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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11:00am EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Amee Evans Godwin

Senior Advisor, ISKME

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

Alex Perry

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

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

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

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

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

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Merinda McLure

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

Merinda leads the CU Boulder University Libraries’ Researcher Engagement Section and serves as one of the Libraries’ three Open Educational Resources (OER) Co-Leads. She is the Libraries’ subject specialist and liaison librarian for CU Boulder’s departments of psychology and neuroscience; integrative physiology; and speech, language, and hearing sciences. Merinda joined the University Libraries in 2017 and has previously worked at Colorad... Read More →

Caroline Sinkinson

Teaching & Learning Librarian, CU Boulder

Robert Awkward

Assistant Commissioner for Academic Effectiveness, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education

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

Reta Chaffee

University of New Hampshire

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

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

Session: Hybrid

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

11:00am EDT

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

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

Heather Blicher

Director, Community College Consortium for OER, Open Education Global

Heather is the Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) at Open Education Global. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4:30pm 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

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

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

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

9:30am 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

9:45am 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

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

Founder, Data Myna

As Chapter Lead of Creative Commons South Africa, she has been deeply engaged in recommendations to Parliament regarding sorely-needed Copyright reform in terms of the Copyright Amendment Bill, and she actively advocates for tax policy changes in order to enable more open educational... Read More →

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

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

Technical Editor, 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

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

11:30am 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

3:30pm 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

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

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

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

Session: Hybrid

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Audience Intermediate
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

IP2

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
IP2

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

9:30am 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

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

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

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

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

Founder, Data Myna

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

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.

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 →

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

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

11:45am 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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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)

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 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

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

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

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)

Attendance Type View Anytime
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)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
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)

Attendance Type View Anytime
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

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

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 →

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, 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)

Attendance Type View Anytime
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)

Attendance Type View Anytime
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

Founder, Data Myna

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)

Attendance Type View Anytime
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)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

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)

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
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

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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

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)

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

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

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

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 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

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

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

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Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States