be another effort that tries and fails to mitigate educational inequities. This presentation recounts lessons learned from a study of the implementation of teacher created OER resources in a 10th grade English Language Arts (ELA) classroom in a rural, high-poverty high school in spring 2024. Student and teacher voices demonstrate the importance of providing materials that have been specifically adapted by the teacher for the context of her classroom and students. In this presentation, attendees will hear from both the researcher and the 10th grade ELA teacher.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explain the importance of teacher adaptation in the use of OER.
Explain how teacher creation and adaptation of materials for their specific contexts can benefit both teachers and students.
Implement strategies for providing support to teachers in K-12 districts who create/adapt resources for their contexts.

Speakers

Karen Palmer

Yavapai College

Brianne Buckley

Camp Verde High School

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

6:30pm EDT

Daily Debrief

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:30pm - 7:00pm EDT

General

Session Type

Virtual

Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:30pm - 7:00pm EDT
General

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend Virtually

8:00pm EDT

Social Event @ Dave & Busters (In Person)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

General

Conference attendees are invited to an optional social event at Dave & Busters on Wednesday evening. Show up from 8:00pm onwards to receive a free ticket for arcade games and mingle with other conference attendees in a private room. Snacks and soft drinks will be served, and additional food or drinks can be purchased at the bar.

IMPORTANT! Do not forget to bring your nametag as it is required for admission.

This event is jointly sponsored by the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS), and SPARC.

The entrance to Dave and Busters is located in the 3rd floor food court of the Providence Place Mall, which can be reached through an indoor walkway from the second floor of the Omni Providence.

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.

Wednesday October 9, 2024 8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
General

Social

Attendance Type Attend In Person

8:00am EDT

Breakfast

Thursday October 10, 2024 8:00am - 8:45am 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.

Thursday October 10, 2024 8:00am - 8:45am EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person

8:45am EDT

Announcements

Thursday October 10, 2024 8:45am - 9:00am 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.

Thursday October 10, 2024 8:45am - 9:00am EDT
General

Plenary

Attendance Type Attend In Person

9:00am EDT

Accelerating Access to OER in Africa: Case Studies of Localization by Youth Service Ambassadors

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT

Africa has never been more ready for a knowledge revolution. With its burgeoning population growth and vast natural resources, it’s about time for institutions to open access to digital knowledge in low-tech and user-friendly formats. At the start of 2021, 90% of African schools were still closed due to COVID-19 and most families in Africa lacked access to connectivity and critical content in the home. During this time, CDN was invited by partner organizations to liaise closely with African stakeholders in 5 countries to identify opportunities, challenges, and strategies to improve access to OER tools. This session highlights best practices and lessons learned through Open Content for Development (OC4D), an OER library tool launched by the Community Development Network (CDN). Our West African team will share insights from 5 countries since 2020 and will zoom in on lower-literate learners in low-tech areas.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Training/Leadership Development for local knowledge workers (Youth Service Ambassadors, “YSAs”);
Digital Content Curation and Localization;
Tech Deployment/Maintenance/Troubleshooting from Remote Access Points; and,
Feedback Integration via digital dashboard to monitor hardware, software, and learner progress.

Speakers

JOHNSON GBEDZE

Director of Special Projects, Community Development Network

I am particularly interested in ed-tech solutions to deliver digital content in offline areas. I am focused on OER, hybrid learning, and rapid feedback tools for facilitators to track progress.I’ve considered this because it will serve as an accelerator and incubator to help me... Read More →

TIFFANY ZENITH IVINS

OXFORD UNIVERSITY

GIFTY ANAB

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

Marzuq Abubakari

OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Africa

9:00am EDT

Co-DREAM OER: Introducing Innovative New OER Resources in Robotics and Modern Manufacturing

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT

In 2021 CO-DREAM OER, a multi-institutional project received a $2-million grant from the US Department of Education to develop 9 OER textbooks on robotics, mechatronics, and advanced manufacturing, three subjects that are key to the future of research and workforce training in modern industry. The project is now reaching fruition and will release one textbook each semester from fall 2024 to fall 2026. This presentation showcases the innovative textbooks, which help readers understand complex concepts through a mixture of readings, videos, and interactive simulations. It also discusses the project’s approach of improving the textbooks through trial implementations, where faculty are offered stipends to use them in exchange for conducting student surveys and giving feedback on the works. Results of the feedback are used to update the textbooks. The presentation engages its audience to promote the textbooks, which are designed for 2-year associates, 4-year bachelor’s and graduate courses.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the purpose of the project and the important gaps in OER that it seeks to fill with its textbooks.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the textbooks produced by the project, and the types of institutions, courses, and programs they are designed for.
Explore the innovative features that the textbooks contain, along with the pedagogical principles they are based on and how these can be used to train the next generation of researchers and workers in the manufacturing industry.
Discover the formats that the textbooks are available in (Ex. Online e-modules, PDF and downloadable interactive materials that can to be used offline, print on demand) and where they and other potential users can access the books.
Learn the educational research component behind the textbooks, how it seeks to improve the works through trial implementations, and how the audience can take part in prompting and using the textbooks.

Speakers

Alison Mero

Managing Editor, Clemson University Press

Managing Editor at Clemson University Press; acquiring books in music, literature, and the arts. Musicology PhD. she/her/hers

Yang Wu

Clemson University

Yue Wang

Clemson University

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

9:00am EDT

From Closed to Open: Laboring to Revert Rights and Republish Existing Works

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT

Rights-reversion is a powerful tool for broadening access to books which are still-in-demand but paywalled or out-of-print. Converting these works to Open Educational Resources (OER) broadens their availability and meets reader and instructional needs while utilizing existing workflows used by those who create open textbooks. This presentation describes rights reversion, presents multiple case studies, documents the labor involved in rights-reversion and re-publishing workflows, and provides tips and tools for working with authors and publisher-copyright-holders.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Articulate a summary of what rights reversion is.
Describe what makes something an Open Educational Resource (OER)
Explain rationale for including rights-reversion-to-OER as part of their publishing program
Describe why rights-reversion-to-OER might add value to the communities they serve, and similarities and differences to what they might already do in their community or institution

Speakers

Anita Walz

Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian, University Libraries at Virginia Tech

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

9:00am EDT

5 Characteristics that Increase Accessibility in Open Education Resource (OER) Design and Delivery

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT

IP1

Open Education Resources (OER) play an essential role in the modern education by seeking to provide accessibility to information across primary and post-secondary levels. However, the effectiveness of these resources depends on their design and presentation to the user. This session is for educators and users involved in resource curation and will be applicable to designers who cater to primary and secondary levels. This interactive session aims to equip both resource designers and users with the 5 core characteristics of highly effective Open Education Resources (OER)s in the primary and secondary classroom. These core characteristics include findability, clarity, immediate applicability, accessibility from diverse sources, and simplicity in language. In addition participants will engage in a reflective evaluative process of their own tools, collaborate with peers and gain access to a participant-generated digital toolkit of effective resources across the OER spectrum.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the essential characteristics of effective open resource design.
Evaluate existing resources for strengths and weaknesses.
Share preferred resources with peers during the session
Determine strategies to enhance resources and tools for more effective usability

Speakers

Lindsay Mitchell

Pinkerton Academy

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

9:00am EDT

Managing AI with an OER Ethos in Online Math Classes

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT

IP2

Artificial Intelligence is here! So... how are we supposed to handle it? This session will outline a blend of digital and analog strategies to manage AI use in first-year online and in-person math courses. We'll focus on struggles and successes with crafting assignments with an OER mindset that help to nudge students away from knee-jerk AI use and toward the kind of productive study habits we would all like to see more of in our first-year students. In addition to project work, several different forms of "math journaling" in written and digital formats have been both effective and popular with students.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Mitigate unintended student AI use through assignment design.
Engage with sample student "math journaling" work.
Participate in conversation exploring and expanding these themes.

Speakers

George Birthisel

Part-time faculty member, Math, Bridgewater State University

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:25am EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

9:00am EDT

Opening Doors with OER for College English Learners

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT

English Learners (ELs) make up a growing share of U.S. college students, but rates of EL degree completion still lag. ELs face not only language barriers, but also structural barriers. Programs were long based on a false premise that learning English, unlike other foreign languages, was a remedial chore, siloed away from “real” academia. In recent years, sweeping equity reforms have dramatically improved placement, course sequences, and pedagogy. Learning English is now more rightly treated as an academic skill students acquire as they tackle multidisciplinary content, while students’ identities and prior knowledge are more rightly valued as essential assets. In this new framework, traditional ESL textbooks are increasingly inappropriate for the tasks required. OER has the potential to bridge that materials gap. This session uses two examples of OER ESL texts, written collaboratively by community college faculty, to highlight OER’s promise for the future of college English learning.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

contrast principles of effective vs. ineffective language learning materials.
describe the features of OER that surpass traditional textbooks in meeting student needs.
explain to colleagues and supervisors why moving to OER is worth the effort for student equity.
access example OER ESL texts and freely adapt them for immediate use or sharing.

Speakers

Gabriel Winer

faculty, Berkeley City College

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT
H1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

9:30am EDT

Open Pedagogy in Child & Family Studies: Advocating from the Beginning

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT

This semester-long open pedagogical Advocacy Project in EDU 113: Children, Families, Schools and Communities synthesizes fosters student-driven exploration to understand the interconnectedness of children, families, schools, and communities. Through a scaffolded approach, students address course learning outcomes by identifying issues within their school or community, drafting advocacy statements, conducting stakeholder interviews, researching issues, and creating public service announcements or op-ed pieces. Feedback and iterative improvement drive the success of each assignment, culminating in impactful advocacy projects such as securing funds for safety measures, promoting multilingual education, combating food insecurity, ensuring inclusive event protocols, and improving accessibility to educational resources. This project accompanies the Open Education Resource Text Children, Families, Schools, and Communities.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Define open pedagogy.
Identify strategies to scaffold open pedagogy projects for 100-level undergraduate students.
Evaluate student perceptions of the open pedagogical Advocacy Project assignment.

Speakers

Joan Giovannini

University of Massachusetts

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

9:30am EDT

The Intersection of OER & Community Engagement: Increasing Equity Through the PCC Ready Bag Project

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT

In the Pacific Northwest, we are faced with a 1 in 3 chance that a large earthquake will hit our community within the next 50 years. At Portland Community College, most of our students are not prepared for a disaster of this magnitude. The PCC Ready Bag & Community Resilience Project was created in order to increase equity on our campus through education, community building, and free “Ready Bag" starter kits. This project utilized community engagement and OER to create a truly student-centered project where students created openly-licensed materials to share with their community (and beyond). Asking students to become the educators positions them as change makers in their communities. In this session, the OER resources that were created by PCC students will be shared. We will discuss the process, the takeaways, and the lessons learned along the way. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on disaster preparedness resources for their own community.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand how community-based learning can be used to engage students in creating culturally relevant OER content
Identify ways that student-created OER content can be adapted to be used in your local communities to increase preparedness and community building

Speakers

Taryn Oakley

Environmental Studies & Resources Faculty, Portland Community College

I teach environmental science and I help to coordinate the Community-Based Learning program at Portland Community College. I love all things nature and I am interested in teaching about the environmental through a justice lens.

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

9:30am EDT

The Switch: The Story of Librarians Becoming Open Leaders

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT

This is the story of how Excelsior University’s academic library transformed from a closed silo utilizing contracted librarians to one where internal librarians now cultivate open practices within our institution. With many barriers to an institutional open mindset, we embarked on a needs analysis, which identified opportunities for change. The work began with researching and identifying librarian roles, developing job descriptions and a hiring process. The story now continues with redesigning the library’s relationship with course development, the bookstore, and faculty development, and the development of open resources, practices and services. Attendees will leave inspired with ideas for their own transformational open initiatives.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Discuss a process for creating transformational change.
Visualize new library roles.
Identify people and organizations with whom to collaborate.
Develop strategies for cultivating partnerships with the bookstore.

Speakers

Cathy Germano

Senior Director, Library and Learning Services, Excelsior University

Brent Swearingen

Excelsior University

Melissa Chim

Scholarly Communications Librarian, Excelsior University

Regina Seguin

Excelsior University

Maribel Castro

Excelsior University

Tiffany Davis

Excelsior University

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

9:30am EDT

Interactive Writing Practice: Using H5P in our First-Year Writing OER Textbook

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT

IP2

In 2018, we transitioned our First-Year Writing (FYW) classrooms to OER-only materials to support all students and replace traditional textbooks. Our OER, A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing, was collaboratively developed by full-and part-time faculty at our urban university with the guidance of librarians and instructional content designers. In 2023, we received university support to create interactive ancillary materials using Pressbooks and H5P. These include quizzes, editing exercises, skill reviews, and case studies, offering students practice without grading pressure. Our presentation will detail the creation process (including challenges and constraints), offer examples of curriculum integration, share student survey responses, and invite audience discussion and feedback.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explore existing H5P repositories and OERs
Create an interactive activity using H5P in Pressbooks
Develop Creative Commons licenses for remixed H5P interactive content
Integrate the interactive H5P activity into a lesson
Discuss the benefits and challenges of creating interactive materials using H5P

Speakers

Melanie Gagich

Cleveland State University

Emilie Zickel

Cleveland State University

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

9:30am EDT

Moving from Disposable to Renewable Assignments in Teacher Education

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT

IP1

This session will describe renewable assignments and evaluate the benefits and challenges of implementing renewable assignments in teacher education by sharing my lived experiences and insights. I will show some examples of renewable assignments done in my class. Renewable assignments can be adapted, remixed, or revised to create dynamic, current content that evolves based on current student needs and contexts. Renewable assignments as open education practice may be appealing to innovative educators. However, hesitation and resistance exists among students. The question arises how can we have students; overcome this resistance to open sharing to cultivate disposition to contribute toward collective knowledge that is dynamic and ever changing due to sociopolitical, cultural, and technological changes? This presentation shares lessons learned from implementing renewable assignments in a teacher education course and the implications it has on cultivating open education practices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe renewable assignments.
Evaluate the benefits and challenges of implementing renewable assignments.
Discuss diverse lived experiences and insights related to renewable assignments.

Speakers

Nandita Gurjar

Rhode Island College

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

9:30am EDT

Campus Reads: Harnessing Open Access Resources in a Digital Book Club Setting

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT

Based off viral internet book clubs like Dracula Daily and Letters from Watson, ECU’s Joyner library recently started our own digital book club. Using public domain literature and open access photos we divided each story into bit-sized sections and emailed them out to students, faculty, and staff on campus who signed up for the newsletter. Our program hoped to not only promote access to knowledge but also encourage active participation and dialogue. Each semester we tried a different technique to incorporate more campus voices including partnering with the Gender Studies Program for one semester and using a magnet wall to allow students to vote on short stories. This session will share successes and failures from our first year running this program as well as detail how we navigated logistics, marketed the program, and continue to work to ensure diverse and inclusive voices while using 100+ year old texts.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Plan a virtual book club at their own institution
Reflect on successes and failures from our first year of this program and hopefully anticipate how similar issues might arise in their virtual book clubs
Understand how we prioritized diversity and inclusion when primarily using 100+ year old texts and images

Speakers

Allison Kaefring

Open Access Publishing Support Librarian, ECU- Joyner

Hello, I am the open access librarian for East Carolina University. We have been hosting a few journals for several years and are at the begining stages of creating a publishing ecosystem for open access monographs or textbooks in our library

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

9:30am EDT

Development of a Low-Cost, Interactive Histology Atlas for Anatomy and Physiology

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT

As faculty, we consistently look for student-centered resources that allow students to excel without incurring a high financial cost. Lab manuals available from current publishers are typically not cost-effective and contain content unrelated to commonly adopted learning objectives (HAPS). One area of current lab manuals that consistently results in poor student success is related to histology. We hypothesized that this is due, in part, to misalignment of the high-resolution images in the publisher’s lab manuals with the appearance of student tissue slides using light microscopy. For this reason, we used Pressbooks to create the online open-access Anatomy and Physiology I: An Interactive Histology Atlas. The atlas, which currently has over 9000 views, includes hand-sketch illustrations and provides highly engaging interactive materials. Early data suggests that student exam performance using the interactive histology atlas is comparable with performance using publisher resources.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Attendees will be introduced to the use of Pressbooks to create open-access online resources.
Attendees will learn how to leverage interactive media elements (H5P) to maximize student success including overlayed illustrations and histological images.
Attendees will be introduced to best practices on how to utilize Anatomy and Physiology I: An Interactive Histology Atlas for their own student engagement and success.
Attendees will participate in the discussion of the merits of open access materials in comparison with high-cost publisher resources in supporting student success.

Speakers

Soma Mukhopadhyay

Augusta University

Christina Wilson

Assistant Professor, Augusta University

Karen Wiles

Augusta University

Juan Ramiro Diaz

Augusta University

Georgios Kallifatidis

Augusta University

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

9:45am EDT

Is “Opt-In” the Future of Inclusive Access?

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT

"Inclusive Access" is a model that has been adopted by many institutions to provide students with course materials. Recent developments at the federal level have raised questions about the transparency and equity of these programs, along with the negative impact it can have on open education initiatives. This presentation will discuss the current state of Inclusive Access, including how regulatory changes proposed by the U.S. Department of Education may change the default model from "opt-out" to "opt-in." It will also discuss advocacy strategies to address the negative impact "Inclusive Access" can have for students.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe the features of "Inclusive Access" automatic textbook billing programs
Explain the state of U.S. federal regulatory changes with respect to automatic textbook billing
Identify key benefits of an "opt-in" model for textbook billing
Address misleading arguments made by publisher and bookstore vendors

Speakers

Nicole Allen

Director of Open Education, SPARC

Nicole Allen is the Director of Open Education for SPARC. In this role, she leads SPARC’s work to advance openness and equity in education, which includes a robust state and federal policy program, a broad librarian community of practice, and a leadership program for open education professionals... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:45am - 10:25am EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

10:00am EDT

Students' Perceptions of a Course Syllabus Designed to Foreground Open Educational Practices

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT

The current study utilized Lambert's 3R framework of social justice (redistributive, recognitive, and representational) to investigate the impact of justice frames and open educational practices in syllabus design on undergraduate students' perceptions. Participants (N=207) viewed several versions of a hypothetical syllabus, with each version increasing in social justice focus. Participants then answered questionnaires on their intent to take the course, student sense of belonging, and instructor evaluation. We hypothesized that increased social justice focus in syllabi would enhance student belonging, improve evaluations, and boost course registration intent, especially for those with more marginalized identities. This study underscores the importance of incorporating social justice frameworks into syllabus design to enhance student engagement and perceptions of inclusivity.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the principles of Lambert's 3R framework of social justice (redistributive, recognitive, and representational) and its application in syllabus design.
Identify the effects of justice frames and open educational practices on undergraduate students' sense of belonging, motivation to learn, and instructor evaluations.
Apply knowledge of how different justice frames in syllabus design can influence student outcomes, including intent to register for courses.
Evaluate the role of educators in promoting social justice and inclusivity through syllabus design, informed by empirical evidence from the study.

Speakers

Rajiv Jhangiani

Vice-Provost, Teaching & Learning, Brock University

Lindsey Gwozdz

Assistant Dean of Library, Community College of Rhode Island

Lindsey Gwozdz joined CCRI in 2024 as the Assistant Dean of the Library, having spent 11 years prior as an Associate Professor and the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Roger Williams University. She also serves as the Fellow for Open Education at the New England Board of H... Read More →

Oya Pakkal

Brock University

Anita Twele

Brock University

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

10:00am EDT

“There was one and now there’s more!” : Hiring additional personnel to help with Open Ed Work

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT

Many academic libraries have a librarian whose responsibilities include open education. This position may look different depending on the needs of each institution but in many cases, this librarian begins providing these services in a solo capacity. As the open education programs at institutions evolve, the workload expectations for these solo librarians should also grow in order to support sustainability. Sometimes, this growth means hiring additional personnel. While it is exciting to have more help, it can also lead to a number of questions. How can I adjust workflows to include this employee? How can I determine what is “librarian level” vs “non-librarian level” work within open education? How can I ensure that processes make sense to someone else? During this presentation, the presenters will share their stories and discuss how their open education departments have grown from one librarian to additional personnel, and how they have begun to tackle the above questions.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand how the presenters advocated for additional help at their institutions.
Think about how they can better prepare documentation for workflows and procedures that will be useful in future training or succession planning.
Formulate questions to think about if they are hoping to train someone to help with open education work in the future.

Speakers

Gabrielle Hernandez

Open Education Librarian, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Sabrina Davis

Open Educational Resources Librarian, Texas Tech University

Sabrina Davis is the Open Educational Resources (OER) Librarian and holds the Assistant Librarian rank in Texas Tech University Libraries. In her role as OER Librarian, Sabrina works with various campus stakeholders to expand the use of open educational resources and educates both... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

10:00am EDT

Centering Community College Faculty Perspectives: Pros and Cons of MIT OpenCourseWare

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT

IP1

Teaching at open access institutions, and meeting the needs of diverse students, community college faculty are at the forefront of promoting equity for learners in higher ed. While the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) in 2001 brought widespread attention to OER, today one of the greatest uses of OER in the US is by community colleges. What are the possibilities and limitations of OER from OCW for adoption and adaptation within community college settings? Drawing from interviews with community college faculty, hear how OCW creates pathways to find MIT teaching materials and insights into instructional practices at MIT. Also explore the critical questions about leveling MIT materials, content discovery, and OER currency. We discuss how OCW can improve the user experience for this essential group of equity advocates, and invite session participants to reflect on how the perspectives of the featured community college faculty relate to their own work with open education initiatives.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify why centering the perspectives of community college faculty is critical for social justice conversations within the open education ecosystem.
Summarize the pros and cons of OER from MIT OpenCourseWare in open access institutions.
Understand what MIT OpenCourseWare is learning from community college faculty about how to improve the user experience, especially surrounding issues of diversity and inclusivity in education.
Reflect on how the perspectives of community college faculty relating to OER on MIT OpenCourseWare connect to their own work with faculty involved in open education initiatives.
Identify benefits of Open Education projects across sectors of higher education.

Speakers

James Glapa-Grossklag

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

Shira Segal

Collaborations and Engagement Manager, MIT OpenCourseWare

Shira Segal is the Collaborations and Engagement Manager at MIT OpenCourseWare. In this position, she cultivates and facilitates relationships with members of the open education ecosystem by leveraging resources from MIT OpenCourseWare to enhance teaching and learning. Her previous... Read More →

Lisa Young

Maricopa Community College District

Sara Hansen

MIT OpenCourseWare

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

10:00am EDT

OER and Spanish as a Heritage Language Education: Embracing Linguistic Diversity?

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT

IP2

Over the past decade, there has been a notable surge in Open Education Resources (OER) for the instruction of Spanish as a Heritage Language (Duran & Meiners 2019; Vaño García 2023). These resources aim to align with core objectives within the field (Beaudrie & Vergara Wilson 2022) while enhancing accessibility to relevant content for Hispanic learners from diverse backgrounds. Despite the proliferation of such resources, current research lacks an in-depth examination of OER, particularly in their treatment of linguistic diversity. This qualitative study seeks to fill this gap by presenting an analytical framework to assess ten OER for SHL instruction; the study seeks to explain how these OER depict, exemplify, and validate Spanish language variation, focusing on the integration of Spanish varieties, their perspectives on language contact phenomena, and the extent to which they foster critical language awareness through content, language samples, and activities.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Become familiar with current OER dedicated to teaching and learning Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL)
Understand how OER integrate current frameworks in Heritage Language Education
Understand how OER in SHL deal with topics of linguistic diversity, language contact, and critical language awareness, all components of main goals in Heritage Language Education.

Speakers

Flavia Belpoliti

Texas A&M Commerce

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

10:00am EDT

Exploring Pedagogical Strategies: Interacting with AI in Case Studies-Based OER Classes

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT

This presentation delves into pedagogical methodologies for integrating AI within case studies-based courses relying exclusively on OER. Focusing on student interaction with AI prompts, the session showcases strategies for fostering critical thinking and analytical skills. This model requires students to write and engage with AI prompts, they identify logical gaps and enhance AI responses. Emphasizing quality response development, students are challenged to delve deeply into AI interactions, honing their ability to articulate complex concepts and refine logical reasoning. The presentation underscores the significance of scaffolding student learning through structured AI interactions, promoting active engagement and higher-order thinking skills. Participants will gain insights into effective pedagogical approaches for leveraging AI in OER-based classrooms, empowering students to navigate and critically evaluate AI-generated content.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Participants will gain an understanding of pedagogical methodologies for integrating AI technology into case studies-based courses relying exclusively on OER.
Attendees will learn effective strategies for fostering critical thinking and analytical skills in students through structured interaction with AI prompts, enabling them to identify logical gaps and enhance AI-generated responses.
Participants will acquire practical techniques for scaffolding student learning and promoting active engagement with AI interactions, thereby empowering students to articulate complex concepts, refine logical reasoning, and critically evaluate AI-generated content within OER-based classrooms.

Speakers

Chelsea Slack

Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
H2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

10:00am EDT

Literature in Context: A Student-Centered OER at the Intersection of Digital Humanities

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT

This session introduces an NEH-funded project, Literature in Context: An Open Anthology of Literature in English 1400-1925. Available through any web browser or mobile device, LiC offers teachers free, reliable, citable (and even printable!) digital texts for classroom use, potentially replacing many British or American literature print anthologies. Unlike many print-based OERs, LiC also makes use of the interactive affordances of a digital platform: searchability, images, multimedia, collaborative annotation, dynamic mapping, social networking, and multiple reading options. We'll work with session attendees to create custom anthologies developed from database resources and demonstrate how and why we work with students as visible collaborators on a project that's at once an OER and a large-scale digital humanities project. By editing texts for inclusion in an infinitely-expandable resource, student collaborators learn how this work intersects with the construction of knowledge as a practice.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the significant issues with OERs in humanities fields, particularly those that retain the legacy of their origins in print
Identify the affordances of born-digital resources
Understand central aspects of the fraught relationship between OER and DH
Begin to collaborate with students on the build-out of Literature in Context
Create personalized, theme-driven digital anthologies from Literature in Context for use in the teaching of British and American literature

Speakers

John O'Brien

The University of Virginia

Christine Ruotolo

The University of Virginia

Student Discussant TBD

Tonya Howe

Instructional Designer & Technologist, George Mason University

Tonya is a longtime university teacher-turned-instructional-technologist with a master’s in Data Analytics and Visualization from Maryland Institute, College of Art, and a doctorate in Literature from the University of Michigan. Currently, she is working with colleagues on a f... Read More →

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

10:00am EDT

Sharing Experiences from an Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellowship

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT

Are you an instructional designer, librarian or faculty partner looking to move open pedagogy forward in your community? This panel presentation is meant to share the experiences, design process, and reflections of the facilitators and faculty participants from James Madison University (Virginia, USA) after concluding a multi-semester Faculty Fellowship focused on Open Pedagogy and Social Justice. Faculty participants teach in a range of disciplines and levels from large undergraduate courses to small doctoral cohorts. During the session, Fellowship facilitators will share context on the fellowship and an openly-licensed Pressbook with information about the design model for the program. Fellowship participants will then showcase their projects and reflect on their experiences in the Fellowship and with implementing open pedagogy into their courses, including observations of student experiences.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the context and community needs specific to this Fellowship
Explore the logistics, design choices, and materials, including the applications, MOUs, funding model, and participant materials.
Engage with faculty panelists as they share their experiences, projects, and insights from participating in the Fellowship

Speakers

Elaine Kaye

Instructional Designer, James Madison University

Nicole Wilson

Instructional Designer, James Madison University

Liz Chenevey

James Madison University

Brian Leventhal

James Madison University

Cara Meixner

James Madison University

Kristen McCleary

James Madison University

Christine Robinson

James Madison University

Pam Sullivan

James Madison University

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

10:30am EDT

Break (30 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EDT

General

Session Type

Break

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

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

11:00am EDT

How to Become a Student Whisperer: A Student-Centered Design Thinking Approach to OER Development

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT

In the context of course enhancement for hybrid and flexible learning at a university in Namibia, the need was identified to enhance courses to be student-responsive open educational resources. To address this problem, a student-centered design thinking approach was undertaken with a specific focus on gamification, microlearning, cooperative learning and psychological safety. This paper involves qualitative action research of a process in which course enhancements were done drawing on selected theoretical principles and the expertise of the participating lecturing staff. The paper provides an overview of selected educational affordances utilized within an under-resourced environment, and on the deep reflections undertaken in order to focus upon empathizing with and prioritizing students’ needs in the context of cognitive neuroscience. Finally, the paper concludes with recommendations in terms of collaboration, content, communication, critical thinking, and creative innovation.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Be sensitized to the challenges of implementing open education in areas of poverty where internet data access cannot be guaranteed and is costly for students.
Reflect deeply on how one can best enable open education in such a context.
Understand the various educational affordances within a framework that incorporates gamification, microlearning, cooperative learning and the need to enable psychological safety.
Consider research findings in social cognitive neuroscience and the implications these have in how best to structure online distance education to best cater for our social brains.

Speakers

Kathryn Kure

STEAM Foundation NPC

Jacqueline Bock

Namibia University of Science and Technology

Jako Olivier

Adviser: Higher Education, Commonwealth of Learning

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Africa

11:00am EDT

Standards and Scale: Creating and Promoting Adoption-Ready Nursing OER

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

The Open Educational Resources Nursing Essentials Project (ONE), a partnership of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and OpenStax, was created to help address a crisis-level workforce shortage in Nursing. Through this project, the THECB and OpenStax developed high quality, standards-aligned, accessible educational offerings. But to impact the workforce as designated by the program, large-scale adoption and usage are the ultimate goals. This panel will feature team leads, authors, and adopters to discuss the end-to-end approaches and practices to achieve the program outcomes. We will describe the needs analysis, user engagement, learning design, and review processes that drove the project. Authors will reflect on interpreting and applying feedback. And a recent adopter, who was not involved with the project development, will reflect on the evaluation, adoption, and integration process.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the key people (e.g., authors, adopters) involved in the OER development and adoption process and ways to engage with these different individuals.
Develop needs analysis and related market research instruments to inform OER creation.
Gather, interpret, and apply reviewer feedback throughout the OER development process.
Address adoption criteria through products and product descriptions.
Incorporate OER creation and adoption best practices into their own OER development and promotion endeavors.

Speakers

Anthony Palmiotto

Director of Products, OpenStax

Carrie Gits

Director, Digital Learning, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Lindsay Josephs

Demand Generation Specialist, Rice University/OpenStax

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

Student Advocacy: Fighting Against Automatic Textbook Billing

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

The growing adoption of automatic textbook billing programs, often labeled as “Inclusive” or “Equitable” Access, poses a significant threat to textbook affordability and student autonomy. In response, a dedicated committee of students has collaborated with student governments across the U.S. and Canada to craft a unified student statement addressing these concerns. This statement critically examines the pitfalls of such programs and offers actionable recommendations for institutional adoption. In this session, the student committee members will illuminate their process, providing insights into student perspectives on this pressing issue. Attendees will gain valuable strategies to safeguard their institutions and advocate for student interests against the presence of these programs. They will also share how to effectively collaborate with the students on your campus and ensure their needs are being centered.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the main ways students are negatively impacted by automatic textbook billing
Learn about the student recommendations when it comes to these programs
Learn how to engage and work with students on this issue

Speakers

Aishah Abdullah

Open Education Coordinator, SPARC

Elizabeth Braatz

Portland State Univeristy

Pedro Almeida

University of Alberta

Katie Wagman

Michelson 20MM Foundation

Graceanne Hoback

Florida State University

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
H4

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

Valuing OER in the Tenure, Promotion, and Reappointment Process

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

This session will address the question: How can we include OER work into the standards of tenure, promotion, and reappointment? Building off the OER Contributions Matrix created 2021, Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS) recently published a volume of case studies, Valuing OER in the Tenure, Promotion, and Reappointment Process. This session will include authors of the various case studies detailing their personal experiences in utilizing their work in open education to gain tenure, promotion, or reappointment, their lessons learned, and their advice for others in the field.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify what types of contributions might apply to the three categories of tenure, promotion, and reappointment (teaching, research, and service).
Discuss what strategies that have been successfully utilized to get open education work recognized for tenure, promotion, and/or reappointment.
Discuss the barriers to recognition of open education work in tenure, promotion, and reappointment.
Network with colleagues in the field who have successfully utilized these strategies and overcome barriers.

Speakers

Andrew McKinney

Open Education Coordinator, City University of New York

Craig Finlay

OER Librarian, Criss Library, University of Nebraska Omaha

Elaine Correa

Professor and Chair, Special Assistant to the Provost, California State University, Bakersfield

Emily Carlisle-Johnson

Research and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Western University

Annika Many

President & CEO, EDU-PM, LLC

Chief Strategist & Program Executive with 20 years’ experience in Higher Education, K-12, and P-20 Systems. Experienced in organizational leadership, program management, and consulting. Highly collaborative and skilled in ensuring the successful execution of mission-critical work... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
H2

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

You Gotta Organize to Maximize: Emergent Strategy and Future Plans at DOERS

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

IP2

Organizations often start as a group of folks with a great idea getting together, and Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS) Collaborative was one of these organizations. After a couple of years, the members knew that it was about time for this organization to grow and mature! Join a panel of the 2024 DOERS Steering Committee as they share stories from a growing organization: collaboratively building a set of bylaws, incorporating theories of emergence and equity into strategic planning sessions, reassessing the entire identity of a workgroup, balancing an on-the-ground mission with a birds’-eye-view audience, and what DOERS will do next!

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Incorporate new ideas into their strategic planning processes
Demystify and distribute the process of creating guidelines and bylaws
Understand how open education organizations can grow and mature

Speakers

Leslie Reynolds

Senior Associate Dean of Libraries, University of Colorado Boulder

Amanda Coolidge

Executive Director, BCcampus

Jeff Gallant

Program Director, GALILEO/Affordable Learning Georgia

Kathy Essmiller

Assistant Professor, OER Librarian, Coordinstor OpenOKState, Oklahoma State University

Brad Griffith

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

Liliana Diaz

Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE)

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

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

11:00am EDT

ZTC in the California Community Colleges: California’s Big Bet on ZTC Pathways

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

IP1

In 2021 California made the largest public investment in history in OER and Zero Textbook Cost degrees with a $115M grant program. Beginning in 2022, all California Community Colleges received funds to develop and implement ZTC pathways. As of 2024, colleges are developing hundreds of ZTC pathways to transform the student experience in the country’s largest system of higher education. In this session, hear from two leaders who are coordinating and supporting colleges in this historic work. What supports are provided to colleges? How do 100+ colleges prevent duplication of effort? How are DEI and open pedagogy woven into support for colleges? We will also consider how California got here, what it will mean when all colleges offer ZTC pathways, and how the ZTC movement in California can positively impact other states.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe the origins of ZTC pathways in California.
Explain how collaboration and coordination among the state’s colleges maximize the state’s investment in ZTC.
Summarize supports that are available to colleges to develop ZTC pathways.
Describe how DEI and Open Pedagogy are woven into ZTC pathways.
Assess possible futures of ZTC programs.

Speakers

James Glapa-Grossklag

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

Michelle Pilati

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI)

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

Open Education and Open Pedagogy: Measuring impacts of Course Based Undergraduate Research (CURES)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

Measuring impacts both of faculty and students involved in Course Based Undergraduate Research (CUREs) is important to being culturally responsive in communicating the value added of programs. Ensuring that CURE materials are both open sourced and inclusive of students, by infusing open pedagogies increases the broader impacts of these research projects. In this interactive session attendees will engage with real world examples from three currently funded National Science Foundation CUREs projects at the community college, four-year institution, and from a national research center. Ways to design and assess the value and impacts of open-sourced and open pedagogy CURE curriculums will be discussed. Participants will engage with strategies for considering the design and assessment of their own curriculum and leave with resources to enhance the assessment and design of their own programs.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

To identify the value of Course Based Undergraduate Research (CUREs) as examples of open pedagogical course materials.
To examine real-world examples of three CURE programs and articulate the similarities and differences between them and their applications and approach to OER and Open Pedagogies and the evaluation elements.
To engage in the draft development (program mapping) of their own assessment design for a current or future OER/Open Pedagogy project.

Speakers

Dr. Sondra LoRe

Director & Evaluation/Education Consultant, STEM Program Evaluation, Assessment, & Research (SPEAR)

Session Type

Virtual (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
H1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

Open Pedagogy in Action: Students' Perspectives on Authoring a Textbook on Language Learning

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT

View Anytime

This session is pre-recorded and will not be held live. The pre-recorded video will be available for logged-in attendees to view at any time during the conference.

This presentation showcases an Open Pedagogy project in which students wrote an open-source textbook from start to finish. Five diverse University of Oregon undergraduate students and one graduate student project manager created ten multimedia, interactive textbook chapters for LING 144, Learning How to Learn Languages. This text focuses on the theory, research, and strategies for learning languages, including heritage languages and indigenous languages in danger of disappearing. Team members collaborated weekly for six months, dividing up work on writing, illustration, case studies, and multimedia elements. This book will become the main text for LING 144 (serving 200 students per year) and will be a living document that future students can annotate and update for course credit. In the presentation, team members will tell the story of their process, highlighting the purpose and content of the project and its Pressbooks platform.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the successes and challenges of an example of a student-created Open Pedagogy project.
Identify the timeline and resources necessary for a project of this scope.
Identify the roles and processes of a student team.
Appreciate the benefits to students of leadership and agency in Open Pedagogy.
Appreciate the benefits to faculty in facilitating student-led work.
Appreciate the value of contributing to open educational resources.

Speakers

Faith Adler

University of Oregon

Logan Fisher

University of Oregon

Bibi Halima

University of Oregon

Cameron Keaton

University of Oregon

Addy Orsi

University of Oregon

Abhay Pawar

University of Oregon

Keli Yerian

University of Oregon

Session Type

Virtual (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
View Anytime

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

Open Education at a Crossroads

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT

This session is designed to identify an agenda for action and research for the open education community which, we argue, is at a crossroads – building on a critical conversation begun at OER24 in March: “The future isn’t what it used to be: open education at a crossroads” (Cronin & Czerniewicz, 2024). The purpose of the session is to enable globally diverse conversations about the future of open education. In the context of the current global polycrisis, it is clear that the assumptions and foundations of open education are under threat. This moment –a crossroads– requires all parts of the open education movement to work together. In alliance with those who believe that open education is central to fighting for human rights, democracy, justice and sustainability, we (i) propose a framework of ideas for moving closer to realising those ideas, a “manifesto for open education for good”, and (ii) facilitate groupwork so that participants can collaborate to identify specific next steps.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Recognise at least some of the ways that wider global crises emerge within, impact on, and intersect with open education.
Articulate the five tenets of the Manifesto for Open Education for Good.
Take first steps in developing an agenda to take forward after the session, to work towards creating better open education and social futures.

Speakers

Catherine Cronin

Independent open scholar, self-employed

Laura Czerniewicz

University of Cape Town

Session Type

Virtual (55 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Africa, Europe, Global Focus

11:30am EDT

Exploring the Transformative Potential of Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Higher Education

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT

This presentation explores the transformative potential of Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs), particularly Dungeons & Dragons, in higher education. Tabletop roleplaying games offer a widely accessible and open tool for education due to a large number of free resources readily available to interested consumers. From TTRPGs' inception in 1974 to their current surge in popularity, we examine their practical applications in a collegiate setting. Drawing on personal experiences, we connect TTRPGs to advising and coaching efforts, culminating in a theoretical framework for creating and implementing TTRPG game sessions with specific outcomes. Attendees will gain insights into how educational roleplaying games contribute to student development. The presentation offers practical tools for programmatic design.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Develop a deep understanding of educational roleplay games as a tool for student development.
Understand a theoretical framework for developing one-time educational roleplaying experiences that target specific identifiable development outcomes.
Use coaching skills to enhance student learning outcomes through educational role-playing.
Articulate how inclusive and diverse viewpoints can be lifted through educational roleplay games.
Explore open-access software available to engage in tabletop roleplay games.

Speakers

Anthony Kurza

College Life Coach | Adjunct Professor, Florida State University

Corbin Nall

Florida State University

Rolando Torres

Florida State University

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

11:45am EDT

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

For nearly 500 years, copyright has been a primary mechanism on which our systems of authorship and sharing operate; a must-have for creators to benefit from their hard work. But if we evaluate that claim, the picture is murkier. Has copyright spurred creativity? Or has it commodified a societal good? Has it helped the best works rise to the surface? Or caused us to value all the wrong things? And with all the speculation about how AI is going to “kill copyright” (or vice versa), it seems like we’re on track for a crisis in how we incentivize and reward creativity. If that's the case, the open community is better positioned than most: we already employ a host of different methods to incentivize creation that aren’t necessarily reliant on copyright. This panel will discuss the nuances of intellectual property, capitalism, creativity, and change management. How do we get from where we are to where we want to be? What are we doing now that helps - or hinders - our journey there?

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Attendees will gain an understanding of the history of copyright and the intersection with capitalism and colonialism
Attendees will learn about the variety of ways societies have encouraged creativity and authorship beyond intellectual property rights
Participants will explore the ways in which open education is already leveraging alternatives to copyright-based incentive structures
Participants will discuss the ways in which open licensing may or may not reinforce copyright
Participants will discuss the ways in which copyright’s rules, incentives, and boundaries do or do not serve the many purposes of authorship

Speakers

Meredith Jacob

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

Ethan Senack

Chief of Staff, ISKME

Chip Hatcher

ISKME

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

11:45am EDT

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

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm 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)

Thursday October 10, 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

Making a Case for the ROI of Recognition, Care, and Compensation

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

How do we ensure those doing the hard work of OER are compensated, resourced, and acknowledged for their achievements? Luckily, the ROI of these forms of worker care in OER are evident and measurable. This session will integrate the successes and lessons learned from years of program implementation across two state university systems with developing actionable takeaways tailored for your OER context. Objectives include: * Recognition: Apply the evolution of system awards programs to your own practices * Compensation: Discover how student cost savings can make temporary library or instructional design positions permanent * Care: Find labor efficiencies through cross-institutional human resource sharing such as the Oklahoma-wide OER Office Hours pilot Hear from students with textbook co-creation experience as we consider the ‘return’ of student success, connecting students to decision making, and increasing students’ contribution to OER with care, compensation, and recognition.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Apply the evolution and growth of system awards programs to your own recognition practices
Consider the power and possibility of state-level recognition such as the Colorado Governor’s Z-degree Award
Discover how student cost savings can make a temporary library or instructional design position permanent
Build efficiencies in labor and capacity through cross-institutional resource sharing

Speakers

Jaimie Henthorn

Director, Academic Innovation Programs, University of Colorado System

Jaimie provides leadership and support for innovative and future-thinking academic initiatives and emerging tools such as adaptive learning platforms, competency-based credentialing including badging, artificial intelligence, and augmented/virtual reality. She also sustains and further... Read More →

Brad Griffith

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

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 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

Promising Practices for Course Marking at Independent Institutions

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

Course marking provides students with the agency to make informed decisions at the time of registration based on their financial situations and helps to amplify redistributive justice, making sure all students have the required materials they need to meaningfully engage in their courses. Our presentation will share how the New England Board of Higher Education developed a regional, multi-institutional community of practice to not only help guide the implementation of course marking efforts for these colleges and universities but to also build sustainable networks of peers in the independent sector. We’ve gathered lessons learned and proud moments from each of our participating institutions to share with attendees “promising practices” (because what’s best for one is not always for others). Our presentation will conclude with newly gathered data about student behavior and course marking as well as a downloadable, openly-licensed course marking campaign-in-a-box so that attendees can get started right away!

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Illustrate the value of a cross-functional team as well as a cross-institutional community of practice when considering course marking
Identify potential challenges and promising practices
Identify how course marking may impact student registration behavior
Access real-time resources to start or improve upon their own initiatives

Speakers

Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Associate Professor in Educational Foundations and Research, University of North Dakota

Lindsey Gwozdz

Assistant Dean of Library, Community College of Rhode Island

Laura Robert-Rivera

Senior Project Manager, New England Board of Higher Education

Laura Robert-Rivera is the Senior Project Manager of Policy and Research at the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), leading efforts to expand NEBHE's Open Education initiative and support the broader community. With over five years of experience in nonprofits, foundations... Read More →

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
H1

Session: Hybrid

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

11:45am EDT

Leading with Purpose: Cultivating Self-Awareness and Values-Driven Leadership in Open Education

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

IP2

Open Education leaders often adopt Servant Leadership, prioritizing serving others. Despite its fulfillment, this commitment can be draining. Leaders may neglect self-care. To empower current and future leaders, cultivating self-awareness is crucial. This involves understanding personal values and leadership identity. Participants will engage in exercises exploring values, vocational aspirations, and strategies for maintaining well-being while supporting others. The session will address financial sustainability and supporting team members in resource-constrained environments. Above all, it will guide leaders to align their practices with their values, fostering ethical leadership in open education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Participants will assess and articulate their leadership values in open education through reflective exercises and group discussions, gaining clarity on how these values shape their leadership style and decision-making processes.
Participants will acquire practical strategies for maintaining personal well-being and supporting their team members and organizations. Techniques for managing emotional labor, avoiding burnout, and fostering resilience will be explored, particularly in challenging or low-resourced environments.
Participants will develop insights into leading authentically and aligning with their values. They will learn to integrate personal values into decision-making, communication, and team management. Through interactive activities and case studies, they will enhance their understanding of providing effective and ethically grounded leadership in service to others and the organization.

Speakers

Amanda Coolidge

Executive Director, BCcampus

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
IP2

Session: In Person

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

11:45am EDT

OER as Transformation Tool: How Colorado’s OER community creates change beyond textbooks

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT

IP1

OER is used to transform the affordability of education, but OER can also be used as a tool for cultural change across an institution or state. In Colorado, the open education community has used OER as a tool to advance justice, equity, diversity and inclusion; disciplinary, institutional, and state-level cultural change; and to advocate for student interests. Presenters representing a two-year college, four-year universities, and state government will discuss how their individual institutions and the state OER Council have leveraged OER to cultivate change from implementing state government-level funding for the development of OER to OER being used to lay the groundwork for bringing restorative justice into classrooms. Attendees will learn about various approaches at the macro and micro levels and leave the session inspired to use OER to generate change in their institutional or regional context.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Learn how the Colorado OER Council, state government, and higher education institutions have used OER as a tool for cultural change.
Articulate the Colorado OER community’s various strategies using OER in order to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion for students and faculty.
Reflect and share how OER can be a tool for change regarding equity in your home state and institution.

Speakers

Jen Mayer

Interim Associate Dean of Libraries, University of Northern Colorado

My library-related interests include: mentoring, library use and student academic success, library services and spaces, and open education.Outside of work, I enjoy going to thrift stores, exploring the outdoors, attending concerts and museums, and working on my yard.

Teresa Connolly

Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver

Chealsye Bowley

Director of Open Education and Learning Innovation, Colorado Department of Higher Education

Got questions about OER in Colorado? Email: OER@dhe.state.co.us

Nicholas Swails

Dean of Academic Affairs and Online Learning, Colorado Northwestern Community College

Katie Brown

Colorado State University--Pueblo

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
IP1

Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

12:00pm EDT

An Open Pedagogy Toolkit: A Multi-Institutional Collaboration Centered on Care and Community

Thursday October 10, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

In this session, presenters will showcase a new resource, the Open Pedagogy Toolkit, and provide critical context that highlights the labor and care required to develop and produce such a resource. The Open Pedagogy Toolkit aims to highlight relevant literature, resources, projects, and research in the area of open pedagogy. This toolkit was developed by a multi-institutional group. Our purpose was to focus on building relationships that support us as we create, share, and collaborate on various projects that support the Open movement. During the session, participants will have the opportunity to hear from a variety of perspectives and experiences as we reflect on: the labor required to facilitate Open work, who takes on Open work at their own institutions, and what we can learn about building equitable and caring spaces that create meaningful progress in the Open movement.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Consider how to leverage values and care to do collaborative, cross-institutional work around Open topics.
Reflect on the voices, experiences, and spaces in which we engaged to facilitate Open work.
Explore a new and comprehensive resource for designing, implementing, and researching your own Open Pedagogy projects and work.

Speakers

Cheryl Casey

Open Education Librarian, University of Arizona

Elaine Kaye

Instructional Designer, James Madison University

Jeanne Hoover

Head, Scholarly Communication, East Carolina University

Nicole Wilson

Instructional Designer, James Madison University

Kathy Essmiller

Assistant Professor, OER Librarian, Coordinstor OpenOKState, Oklahoma State University

Mandi Goodsett

OER & Copyright Advisor / Perf Arts & Humanities L, Cleveland State University

I am the OER & Copyright Advisor at Cleveland State University in Ohio. I would love to chat with others about incentive programs, publishing, professional development, and course markings.

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
V2

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

12:00pm EDT

Unleashing the Global Youth Impact of the IFMSA through Open Educational Resources

Thursday October 10, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT

The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) leverages Open Access to empower medical and science education worldwide. IFMSA is transforming its organizational approach towards OER and Open Access, through freely available platforms, sharing educational materials with students worldwide, extending and promoting open principles. Specifically, IFMSA works on OpenEd in: (a) Developing & Sharing resources for medical students worldwide to get educated. (b) Gathering and sharing resources, open to the public and built by other organizations. (c) Students access this knowledge and gain skills to tutor their peers, supporting open learning models globally. Data and feedback collected on resources’ usage strengthens our materials through continuous updating and improvements, ensuring ongoing sustainability and relevance for medical students. This session aims to highlight IFMSA initiatives and show how your organization can transform towards OpenEd!

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Highlight the efforts of students, especially medical students in advocating and supporting open education values by meaningfully engaging in various areas of open education.
Understand and familiarize themselves with the components of IFMSA's strategy to raise awareness about open education topics.
Understand the different approaches in the development and usage of educational toolkits to contribute to open pedagogy.
Access, use, and follow up on various open education resources developed by the IFMSA.
Outline methodologies used in IFMSA and plan similar strategies to utilize in their organizations.

Speakers

Anna Liakopoulou

SCORE External Affairs Assistant IFMSA, International Federation of Medical Students Associations IFMSA

Sanae Majdouli is currently a 6th-year medical student from Morocco and serving as the Standing Committee on Research Exchange (SCORE) External Affairs Assistant of the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA). Since her early days in Medical School, Sanae... Read More →

Kana Halić Kordić

International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations

Amr Ali

International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations

Session Type

Virtual (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
V1

Session: Virtual

Attendance Type Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

12:30pm EDT

Lunch / Break (45 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 12:30pm - 1:15pm 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.

Thursday October 10, 2024 12:30pm - 1:15pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

1:15pm EDT

Keynote Student Panel: Why Do We Need Open Education in this Moment?

Thursday October 10, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT

General

Session Type

Hybrid

Thursday October 10, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
General

Plenary

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

2:15pm EDT

Closing

Thursday October 10, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT

General

Speakers

Board of Directors

Session Type

Hybrid

Thursday October 10, 2024 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
General

Plenary

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

2:45pm EDT

Break (15 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT

General

Session Type

Break

Thursday October 10, 2024 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
General

Break

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

3:00pm EDT

(Optional) Breakout Groups: Conference Debrief

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

General

Session Type

Hybrid

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
General

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

3:45pm EDT

Adjoun

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT

General

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
General

Break

4:00pm EDT

Accountability through Open Data Protocols: High-Dosage Tutoring Efforts Across Five States

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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In their (2015) publication “Open Data as Open Educational Resources” Atenas and Havemann suggest “wider engagement with, as well as transparency of, public knowledge, are…very worthy aims for education.” In the spirit of this assertion, and as a means of demonstrating the value of open practices in education data, Fellows from the Harvard Strategic Data Project will outline how collaborative, open partnerships enhance their work in examining data practices in High-Dosage Tutoring (HDT). This session explores how HDT has been implemented as a remedy for COVID-related learning loss, particularly among students of color and low-income. Featuring diverse data leaders from five state education agencies, it offers evidence-based solutions and discusses the challenges in implementing HDT nationwide. This session will showcase open-access, take-home resources that equip participants with strategies to mitigate pandemic learning loss through open access tools.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the Value of Open Practices in Data Projects: Participants will learn how open practices enhance data practices such as unifying collection protocols, co-creating data standards and tools, and iterative, real-time peer reviewing.
Explore the Opportunity of OER in High-Impact Tutoring: Participants will explore alongside the presenters opportunities that to combine OER into HDT.
Evaluate Financial Investment in HDT: Learn about the financial resources allocated to HDT, including ESSER and state dollars, and the importance of assessing these investments' impact through available open access reports and databases.
Integrate Evidence-Based Decision Making: Learn how to use evidence and data analysis to make informed decisions about HDT initiatives, with a focus on open access data sources and analytical tools.

Speakers

Jason Godfrey

Director of Data Science, Accelerate: The National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning

Hi! If you're trying to learn about me, why not meet up for a chat? I'd love to say hello.https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/AcZssZ2QeW-80lUbw6FD6xlpKFrjz4ko4vtpxQnv7ZM=

Spencer Ellis

Colorado Department of Education

Nicole Carmichael

DE Governor's Office

Sherine Tambyraja

Ohio DoEW

Zhanying Zong

Louisiana DoE

Amy Counts

Arkansas DoE

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks will be released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

An Online Presentation About Offline OER: The BCcampus Open Collection Meets Kolibri

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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With readily available internet connectivity in our homes plus always on access with mobile devices, we overlook that half of the world's population lacks connectivity needed to reach educational materials designed for online delivery. Outside of metropolitan areas of British Columbia 20% of the province are unconnected. We will demonstrate how BCcampus is exploring the Kolibri system from Learning Equality to make its B.C. Open Collection available in an offline-first environments, including interactivity of H5P exercises. Kolibri offers customization to remix with other open materials (e.g. PHET simulations, Khan Academy) plus course management features one might not expect in an offline platform. Beyond a demo, we challenge the idea of OER being only online, discuss scenarios for offline OER (incarcerated, refugee learners), ways this approach could be distributed, and to influence creators to make their content available to the world through the Kolibri Catalog.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify the different underserved communities and populations that do not have access to online educational materials or technology.
Understand how the Kolibri platform enables offline-first access to OER
Contemplate and contribute to the potential use cases and needs for offline OER.
Install the Kolibri application to directly experience the offline capability to use BCcampus content as well as more OER available in the Kolibri catalog
Contribute their own OER content to the Kolibri catalog to make available to more offline first learners worldwide

Speakers

Harper Friedman

Coordinator, Open Textbook Publishing, BCcampus

Alan Levine

Director of Community, Open Education Global

A pioneer on the web since the early 1990s, Alan shares his ideas and discoveries at CogDogBlog. Among his interests are openness and sharing, strategies for connected learning, building tools for attribution, exploring new forms of web storytelling including 50+ Web 2.0 Ways To ... Read More →

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

4:00pm EDT

Barriers to Open: Unique Perspectives from Degree Program Leadership

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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The open education community has seen many, many research articles and presentations on barriers and motivators for Open with faculty and student target populations. What we haven’t seen is the perspective of program leadership, such as department chairs. And, though our leadership may not actively participate in Open in the same way that our faculty do, they often have an administrative role over the Open work faculty are doing. This session will present findings from a dissertation research project that examined barriers to Open with program- and department-level leadership as the target population. In addition to the unique population of this study, the research methods also provide a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between discourse among program administrators and institutional policies which revealed inconsistencies that may create additional barriers, particularly to the sustainability of Open work.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explore barriers to Open from the perspective of degree program leadership.
Question whether their program leadership’s understanding of institutional policy is consistent with written documents.

Speakers

Tiffani Tijerina

Instructional Designer, Kennesaw State University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Beyond Words: Maximizing the Impact of Open Textbooks through Design

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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In this lightning talk, we’ll challenge the misconception that design is merely an aesthetic embellishment by exploring the critical role of design in creating impactful, accessible, and credible openly licensed textbooks. Drawing on theories from psychology, we will highlight how a well-designed textbook not only enhances comprehension but also establishes trust and credibility. In addition, attendees will leave equipped with practical tools and technical solutions to implement in their own textbook projects, from creating cover designs to picking a cohesive color scheme. This talk will focus on teaching Microsoft Word tools, recognizing that most people already have access to this software. Through these insights and tools, participants will leave equipped to prioritize design in their textbook projects, ultimately fostering enriched learning experiences for all types of learners.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the psychological theories behind how well-designed textbooks enhance comprehension, establish trust, and increase credibility among readers
Understand how design can alleviate gaps in accessibility
Analyze their manuscript and identify design gaps
Choose a color scheme for their openly licensed resource
Create a cover design using Microsoft Word

Speakers

Kindred Grey

Graphic Design, OER, and Digital Publishing Specialist, Virginia Tech

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Bridging Access and Collaboration: A Bachelors Program Utilizing OER Across 13 Community Colleges

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Introducing a groundbreaking initiative aimed at enhancing accessibility and collaboration through the implementation of a Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) program across 13 community colleges. Developed through a collaborative effort, this program integrates grant funded OER courses to foster equitable access to quality education while promoting resource sharing and innovation. The BAS program represents a shift in higher education, offering students a diverse array of courses specifically designed to meet the demands of today's workforce. Furthermore, the model adopted by CCCS enhances the richness of the educational experience by pooling expertise and resources. Delving into the key components of the BAS program, including the establishment of a collaborative framework among colleges, this presentation will share practical insights and lessons learned from the implementation phase providing valuable guidance for institutions seeking to replicate similar initiatives.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the importance of using free educational materials (OER) in college programs like the BAS, and how it helps students.
Understand the process of creating and implementing a ZTC bachelor’s degree program.
Explain why it's helpful for colleges to work together on programs like the BAS and how it can make education better for students.
Think about ways your own college could use free educational materials and work with others to create better programs for students, like the BAS.
Work with their colleges and colleagues to plan and implement full OER or ZTC programs for students.

Speakers

Brittany Dudek

Denver, Colorado Community College System

Rachel Meisner

Colorado Community College System

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

CC ECHO Project Catalog: A Showcase of Diverse OERs Transforming Higher Education

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Join us as we unveil the CC ECHO Project Catalog, which showcases over 30 Open Educational Resources (OERs) funded by the California Consortium for Equitable Change in HSIs with OER (CC ECHO), through an Open Textbook Pilot grant. Our project concluded in June 2024, and we are thrilled to share these OERs with the open education community! Explore our catalog to discover a wide range of OERs, including an American Government audiobook and a guidebook on structural racism in higher education. Each catalog entry offers valuable insights into the development and utilization of these OERs, highlighting their integration of DEI principles and lessons learned during the creation process. Our curated catalog serves as a centralized repository, bringing together all grant deliverables and providing attendees with easy access to a wealth of educational resources. The collection showcases the transformative potential of open education in fostering inclusive teaching and learning environments.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify and locate OER funded by the California Consortium for Equitable Change in HSIs with OER (CC ECHO) grant.
Gain insight into the integration of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) principles in the development of OER.
Understand the process of creating and utilizing OER as evidenced by the lessons learned highlighted in the catalog entries.
Recognize the role of OER in fostering inclusive teaching and learning environments, as demonstrated by the showcased examples in the catalog.

Speakers

Kelsey Smith

OER Librarian, West Hills College Lemoore

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Characteristics and Outcomes of Faculty OER Incentive Programs: A Scoping Review

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Faculty incentive programs have been an important and widely used early strategy to promote the adoption, adaptation, and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER) in institutions of higher learning in the United States. However, there is no comprehensive synthesis of the existing literature on the characteristics and outcomes of OER faculty incentive programs to which library administrators can refer when developing their own local programs. This poster uses a scoping review methodology to summarize the existing literature with the overall goal of making research findings more accessible to library administrators and other OER decision-makers. The poster illustrates the reported characteristics and outcomes of OER faculty incentive programs, including program structure, funding sources, application requirements, program deliverables, student savings, and other key data points.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify important program outcomes of OER faculty incentive programs.
Identify key administrative characteristics of OER faculty incentive programs for use in guiding the development of local programs.

Speakers

Amber Burtis

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Jennifer Horton

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Mary Taylor

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Co-Creating Outbreak and Sequencing Information in Open and Accessible Ways

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Interdisciplinary seminars and lab-based courses provide participants with the chance to gain insights from various fields. When textbooks lack accessibility or subjects rapidly evolve, students can research and create resources to support their peers' learning. In the Outbreak and Portable Genome Sequencing (PGS) courses at NC State, students collaboratively created Open Educational Resource (OER) case studies on significant public health outbreaks and a lab workbook focusing on Nanopore sequencing. Student groups were tasked with drafting sections for an outbreak investigation document (Outbreak) or preparing samples for sequencing (PGS), resulting in resources with graphical abstracts and protocols. Scholars contributed to outbreak.pubpub.org, and PGS participants are making a Pressbooks workbook. Future student cohorts will enhance existing resources and create new ones. These openly licensed resources ensure availability for the benefit of all.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe how to implement co-writing activities in their courses.
Explain how the co-creation of resources can help students incorporate different perspectives and practice attribution and citation etiquette.
List several advantages and disadvantages of collaborative classwork.
Share ideas for how variations of this approach can be implemented in different courses.

Speakers

Carlos Goller

Associate Teaching Professor, North Carolina State University

I am an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and teach in the Biotechnology Program (BIT) at North Carolina State University. I am very interested in integrating open practices in the courses I teach. I believe strongly in non-throwaway assignments... Read More →

David Tully

Librarian for Student Success & Affordability, North Carolina State University Libraries

Librarian at NC State University. Interests include Open Education, Development, Assessment and Outreach.As a Fellow I am leading a strategic initiative which places our Libraries at the heart of the University’s effort to support vulnerable students, especially those who are economically... Read More →

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Collaborative Courtesy: Charting a Course for Crediting Content Creators

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Background: As open educational resources (OER) are made and updated, careful crediting of laborers is needed; training and vetted systems still need to be improved. Methods: An OER textbook created with undergraduate (UG) support to write, edit, and design graphics. Contributors are listed on each chapter’s title page by role based on the version history of Google Docs and delegation in Airtable. Expectations are outlined in a contract. On publication, UGs are thanked for their effort and sent guidance on listing the achievement on a resume or professional profile. Results: Across 9 chapters, 12 authors, 8 editors, and 6 designers have been credited. A spreadsheet of collaborators by role was used to double check and a template email was developed. The system evolves with lessons learned. Discussion: Recognizing workers demonstrates care, and crediting efforts avoids plagiarism! Deliberate use of a system supports credit; ours can be used and adapted by others.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Discuss the importance of crediting content creators and the ethical considerations involved in properly acknowledging the work of others.
Recognize historical failures and shortcomings in crediting contributors, particularly in academic and creative fields, and understand the negative impact this has had on marginalized groups.
Describe our novel online system designed for accurately track and attribute contributions, fostering transparency and accountability.
Implement and adapt a well-developed system that allows for seamless crediting of creators and contributors when developing new Open Educational Resources (OERs) or on other collaborative projects.
Create a template response for use in thanking contributors and providing guidance regarding how to cite their contribution on their resume and professional profiles.

Speakers

Nico Osier

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Gauri Mittal

Osier Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin

Milit Patel

Osier Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Creation and Use of an OER Lab Manual for an Introductory Biology Course

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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As a minority-serving institute, our goal is to increase student retention in the Biology major by creating an open educational resource (OER) lab manual. The Basic Biological Sciences II Lab is the 2nd semester in a series of required intro lab courses and is challenging because it covers topics on animal and plant anatomy and physiology. The previously paid manual was not well received by students, where many of the modules and experiments were not consistent with the curriculum. We created an OER manual that was specific to our curriculum. The primary goals for this project were to: 1. Create an OER lab manual; 2. Determine pedagogical evidence that the OER manual was similar to learning outcomes compared to the paid manual; 3. Increase the passing rate of students; and 4. Determine student perception of the lab manual. The results show similar or improved grades when using the new OER lab manual in comparison to the paid manual, with positive student perception of the new manual.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Access the OER lab manual
Learn about student perception of the OER manual vs a paid manual
Learn about the unique demographics at our institution
See grade comparisons from the OER manual to prior semesters

Speakers

Kinning Poon

SUNY Old Westbury

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Cultural Humility and Responsive Teaching in Allied Health Prerequisite Courses

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) Courses are often identified as gatekeeper courses because: 1- they are required for many health-related professional programs, and 2- they exhibit high withdrawal and failure rates. The success or failure of A&P coursework within our postsecondary educational system is essential to institutional achievements and our national public health. Moreover, students learning A&P for health majors may require more support than students learning the content for biology majors because of the known disparities in the course prerequisites. This lightning talk discusses embracing cultural humility as educators, recognizing that students are experts in their culture, and creating meaningful, culturally responsive content to support student success in A&P courses.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Consider cultural humility as a concept
Describe examples of culturally responsive teaching
Consider the value of student-chosen multimedia projects and peer critique
Describe examples of current and relevant H5P wraparound activities to support student learning with puzzles and quizzing strategies

Speakers

Rachel Sanchez Thwing

Portland Community College

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Empowering Future Open Education Advocates: Lessons Learned by SUNY OER Services

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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In this lightning round, we delve into the experiences and insights gained from starting an OER Advisory Council at SUNY OER Services. attendees will explore strategies we employed for cultivating the next generation of open education leaders and advocates. We will discuss how our work to build a diverse and effective advisory board, reintroduce grant project funding, and use of data coding reinvigoration to drive engagement and enhance OER resources. This session offers practical takeaways and strategies that can be applied in your own institution to advance open education initiatives.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the key elements of building an effective and diverse advisory board to support OER initiatives.
Understand the impact of grant funding to advance OER projects and initiatives.
Explore methods to integrate modern coding practices and technologies into OER administration and assessment
By the end of the session, participants will have gained practical knowledge and strategies to effectively lead and advocate for OER initiatives in their own institutions, leveraging lessons learned from SUNY OER Services.

Speakers

Catherine Stollar Peters

SUNY OLIS

Tony Defranco

SUNY OER Services

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Enhancing Access and Equity in Open Education for Ethiopian Learners

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Access to quality education and equitable participation in educational opportunities are critical for sustainable development. However, many Ethiopian learners face barriers in accessing open educational resources (OER) and participating in open education initiatives. This research aims to investigate the current state of access and equity in open education for Ethiopian learners. By examining factors such as digital literacy, internet connectivity, and language barriers, the study will identify the challenges faced by learners. The research will also explore learner attitudes towards open education and its impact on engagement and utilization of OER. The study will propose policies, and interventions to enhance access and equity in open education. The research will involve consultations with stakeholders to gather diverse perspectives and recommendations. The study's outputs will include a comprehensive report, and policy recommendations.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the access and equity gaps in open education for Ethiopian learners.
Participants will identify the barriers and challenges faced by Ethiopian learners in accessing open educational resources and participating in open education initiatives.
Participants will explore strategies, interventions, and policies that can enhance access and equity in open education for Ethiopian learners.
Participants will learn about successful examples of open education initiatives and interventions that have addressed access and equity considerations in Ethiopia.
Participants will be equipped with practical recommendations and actionable strategies to promote inclusive and equitable access to quality education through open education approaches in Ethiopia

Speakers

Melkamu Kisi

Addis Ababa Science and Technology university

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Audience Advanced
Regional Focus Africa

4:00pm EDT

Enhancing Accessibility by Integrating Support for Color Vision Deficiency into Your OER

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Chemistry is notable for its use of colour; designing experiments that use colour as a guide to let students know how they are doing is both: inexpensive and informs the student of their progress. This creates barriers for students with colour vision deficiency (CVD, often referred to as colour blindness), as they will not receive the same reassurance as their peers, and may feel they are performing the experiment incorrectly. CVD affects ~8.5% the world's population: protanopia (~2%), deuteranopia (~6.5%), and tritanopia (~0.01%). This session aims to highlight first-hand experiences of students/instructors with CVD and how a students-as-partners approach created optimal conditions to navigate these difficulties without the need for drastic changes to course content. While the presentation will feature concrete examples from the chemistry laboratory; the strategies and ideas presented for navigating CVD are applicable to any classroom or workplace open educational resource.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Recall the types of colour vision deficiency, including the most common type found.
Identify common challenges individuals with colour vision deficiency may encounter in the classroom or workplace.
Describe concepts, tools, modifications, and solutions which can be integrated into open educational resources to improve accessibility with respect to colour vision deficiency.

Speakers

Katlyn Near

Dalhousie University

Jennifer MacDonald

Dalhousie University

Nicholas Roberts

University of Victoria

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Canada

4:00pm EDT

Experimentium: A Paradigm Shift for OER Lab Courses

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Experimentium is a customizable digital OER collection that supports instructors in their implementation of chemistry lab curricula at every level of experience with science education. Novice faculty will find turn-key experiment collections suitable for select courses that can be implemented in face to face or remote classes with associated supply lists. Experimentium supports ongoing professional development for lab instructors through case studies to teach teamwork and collaboration in the labs, best practices in providing feedback, grading reports using a rubric, etc. The student experience is also enhanced through integrated chemistry, math, and scientific writing tutorials in addition to video-based experiment demonstrations, all combined in a uniformly formatted prompt that provides scaffolded learning. This talk will demonstrate the functionality of Experimentium in creating lab curricula of varying levels of customization to meet the needs of novice to expert educators.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explore the Experimentium collection of experiments and supporting resources.
Experience the functionality of Experimentium in practice.

Speakers

Eszter Trufan

Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston-Downtown

Elene Bouhoutsos-Brown

lecturer, University of Houtson-Downtown

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Exploring Faculty Agency in Open Education

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Open educational practices (OEP) offer many benefits, including increased faculty teaching flexibility and opportunities for students to contribute their own perspectives to course material. However, instructors in higher education face barriers to work that isn’t explicitly valued in the promotion and tenure process, including OEP. Faculty agency, as defined by O'Meara et al. (2011), is the capacity of faculty members to actively shape and influence their work environments, professional identities, and career trajectories. OEP is often pursued because of instructors’ personal interest in open values, and while OEP benefits the university, it’s not often valued in the promotion and tenure process. In this lightning talk, the presenters will describe the preliminary data for a qualitative study they are conducting to explore faculty agency, particularly for first-year-writing and composition instructors, and how it influences instructors’ ability to pursue open educational practices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Define faculty agency and describe its relationship to open educational practices.
Evaluate the institutional and societal factors that might influence faculty agency at their own institution.

Speakers

Mandi Goodsett

OER & Copyright Advisor / Perf Arts & Humanities L, Cleveland State University

I am the OER & Copyright Advisor at Cleveland State University in Ohio. I would love to chat with others about incentive programs, publishing, professional development, and course markings.

Sean Burns

University of Kentucky

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

4:00pm EDT

Exploring Synergies: The Interplay of OER and Generative AI Adoption in Higher Education

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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In recent years, the landscape of higher education has witnessed an increased interest in both Open Educational Resources (OER) and the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into curriculum design. While national initiatives have promoted the adoption of OER, faculty resistance remains prevalent, posing a significant challenge to widespread implementation. Similarly, the incorporation of AI tools and technologies in educational settings has sparked curiosity and debate among educators. Amidst this backdrop, there exists an intriguing yet unexplored relationship between the adoption of OER and the utilization of Generative AI in higher education. This session will discuss preliminary data that aims to delve into the intersection of OER and Generative AI adoption among faculty members. By addressing pertinent research questions, we seek to shed light on the dynamics between these two innovative practices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain understanding of the factors influencing faculty adoption decisions between Open Educational Resources (OER) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in higher education curriculum design.
Gain understanding of the relationship between OER and Generative AI adoption, discerning how the utilization of one resource may influence the decision to incorporate the other.

Speakers

Emma Lanners

Open Educational Resources Librarian, Utah Tech University

Chris Healy

Utah Tech University

Munir Mahmud

Utah Tech University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Exploring the Effects of an OERs Creation Activity on Students' Learning Experiences in Game Coding

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Open educational practice (OEP) emphasizes allowing students to be information creators instead of simply consumers. One of the open educational practices is to engage students in the process of creation or adaptation of open educational resources (OER). Several studies showed that OERs have the potential of enhancing teaching effectiveness and student learning experiences in higher education. In this regard, this study explored whether the application of ORE creation activity in a class is able to enhance student learning experience in learning computer game programming. The participants were undergraduate students from a HBCU university in the eastern United States. Quantitative approaches will be applied to analyze the collected data. The results showed that the OER creation activity could significantly enhance students' perceptions of OER and self-assessment of computer programming knowledge. However, it could not significantly change student motivation in learning computer programming.

Speakers

Yu-Tung Kuo

North Carolina A&T State University

Yu-Chun Kuo

Rowan University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Feedback in Open Textbooks: What Kind and Where Is Best?

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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The licensing of open educational resources allows for interactive questions with immediate feedback to be added to open textbooks. However, it is not clear what type and placement of feedback is most effective. In this study, 390 college and high school students were randomly assigned either correct-answer only feedback or elaborative feedback (with explanations for why the answer is correct). The questions with the feedback were either in the middle-and-end of the textbook excerpt or the end of the excerpt only. Student learning from the textbook excerpt was highest with elaborative feedback that was only at the end of the textbook excerpt. The findings were similar across groups traditionally underserved in higher education such as first-generation college students and racially-minoritized students. In addition, elaborative feedback at the end of the textbook excerpt appeared to be the most helpful across a range of students’ socioeconomic backgrounds.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe how experimental research may contribute to open education knowledge.
Explain the differences between correct-response only and elaborative feedback.
Prepare questions and feedback for revising open textbooks.
Evaluate the effectiveness of different types and placements of feedback in open textbooks

Speakers

Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Associate Professor in Educational Foundations and Research, University of North Dakota

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Canada

4:00pm EDT

History of Dagbani Wikimedians User Group

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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The Dagbani Wikimedians User Group is a not-for-profit organization promoting free knowledge through Wikipedia and sister projects. The group, mostly students and educators of all ages, is made up of 153 volunteers with a vision to increase the visibility of Dagbani and all other Gur/Mabia languages spoken in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin on the internet using Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia. The fascinating history of the group is explored in this session, tracing its origin, growth, and contributions to the Wikimedia movement. After getting the Dagbani language approved on Wikipedia in 2021 as the third Ghanaian language to be recognized by Wikipedia, the group went ahead to get three other Gur/Mabia languages (ie Gurene, Dagaare and Kusaal) recognized on Wikipedia as of March 2024, with another one (Moore) currently being incubated for approval. In fact the Dagaare language secured its approval in record time by chalking this feet in just nine months.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Appreciate the challenges encountered by the group in promoting diversity and inclusion within the Wikimedia space;
Learn the evolution of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group; and
Discuss community-building strategies and initiatives for collaboration within the context of Wikimedia projects.

Speakers

Musah Fuseini

Dagbani Wikimedians User Group

Mohammed Kamaldeen Fuseini

Dagbani Wikimedians User Group

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Africa

4:00pm EDT

I Tried to Advance an Affordability Mindset and All I Got was this Rubric: Lessons in Starting Over

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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When Tessy was hired at the beginning of 2021 as the OER Librarian, she knew her predecessor and current Scholarly Communication librarian at UTEP had put in countless hours of working on creating an Affordable Mindset on campus. She thought she could charge ahead with the current plan for Affordability, but was met with obstacles - mostly misconceptions and misinformation about what the Open movement entailed. After an eye-opening conversation in Fall 2023, Tessy decided to rework her strategy to start over and created an Affordable Mindset Rubric. This rubric is meant to help faculty address various aspects of why they are choosing certain course materials, in the hopes of fostering honest and productive conversations. She shares lessons learned as well as the rubric in this session.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Utilize or modify a rubric to evaluate course materials selected to better foster an Affordable Mindset at various institutions
Evaluate what the current mindset is on campus to better prepare for obstacles that hinder the Open movement

Speakers

Maria Teresa Torres

OER Librarian, University of Texas at El Paso

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Infographic: FOSS and CC Licenses

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Infographics will be presented which combine the famous spectrum of Creative Commons (CC) licenses from most-free and OER to least-free and not OER with the case of free and open-source (FOSS) licenses for software. The objective is to ensure that those licensing either purely software educational resources or hybrid software/text/other educational resources (like textbooks that are Jupyter notebooks, OER textbooks with embedded H5P, educational simulations) can choose licenses in line with their intentions to be open and inclusive - to make OER. The open education community can use such instructional materials on how to license these hybrid text/code OER works with appropriate non-CC licenses: there is a need since CC has made it clear that their licenses have problematic application to software, which should be therefore licensed under a FOSS license - but many open educators are unsure of what licenses are available and how they would or would not apply to their specific use.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Be able to use the appropriate FOSS license for software that is meant to be an OER.
Understand the full spectrum of CC licenses, and the augmented spectrum, including public domain tools.
Use the infographics to help them choose which FOSS and/or CC license or domain tool to use when creating educational software or a hybrid text-software.

Speakers

Jonathan Poritz

consultant, various

Kathryn Kure

STEAM Foundation NPC

Andrew Rens

Research ICT Africa

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

4:00pm EDT

Integrating Global Art and Culture Through Open Educational Resources

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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This presentation proposes an innovative approach to the redesign of a global survey course covering the period c. 400 – 1750 CE, aiming to challenge and expand traditional educational boundaries through the integration of Open Educational Resources (OER). By merging Western and non-Western art within a unified timeline, this course offers a more holistic view of global cultures and artistic expressions. The course structure emphasizes thematic lessons that transcend regional and chronological divisions, such as the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the repatriation of African art, highlighting the interconnectedness and consequences of colonization. This session will explore the pedagogical strategies, challenges, and successes of creating a more inclusive, engaging, and comprehensive educational experience through the thoughtful application of open resources.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the benefits and challenges of integrating Western and non-Western art within a unified timeline to provide a comprehensive global perspective.
Gain insights into the development and implementation of thematic lessons that address significant global issues within the context of a survey course.
Explore the impact of utilizing Open Educational Resources to enhance accessibility, diversity of content, and student engagement in the learning process.
Recognize the potential of OER in encouraging critical thinking, collaboration, and innovation among students.

Speakers

James Hutson

Assistant Dean, Lindenwood University

Online and graduate education

Analisa Soverns-Reed

Lindenwood University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

4:00pm EDT

LCTL OER-Textbooks for Southeast and South Asian languages for Digital Natives

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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At MSU, we have been developing OER textbooks such as Basic Hindi, Basic Urdu, Basic Persian, Basic Khmer, and Basic Vietnamese. After the success of these OER textbooks, we proposed a project to the IRS at the U.S. Department of Education. Our project received funding, and the objectives of this project are to develop, publish, and disseminate specialized instruction materials in the form of OER language textbooks. The proposed activities include: (i) developing OER content for multiple languages and levels textbooks for Asian LCTLs over a three-year period, for a total of 12 volumes.; (ii) convening workshops for groups of OER textbook authors to plan and initiate textbook creation; and (iii) publishing and promoting OER textbooks development in collaboration with MSU language faculty members affiliated with COTSEAL, SALTA, SEALC, SASLI, and SEASSI. These textbooks also undergo copy editing and accessibility tests to ensure these OER books follow all the accessibility guidelines.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Learn about developing LCTL OER materials and pedagogical design behind it.
Use the pressbook and H5P tools to develop interactive and digitally active teaching and learning materials for LCTLs.

Speakers

Rajiv Ranjan

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

Vidya Mohan

Michigan State University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States, Asia

4:00pm EDT

Navigating Ethical Considerations of Online Research to Design Open Materials for K-12

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Freely-available digital learning platforms often provide space to create and share open education resources for teachers and students (e.g., ASSISTments, Graspable Math, Upgrade, etc). Many of these technologies are also research platforms to test, improve, and share freely-available researcher-designed instructional content (e.g., Heffernan & Heffernan, 2014). However, understanding the affordances and challenges of this research, navigating ethical considerations for K-12 education research, and working through the institutional review board (IRB) process can be difficult and vary across institutions. In this session, we will present descriptive and qualitative results from an online survey distributed to IRBs across the United States to provoke a conversation on how advances in educational technologies, student privacy, and human subjects research practices must be considered to design evidence-based online open resources for K-12 education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand considerations for doing research to develop evidence-based open education materials.
Recognize common themes of how this type of research is viewed by institutional review boards (IRBs) across the United States.
Relate their own work to this research process and implement suggestions on how to write compelling IRB applications for ethical research projects.

Speakers

Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Associate Professor in Educational Foundations and Research, University of North Dakota

Avery Closser

University of Florida

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

New to OER? Lessons Learned as an Early Career Academic

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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While many academics express a desire to create open educational resources (OERs), few do. A key barrier academics report preventing them from engaging in OER creation is a lack of in-depth understanding of the development process at an individual level. This presentation outlines individual level lessons learned about OER development from a case study of one early career academic’s experience creating OER for the first time. Analysis of the academic’s journals, critical friend meetings, and stakeholder evaluation of the OER she created, reveal barriers and facilitators encountered. Examples include: (mis)understandings about OER and how to learn about them; technology options, costs, and decisions; institutional supports; and tensions with other academic priorities. While some generic ‘how-to’ guides and macro-level analyses of OER issues exist, these contextualized first-hand lessons offer novel individual-level support for educators navigating OER creation for the first-time.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the barriers and facilitators they may likely encounter as individuals developing OER for the first time.
Develop a detailed and realistic plan for the development of their first OER.

Speakers

Jenna Lorusso

University of Limerick

Ann MacPhail

University of Limerick

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Canada, Global Focus, Europe

4:00pm EDT

No Time to Author? Hiring Students as Collaborators for OER Projects

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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This presentation will discuss the outcomes of a collaborative open pedagogy program which paired student workers with faculty to advance inclusive equity-based pedagogy in OER. This program, funded by our University Equal Opportunity Planning Committee (EOPC), supported a cohort of faculty and student collaborators in developing OER that better reflect our student diversity and include marginalized voices and experiences historically absent in disciplinary discourses and commercially produced textbooks. In addition to producing no-cost course materials, this program encouraged culturally responsive, inclusive pedagogy by requiring faculty to add a social justice component to their syllabus. While faculty often cite the necessary time investment as an impediment to OER development, having student assistants helped to address that issue in addition to providing an engaged learning experience for students in which they were knowledge creators rather than consumers.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain an understanding of an OER creation program model that can support faculty and student collaboration and further social justice aims.
Evaluate the impact of a program on student learning around open practices
Reflect on the effectiveness of the program on student/faculty collaborations around OER development

Speakers

Christina Riehman-Murphy

Open & Affordable Educational Resources Librarian, SPARC VPO for Open Education Leadership, Penn State University Libraries

Christina Riehman-Murphy, Associate Librarian, is the Open and Affordable Educational Resources Librarian at Penn State. She is also the Visiting Program Officer for Open Education Leadership at SPARC. She has her MSLS from Clarion University and a BA in English and Secondary Education... Read More →

Bryan McGeary

Learning Design & Open Education Engagement Librarian, Penn State University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

OER in Preservice Teacher Education: A Case Study of Usage, Value, and Connectiveness.

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Introduction to Education is a preservice course intended to provide foundational concepts and awareness of themes to future K-12 teachers. Using the culturally responsive framework, the course and resources were intentionally redesigned to meet the needs of a diverse population, remove barriers, and promote knowledge acquisition through an OER textbook. Developed through an institutional Pressbook account, the resource includes: text, H5P activities, a podcast, videos, and knowledge checks to promote student engagement through differentiated instruction and assessments. The focus of this session is on student usage, their expressed value of the resources, and how this resource connects to current needs and trends for future educators. Links to text and activities will be provided, as well as findings associated with survey and focus group data.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify open education resources such as pressbooks and H5P as tools to promote individual and collective learning.
Become familiar with the intersection of OER and culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP).
Consider how connectivity theory can be leveraged as a tool to help students make sense of learning both individually and collectively.
Apply concepts from OER, CRP and connectivity theory to your context.

Speakers

Kim Godwin

Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University

Karen Nourse

Middle Tennessee State University

Angela Hooser

Middle Tennessee State University

Janna McClain

Middle Tennessee State University

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Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

OER Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Academic Librarians

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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The aims of the Open Education movement are supported by academic librarians, but it is not known how much this group is generally aware of OER and relevant concepts. A knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) survey was developed to measure OER competencies in academic librarians. The KAP survey is often used in allied health fields to determine a baseline by which to measure the success of subsequent educational interventions. The objective of this study was to validate a survey instrument to measure the KAP of academic librarians toward OER. Validation methods include drafting a survey instrument, determining face/expert validity, and administering the survey to three separate samples. The data was analyzed for reliability and validity. The validated survey instrument can be used to investigate the relative levels of KAP within librarian sub-groups, e.g. medical vs. engineering librarians, etc. or in a pre/post test situation within a single institution.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe the utility of an OER Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) survey to study an academic librarian population
Identify the validated research instrument as an available tool to determine baseline OER knowledge, attitudes and practices among academic librarians
Use the validated research instrument in their own experimental or descriptive research design across librarian groups

Speakers

Kristin Whitman

Library Director, Portland-Metro Campus, Oregon Institute of Technology

Jenn Monnin

West Virginia University

Riley Richards

Oregon Institute of Technology

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

OERColorado Iconography: Branding that Welcomes and Defines

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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The OERColorado.org curriculum library has a strong visual presence. One core aspect of the site branding is the icons identifying each Subject, CTE and Community of Practice Hub on the digital library to organize collections. These icons follow a design guideline with two goals: to welcome and to identify. Each icon uses imagery from the Noun Project, whose goal is “a global visual language… that allows quick and easy communication no matter who you are or where you are.” That universality of communication supports the OERColorado goal of quickly matching users with resources using easy to identify icons. Although many icons may represent a given hub topic, those chosen must also welcome a diverse plurality of users, fostering a dialog between the efficiency gained by choosing tropes or stereotypical imagery, and the need to create a more inclusive space through more universal imagery. The iconography of the site represents a delicate balance between the specific and the universal.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Consider how design choices can influence user behavior
Discuss the role iconography plays in fostering belonging
Explore how goal setting in design fosters awareness and intentionality

Speakers

Mallorie Klemm

Blended Learning Education Senior Consultant, Colorado Department of Education

Mallorie Klemm, Blended Learning Education Senior Consultant

Theresa Becker

OERColorado

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Open Educational Resources for Climate Conscious Lawyers

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, It is therefore “about time” we transformed legal education to ensure the next generation of lawyers is provided training to be ‘climate conscious’ legal practitioners. Climate conscious pedagogy will require challenging conventional boundaries and ways of doing things. The development of open educational resources is crucial for equipping students to navigate a fast-paced and rapidly changing legal environment. Drawing on a survey of subject coordinators and teachers from across all Australian law schools, this presentation will shine a light on the extent to which climate change is currently being incorporated into the teaching of both compulsory law subjects and electives. The presentation will identify opportunities for developing responsive and open-access pedagogical materials and teaching practices to prepare students for their professional lives in light of the global challenge of climate change.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the current barriers to and opportunities for open-access legal education
Appreciate of the intersection between open-access legal education and climate justice
Articulate the role of responsive and accessible pedagogical materials and teaching practices in preparing students for their professional lives in light of the global challenge of climate change

Speakers

Julia Dehm

ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University

Julia Dehm is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the La Trobe Law School. Her scholarship addresses urgent issues of international and domestic climate change and environmental law, natural resource governance and questions of human rights, economic inequality and social justice... Read More →

Nicole Graham

University of Sydney

Zoe Nay

University of Melbourne

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Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Asia, United States, Global Focus

4:00pm EDT

Power of Open: A Focused Review on The Role of Open-Learning Design in Advancing MedStudent Learning

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Join our short communication session to delve into the findings from our research paper exploring the role of open-learning design (OLD) in advancing medical student learning and motivation. Discover how OLD empowers learners as co-creators of knowledge, fostering active engagement and deeper understanding. We'll discuss the strategies, benefits and challenges uncovered in implementing OLD principles in health professions education. Gain insights into the positive impact of OLD on learner engagement, satisfaction, and learning outcomes, while identifying key areas for further research and development. Unlock the power of open in medical education with us.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Analyze the impact of OLD on learner engagement, satisfaction, and learning outcomes.
Discuss strategies for incorporating OLD principles into educational settings effectively.
Recognize the importance of further research and development in enhancing OLD interventions in health professions education.

Speakers

Mustafa Alshareefi

International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations

Konstantina Papageorgiou

Capacity Building Education Assistant, University of Thessaly, Faculty of Medicine

Kaan Mert

Acibadem University, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Education

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

4:00pm EDT

Pre-Recorded Lightning Talks [Available to View Any Time During the Conference]

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

General

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Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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4:00pm EDT

Pressbooks Community of Practice: Exploring Faculty Textbook Publishing at a Community College

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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In Winter 2024, Spokane Community College’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) ran a quarter-long Community of Practice (CoP) on Pressbooks and Open Education. This CoP provided a paid opportunity to faculty from all areas of the college to come together and learn together about publishing openly licensed textbooks in a structured, hybrid format. In this presentation, Faculty Librarian Greg Bem, one of the participants of the CoP, will describe the CoP format in detail, and share his experience participating. The presentation will include Bem’s completed textbook, which was successfully created using original and remixed materials in the 10-week quarter. This presentation provides insight into the values of structured employee development, and describes how the CoP model can respond to historic inclusivity and equity concerns in the context of in-house open education publishing.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Analyze the structured hybrid format of the Community of Practice (CoP) to understand its application in open education publishing.
Evaluate the impact of a collaborative learning environment on the creation of openly licensed textbooks.
Identify strategies for addressing inclusivity and equity concerns through the CoP model in open education initiatives.
Examine a completed project outcome to assess the effectiveness of the CoP approach in producing open educational resources.

Speakers

Greg Bem

Spokane Community College

I am a faculty librarian at Spokane Community College. Previously I was a faculty librarian at Lake Washington Institute of Technology (LWTech). I co-created an AI and Instruction Discord with SCC ESL Professor Zach Christman. Join here! https://discord.com/invite/WuxaGvDr

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Sharing Open Educational Resources Via a Portable Application

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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A challenge facing the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Library, located in Yola, north-eastern Nigeria, is its inability to satisfy the needs of its large community of users without affecting the quality of service it provides to the university community. To minimize the pressure on the only library with Internet facilities in the region, it developed a web-based application shared via USB flash drive, named Library-On-A-Flash (LOAF). LOAF contains OER, which may be used offline by libraries without access to the Internet It has links to reputable Databases and resources produced by two USAID and AUN-sponsored projects (TELLA and STELLAR. The application is the result of the collaboration of the Library and ITU and is used by institutions, IDPs and NGOs displaced by Boko Haram insurgencies. The projects major challenges are the capacity of the application and intensive copying and sharing. The features and content of LOAF will be demonstrated to participants during the conference.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Reduce the pressure put on their library facilities by large communities of users often common in developing countries.
Raise awareness on Open Access Resources, especially among libraries with scarce learning resources and poor internet connection.
Adopt and adapt OER for their learning and teaching to reduce the cost of textbooks.

Speakers

Benson Ali

Int. University Librarian, American University of Nigeria

I am the acting University Librarian at the American University of Nigeria responsible for the day to day running of the Library and also responsible for the acquisition of digital resources. A project, known as the Textbook Affordability Initiatives was in place before the pandemic... Read More →

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Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Africa

4:00pm EDT

Talented Students and Fantastic Book Covers: A Design Contest as Open Pedagogy

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Pedagogy Opened: Innovative Theory and Practice is a newly published (March 2024) openly licensed monograph with seven articles on diverse topics related to open pedagogy. Given that it’s a book about open pedagogy, it seemed only natural that the book itself would have elements of open pedagogy itself. So, with the support of her advisory board, the editor worked with a colleague to design a book cover design contest that was then implemented in an upper-level visual design course at Kennesaw State University. By providing them with few parameters, students had total freedom to apply the concepts they were learning in class to their own designs and then were given the option to openly license and publish their work, regardless of winning the contest. In this session, the editor of Pedagogy Opened and the student designer of its cover will present the logistics and results of the contest and the first-hand experience from its student winner, now a published cover designer.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Consider whether working with student designers would be an option for their in-progress and future planned OER.
Brainstorm considerations in implementing a design contest in their own classes and/or for their own planned OER.

Speakers

Tiffani Tijerina

Instructional Designer, Kennesaw State University

Sidney Alexander

Kennesaw State University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Thank You, OER Champion

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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As the cost of textbooks continue to rise for students, Open Educational Resources (OER) have become a particularly popular textbook affordability initiative among college faculty. In an effort to recognize the positive impact OER adopters have on students, and to further market textbook affordability, Clackamas Community College's textbook affordability librarian, Justine Munds, used a "gratitude campaign" to showcase faculty who had transitioned to teaching with OER. In this session, Justine will give an overview of the gratitude campaign that includes the research and resources that inspired it, its intended outcomes, and access to the openly-licensed resources she created so you run a gratitude campaign of your own.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Describe the importance of recognizing OER adoptions
Predict the benefits of actively celebrating OER adopters
Employ an OER Champion gratitude campaign of their own

Speakers

Justine Munds

Clackamas Community College

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Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

The Doctor is In: Open to Oblivion

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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This lightning talk will share the experience of an open online course which fostered an open online community, which begat an AI-powered audio chatbot, Dr. Oblivion, who was drafted as a teaching assistant. A community member built the bot as a project for an outside course. The instructors were able to put it to use in a digital storytelling where the class could experiment with and learn about generative AI applications as tools for creating narratives on the web. This serves as an example of how open educational practices can enable creativity and connection within a community. Dr. Oblivion may contribute snide commentary to the presentation.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Discuss broad benefits of open educational practices
Discuss potential benefits of incorporating generative AI applications into a course

Speakers

Paul Bond

Associate Librarian, SUNY Broome Community College

I'm into lifelong learning, open education, information literacy, and playing around on the internet. That why I became a librarian.

Jim Groom

Reclaim Hosting

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States, Europe

4:00pm EDT

The Open Trifecta: A Winning Combination of Pedagogy, Licensing and ePortfolios

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Many community college students experience barriers to success in first-year STEM courses. Open pedagogy practices can benefit these students, especially those who struggle as first-generation college students, encounter financial barriers, or experience cultural differences that contribute to opportunity gaps. By allowing students to demonstrate their learning in nontraditional ways, these students can be welcomed into higher education and take ownership of their educational experience. In conjunction with open pedagogy, e-portfolios allow students to showcase their work, reflect upon what they’ve learned, and create for an audience beyond their instructor. General Biology (BIOL-101) courses at Raritan Valley Community College combine a winning trifecta of open pedagogy, creative commons licensing instruction, and e-portfolio creation to give students agency over how they demonstrate their learning aligned with the course learning objectives.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand how the synergy between open pedagogy, Creative Commons licensing, and ePortfolios supports student engagement.
Collaborate with faculty, librarians, and career counselors to implement a comprehensive open pedagogy assessment.

Speakers

Melanie Lenahan

Professor, Biology, Raritan Valley Community College

Megan Dempsey

Instructional Services Librarian, Raritan Valley Community College

Carrie Bazar

Raritan Valley Community College

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

The Time is Now: Exploring Archivists' Response to the Open Educational Movement

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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This presentation will explore the existing literature on the intersection of the Open Education Resource (OER) movement and archival practices, with a focus on how archivists and cultural heritage professionals utilize OER language and platforms to promote the use of collections. While demand for OER grows, the willingness of archivists to seize Open Educational language and practices remains largely unexplored. There are primed opportunities for archivists to partner with OER organizations and professionals to make their materials readily available for adoption or adaptation. A review of the literature will reveal the extent to which archivists have integrated OERs into professional practices and what partnerships, if any, exist between archivists and educators to develop OERs. Findings will inform future research and practical recommendations for archivists on how to leverage OER platforms, funding, and language to promote archival collections for educational use.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Identify gaps in current research and propose future directions for investigation in leveraging OER for the promotion of archival collections
Assess the potential impact and effectiveness of leveraging OER language and platforms in promoting archival collections for educational use

Speakers

Dawn (Nikki) Cannon-Rech

Information Services Librarian, Georgia Southern University

Associate Professor, Librarian. OER Librarian. Science Librarian

Autumn Johnson

Special Collections Librarian, Georgia Southern University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Time to Transform Courses with OER: The OERCS Initiative at National University

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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As a result of a university merger and transformation initiative, a unique opportunity presented itself to build an Open Educational Resources and Curriculum Support (OERCS) team that would be fully embedded into each course development taking place at National University. Within one year of providing tailored, hands-on OER assistance and curation for 569 course builds, the OERCS team saved students approximately $275,000 in textbook costs, shepherded the development of multiple open educational resources by university faculty and staff, and increased the adoption of OER in courses by 54%. This presentation will share successes and lessons learned in the first year of full OER and curriculum support. The presentation will also provide fodder for future direction that may be implemented at your institution as the OERCS team continues increasing the adoption, utilization, quality, and development of open educational resources at National University.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Discover ways to implement OER into course development
Understand how to incentivize faculty and staff to author and adapt OER
Develop strategies to work through challenges with OER acceptance
Investigate future opportunities for OER implementation and promotion

Speakers

Taylor Perkins

National University

Katherine Lang

National University

Danielle Steinhart

National University

Hannah White

National University

Anastacia McCloskey

National University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Transforming the Classroom with Role Play & AI

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Immersive role-playing experiences, such as "Reacting to the Past" games, can be a powerful way to engage students with complex historical events. However, the development process can be time intensive. This session explores how I utilized the AI language model Gemini Advanced to streamline the development of a game centered on the 1994-1995 Enola Gay exhibit controversy designed for use in college courses. With the support of an OER grant, my team initially created a long-form game that takes weeks of class time to play. I'll demonstrate how AI tools enabled me to rapidly adapt the game design, generating new character roles and supporting materials to create a short version that could be played in one session. I will also offer strategies for using AI to create role immersion games for use in class.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the potential of AI-assisted historical game design.
Apply strategies for tailoring AI-generated content to educational needs.
Design role-play elements for short-form history lessons.
Explain the benefits of student-centered learning activities in history courses.

Speakers

Allison Belzer

Georgia Southern University

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Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Uniting Open Educational Practices & Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: It's Time!

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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This session aims to engage conference attendees in a conversation about the interconnectivity between Open Educational Resources(OER) and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). A recent letter in Inside Higher Ed (2021) stated “… we are convinced that the OER movement has reinvigorated the scholarship of teaching and learning, as well as the student experience in and beyond the classroom. That is more than cost savings. That is the future of education itself.” Attendees will be engaged in reflection on the role of Open Educational Practices, including OER in equitable teaching and learning. Comparisons will be made between the elements of strong SoTL that also support equitable teaching and learning. We'll also detail how persons using OER can more easily consider the scholarly approaches to their work. Exploring the similarities between these two distinct communities will provide ideas for advocacy that will attract more persons to both, and strengthen the work of both.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Gain an understanding of the synergies between Open Educational Resources (OER) and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and how they contribute to the enhancement of student learning experiences
Analyze the commonalities between effective SoTL methodologies and the principles of OER, examining how integrating these approaches can lead to more robust pedagogical practices and advocate for broader adoption within educational institutions.

Speakers

Dawn (Nikki) Cannon-Rech

Information Services Librarian, Georgia Southern University

Associate Professor, Librarian. OER Librarian. Science Librarian

Diana Botnaru

Georgia Southern University

Debbie Walker

Georgia Southern University

Kevin Reagan

Georgia Southern University

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Using Open Education Resources to Support Technical Courses

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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This presentation will focus on the development and utilization of openly licensed math materials (OER) to support Technical Courses. This presentation will focus on knowledge and experience with open content and open pedagogy, strategies and tools for creating content and curriculum that is inclusive of all learners, and opportunities for funding dual enrollment projects.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Explore resources dealing with open content and open pedagogy related to technical courses.
Discuss strategies and tools for creating content and curriculum that is inclusive of all learners.
Research opportunities for funding dual enrollment projects.

Speakers

Esperanza Zenon

RLOE Leadership Advisory Team, Regional Leaders of Open Education (RLOE)

Esperanza Zenon - Associate Professor of Physical Science.I am passionate about STEM Equity, and serve in several organizations focused on girls in STEM. I utilize OER in all of my courses as a way of making sure that all of my students have the course materials on day one of class... Read More →

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Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:00pm EDT

Using the ISAT2 to Assess the Capacity to Support Open Educational Practices Across Ontario

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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The ISAT2 is an institutional self-assessment tool to assess capacity to support open educational practices. This multidimensional instrument builds on earlier research in British Columbia Morgan et al. (2021) and the Netherlands (van Rossum & Schuwer, 2022) and assesses capacity and maturity related to: vision and implementation; partnerships, policies, and incentives; professional development; institutional supports; leadership and advocacy; and culture change. The ISAT2 is openly licensed and available in English and French. This presentation will introduce the ISAT2 while sharing preliminary findings from a survey of colleges, universities, and Indigenous institutes in Ontario, Canada.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Understand the evolution of the ISAT & the dimensions and maturity levels of open educational practices.
Learn how Open Educational Practices can potentially transform aspects of post-secondary institutions, as evidenced by the themes assessed by the ISAT.
Identify specific strategies within each dimension of practice and maturity level for advancing support for OEP within their institutions, as illustrated by the ISAT2.
Access and utilize the openly licensed ISAT2: Attendees will learn how to access the ISAT2, which is openly licensed and available in English and French, for their own or their institution’s use

Speakers

Rajiv Jhangiani

Vice-Provost, Teaching & Learning, Brock University

Oya Pakkal

Brock University

Robert Luke

eCampusOntario

Catherine Lachaine

University of Ottawa

Session Type

Lightning Talk (View Anytime)

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Canada

4:00pm EDT

Writing Place: An Inclusive and Decolonial Open Online Textbook

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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This poster presentation focuses on the creation and impact of Writing Place, an open online textbook for a multi-section first-year undergraduate scholarly writing course taught in the Faculties of Land & Food Systems and Forestry at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The overall goal of Writing Place is to support students in making meaningful contributions to scholarly conversations in their disciplines, and to consider how to share their research beyond the university. The objectives are to provide an accessible, interactive and free resource to increase equity among diverse learners; to support a decolonial approach to scholarly writing by including Indigenous Ways of Knowing, and questions for reflection about the connections between writing and place; to weave in student and marginalized voices throughout each chapter; and to support student self-efficacy and persistence.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Reflect on how they might create an open online textbook for use in their own context
Consider how they might integrate or adapt Writing Place: A Scholarly Writing Open Online Textbook for use in their scholarly writing classrooms
Consider the important process of reconciliation and decolonization through the creation and use of open education resources that challenge colonial norms and practices.

Speakers

Lindsay Cuff

University of British Columbia

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.

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Audience Beginner
Regional Focus Canada

4:00pm EDT

Developing and Piloting Open Technology Tools for (and With) Social Work Students

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT

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This project focuses on developing a technology inventory through the ethnographic study of technology use, data collection, and critical digital literacy among social work students in a public, urban university in the United States. This tool is intended for use as an open access educational intervention to facilitate students’ critical examination of their technology use and data collection practice, with a deep probing of the ubiquity, risks, liability, and potential benefits of technology in social work. Its design has revealed additional insights into how students’ technology use and practices are shaped by their life contexts outside of the classroom and how this creates resource and access gaps that may impede some students’ capacity for developing critical technology literacies. The tool is part of a larger open educational project aimed at developing and disseminating open resources for social work students to better understand the role of technology in social work practice.

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Hear student perspectives on an open access tools for understanding technology use in social work practice through dissemination of results of focus groups conducted with Master’s of Social Work students in practicum
View the prototype of the technology inventory with description of its development
Understand the importance of integrating assessment of students’ critical digital literacy into curriculum planning, especially with open access resources

Speakers

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States