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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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Tuesday, October 8
 

11:00am EDT

Higher Education for Good Voices: Building an Open, Collaborative Authoring Community
Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
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This interactive panel will feature authors of three diverse chapters from the open collection, Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures. Collectively, the panel will share insights on their authoring processes, open collaboration, participation in the authors’ community, and the value of coalition-building with diverse voices across global higher education to create more hopeful futures. The discussion will draw upon common themes across the chapters: reimagining teaching and learning, critical approaches, and open practice as a force for change. The three chapters represented in the panel draw on lived experience from North American, European, and African perspectives, mirroring the global breadth of the wider collection. This session is designed as a discursive space for the panelists to share their unique experiences as authors, collaborators, and community-members in the hopes of inspiring others to adopt similar methods of open collaboration and authoring.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Reflect on open authoring, collaboration, and the peer review process from a variety of diverse perspectives
  • Compare and contrast the common themes and challenges that prevail in higher education across the globe
  • Assess the challenges and opportunities of openly collaborating within wider networks
  • Appreciate the value of accomplishments in open scholarship and authoring
Speakers
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Jim Luke

Professor of Economics, Lansing Community College
Commons, Open Learning, Domains of One's Own, Community Colleges, global, connections, scale, scope, economics
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Kate Molloy

Instructional Designer, Atlantic Technological University
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Clare Thomson

Heriot-Watt University
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David Monk

Gulu University
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Flora Fabian-Mbatia

Mwanza University
Session Type
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Virtual (40 min)

Virtual sessions take place in Zoom. If you've attended the OpenEd conference before, this format will be familiar! Virtual sessions are recorded and posted by the next day. All attendees (including those in Providence) are welcome to join virtual sessions.
Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
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  Session: Virtual

11:45am EDT

Opening Assessment in Problem-Based Courses: A WeBWorK Pilot Case Study
Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
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Large-enrollment courses tend to produce assessment headaches for instructors in nearly any discipline. And when courses depart from testing and grading by hand, assessment can become even more complex. These assessment challenges can reduce the likelihood that an instructor chooses an open textbook. While subject matter experts have begun to generate human created and/or AI-written/human edited test banks for their topics, these testbanks typically align to QTI formats, which are multiple choice, lack graphics, and don’t meet the needs of some courses especially those in math-intensive disciplines. In 2023, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at Virginia Tech, with support from the University Libraries Open Education Initiative began piloting WeBWorK, an open-source hosted software solution already used at many institutions. We present a case study of this pilot project, discuss project framing, decisions, impact, WeBWorK and OER adoption, and our hopes for the future.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe approaches of three different groups - LibreText, BCCampus, and our WeBWorK pilot.
  • Meet other people dealing with math assessment and mathematically-rich homework software issues.
  • Be able to articulate the use case for a system like WeBWorK.
  • Summarize our programmatic efforts, reflecting on decisions made, the capacities of our team members, barriers and lessons learned, and results part-way through year two.
Speakers
avatar for Anita Walz

Anita Walz

Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian, University Libraries at Virginia Tech
Anita Walz is Associate Professor and the Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech where she founded and oversees the Open Education Initiative and OER grant program. She holds a masters in Library and... Read More →
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Heath Hart

Virginia Tech
Session Type
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Virtual (40 min)

Virtual sessions take place in Zoom. If you've attended the OpenEd conference before, this format will be familiar! Virtual sessions are recorded and posted by the next day. All attendees (including those in Providence) are welcome to join virtual sessions.
Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual

1:30pm EDT

Finding the Rght Words: Co-creating Metadata for OER Repository
Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
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The Salish Sea Curriculum Repository is a collaboration among educators at Whatcom Community College, Western Washington University, and other bioregional institutions to make available materials for use in developing and teaching lessons and courses about the Salish Sea. The repository includes original OER as well as an index of curated resources. Built in WCC’s Omeka S installation, the repository uses Dublin Core metadata standards, linked data, and submitter-generated metadata to support discoverability of learning objects. Through a short-term work opportunity lasting 35-40 hours total, three students have contributed to improving resource discovery within the repository. Hear from all three students about the work of and lessons from learning to write concise, keyword-rich, plain-language resource summaries and cleaning up item metadata to facilitate curriculum-sharing among an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional faculty group engaged in place- and land-based teaching.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Write a strong resource description for an interdisciplinary user group following a student-created human algorithm
  • Structure transformative work/learning opportunities for students
  • Collaborate with students and librarians on using Omeka S as an open source tool for resource discovery
  • Understand the value of the Salish Sea Curriculum Repository and land- and place-based learning more generally
Speakers
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Neah Ingram-Monteiro

Western Washington University
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Roe McKernan

Whatcom Community College
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Bianca Custer

Western Washington University
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Leo Joyce

Western Washington University
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Heather Bergeson

Western Washington University
Session Type
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Virtual (40 min)

Virtual sessions take place in Zoom. If you've attended the OpenEd conference before, this format will be familiar! Virtual sessions are recorded and posted by the next day. All attendees (including those in Providence) are welcome to join virtual sessions.
Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual

2:15pm EDT

An eBook of One's Own: Creating Open ePortfolio Templates
Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
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E-portfolios serve as important tools for students, aiding reflection and presenting samples of work to potential employers and graduate schools. However, ensuring accessibility for students with varying digital literacy levels remains a challenge. Join Terry from Trent University and Amber from Boise State University as they discuss this pressing issue. Drawing from Terry's project, “An e-Book of One’s Own: My Learning Journey,” and its influence on Amber's creation of “An ePortfolio Template for Language Majors,” we'll explore the development of openly licensed portfolio templates using tools like Pressbooks. Together, we’ll reflect on our experiences and discuss how these templates empower students from every skill level, working to ensure all students feel confident and comfortable showcasing and reflecting on their work with ease and inclusivity.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify challenges related to accessibility for students with a wide range of digital literacy levels.
  • Explain the concept of openly licensed portfolio templates and their potential benefits for student engagement.
  • Explore practical strategies for developing and implementing openly licensed portfolio templates using tools like Pressbooks.
  • Apply insights gained from the session to promote inclusivity and empower students of all skill levels in showcasing and reflecting on their work.
Speakers
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Amber Hoye

Director, World Languages Resource Center, Boise State University
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Terry Greene

Trent University
Session Type
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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 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual

4:00pm EDT

Reclaiming Our Social Networks for Open Edtech
Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
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How do you make innovation work when the day job as an educator gets ever busier? Where do you find inspiration and solutions to practical problems on fragmented social networks? Over the past 10 years, our organization has built a growing community of practice on the back of our day-to-day business activities, and we have experimented with moving these activities to social spaces that are run and owned by and for educators. In this presentation, we will share lessons learned from two such transitions: our move to Mastodon, a self-hostable, decentralized social networking platform, and Ghost, an open source blogging platform. During the sessions, we’ll use White’s Visitors/Residents foundational model and a "pre-mortem" evaluation to share our perspectives on the current state of social media and discuss the practical setup on new social platforms and highlight common pitfalls. We think it’s about time to assert your digital identity and reclaim your socials!

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Use federated social networks such as Mastodon for professional development, dissemination and networking;
  • Evaluate how engaging with different social networks aligns with their values and competencies;
  • Explore belonging and engagement via a visitors/residents model;
  • Carry out a ‘pre-mortem’ reflective exercise about social media for professional development;
  • Apply lessons learnt and practical know how to their own personal, professional or institutional social media use.
Speakers
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Taylor Jadin

Reclaim Hosting
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Pilot Irwin

Reclaim Hosting
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Meredith Huffman

Reclaim Hosting
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Maren Deepwell

Reclaim Hosting
Session Type
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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
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  Session: Virtual

4:30pm EDT

It's Literally About Time: Managing Urgency and Wrangling Calendar Culture in Open Education Labor
Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Open education requires slow, sustained relationship-building and creative thinking, but this work is often built around funding deadlines, or crammed into the small spaces between other projects. Taking the theme of the conference literally, this session explores what it means to “manage” and "spend" time in open education work. Through group discussion, we will connect our personal experiences to concepts like calendar culture, precarity, urgency, and slow movements. We will reflect on how to balance different approaches in our work and organizations, and hopefully come away with renewed self-compassion and a few practical strategies to try. This session is designed for open education practitioners at every experience level and organization type, although the presenter comes from a U.S. higher education context.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Approach the challenges of time-bound open education work with more clarity and self-compassion.
  • Implement 1-2 new strategies for navigating time in open education work, such as a calendar practice, software/app, or self-care and boundary-setting approach.
Speakers
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Sarah Clinton-McCausland

University of Maryland
Session Type
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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 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual
 
Wednesday, October 9
 

9:30am EDT

Integrating Open Educational Resources in Online Courses
Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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Open Educational Resources(OER) represent a paradigm shift in educational access, offering a wealth of learning materials that are freely available for use, modification, and sharing. Organizations like UNESCO endorse OER to bridge educational gaps and foster an inclusive learning environment. The core attributes of OER—free access, reusability, flexibility, and redistribution—support a collaborative and adaptable educational framework. Integrating OER into curricula involves a systematic process of sourcing, assessing, customizing, and implementing these resources to align with specific educational goals. Creative Commons licenses facilitate the legal sharing and adaptation of OER. The integration of OER across various media formats is pivotal for advancing global education. These resources underscore the commitment to universal access, co-creation, and the democratization of education through OER, reflecting a collective movement towards inclusive and adaptable learning environments.

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

Department of Zoology, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Open University
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Prof. G. Pushpa Chakrapani

Department of Physics, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Open University
Session Type
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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.
Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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  Session: Virtual

10:00am EDT

How to Catalyse Open Education in South African Schools
Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
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South Africa not only suffers from a paucity of OER aligned to the curriculum in K-12 education, but the educational context is that of deep poverty, inequality, unemployment, crowded classes, intermittent electricity, and expensive internet data. We will focus on what processes are required to enable open learning, with a specific focus on CPTD. Using a human-centered design thinking approach enables reflections on how learning design content has to be sensitive to context in both offline and online environments, support teachers who may lack content knowledge and pedagogical skills, especially in out-of-subject teaching, note that a scaffolded approach is required as well as the risks of using AI within this context. We will address the policy and legislative changes required to enable more OER LTSM and advocate for the amendment of outdated copyright laws, and changes to tax donation laws which would be catalytic in enabling the production of OER.

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

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

Khulisani Development Academy
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Andrew Rens

Research ICT Africa
Session Type
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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.
Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
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  Session: Virtual

11:00am EDT

Open Pedagogy and AI: Creating Open Pedagogy-Based Assignments with AI
Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
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Instructors and students using AI in their coursework raises both positive and negative issues. The negative include concerns over academic integrity, data privacy, and bias. The positive include access, collaboration, interactivity, and personalized learning. Protecting both instructors and students from such negative while promoting such positive outcomes also are at issue with open pedagogy. This session will consider how instructors may use AI to convert traditional assignments to open pedagogy-based assignments in ways that promote student access, collaboration, and personalized learning while also protecting students’, and their own, privacy rights, academic integrity, and critical thinking. The “what” (traditional assignments), “how” (publication/open access), and “who” (knowledge creators) of such conversions are critical cruxes for both AI-use and open pedagogy. Defining rubrics, voice, context, and audience for open pedagogy via AI prompts works toward resolving them.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Use AI to create open-enabled instructional materials while protecting academic integrity
  • Use AI to support student learning while protecting students’ privacy
  • Develop AI prompts to create open pedagogy-based assignments that are objective, appropriate for their context, and protect students’ privacy
Speakers
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Bonnie Robinson

Director, University of North Georgia Press
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Corey Parson

Managing Editor, University of North Georgia Press
Session Type
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Virtual (55 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.
Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
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  Session: Virtual

12:00pm EDT

Open Education Recognition: A Long Time Coming
Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
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Camosun College has been engaging in Open Education for many years with no formal support and faculty working off the sides of their desk with little to no recognition, and certainly no recognition at the institutional level. In 2023, we awarded one faculty member with a certificate for his work developing an Open Textbook. But that was not enough. This year, during Open Education Week and with the support of BCcampus, we decided to highlight Open Education work in an Open Education Recognition Awards ceremony. The concept was simple: recognize faculty members who have made profound contributions to open education at Camosun College and demonstrated an impact on student learning and student costs by utilizing, designing, or adapting open resources in their instruction. This presentation will tell the story of why we chose recognition over achievement, how we chose the faculty we recognized, as well as give you some ideas of how you could do the same at your own institutions.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explore how one small institution with no formal Open Education office recognized 41 faculty members for their work in Open Education
  • Learn how you can also initiate similar recognition opportunities at your own institution
  • Gather tips from lessons learned around how to make such an event a success
Speakers
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Emily Schudel

Instructional Designer, Camosun College
I am an Instructional Designer in the eLearning unit of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. I have worked as an instructional designer for 20 years, and have worked with faculty enhancing their courses with technology, faculty teaching blended courses (combining face-to-face... Read More →
Session Type
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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.
Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual

2:30pm EDT

The Hope Project: Using OER to Shared Lived Experiences With Students
Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
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I am a historian, a professor, a developer of curriculum and I also happen to have Multiple Sclerosis. In my journey, I have experienced many reasons why hope was all I had left. And I decided that I wanted to write my story as a means to help others deal with times they felt hopeless. As such, I published my story through OER. I then went on to develop the first Disability minor in any Ontario college, at the degree level. As part of the mandate of this program, it was essential that we include the lived experiences of people who have disabilities of all kinds. And thus, my story (and others) were combined into what I loosely refer to as the Hope Project. In this session, I would like to share how I have learned from the past, while teaching students about the present, and giving them hope for the future. And through the disability minor, I am helping develop disability advocates in my students. The joy in this privileged experience is worth sharing here.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Foster collaboration and innovative solutions for disability-related issues
  • Promote inclusive thinking, advocacy for social inclusion and help empower students to challenge societal norms
  • Advocate for accessibility and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities
  • Assist students in understanding the importance of sharing the lived experiences of others
Speakers
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Laura Quirk

Conestoga College
Session Type
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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.
Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual

3:00pm EDT

Students’ Experiences With Open & Culturally Responsive Teaching: Findings From TN’s OER Initiative
Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
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OER proponents hypothesize that OER may facilitate student-centered and culturally responsive practices, leading to gains in students’ academic and social-emotional outcomes. However, there is limited evidence documenting how professional development can support faculty in using open and culturally responsive educational practices and whether use of these practices leads to changes in students' experiences in these courses. SRI partnered with Achieving the Dream and the Tennessee Board of Regents to conduct a two-year, mixed-methods study to understand how 2- and 4-year college instructors use open and culturally responsive practices and how students experience them.

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

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand the impact and return on investment that front-end support for OER-enabled open and culturally responsive practices can have on instructors’ pedagogy.
  • Learn about students’ educational experiences in courses using OER-enabled open and culturally responsive practices as compared to courses using traditional materials and pedagogies.
  • Learn about the changes in instructors' practices that may explain differences in students' social-emotional outcomes in courses using OER-enabled open and culturally responsive educational practices. 
Speakers
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Jodie Lawrence

SRI Education
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Ela Joshi

SRI Education
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Rebecca Griffiths

SRI Education
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Judy Westley

Columbia State Community College
Session Type
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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.
Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual

3:30pm EDT

Let Us ROER: Radical OER-Reframing OER
Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
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In our modern political landscape, the library is an inherently radical space and this is especially true for OER. Time and time again, OER is framed as a cost-effective solution. While this is one of the ways we can advocate for OER support, it can be a limitor in how we think about OER. Instead, we can understand the theoretical framework that makes OER radical and thus be better equipt to build OER departments that are sustainable, welcoming, and uplifting. In this presentation, I will discuss how to reframe OER as a radical act and how that translates into practice and action.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand the library as a radical space
  • Understand how to advocate for more OER support
Speakers
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Jeanne Kambara

University of Delaware
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Anukruti Pulimi

University of Delaware
Session Type
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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.
Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual

5:30pm EDT

Enhance Student-Centered Learning: Boost Engagement and Alleviate Anxiety by Using H5P-rich OER
Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
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In today's educational landscape, student-centered learning has become imperative for enhancing outcomes by catering to individual needs and interests. This proposal focuses on the transformative potential of H5P (HTML5 Package), an interactive content creation platform, in fostering personalized, engaging learning environments. Our presentation delves into how educators can utilize H5P to design interactive learning experiences, thereby boosting student motivation. Furthermore, we explore H5P's role in alleviating anxiety among students by applying multimedia principles using H5P in digital textbooks. Join us as we discuss practical strategies for increasing engagement and reducing anxiety in educational settings through H5P-enhanced student-centered learning approaches. Our presentation aims to share qualitative and quantitative research findings, equipping participants with the knowledge and tools to create inclusive, engaging, and effective learning experiences for all students.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand the Impact of H5P-rich OER on Learner Engagement
  • Identify Strategies to Reduce Anxiety in Online Learning Environments
  • Evaluate the Effectiveness of H5P Activities in Promoting Active Learning
  • Optimize OER Materials for Enhanced Learning Outcomes
Speakers
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Theresa Huff

OER Instructional Designer, Loyola Marymount University
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Daphne Tseng

University of North Texas
Session Type
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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.
Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual

6:00pm EDT

OER Champions: A Model for Building an Open Pedagogy Culture at an Open Access Community College
Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT
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How can institutions leverage OER adopters to promote wider adoption across programs? At a two-year community college, instructors, deans, and librarians collaborated to create an OER Champion model to promote awareness and adoption of OER across the college. The presenters share openly licensed resources, success stories, and challenges for institutions who want to create dynamic communities of practice to promote open pedagogy across departments. We include the resources and processes we developed for promoting Z-degrees, providing internal marketing for faculty, and assisting faculty in our OER adoption process. We also note the positive effects of institutional and legislative supports that have funded and supported our initiatives and discuss ongoing advocacy for these initiatives. Our goal is to help similarly situated institutions save time and adopt best practices as they cultivate the next generation of open education leaders and advocates.

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

Liza Long

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

Professor, College of Western Idaho
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Greg Wilson

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

College of Western Idaho
Session Type
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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.
Wednesday October 9, 2024 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT
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  Session: Virtual
 
Thursday, October 10
 

9:30am EDT

Development of a Low-Cost, Interactive Histology Atlas for Anatomy and Physiology
Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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As faculty, we consistently look for student-centered resources that allow students to excel without incurring a high financial cost. Lab manuals available from current publishers are typically not cost-effective and contain content unrelated to commonly adopted learning objectives (HAPS). One area of current lab manuals that consistently results in poor student success is related to histology. We hypothesized that this is due, in part, to misalignment of the high-resolution images in the publisher’s lab manuals with the appearance of student tissue slides using light microscopy. For this reason, we used Pressbooks to create the online open-access Anatomy and Physiology I: An Interactive Histology Atlas. The atlas, which currently has over 9000 views, includes hand-sketch illustrations and provides highly engaging interactive materials. Early data suggests that student exam performance using the interactive histology atlas is comparable with performance using publisher resources.

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

Augusta University
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Christina Wilson

Assistant Professor, Augusta University
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Karen Wiles

Augusta University
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Juan Ramiro Diaz

Augusta University
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Georgios Kallifatidis

Augusta University
Session Type
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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.
Thursday October 10, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V2
  Session: Virtual

10:00am EDT

Literature in Context: A Student-Centered OER at the Intersection of Digital Humanities
Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V2
This session introduces an NEH-funded project, Literature in Context: An Open Anthology of Literature in English 1400-1925. Available through any web browser or mobile device, LiC offers teachers free, reliable, citable (and even printable!) digital texts for classroom use, potentially replacing many British or American literature print anthologies. Unlike many print-based OERs, LiC also makes use of the interactive affordances of a digital platform: searchability, images, multimedia, collaborative annotation, dynamic mapping, social networking, and multiple reading options. We'll work with session attendees to create custom anthologies developed from database resources and demonstrate how and why we work with students as visible collaborators on a project that's at once an OER and a large-scale digital humanities project. By editing texts for inclusion in an infinitely-expandable resource, student collaborators learn how this work intersects with the construction of knowledge as a practice.

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

The University of Virginia
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Christine Ruotolo

The University of Virginia
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Tonya Howe

Instructional Designer & Technologist, George Mason University
Tonya is a longtime university teacher-turned-instructional-technologist with a master’s in Data Analytics and Visualization from Maryland Institute, College of Art, and a doctorate in Literature from the University of Michigan. Currently, she is working with colleagues on a f... Read More →
Session Type
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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.
Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V2
  Session: Virtual

11:00am EDT

How to Become a Student Whisperer: A Student-Centered Design Thinking Approach to OER Development
Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
V2
In the context of course enhancement for hybrid and flexible learning at a university in Namibia, the need was identified to enhance courses to be student-responsive open educational resources. To address this problem, a student-centered design thinking approach was undertaken with a specific focus on gamification, microlearning, cooperative learning and psychological safety. This paper involves qualitative action research of a process in which course enhancements were done drawing on selected theoretical principles and the expertise of the participating lecturing staff. The paper provides an overview of selected educational affordances utilized within an under-resourced environment, and on the deep reflections undertaken in order to focus upon empathizing with and prioritizing students’ needs in the context of cognitive neuroscience. Finally, the paper concludes with recommendations in terms of collaboration, content, communication, critical thinking, and creative innovation.

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

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

Namibia University of Science and Technology
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Jako Olivier

Adviser: Higher Education, Commonwealth of Learning
Session Type
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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.
Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
V2
  Session: Virtual

11:30am EDT

Exploring the Transformative Potential of Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Higher Education
Thursday October 10, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
V2
This presentation explores the transformative potential of Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs), particularly Dungeons & Dragons, in higher education. Tabletop roleplaying games offer a widely accessible and open tool for education due to a large number of free resources readily available to interested consumers. From TTRPGs' inception in 1974 to their current surge in popularity, we examine their practical applications in a collegiate setting. Drawing on personal experiences, we connect TTRPGs to advising and coaching efforts, culminating in a theoretical framework for creating and implementing TTRPG game sessions with specific outcomes. Attendees will gain insights into how educational roleplaying games contribute to student development. The presentation offers practical tools for programmatic design.

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

College Life Coach | Adjunct Professor, Florida State University
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Corbin Nall

Florida State University
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Rolando Torres

Florida State University
Session Type
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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.
Thursday October 10, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
V2
  Session: Virtual

12:00pm EDT

An Open Pedagogy Toolkit: A Multi-Institutional Collaboration Centered on Care and Community
Thursday October 10, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
V2
In this session, presenters will showcase a new resource, the Open Pedagogy Toolkit, and provide critical context that highlights the labor and care required to develop and produce such a resource. The Open Pedagogy Toolkit aims to highlight relevant literature, resources, projects, and research in the area of open pedagogy. This toolkit was developed by a multi-institutional group. Our purpose was to focus on building relationships that support us as we create, share, and collaborate on various projects that support the Open movement. During the session, participants will have the opportunity to hear from a variety of perspectives and experiences as we reflect on: the labor required to facilitate Open work, who takes on Open work at their own institutions, and what we can learn about building equitable and caring spaces that create meaningful progress in the Open movement.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Consider how to leverage values and care to do collaborative, cross-institutional work around Open topics.
  • Reflect on the voices, experiences, and spaces in which we engaged to facilitate Open work.
  • Explore a new and comprehensive resource for designing, implementing, and researching your own Open Pedagogy projects and work.
Speakers
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Cheryl Casey

Open Education Librarian, University of Arizona
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Elaine Kaye

Instructional Designer, James Madison University
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Jeanne Hoover

Head, Scholarly Communication, East Carolina University
avatar for Nicole Wilson

Nicole Wilson

Instructional Designer, James Madison University
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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.
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Mandi Goodsett

OER & Copyright Advisor / Perf Arts & Humanities L, Cleveland State University
I am the OER & Copyright Advisor at Cleveland State University in Ohio. I would love to chat with others about incentive programs, publishing, professional development, and course markings.
Session Type
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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.
Thursday October 10, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
V2
  Session: Virtual
 
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