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

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Abbey Elder

Iowa State University

Shannon Smith

University of Wyoming

Amber Hoye

Director, World Languages Resource Center, Boise State University

Amanda Larson

Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant, The Ohio State University

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

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
H3

Session: Hybrid

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

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

1:30pm EDT

Millions Served and Billions Saved: The Impact of OER Marketing

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Lindsay Josephs

Demand Generation Specialist, Rice University/OpenStax

Sarah Bidwell

Assistant Director, Content Marketing, OpenStax

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

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

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

Session: Hybrid

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

2:15pm EDT

Synergizing Best Practices: Student Advocacy and Open Education Resources

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Monica Chan

ISKME

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

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

Session: Hybrid

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

3:00pm EDT

Breakout: Emerging Technologies and Open Education

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

Session Type

Hybrid

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

Breakout Groups

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

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)

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 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
H3

Session: Virtual

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

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

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

9:45am EDT

Adoption Done Well: A Panel Discussion Across Institution Types

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Emily Ragan

Metropolitan State University of Denver

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

Arenthia Herren

OER Librarian, Florida SouthWestern State College

Heather Miceli

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, American Association of Colleges and Universities

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

Micah Gjeltema

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

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

Dr. C. Edward Watson

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

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

Chlesea James

Pima Community College

Session Type

Hybrid (40 min)

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

Session: Hybrid

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

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

11:30am EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Robert Farrow

Senior Research Fellow, The Open University

Beck Pitt

Senior Research Fellow, The Open University

Carina Bossu

The Open University

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

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

Session: Hybrid

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

12:00pm EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Heather Miceli

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, American Association of Colleges and Universities

Nathan Henton

American Association of Colleges & Universities

Jessica Chittum

American Association of Colleges & Universities

Dr. C. Edward Watson

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

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

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

Session: Hybrid

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

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

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

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

4:15pm EDT

Breakout: U.S. South

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

Session Type

Hybrid

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

Breakout Groups

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

9:00am EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

JOHNSON GBEDZE

Director of Special Projects, Community Development Network

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

TIFFANY ZENITH IVINS

OXFORD UNIVERSITY

GIFTY ANAB

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

Marzuq Abubakari

OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Session Type

Hybrid (25 min)

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

Session: Hybrid

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

9:30am 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

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

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

11:45am EDT

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

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