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

Leveraging OER to Communicate the Significance of General Education

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

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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
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Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

11:45am EDT

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

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

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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
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Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Global Focus

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

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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
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Session: In Person

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

2:15pm EDT

Fighting Against Automatic Textbook Billing: The Data War

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Nicolas Simon

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Eastern Connecticut State University

Maryanne Clifford

Eastern Connecticut State University

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

3:00pm EDT

Breakout: Open Education Research

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

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Session Type

Hybrid

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

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually

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

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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
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Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

4:30pm EDT

Using Photovoice to Center Teachers’ Experiences with OER in Lebanon

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Bethany Eldridge

Phd Candidate, University of Michigan

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

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

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

5:30pm EDT

BCcampus OER Equity Rubric

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

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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
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Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Canada

5:30pm EDT

Exploring Early Career Microbiologists Experiences with OERs – A Preliminary Analysis

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Adronisha Frazier

Assistant Professor, Biology, Northshore Technical Community College

Session Type

Poster

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

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

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Bob Casper

Instructional Technologist, Instructional Design and Technology, Rollins College

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

Raghabendra KC

Rollins College

Nancy Chick

Rollins College

Blake Robinson

Rollins College

Cassidy Watson

Rollins College

Session Type

Poster

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

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

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

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

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

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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
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Poster

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus Canada

5:30pm EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Aisuluu Namasbek Kyzy

Assistant Professor, American University of Central Asia

Session Type

Poster

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

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

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

5:30pm EDT

Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Kisha Tracy

Fitchburg State University

Session Type

Poster

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

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

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Kate Carter

Open Educational Resources Librarian, University of Houston

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

Veronica Douglas

University of Houston

Ariana Santiago

Head of Open Education Services, University of Houston

Session Type

Poster

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

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

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

Keeping the AI Playing Field Level

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Karen Holley

Associate Professor, Georgia State University - Perimeter College

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

Session Type

Poster

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

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

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

5:30pm EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Isabelle Antes

Texas State University (TXST)

Session Type

Poster

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

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

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

5:30pm EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Angela Chikowero

Open Access & STEM Collection Strategist, UCSB

Session Type

Poster

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

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

Attendance Type View Anytime
Audience Advanced
Regional Focus United States

9:00am EDT

Using GenAI to Create OER Materials: Potential and Pitfalls

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Posie Aagaard

AVP for Scholarly Resources, University of Texas at San Antonio

Art Brownlow

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

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

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:40am EDT
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Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

9:45am EDT

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

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

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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
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Session: In Person

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

11:00am EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Larissa Babak

Michigan State University

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

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

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

11:30am EDT

Untapped Potential: The Role of Disciplinary Associations in Open Education

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Kristin Whitman

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

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

12:00pm EDT

Leveling Up Open Education Program Data

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Jeff Gallant

Program Director, GALILEO/Affordable Learning Georgia

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Advanced
Regional Focus United States

2:30pm EDT

Against Hope

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Robin DeRosa

Director, Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, Plymouth State University

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

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

3:00pm EDT

Forging Partnerships to Navigate Difficult Conversations

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Heather Blicher

Director, Community College Consortium for OER, Open Education Global

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 →

Kathy Essmiller

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

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

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

3:30pm EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

James Glapa-Grossklag

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

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

Joy Shoemate

Director, Online Education, College of the Canyons

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

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

4:15pm EDT

Breakout: Canada

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

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Session Type

Hybrid

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person, Attend Virtually
Regional Focus Canada

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

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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
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Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States

9:30am EDT

Moving from Disposable to Renewable Assignments in Teacher Education

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

Nandita Gurjar

Rhode Island College

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

10:00am EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

James Glapa-Grossklag

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

Shira Segal

Collaborations and Engagement Manager, MIT OpenCourseWare

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

Lisa Young

Maricopa Community College District

Sara Hansen

MIT OpenCourseWare

Session Type

In Person (25 min)

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
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Session: In Person

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

11:00am EDT

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

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

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:

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

Speakers

James Glapa-Grossklag

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

Michelle Pilati

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

Session Type

In Person (40 min)

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

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Beginner
Regional Focus United States

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.

Attendance Type Attend In Person
Audience Intermediate
Regional Focus United States