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Thank you for attending the 2022 Open Education Conference on October 17-20! Recordings are now available to watch. The 2023 Open Education Conference will be held November 7-9 virtually, and registration is open now. 
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9:30am EDT

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Welcome to the 2022 Open Education Conference! This is the nineteenth year the Open Education Conference community has gathered, and we are incredibly excited to welcome more than 1,000 attendees and speakers from across the U.S., Canada, and around the world.

To access the conference, you must be logged into Sched with your registered email address. You can tell that you are logged in if you see a message below the main menu that states you have a ticket, or if you are able to select sessions. You will not see embedded videos or the button to join sessions unless you log in (embedded videos will be visible to logged-in attendees starting October 17th).

If you are registered and have your Eventbrite ticket, a Sched account has already been created for you. Here is how to access it: 
  • Activate your account. Enter your Eventbrite order number and registered email to set a password and access Sched. 
  • Or, simply reset your password. Even if you've never logged in, you can access your account by resetting the password. Your username is your registered email address.
  • If you are unable to either activate your account or reset your password and it has been more than 15 minutes since you registered, you may contact us at contact@openeducationconference.org.

If you are not registered, visit the Tickets page to purchase a ticket. An account will be automatically created for you within 15 minutes, and you will have full access to the conference. See your confirmation email or return to this page for help logging in.

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How to Access the Conference

Welcome to #OpenEd22! We want to make sure you feel welcome and are able to have a great experience at this event. Below you will find several pages with information about how to access the conference. We've also created a few ways you can get help:Frequently Asked Questions: Che... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
TBA
  Support

10:00am EDT

Conference Overview
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room A
  Social activity, Tea Time

10:00am EDT

Just for Fun: Mug Show & Tell
Whether it's morning or afternoon or evening right now, you probably have a favorite mug for coffee, tea, hot toddies, I know we do!  Let's relax here and share our mug stories and enjoy our beverages.
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room C
  Social activity, Tea Time

10:00am EDT

Speed Networking
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

10:30am EDT

Conference Overview
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
Room A
  Social activity, Tea Time

10:30am EDT

Just for Fun: Pet Meet & Greet
Speakers
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Jeff Gallant

Program Director, Affordable Learning Georgia, University System of Georgia
Jeff Gallant is the Program Director of Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of the University System of Georgia (USG) intended to promote student success and foster educational equity through supporting the adoption, adaptation, and creation of affordable and open educational... Read More →
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Rachel Becker

Copyright & Open Educational Resources Librarian, Madison Area Technical College
Librarian currently at Madison Area Technical College working with Open Educational Resources, instruction, technology, and copyright issues. Advocating for textbook affordability, affordable education, and equitable access. SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow 2021/2022.

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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
Room C
  Social activity, Tea Time

10:30am EDT

Speed Networking
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

11:00am EDT

[Keynote Panel] Rising to Action: Students at the Heart of Open Education (Recording)
This year's opening plenary will put the focus on where it matters most: students. In this panel discussion, current students and recent graduates examine student leadership in higher education and how it intersects with open education.


Speakers
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Tiffany MacLennan

Research Analyst, Higher Education Strategy Associates
Tiffany MacLennan is a recent graduate of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS and has been a strong advocate for OER adoption in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Through her time as the Vice President Academic for the StFX Students’ Union, a Senator for the StFX Senate... Read More →
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Aishah Abdullah

Open Education Coordinator, SPARC
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Lucía Pérez Gómez

Lucía Pérez Gómez is a 5th year medical student based in Spain, Madrid and currently serves as the Liaison Officer for Medical Sciences and Research Issues for the International Federation of Medical Students Association.  
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Marcel Raisbeck

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marcel Raisbeck is a former Student OER Ambassador, having worked with Middlesex Community College in Lowell, MA in the Spring of 2020. During that time, he collaborated with Student Trustees and SGA presidents from across the Commonwealth to promote Open Educational Resources. Since... Read More →
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Matthew Almendras

University of Illinois Chicago
Matthew Almendras is a 3rd-year undergraduate student majoring in Public Health with ambitions to go to Law School after his undergrad. He currently serves as the President of the Undergraduate Student Government where he actively advocates for open education among other student... Read More →

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Plenary Sessions

Each day will feature a plenary session where the whole conference convenes. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom webinar. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. All plenary sessions will be recorded and posted... Read More →


Monday October 17, 2022 11:00am - 12:25pm EDT
Room A
  Plenary

11:30am EDT

Opening Plenary (Full Session)
The opening session will begins with an interactive exercise to open this year's conference and welcome participants from around the world. It is followed by a panel discussion with students involved in open education advocacy. See Rising to Action: Students at the Heart of Open Education for a recording of only the student panel.
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Plenary Sessions

Each day will feature a plenary session where the whole conference convenes. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom webinar. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. All plenary sessions will be recorded and posted... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 11:30am - 12:25pm EDT
Room B
  Plenary

12:30pm EDT

Monday Plenary Debrief
Join us to debrief and share your thoughts on today's plenary session!
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

12:30pm EDT

Tea Time (Break)
Tea time is a break in scheduled programming when attendees can rest, practice self-care, or dive into networking or asynchronous sessions.

Please use this time to engage in self-care activities to help keep you grounded throughout the day:
  • Look away from your computer screen for a minute, giving your eyes a chance to adjust and rest.
  • If you are able, stand up and take a walk around your office, home, or whatever space you may be in. Your lower legs and back will thank you!
  • Drink a glass of water. You may not think that you are dehydrated, but we often don't know until it is too late.
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Room A
  Tea time (break)

1:00pm EDT

Diverse Representation in Introductory Psychology: Comparing OER and Commercial Textbooks
Photographs in textbooks can provide implicit messages about who belongs and who the information is relevant to. Past research has found that photographs in textbooks (including Psychology) reinforce stereotypes about minority groups (e.g., race, gender, sexuality) and that stereotypic and counter-stereotypic depictions can affect students' levels of anxiety and course performance. Given Open Education's explicit goals of increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion, we investigated how photographs in OER textbooks compared to photographs in popular commercial textbooks. In this study, we focused on Introductory Psychology textbooks (six commercial, four OER) and coded all photographs along many measures of diversity (e.g., race, gender, skin color). We hope you will join us as we share our findings and discuss ways to make all textbooks (and course materials) represent the rich diversity of our students.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Compare diverse representation in photographs within commercial and OER Introductory Psychology textbooks
  • Identify groups that are currently underrepresented in photographs within commercial and OER Introductory Psychology textbooks
Speakers
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Ashley Biddle

Instructor, Univ of Hawaii - Leeward Community College
Psychology professor committed to $0 cost textbooks and also infusing more Open Pedagogy assignments. Especially interested in using Open to decolonize the curriculum.
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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 1:00pm - 1:25pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Creating More Consistency in OER Cost-Saving Measures and Benefit Calculations
Over the last decade, the Open Education movement has provided compelling examples of a grassroots effort to reduce cost to students. The movement has transformed the way students access textbooks and course materials and helped lower educational costs and make learning resources more accessible. While the main driver of OER in the United States has often been student cost-savings, there has never been a standard for measuring cost-savings of OER. Additionally, a growing body of research is showing that OER benefits students in faculty in many other ways that are not currently captured by cost-savings estimates. With support from the Hewlett Foundation for the National Consortia of OER (NCOER), MHEC partnered with three regional compacts: New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) to lead research OER topics important for policymakers. MHEC has a history of leading conversations around cost savings and led efforts to create a set of common principles and frameworks designed to provide more consistency and reliability in how the field measures cost savings and how we should examine the benefits and costs of OER to make better decisions. This report starts by acknowledging the role that OER has played in reducing students' financial obligations for learning materials and tries to give policymakers an understanding of how other disruptors such as textbook rentals, library resources, inclusive access and other commercial approaches compare to OER.

The report goes on to analyze state-level OER legislative trends and provides findings from a survey of state and system-level OER programs. This work leads to a series of six principles drawn from the literature and further refined by the workgroup designed to guide policymakers and decision makers in understanding the benefits and costs of OER. Finally the report concludes by discussing two frameworks:
- A Student Cost Savings Framework to provide guidance that will lead to more consistency in the calculation and reporting of cost savings to students; and
- A Cost-Benefit Framework decision-makers can apply to understand more fully the various costs and benefits of OER that are both monetary and non-monetary and accrue to various stakeholders.

The report also highlights a number of key enablers that make it easier for states and institutions to understand the benefits and costs of OER. After discussing the report, members of the advisory committee and state level OER leaders will discuss their OER work and the role that this resource will play within their SHEEO office.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Learn about the process to develop the principles to guide leaders in measuring the benefits of OER
  • Use best-practice recommendations for measuring cost-savings of OER
  • Use a cost-benefit analysis framework designed to help states and institutions fully understand the multiple impacts of OER on students, faculty and institutions
  • Define concrete examples from state leaders about how they look at the benefits of OER in their state context
Speakers
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Annika Many

Principal, edBridge Partners, LLC
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Tim Anderson

System Director, Minnesota State
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Robert Awkward

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

Founder/Principal, Zaback Solutions
Katie Zaback has more than 20 years of experience working with states, postsecondary institutions, and non-profit entities to use data and research to maximize their impact. As a consultant, Katie loves helping organizations transform the way they look at data and research so that... Read More →
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Midwestern Higher Education Compact

Vice President, Midwestern Higher Education Compact
Jenny Parks is Vice President of Policy and Research at the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC).  She leads the exploration, development, and implementation of projects that help Midwestern postsecondary institutions improve the way they serve students. Jenny has worked at... Read More →

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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 1:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Room C
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

1:00pm EDT

Empowering Student Voices in Decolonizing Higher Education
This past year, Montgomery College faculty and students paired up for the Social Justice Ambassadors Program to decolonize learning, with funding from an internal grant. Through this program, eight students were paired up with faculty members based on academic interest and disciplines. Over the course of a semester, student and faculty pairs worked to decolonize an artifact from the faculty's course and co-created open resources that will be available for others to use. The pairs were supported by the program team and a series of workshops. Altogether, the group comprised of full-time faculty, part-time faculty, students from different disciplines, deans, student affairs, staff, and counselors.

This discussion will allow various team and program members to share the successes and challenges of this program and debrief on the outcomes. The panel discussion will include team leads, faculty, and students involved in the program and will provide an overview of the resulting decolonized artifacts. Artifacts include podcasts, assignments, and course content.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify ways decolonizing higher education can take place in a community college
  • Adopt strategies for including student voices in course planning
  • Discover tools and strategies to plan and execute similar initiatives at home institutions
  • Examine examples of sustainable and open decolonizing projects that can be adapted across disciplines
Speakers
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Cristin Cash

Professor of Art History, Montgomery College
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Katya Salmi

Associate Professor of Sociology, Montgomery College
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Angela Lanier

Instructional Designer, Montgomery College
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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 1:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Room A
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

1:00pm EDT

Getting Started with Open Education
Are you new to open education and want to learn more? This session will cover the basics of OER and open pedagogy. Whether you're an instructor, librarian, administrator, instructional designer, or student advocate, you'll leave this session with a wealth of resources to help you kick-start an OER initiative or your adoption, adaptation, or creation of OER.

Learning Outcomes:
- How OER differ from free resources
- Where to find open textbooks and ancillary materials
- What resources are available for customizing OER
- How to incorporate open pedagogy into teaching
- How to collaborate with partners and build an OER program
- How to raise awareness of OER
- How to connect with other OER advocates

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Explain how OER are different from free resources
  • Find OER from a variety of sources, as well as resources for customizing OER
  • Find ideas for incorporating open pedagogy into teaching
  • Connect with campus partners and other OER advocates
  • Raise awareness of OER at their institution
Speakers
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Cheryl Casey

Open Education Librarian, University of Arizona

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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 1:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Room B
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

1:00pm EDT

Sharing the Many Ways to Design for Open Learning Through ZTC Pathway Courses
ZTC (or Zero Textbook Cost) programs provide a cost-effective solution for students to take courses and save on textbook and resource costs. However, when we started developing ZTC courses, we did not expect the variety of perspectives on what an "open course" could look like. Having the opportunity to develop multiple ZC (Zero Cost) courses for the Thompson Rivers University, the ZTC Associate Science degree provided us with new insights about open learning design awareness and perspectives. In this presentation, participants will have the opportunity to compare and contrast a wide variety of lenses and perspectives of "open learning design". Emerging and common themes of open learning design, within asynchronous and synchronous online and face-to-face ZC courses, will also be explored. Participants will leave with a variety of design options to consider as they navigate their open learning design process from their context.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Develop awareness around ZTC open learning design perspectives and approaches
  • Consider how open learning design can be integrated into a variety of learning contexts
  • Identify personal open learning design readiness and distinguish between ADOPT, ADAPT, CREATE, CONNECT
Speakers
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Michelle Harrison

Learning Designer, Thompson Rivers University
Michelle Harrison is a senior instructional designer and assistant professor at TRU Open Learning. She is a past BCcampus Open Education Research Fellow and has been supporting openness at TRU through OER development and adoption and researching open educational practices.
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Brenda Smith

Open Education Librarian, Thompson Rivers University
Brenda Smith is the Open Education Librarian at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, BC, Canada. She is a past recipient of a BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education.
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Verena Roberts

Educational Developer, Concordia University Edmonton

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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 1:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Room D
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

1:30pm EDT

Collaborative Annotation of OER Texts: A Tool for Student Learning and OER Sustainability
When we assign students to read from an OER text, why not give them the chance to comment in the margins? Why not let these comments inform revision of the OER or become supplemental material? Student social annotation of textbooks is a transformative pedagogy that OER makes possible, and that in turn helps sustain and refine OER. In this presentation, I will show how collaborative annotation in a learning management system can work with two common platforms, Hypothesis and Perusall. I will describe the benefits I have seen in the classroom with my OER text and share a list of ideas for open pedagogy with annotation.

Collaborative annotation brings a number of benefits:

Students support each other in understanding the text by answering each other's questions, suggesting examples, and making connections to other texts or prior knowledge.
They help each other build confidence by commenting on identity-specific reactions to the text, points of shared confusion, and alternate ways to explain or exemplify the textbook concepts.
Collaborative annotation works to disrupt the traditional authority of the textbook and democratize learning. The students' words appear right beside the text for fellow readers. ‚Äã
Collaborative annotation supports a flipped-classroom approach. Instructors can focus class time on student questions and responses and use these to draw students out and extend discussion of the material.
Unlike discussion forums, collaborative annotation centers the text so students will reference it as the discussion evolves.
Once integrated within an LMS such as Canvas, collaborative annotation requires little administrative labor. Giving credit for student work is simple and can even be set up to be automatic, depending on the platform.

Commercial textbooks often don't allow for these benefits because most commercial texts can't be uploaded to annotation platforms or accessed via the open web. Thus, being able to assign collaborative annotation is another advantage of adopting OER.

With an OER text, collaborative annotation can also lead to the benefits of open pedagogy. Not only can student words appear next to the text for their classmates and teacher, but these words can help to improve and add to the text for all future readers. ‚ÄãWhen textbook authors, adapters, and remixers use student comments to help us revise, we are showing students respect. We invite them to participate in shaping the text, and we acknowledge that it is still imperfect or incomplete. This not only helps students feel they have a place in academia, it also brings valuable editorial feedback and, with student permission, new content. Student annotations can suggest more culturally relevant, timely, or interesting examples than a professor might have thought of. As Robin DeRosa has put it, collaborative annotation allows OER texts to become "living organic places."

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Describe the benefits of social annotation of OER both for student engagement and learning and for the improvement of the text
  • Describe at least three annotation prompts such as constructive feedback, example generation, personal opinion, and questions
  • Become familiar with the social annotation platforms Hypothesis and Perusall
  • Identify next steps and resources for trying out social annotation with OER in the participant's institutional and technological context
Speakers
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Anna Mills

English Instructor, College of Marin
I love to talk about writing pedagogy, OER, collaborative annotations, and AI text generators/large language models. I'm always looking to add to my textbook, How Arguments Work, and also looking to update the ASCCC OERI list of English OER resources.

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 1:30pm - 1:55pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

1:45pm EDT

Creating Inclusive, Diverse and Culturally Relevant OER
Even before the shift to online learning, instructors have struggled to find instructional materials that are both rigorous and reflect the broad diversity of students. Textbooks, in particular, often center content and narratives unrepresentative of the students using them. (Prescott, 2020) According to Melanie Forstall Lemoine, Ph.D. of Higher Ed Connects, a student's culture impacts their learning. In fact, culture has an impact on the way a student receives information, perceives it, and communicates. Culture shapes a student's beliefs and way of thinking which plays a role in their overall education. To ensure classrooms are equitable places, colleges and universities need to not only acknowledge this, but also engage in it. (Lemoine, 2019)

In March 2020 at the start of the global pandemic in North America, it became evident that post-secondary institutions across BC would have to pivot to online teaching. As a result of that need, BCcampus began the development of an open collection of openly licensed exemplar courses. As courses developed by instructors in BC came to BCcampus for inclusion in the collection it became evident that the courses lacked inclusive, diverse, anti-racist, and decolonized content. To address the lack of inclusive, decolonized, and anti-racist OER curriculum BCcampus hired a curriculum equity, diversity and inclusion consultant, Chanelle Tye. Chanelle will join the presentation to share how they have been working with BCcampus to develop an equity, diversity and inclusion strategy for the creation and adaptation of OER.

Further, presenters will share a guide that was developed to support an author in writing an author statement. An author statement is how an author can communicate to users of an OER what they can expect from the resource (like a foreword or preface). It outlines five areas of consideration (pedagogical perspective, openness, Indigenous perspectives, social justice, and author positionality) and then provides a number of questions to help the author think through those areas of consideration in a more concrete way. These areas of consideration are not the only topics that might be addressed in an author statement, but they are areas that BCcampus would like to see authors addressing intentionally.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Create, adapt, and/or adopt inclusive, diverse and culturally relevant OER content and pedagogical practice
  • Develop author statements to address inclusive, diverse and culturally relevant OER
Speakers
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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 →
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Amanda Coolidge

Executive Director, BCcampus
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Josie Gray

Manager, Production and Publishing, BCcampus
Josie is the manager of production and publishing at BCcampus. She manages the B.C. Open Collection and provides training and support for B.C. faculty publishing open textbooks in Pressbooks. Josie has been learning about and teaching accessibility best practices in OER since 2016... Read More →
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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

OpenEd2022 Creating inclusive, diverse, and cullturally relevant OER pdf
Monday October 17, 2022 1:45pm - 2:25pm EDT
Room A
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

1:45pm EDT

Running an OER Program on a Shoestring, or Barefoot
OER is well-known as a tool that supports equity and brings free learning materials to students and faculty. But getting faculty to convert to OER is a lot of work. Some colleges and universities have programs that provide stipends or release time to support faculty in the adoption, adaptation, or creation of OER. Others host paid OER training programs or fund OER specialist positions on campus. These are wonderful and effective measures! But what if your school doesn't have the funds to do something like this?

Whether your school is low-resourced, just starting out, or between grants, there is still much that can be done with limited time and zero budget. In "OER on a shoestring... or barefoot," I will share what we did at my large urban community college to create a visible and impactful OER program that cost no extra money and required limited unpaid labor. You will learn which of these activities were the most impactful, what I'd do differently if I were to do it all over again, and what I hope the program can achieve in the future.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Employ multiple strategies for reaching out to colleagues and departments
  • Compile a list of campus allies to work with and gain buy-in from
  • Recognize that smaller impacts necessitated by low resources-- are still important and impactful to many students
Speakers
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Maggie Frankel

Equity-driven librarian and educator

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Monday October 17, 2022 1:45pm - 2:25pm EDT
Room B
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

1:45pm EDT

Taking Action: Redesigning a Course Using Open Pedagogy for International Studies Students
Open pedagogy is an excellent way to engage students in creating content in the classroom and building transferable skills that they can use in other courses and future careers. In October 21', Hilary Bussell, Social Sciences Librarian, decided she wanted to incorporate open pedagogy into the course revision she was doing for International Studies 4850: Understanding the Global Information Society. In this course, students use information literacy concepts to explore how information is produced, disseminated, and interpreted across the world. A mutual colleague connected her to Amanda Larson, the libraries' Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant, to talk through a plan to make this transition. Through a series of conversations, we collaborated to identify the tools and pedagogical strategies that would be used in the class. The end result was a scaffolded learning experience where students would work in Pressbooks to complete their assignments and then decide at the end of the semester whether they would openly license them, share them publicly while retaining their copyright, or hide them from the public view. Bussell also decided to incorporate the social annotation tool Hypothes.is to facilitate asynchronous reading discussions.

In this session, we will collaboratively define open pedagogy with participants through an interactive activity using Mentimeter before presenting on how we collaborated to redesign the course and scaffold the experience students had working in Pressbooks to create their assignments. We will then offer suggestions on how to use Pressbooks/Hypothes.is or similar tools to replicate a similar experience for students using open pedagogy.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand and collaboratively define open pedagogy
  • Learn how to scaffold an open pedagogy assignment
  • Learn how to collaborate on a project using open pedagogy
  • Leverage tools that enable an open pedagogical approach to teaching
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Amanda Larson

Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant, The Ohio State University
Amanda Larson is the Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant for the Teaching and Learning department at University Libraries where she creates professional development opportunities around open pedagogy and open educational practices and liaises with the Affordable Learning... Read More →
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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Monday October 17, 2022 1:45pm - 2:25pm EDT
Room C
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

1:45pm EDT

ZTC Gap: An Analysis of High Wage, High Demand Fields in San Francisco Bay Area Community Colleges
Are you interested in learning more about ZTC degrees? Are you considering how your institution can develop ZTC pathways for underrepresented students in high wage high growth fields? Are you intrigued in hearing more about this first time study that links occupational data to OER considerations?

This participatory session will share results from ISKME's recently completed study, funded by the Michelson 20MM Foundation, "ZTC Gap Analysis, High Wage, High Demand Fields —Bay Area Community Colleges", that explored the planned need for ZTC degrees and certificates across the Bay Area's community colleges, and the overlap with projected high wage, high demand fields. The study offers insights to support community college ZTC planning, particularly at the regional level, through an analysis of community college districts' perceived differences in high wage, high demand fields. The study also identifies perceived gaps in available Open Educational Resources (OER) in these fields which, if filled, would enable the provision of ZTC degree programs that more reliably boost graduate incomes, particularly for underrepresented groups. Recommendations support Bay Area community colleges in ZTC/OER decision making through a collaborative network focused on shared data and evidence.

While this study was designed prior to California's $115M ZTC legislation, its results are timely as CA community colleges (CCC) begin to grapple with how best to invest public ZTC dollars for maximum student benefit, with particular consideration on equity and access.

The session will begin with asking the critical question: Where does the study fit in the larger context of ZTC in the state of CA, and across the US? The study's funder will then address the question: How does this work fit within the larger Michelson 20MM strategy to solve big problems in Education & Workforce Development?

After a quick summary of the methodology, the session will present data analyzing projected high wage, high demand occupations across the Bay Area, including caveats for CCC to consider when analyzing their local data. We will then present the results from ISKME conducted interviews with OER leads at 10 Bay Area colleges that sought to understand perceived OER curriculum gaps that if addressed would better support the region's students in pursuing high-paying careers, including where the costs of learning materials create a financial burden on students that could be removed through the identification, use, or creation of OER.

The session will then outline the rationale for and obstacles identified by colleges to ZTC conversion for each field. Bay Area wage and demand projections for occupations that fall within each field identified by the colleges will be presented and discussed. Lastly, we will conclude with a set of recommendations/action steps for community colleges and cognizant statewide officials to consider as they plan for future investments in ZTC degrees and certificates.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Session attendees will understand the importance of linking high demand high wage occupational data with planned ZTC development areas and have a model to replicate
  • Session attendees will have access to recommendations that, if implemented in other regions could ease the burden of ZTC development through enhanced collaboration, and effective use of resources for maximal student benefit
Speakers
avatar for Amee Evans Godwin

Amee Evans Godwin

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

OER Program Coordinator, College of Marin
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Sarah Harmon

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

OER Program Manager, Michelson 20 Million Minds Foundation

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Monday October 17, 2022 1:45pm - 2:25pm EDT
Room D
  40min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

2:00pm EDT

Bringing Learning Design to Open Pedagogy
Want to know more about how open pedagogy influences student learning? Whether you are a new or experienced user of open pedagogy, join us as we explore what open pedagogy is and how open pedagogy builds upon established learner-centered pedagogies. This session is designed to move us from learning theory through learning design to concrete strategies for open pedagogy teaching practice. Some of the theories we will explore may include Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning, Kolb's Experiential Learning Model, neuroscience, collaborating and sharing power with students, and place-based learning. Using learning design, such as Backward Design or Project-Based Learning, attendees will explore the opportunity to create renewable assignments as opposed to disposable assignments. Renewable assignments allow for learner-centered pedagogy and increases student autonomy. Engaging in diverse models and designs allows for participants to realize how diverse perspectives lead to inclusive practices. In this session, participants will interactively engage in activities which will allow them to "walk away" with immediate implementable open pedagogy teaching practices and assessment ideas.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify how open pedagogy builds upon established learning theory and design
  • Explore connections between open pedagogy and other areas of experiential learning
  • Compare renewable and disposable assignments
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Debbie Baker

Instructional Designer, Maricopa Community Colleges
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Carla Ghanem

Instructional Designer, Maricopa Community Colleges - MCLI

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 2:00pm - 2:25pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

2:30pm EDT

Show & Tell - Music
What tunes have you been jamming to lately? Any artists you're loving at the moment? Share your answers in the interactive padlet and then join us during this tea time to share out your answers. Afterwards, we'll share out a short summary of OpenEd22's greatest hits!
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

2:30pm EDT

Tea Time (Break)
Tea time is a break in scheduled programming when attendees can rest, practice self-care, or dive into networking or asynchronous sessions.

Please use this time to engage in self-care activities to help keep you grounded throughout the day:
  • Slowly roll your neck around your shoulders, two times clockwise and two time counterclockwise
  • Work on your mindfulness and deep breathing. If possible, take 5 minutes to just be and breathe to center yourself and reflect on all that you have done today.
  • Drink another glass of water. 
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
Room A
  Tea time (break)

3:00pm EDT

Diversify Open Research: A Toolkit for Measuring Lifelong Learning
Research on the outcomes of OER usually revolves around variables that are limited to an academic classroom. Researchers in Oklahoma recently developed a toolkit for expanding OER outcome research to include lifelong learning competencies, which are not limited to a specific setting or discipline. The goal of this toolkit is to diversify the populations in which OER research is conducted and ultimately establish a stronger evidence base for the use of OER. The toolkit was developed by a community college, regional university, and research university so that it can be implemented by researchers with varying levels of experience and resources. Join us for an early release of this toolkit, which includes an instrument to measure lifelong learning competencies in adults and an in-development OER for how to design and analyze a research study in your setting. The authors will also provide access to all relevant data from the project for other researchers to critique and build on. This project is funded by a 3 year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify resources for conducting an OER outcome study in their own setting
  • Describe the need for more diverse populations in OER outcome research
Speakers
avatar for Kathy Essmiller

Kathy Essmiller

Coordinator, OpenOKState | OER Librarian, 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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Jamie Holmes

Reference & Instruction Librarian, Tulsa Community College
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Marla Lobley

Project coordinator, East Central University
I am librarian and grant project coordinator at East Central University in Ada, OK. I graduated from the University of North Texas with a B.S. in Family Studies and a Master's in Library Science. My research interests include open education, user experience, and lifelong learning... Read More →

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

3:00pm EDT

#GoOpen National Network: Engaging a Wider Community in K-12 Action
The #GoOpen National Network is a community-led effort to broaden K-12 engagement with OER. Having emerged as an opportunity to redesign #GoOpen when the U.S. Department of Education sunset the initiative in early 2022, the #GoOpen National Network is modeled on collaborative leadership.

Participants will learn about #GoOpen lead partners and steering committee efforts to develop leadership structures, engagement tools, and strategic plans to support shifts and actions aimed at advancing OER in the K-12 domain. The presenters include leaders from ISKME, CAST, Foresight Law + Policy, and members of the #GoOpen Steering Committee, who along with many others, recognize the need for a network where states, districts, and organizations are equal partners, and that individuals, including practitioners and those with lived experience, can participate and have a voice as contributors on equal footing.

Presenters will also provide a tour of a new centralized hub for #GoOpen engagement. The hub is being developed to support a broad-based national platform of participation, with states and districts with established OER initiatives, collaborative working groups, resource curation of curriculum, as well as resources about OER policy and practice, and general announcements and relevant updates about the K-12 landscape generally.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Engage with partners and contributors focused on re-envisioning #GoOpen as a community-led coalition
  • Understand needs and wants of the K-12 ecosystem based on results from a #GoOpen community survey
  • Understand the ways to participate in the national network for K-12 OER
  • Join the hub platform and its groups, tools, and resources to participate in the network
  • Identify, use and reuse resources about OER policy and practice that they can apply to their own context
Speakers
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Barbara Soots

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

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

Director of Technical Assistance, CAST
Cynthia Curry is CAST's Director of Technical Assistance and Principal Investigator and Project Director of the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM Center) and Principal Investigator of the Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems (CITES). Both projects... Read More →
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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 3:00pm - 3:40pm EDT
Room C
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

3:00pm EDT

Beginning to Open up: Ideas for Colleges Early in Their OER Journey
When starting out using OER at your college/institution, it can seem like everyone else is much further along with their OER programs, and you are not aware of resources for those beginning OER programs at their colleges/institutions. Join us to hear from a panel of educators from smaller community and technical colleges that are recently new to OER as they discuss how they got started, recent accomplishments, things they would do over, what they wish they knew when starting out, and future plans.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Take away one new strategy to try at your institution
  • Find resources to help you with your institution's journey
  • Meet others who are starting out on their OER journey
  • Ask panelists questions
Speakers
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Paula Michniewicz

Instructional Designer, College of Southern Nevada
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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 3:00pm - 3:40pm EDT
Room B
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

3:00pm EDT

From the Community, for the Community: Diverse Perspectives That Advance Open Education
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators dedicated to advancing quality online, blended, and digital teaching and learning experiences that are designed to reach and engage the modern learner—anyone, anywhere, anytime. We strive to create opportunities to increase access to quality online, blended, and digital learning that center on equity and student success, and we position the dimensions of diversity, equity and inclusion as a touchstone for all of the work that we do in service to our community and to the field.

In this session, we will discuss the results of a Summer 2022 survey collected from our international community of faculty, instructional designers, institutional leaders, and other learning professionals. We will specifically address the conference theme—"Rise to Action"—by sharing the actionable steps our community members have taken around the world to leverage the opportunities and meet the challenges related to open education. By drawing upon the span and diversity of OLC community members, institutions, and partners, we will provide an extensive view of open education from a highly-diverse set of perspectives focused primarily on higher education (but including K-12 and corporate) at the course, program, and institutional levels.

We will discuss our findings related to these and other questions:

How is open education defined within your local context?
How does your course or program address social justice?
How have you engaged students in discussions around open education and learning?
What steps have you taken to make your institution more affordable to students?
How has your institution incorporated diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility into your strategic mission?
What steps have you taken to make open education sustainable at your institution?
What policies exist that foster or hinder open education at your institution?
How do you address open education in your professional development opportunities?
What strategies have you used to increase awareness and adoption of open education at your institution?
How have you addressed the most significant barriers to open education?

Attendees will leave this session with specific strategies that advance open education within their courses and programs and at their institutions at-large. Attendees will have the opportunity to share in real-time the approaches that have worked at their own institutions, building upon the #OpenEd22 conference community for inspiration, motivation, and ideas that lead to action.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand how a diverse set of institutions have advanced open education within their local contexts
  • Take actionable steps to advance open education at their institutions
  • Draw upon the contributions of #OpenEd22 community members through a collaborative document
Speakers
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Angela Gunder

Chief Academic Officer, Online Learning Consortium
Angela Gunder is the Vice President of Learning for the Online Learning Consortium, where she is responsible for gathering, curating, and leveraging the intellectual capital created by and disseminated through OLC. Her over fifteen-year career as a designer for higher education informs... Read More →
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Dylan Barth

AVP of Learning, Online Learning Consortium

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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 3:00pm - 3:40pm EDT
Room D
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

3:00pm EDT

Open for Antiracism: Institutional Impact in Year 2
The Open for Antiracism program was launched in 2020 to create an opportunity for California Community College faculty to transform their classrooms to be antiracist through the affordances of OER and open pedagogy. Participants are encouraged to use existing OER and improve upon it by adding underrepresented viewpoints and diverse and inclusive images to their classroom materials in collaboration with their students.

In this presentation, we explore the multi-year development of our program, and our Year 3 plans for capacity-building around bringing antiracist pedagogy to potentially hostile learning communities.

For Year 1, participants consisted of individual faculty from 16 different colleges who applied and completed an intensive facilitated online course to learn about how to be an antiracist teacher through the lens of antiracist pedagogy, OER, and open pedagogy. The following semester, they implemented an action plan in their classroom plan linking OER and open pedagogy with antiracist pedagogy. The implementation phase continued the workshop environment with coaching, OER support, and monthly webinars featuring antiracist educators and policymakers.

In evaluating the positive research findings from faculty and students in the first year, the leadership team with our advisory partners saw a need for more ongoing institutional support to continue and expand the antiracist work faculty had started while enrolled in the program and to measure the impact on students outcomes over a multi-semester time frame.

For Year 2, faculty teams of up to six instructors from a single college were invited to apply. A letter of support from a department chair, dean, or other administrator was requested to ensure that leadership at participating institutions would be engaged and also available for end-of-program feedback. Furthermore, student outcomes over multiple semesters for participating faculty would be collected to determine if implementing antiracist open pedagogy would impact student success particularly for traditionally underserved students.

During this interactive session, you will learn about the findings of the Year 2 enhanced program, including changes that faculty made in creating antiracist classrooms and the impact of their work at their institutions. The program leads from CCCOER and College of the Canyons will invite suggestions for improvements and an OFAR program coach will ask attendees to share how their institutions are engaging with the need to transform teaching and institutional practices to be antiracist. The interactive discussion will conclude with the question of how the field of OER can more effectively engage with antiracist pedagogy.

Participants at all levels of OER knowledge are welcome!

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Describe how open education can support antiracist pedagogy
  • Summarize the outcomes of the second year of the Open for Anti-Racism program
  • Gain a greater understanding of the importance of institutional support in making classrooms antiracist
Speakers
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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 directs the statewide CCC DECT grant and co-coordinated Technical Assistance for the CCC Zero Textbook Cost grant program. James is... Read More →
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Una Daly

Director, CCCOER, Open Education Global
Una Daly is the Director of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER), a community of practice for open educators in North America. CCCOER promotes the awareness and adoption of open educational policies, practices, and resources. We believe that these practices will promote... Read More →
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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 3:00pm - 3:40pm EDT
Room A
  40min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

3:30pm EDT

Fostering a Culture of Academic Integrity with OER
With the transition to online and remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Oregon faculty shared that they felt additional pressure to deter academic misconduct in their courses.

Academic integrity is traditionally framed as a student conduct problem for instructors to solve, rather than a complex commitment to knowledge that we all share. We know that we are most likely to create a culture of academic integrity when we develop a shared understanding of what it is, how to support it, and what university resources we can draw on together.

In response to faculty concerns and a need for additional support, UO Libraries, the Teaching Engagement Program, UO Online, and Student Conduct and Community Standards partnered to create two openly-licensed Canvas modules, one that instructors can optionally integrate in their course, and one that all students go through as part of their new student orientation. These resources are based on current research around why students engage in academic misconduct and what strategies have effectively increased academic integrity.

In this presentation, we hope to share our academic integrity modules and the OERs that we adapted/took inspiration from, in the hopes that attendees may consider adapting them for their own higher education contexts and needs. The presenters also plan to share details about the cross-collaboration practices that made this project successful, initial feedback shared by faculty and students, and discussion about how Open Education can contribute to a culture of academic integrity.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify OERs they can adapt to create their own academic integrity modules
  • Describe benefits of multidisciplinary cross-collaboration to a project that touches thousands of diverse students
  • Discuss how Open Education can contribute to a culture of academic integrity
Participants can also see more information about this project on the University of Oregon Academic Integrity website.
Speakers
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Rayne Vieger

Coordinator, eLearning and OER, University of Oregon
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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

3:45pm EDT

A Toolkit for Building OER Partnerships Between Higher Ed and PreK12
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This presentation builds on the presenters' 2021 OpenEd presentation, titled "Boundary Spanners: Bridging Gaps Between Higher Education and PreK12" which asserted that many personnel in higher education want to share their knowledge with a broader audience but lack the ability to create materials that best meet the needs of PK12 students. Over the past year we have developed a toolkit for higher education faculty, librarians, instructional designers, graduate students, and undergraduates who aspire to build respectful and productive outreach relationships and open educational resources for and with PreK12 teachers. The openly-licensed toolkit includes editable course materials (readings, slides and presentation transcripts, sample communication templates, assignments and partnership evaluation forms) for self-study and guiding graduate and undergraduate students through diverse topics including working with minors, educational standards-related issues, copyright, open-licensing, and acceptable uses of third-party works, empowering teachers to provide their expertise, and adapting and sharing openly-licensed works. Funding for the toolkit was provided in part by the IMLS-sponsored Scholarly Communication Notebook.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify significant pain points in higher education outreach to PreK12
  • Envision applications for the materials in higher education settings
  • Discuss issues related to next steps for OER-making collaborations at their higher education or PreK12 institutions
Speakers
avatar for Anita Walz

Anita Walz

Asst Dir of Open Ed and Scholarly Comm Librarian, @VTNews
Anita Walz is the Assistant Director for Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Virginia Tech. She works with faculty, administrators, and staff on local, state, national and international levels to inspire faculty to choose, adapt, and create learning resources which... Read More →
JF

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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 3:45pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room C
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

3:45pm EDT

Advancing OER Use to Facilitate Equity in Classrooms
Open educational resources (OER) can serve as a powerful tool to help educators facilitate class discussions about race and equity. Yet, some educators may be unsure of how to locate and utilize relevant OER and what their role should be in these important conversations. How can we better understand how OER are being used and communicate the ways it can empower educators?

This question helped inform new messaging research conducted by communications firm GMMB and research firm Zebra Strategies, with the support of the Hewlett Foundation. We will first review findings from messaging research with educators, administrators, and students as well as developed fictional "personas" of educators with a desire to address race and equity in their work that can help communicators effectively tailor their OER messaging to different target audiences.

Equipped with these insights, participants will be guided through a three-step framework that will put the research into action. Using an interactive format, participants will be able to craft a plan that is relevant to their local context by guiding them to clearly identify a specific goal, who they need to help reach that goal (i.e. audience), and by applying the insights from the research, developing strategies that will drive action.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the motivations and drivers of educators likely to use OER and address race and equity in their education
  • Incorporate research-based communications principles into their own communications about open education and equity
  • Develop actionable communications frameworks centered on helping educators who want to facilitate discussions on race and address equity in their work
Speakers
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Michelle Austin

Senior Vice President, GMMB
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Lee Southwell

Account Supervisor, GMMB

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Advancing OER for Equity OpenEd22 Deck pdf
Monday October 17, 2022 3:45pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room A
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

3:45pm EDT

Developing a Student-Led Textbook Affordability Advocacy Program
While students yield the greatest benefits from textbook affordability initiatives, many students may not engage in advocacy with faculty or university leaders about the high cost of their education. Students may lack the knowledge or skill (like knowing who to talk to or what to say), the confidence to reach out, or may believe that their voice doesn't matter and they can't make a difference. This presentation describes a grant-funded, tiered student training program designed to promote grassroots student advocacy for textbook affordability. In this presentation, Textbook Affordability Student Ambassadors will highlight critical features of the training program, strengths of the initiative and opportunities for future growth, and share news of the campus-wide achievements made by students.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Describe strategies for leveraging student passion and skill to promote textbook affordability goals
  • Understand what students need to become involved in making their voices heard on campus
  • Describe campus stakeholders who may be partners in textbook affordability for students
Speakers
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D'Arcy Hutchings

Instructional Design Librarian, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Hannah Bissett

News Reporter/STAC Treasurer/Concert Board Preside, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Veronica Howard

Professor, Mary Baldwin University
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EC

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Monday October 17, 2022 3:45pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room B
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

3:45pm EDT

Open Education Policy in the U.S. and Canada: Trends and Opportunities
Policy is one of the key ingredients for sustainable, effective open education efforts. More than a decade of coordinated open education advocacy has paid off with significant advancements. In the United States, Congress has established a federal grant program for open textbook programs, and numerous significant state-level policy initiatives have led to increased adoption, awareness, and creation of open educational resources. In Canada, sustained provincial support for open education programs has laid groundwork for potential national action. Across North America and the world, the opportunity around open education policy has been underscored by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This session will provide attendees with an overview of open education policy in the U.S. and Canada led by experienced advocates engaged in the day-to-day work. We'll review exciting developments from the past year and provide a look into what goes into big policy wins, along with analysis of what the long-term impact of these policies will be. We'll also share insight into what's coming up in the next year, including the outlook on potential national developments, which state and provincial policy trends to watch, and how open education advocates can best take action in their communities.

The discussion will be enriched by including both the U.S. and Canadian perspectives, drawing analysis and lessons learned from both contexts. Speakers also have their roots in student advocacy, so particular emphasis will be given to the important role of students in advancing policy. Whether you are an experienced advocate or completely new to policy, we hope you will participate!

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Explain key open education-related policy trends throughout the United States and Canada
  • Identify upcoming open education policy opportunities that may emerge in the next year
  • Apply recommendations and resources for how to advance open education policy in your local context
  • Reflect on key differences in policy development between the American and Canadian contexts
Speakers
avatar for Katie Steen

Katie Steen

Manager of Public Policy & Advocacy, SPARC
Katie is the Manager of Public Policy & Advocacy at SPARC where she is responsible for promoting policy and coalition activities to advance SPARC’s commitment to making Open the default in research and education. In this role, she works closely with the Executive Director and the... Read More →
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Hailey Babb

Open Education Project Manager, SPARC

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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OpenEd22 Open Education Policy in the US & Canada pdf
Monday October 17, 2022 3:45pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room D
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

4:00pm EDT

Alternative Assessments Meets Open Pedagogy: What Are Students Really Learning?
Ever wondered what students are learning with open pedagogy? Want to learn more about how to assess students' learning in an open pedagogy practice? This session is designed to provide alternative ways of assessment for an alternative way of providing instruction, open pedagogy. The presenters will illustrate and discuss diverse options for assessing open pedagogy, including traditional and alternative approaches to assessment which may include low-stakes/ no-stakes formative assessments, performance assessments, portfolio assessments, culturally-responsive assessments, and cumulative, summative assessments. Including alternative assessments also allows for the inclusion of a diverse student population. In this session, participants will walk away with a selection of assessment strategies that can be applied to open pedagogy assignments and can aid them in understanding what students are learning through their experience and exposure to open pedagogy assignments.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify diverse forms and approaches of assessment
  • Explore connections between open pedagogy and assessment
  • Utilize assessments in open pedagogy
Speakers
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Debbie Baker

Instructional Designer, Maricopa Community Colleges
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Carla Ghanem

Instructional Designer, Maricopa Community Colleges - MCLI

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Monday October 17, 2022 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

4:30pm EDT

Kahoot Trivia
Take a trivia break with friends old and new! Are you up to the challenge of becoming the OpenEd22 trivia master? Join for a lightning fast round using Kahoot!
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Social Activities

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Monday October 17, 2022 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

4:30pm EDT

Tea Time (Break)
Tea time is a break in scheduled programming when attendees can rest, practice self-care, or dive into networking or asynchronous sessions.

Please use this time to engage in other self-care activities to help keep you grounded throughout the day:
  • Have a snack! The mid-day sugar crash is real. Wash it down with a glass of water.
  • Take a minute to close your eyes and reflect on your day so far. Identify something you learned and something you are grateful for.
  • Take a few minutes to stretch. Bend over and touch your toes, then reach up toward the sky.
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Social Activities

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Monday October 17, 2022 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Room A
  Tea time (break)

5:00pm EDT

Beyond the Metrics: A Look Into a Program Review Process for Sustaining OER
In this presentation, we will share Salt Lake Community College's (SLCC) OER program review process. Participants will learn the steps involved with a Non-Instructional Program review, key highlights gained through Open SLCC's self-study, and tips for conducting an OER program review. Open SLCC is a large-scale OER program with an estimated $21 million in student cost savings with 11,730 OER sections to date. While Open SLCC has been in existence since 2014, beyond basic metrics, minimal assessment has been conducted to gauge program effectiveness. In fall 2021, in partnership with SLCC's Office of Strategic Analysis & Accreditation, Open SLCC began the process of program review with a specific focus on sustainability. The review process and guidelines for Non-Instructional Programs and Services were developed by the Office of Strategic Analysis and Accreditation and provide a comprehensive mechanism for systematic assessment and review. The process consists of three primary deliverables 1) a Self-study, 2) an external review, and 3) an Implementation Plan. A Non-instructional program review guide will be shared and can be easily adapted to accommodate OER program assessment and review needs.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Gain knowledge of the steps involved with conducting a non-instructional program review
  • Learn tools for assessing OER program effectiveness beyond metrics
  • Replicate or customize an OER Self-Study or comprehensive program study
Speakers
avatar for Andrea Scott

Andrea Scott

OER Coordinator, Salt Lake Community College
I'm the OER Coordinator for the Office of Learning Advancement and Co-Chair of the Open SLCC Advisory Committee at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). I have worked with the Open SLCC team since 2013. My primary role consists of overseeing the operations of the OER Initiative. I manage... Read More →
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Jamilla Al-Ani

Program Review Specialist, Institutional Effectiveness, Salt Lake Community College
Jamilla Al-ani assists the various departments at Salt Lake Community College in completing Program Review. She draws program management skills from Lean Six Sigma and Workflow Modeling. She has worked with various nonprofit organizations such as the YWCA, Helping Hand for Relief... Read More →

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

5:00pm EDT

The Final Piece of the Puzzle: Utah Tech University's Journey to Legitimize OER in Tenure
Linking OER creation, adaptation, and adoption within the faculty rank, tenure, and promotion process has been a long-standing problem many OER and open education programs in higher education face. This session will tell the story of how Utah Tech University passed an addendum attached to their faculty tenure policy legitimizing the connection between the various ways faculty can engage in OER projects and how they can use them in their tenure portfolios. Utilizing the guiding document by DOERS3 and leveraging faculty support, Utah Tech University has successfully implemented a solution to this ongoing problem.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the difficulties involved with the connection of OER in the tenure process
  • Understand the process, people, and infrastructure in place that allowed Utah Tech University to implement an OER addendum to their tenure policy
Speakers
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Kelly Peterson-Fairchild

Dean. Library & Open Learning Services, Utah Tech University
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Emma Lanners

Open Educational Resources Librarian, Utah Tech University

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Room D
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

5:00pm EDT

K-12 OER in Washington State: Developed Resources, Current Strategies, and Next Steps
For the last 10 years, the Washington state legislature has supported the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) K-12 OER Project – dedicated to providing free and equitable access to standards-aligned, quality instructional materials.

In this session, OSPI's OER Program Manager and the Associate Directors of Science, Social Studies, and World Languages, will share developed resources, current efforts, identified needs, and promising practices. Specifically, we'll discuss how open resources are playing a role in the development of:
  • Resources focused on integrated content
  • State and regional history materials addressing civic issues
  • Tribal Sovereignty curriculum resources
  • Instructional materials in less well represented content areas

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Explore exemplar resources from statewide educators available on the Washington OER Hub
  • Learn promising strategies and practices to support OER development, adaptation, and implementation in K-12 districts
  • See what's on the horizon for the K-12 OER Project in Washington
Speakers
avatar for Barbara Soots

Barbara Soots

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

Associate Director - Content, Social Studies, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Veronica Trapani

Associate Director - Content, World Languages, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Kimberley Astle

Associate Director of Elementary Science and Content Integration, OSPI

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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2022 OSPI OERHub Flyer pdf
Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room A
  55 min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

5:00pm EDT

Strategic Use of Statewide OER Surveys
Conducting statewide surveys on open educational practices can be an effective strategy to better understand, support, and allocate resources for the work being done through local OER initiatives. This panel will be a lively discussion among a diverse group of Open Education researchers, advocates, and practitioners who have developed and implemented statewide surveys on the use of Open Educational Resources in Connecticut, Iowa, and Texas. Topics will include processes and methods for conducting surveys, tips for increasing response rates, analysis and dissemination of the data collected, storytelling through these data, and possibilities for inter/cross-state comparisons for an even broader, deeper understanding of Open Educational policies and practices in the U.S.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Odentify how statewide surveys can enable better understanding of Open Educational policies and practices
  • Begin planning comprehensive surveys in their own states/systems
  • Explore collaborations to better understand Open Education practices in their contexts
Speakers
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Abbey K. Elder

Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian, Iowa State University
Abbey Elder is the Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian at Iowa State University. Her work uplifts and supports instructors who are interested in open education, open access publishing, and other scholarly communication topics. Over the past four years, Abbey has greatly... Read More →
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Kevin Corcoran

Associate Vice President of Digital Learning, Connecticut State Colleges & Universities
Kevin Corcoran is the Associate Vice President of Digital Learning for the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities System (CSCU). Kevin is responsible for the development and support of system-wide strategies for the effective use of digital learning tools and content that focuses... Read More →
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Michelle Singh

Assistant Commissioner, Digital Learning, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
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Judith Sebesta

Vice President, ISKME Labs, ISKME
Judith Sebesta, Ph.D., serves as Vice President, ISKME Labs, leading research, development, and innovation for ISKME. Prior to this position she was the Executive Director of the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas, where she managed a number of Open Education initiatives... Read More →
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Anastasia Karaglani

Research Associate, ISKME
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Kylah Torre

Director, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room B
  55 min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

5:00pm EDT

Celebrating a Decade of K-State's OATI: Analysis and Reflections from Project Administrators
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Established and initiated in 2013, Kansas State University's Open Alternative Textbook Initiative (OATI) is approaching its 10-year anniversary in 2023. In light of this, and the start of fiscal year 2023, the current administrators of the initiative made the space to look at the project holistically and reflect on successes and areas for growth. What started as a SWOT analysis for internal evaluation inspired project administrators to look at how to preserve, reflect on, and continue to share OATI's journey (already documented in: "Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University's Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation," "University Students and Faculty have Positive Perceptions of Open/ Alternative Resources and their Utilization in a Textbook Replacement Initiative," and Chapter 21 of Marking Open And Affordable Courses: Best Practices,among other scholarly works). This poster outlines the history of this initiative to date, reflects on the administrative process and network of stakeholders needed to support it, celebrates the over $500,000 raised in 2021 to support our program, and looks critically at how K-State can elevate our OER efforts and reach. In the resulting analysis, we explore a vital recentering of the program on affordability, student learning outcomes, the scholarly impact of OER, a reimagining of faculty incentives, and broader campus engagement. This poster provides perspective on growth, metric gathering, and administrative needs for other OER programs of various sizes, and encourages other programs to think about management, sustainability, and the future of their endeavors critically.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the origin/goals of K-State's OATI and preview work to come
  • Witness the results/returns to date
  • Explore the administrative and stakeholder networks needed to build/support an initiative of this size
  • Consider where their programs could explore expanding their stakeholder network, adopt/propose alterations to similar administrative practices, or avoid aspects to better suit their campus needs
  • See the benefits and returns of continued evaluations of their OER programs
Speakers
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Carolyn Jackson

Scholarly Communications & OER Librarian, Kansas State University Libraries
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Emily Finch

JD/LLM Candidate /Former Copyright Librarian, University of Miami Law/ Kansas State University

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Faculty OER Developers: Four Stories from a Campus
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Despite the growth of OER development funding and programs, institution-level OER development has been underrepresented in the existing literature on OER sustainability, particularly with a focus on faculty OER developers who engage in this work. In this session, I will present narratives from a recent study that explored institutional and intrinsic factors that contribute to faculty members' decision to engage in OER production. Findings from this research align with existing literature on main benefits, incentives, and challenges tied to OER development. However, faculty's experiences with OER development were also nuanced, rich with details and stories about why they engaged in this work, what challenges they faced, what support structures and people they found helpful, and how they have reflected on these experiences as people, educators, and professionals. While all stories were important to the overall study, four of them stood out as distinct and representative of the larger group: the OER advocate, the activist developer, the isolated developer, and the collaborative tenured chair. These stories serve as a broad representation of faculty participants in the study. I will discuss these stories and explore how they can inform institution-level approaches to promote policies and processes that create more sustainable OER development programs.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Discuss institutional factors that present benefits, incentives, or challenges to OER development at their own institution
  • Leverage OER developer's personal motivations to amend OER advocacy and how institutions talk about OER to faculty
  • Utilize faculty stories to inform OER strategy and planning efforts
Speakers
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Arturo Ozuna

eLearning Instructional Designer, Tarrant County College

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Guiding K-12 District Decision Making for OER Implementation
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This session will provide an introduction and walk-through of a new guide and templates, entitled "OER-DEIA Action Plan Template for District Leaders", created by a collaborative working group of authors who are part of the K-12 Voices for Open community. The guide includes sections on setting goals for the use of OER in meeting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) requirements in one's district, building awareness and buy-in for OER among K-12 contributors, and structuring teams and plans for funding, operationalizing, advocating, and sustaining OER implementation initiatives across setting at the K-12 level.

K-12 Voices for Open was organized in 2020 by ISKME in partnership with CAST and others, with support from the Hewlett Foundation, to convene K-12 state, district, and other organizational leaders in open education across the U.S. The result was the formation of a ground-up community of practice structured around a collection of action -oriented working groups.

Begun in Spring 2022, the guide is a key outcome of this community-led project focused on offering support and mentoring especially for K-12 district-based decision makers and practitioners. The presenters are part of the group developing the guide and templates targeted for district teams considering OER as part of their overall approach to DEIA, teacher professional learning, continuous improvement of curriculum, and the success of all learners.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Demonstrate familiarity with ways to communicate about how/why of OER/DEIA
  • Understand components and points of entry for K-12 OER initiatives that leverage local plans address DEIA and curriculum needs
  • Build a rationale supported by examples for funding OER/DEIA initiatives through reallocation of existing and anticipated funding and investing in teaching staff
  • Use the guide and templates for structuring one's own OER implementation plans
  • Participate in the K-12 Voices for Open community
Speakers
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Amee Evans Godwin

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

Curriculum Services Supervisor, Westmoreland Intermediate Unit
I am excited to assist organizations as they develop student-centered instructional strategies that are designed to support the learning styles of today's learner.  I believe in innovation, disruption, and strategic thinking to promote continuous improvement and am dedicated to developing... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Institutional Surveys Redux: Student and Faculty Responses on Course Materials During COVID-19
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The presenter developed and distributed two campus survey questionnaires in fall 2018, and redistributed them in fall 2021, to see what, if anything, had changed in responses. One survey focused on textbook and course materials costs and impacts on students. The other survey focused on perceptions and awareness of open educational resources (OER) by faculty members. The survey instruments were deployed both years via the Provost's Office to students and faculty.

This session features an analysis of results and implications of the fall 2021 survey results, how the themes and trends compared to the fall 2019 surveys; how survey data can be used for understanding, advocacy, and advancing OER initiatives; and a look at the pros and cons of conducting campus surveys.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Learn of student and faculty attitudes toward course materials costs and OER during Covid-19, and how trends did (or did not) change from when the survey was conducted three years earlier
  • Learn of approaches on how to use survey data for OER advocacy and advancing your OER initiative
  • Consider the power and limitations of institutional wide surveys
  • Determine if surveying your institution would be a useful approach or not in refining your OER initiative goals
Speakers
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Jen Mayer

Interim Assistant Dean of Libraries, University of Northern Colorado
My library-related interests include: mentoring, liaison roles, library use and student academic success, scholarly communication, and open educational resources.Outside of work, I enjoy going to thrift stores, exploring the outdoors, attending concerts and museums, and working on... Read More →

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Institutional Surveys Redux Poster OpenEd22 (1) pdf
Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Interdisciplinary OER Development: Virtual Microscope
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The session will introduce the creation of a custom, virtual microscope that serves as an Open Educational Resource (OER) for college-level biology courses. The virtual microscope was developed as an interdisciplinary collaboration between faculty members of the Biology and Chemistry Department and Information Technologies Department at County College of Morris (CCM), Randolph, NJ. This project is a product of the Open Textbook Collaborative, a New Jersey Higher Education program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The virtual microscope is functional, with an easy-to-use interface, and contains slides that reflect the curriculum needs of several biology courses at CCM. The virtual microscope seamlessly supports our course learning objectives (i.e., Use appropriate laboratory tools and techniques to examine anatomical structures or physiological functions) and may replace the need for students to purchase a microscope as part of a required laboratory kit in online courses. The virtual microscope allows online students the capability to practice and hone microscopy skills that they otherwise would not have the opportunity to access as online learners. All students, regardless of modality, will have the ability to view specimens relevant to course content and practice microscopy skills outside of the classroom. This makes the virtual microscope an important study tool for student success. As an OER, the virtual microscope is open access and can be utilized by faculty and students at other institutions. Attendees will gain insight into how to conduct interdisciplinary OER creation and the positive benefits for faculty and students, alike.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Recognize the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration on Open Educational Resource(OER)development
  • Select appropriate Open Educational Resources (OER) for classroom use
  • Learn processes associated with Open Educational (OER) development
  • View the functionality of the CCM Virtual Microscope
Speakers
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Dorothy Salinas

Assistant Professor, County College of Morris
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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Navigating the Infrastructure for Authoring OER
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Do you have a great idea for an online course, but simply don‚Äôt know where to start?  There are sites that list numerous authoring tools for creating OER, but which one should you use? Or have started to write a webbook, but then realized that maybe a webpage would be a better choice or vice versa. Or maybe you are thinking that creating and depositing all this material for the course within a learning management system (LMS) is the way to go? Or do you have identical and duplicated material available on all three outlets. The purpose of this presentation is to show similarities and differences between these three related yet distinct web outlets (webpage/webbook/LMS). What is the best way to structure your online course to effectively use and best leverage the strengths of these three channels? In addition, the presentation will apply the concept of The Universal Design for Learning framework to provide a way to account for learner variability.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Distinguish between three major outlets for creating OER via 1) website, 2) webbooks (like Pressbooks and 3) Learning Management System (LMS) 
  • What are similarities in creating OER using three outlets or modes 
  • What are differences between these three channels 
  • How to structure your online course to effectively use there three outlets to their full potential 
  • How to use the Universal Design for Learning framework to account for learner variability
Speakers
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Veronika Dolar

Assistant Professor, State University of New York - SUNY Old Westbury

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

OER to Support Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Hyperlocal Community Contexts
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Open textbooks have long promoted the affordances of the development of free and highly customizable content, but many efforts to create new and revised OER still largely emphasize universal approaches to textbook content. Universality in textbooks often assumes that there is one truth and that all people experience a phenomenon in the same way. Thus, in a North American context, our textbooks–both proprietary and open–continue to reinforce predominantly Western worldviews and fail to account for nuance and pluriversal approaches to education. Pluriversality, emerging from decolonial theory, challenges universality by accounting for such nuances and being comfortable with the idea that many knowledge systems coexist. We're currently in an exciting time of open education, in which textbook authors are embracing pluriversal approaches to education, incorporating the important and valid contributions of people and knowledge systems historically kept out of textbooks and education.

In contrast to universities, the majority of community college students tend to be from the communities in which the institution is located. The presenter teaches in a community college with a majority of students of color and first-generation college students, utilizing culturally sustaining pedagogy that encourages students to draw on their lived experiences and cultural backgrounds to connect with the curriculum; however, the knowledge systems from which students draw these connections are often not represented in textbooks. Similarly, other faculty reluctantly use open textbooks to ease the burden of textbook cost on students but wish the content was more in alignment with their local approaches to the curriculum. Thus, the presenter created a Pressbooks guide to showcase tangible examples of how to create, revise, and remix OER to support culturally sustaining pedagogy in the college's local community context, including examples of translation and bilingual content, integrating local knowledge and experiences, embedding videos and multimedia, and incorporating Indigenous knowledges. This presentation will firstly engage in the concept of pluriversality and culturally sustaining pedagogy; then, the presenter will show the details of the guide and strategies for revising and remixing this guide for attendees' institutional contexts.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand existing textbook biases that deter culturally sustaining pedagogical approaches
  • Analyze their local context and how that relates to students' lived experiences and knowledge systems
  • Develop examples of OER content to support culturally sustaining pedagogy in their own institution
Speakers
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Cynthia Mari Orozco

OER + Equity Librarian, East Los Angeles College

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Open Pedagogy in Practice: an Old Fashioned Show-and-Tell
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Open pedagogy leverages the affordances of open educational resources to empower students to be active agents in their learning. In practice, open pedagogy is based on the premise that students share their assignments publicly, typically in digital spaces, as they curate course materials and create products that can be used and built upon in the future. Generally, students report digital open pedagogy assignments that are collaborative and participatory to be as effective or better and more enjoyable than traditional assignments (e.g., those shared privately only with the instructor, such as quizzes or term papers). As many open practitioners know, open pedagogy projects can also create spaces for students to contribute their perspectives - and as a result, increase confidence, lower anxiety, and increase interest. Others add that these practices are culturally responsive as they provide a permeable space for students to bring identities, leading to more inclusive and equitable practices for all learners by providing them with the opportunity to co-create and tell their stories instead of having their narratives told by others. Despite the potential of open pedagogy in reinventing the learning experience, it can initially seem daunting to instructors, students, and the staff who support them, which impacts the use of open pedagogy assignments.

Join us for our research-based and practitioner-friendly poster session in which we use social justice and equity lenses to share our ongoing work and diverse experiences (e.g., STEM, psychology, teacher preparation, librarianship, undergraduates/graduates, traditional/nontraditional students) in higher education with open pedagogy. Our poster session highlights a series of open pedagogy assignments illuminating how open pedagogy practices create equitable learning experiences. These assignments feature opportunities for students to be imaginative creators of their own learning projects, focus on relationship-oriented learning practices, and honor students' assets. In sharing these examples, we identify how these practices push up against misconceptions about and barriers to implementing open pedagogy.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand open pedagogy to include the benefits, misconceptions, and barriers
  • Explore various practical examples of open pedagogy assignments to include the design of assignments, student products, along with the instructor and student experiences with assignments
  • Use the resources shared to create or refine open pedagogy assignments
Speakers
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Heather Miceli

Lecturer, General Education, Roger Williams University
Interests: Open pedagogy in science courses, Adjunct support systems
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Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Associate Professor, University of North Dakota
Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell began her career in education as an ESL teacher in New York City. She then obtained her PhD in Educational Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science at the University of Minnesota where she was trained in educational research. She has published over... Read More →
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Lindsey Gumb

Fellow, Open Education, New England Board of Higher Education
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Stephanie Rollag Yoon

Lecturer, University of Minnesota
As an educator, I draw on my histories growing up on a farm in rural Minnesota, teaching in both rural and urban school settings, and now living in Minneapolis with my husband and children. I taught the K12 classroom for 10 years, as an English Language Arts and Spanish teacher. During... Read More →
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Staci Gilpin

Senior Lecturer, The University of Wisconsin-Superior
I was born in Sioux City, Iowa. Growing up on a family farm in rural northwest Iowa is one of my identities that continues to impact me professionally. This experience and the unique assets and needs of rural America are always on my mind. And continues to drive me to advocate for... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Poster Session
This poster session will feature an opportunity to browse a collection of poster sessions during this 55 minute period. The session will be held in a Zoom room, which you can enter by clicking the button above at the time of the event. Each poster session will have its own breakout rooms, where presenters will be available to discuss their presentation.

Important! Before entering, please ensure you have downloaded the free Zoom desktop software and that you are using an up-to-date version. This will allow you to move yourself between breakout rooms without help from a host. However, there will be a host available to assist you if needed.

There will be an additional poster session on the final day of the conference where some posters will have a second showing. You can also browse poster content at any time by visiting individual poster session pages.


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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room C
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Principles of Good Teaching and Learning and the Role Open Pedagogy Can Play
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Connecting the conceptual use of open pedagogy with the principles of good teaching and learning isn't always the easiest task for educators. Senior leaders may question the efficacy of OER while at the same time wondering how revenue can be generated because of lost textbook sales. This session will connect the Chickering and Gamson (1987) Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education and open pedagogy. Participants will help provide examples of the role open pedagogy can play in each of the principles.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the principles of good teaching and learning
  • Define open pedagogy
  • Provide examples of how open pedagogy impacts good teaching and learning
Speakers
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Michael Mills

Vice President, Montgomery College
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Shinta Hernandez

Dean of the Virtual Campus, Montgomery College

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

To OER, Or Not to OER: Exploring Factors Influencing Faculty Engagement with Open
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While faculty strive to produce valuable scholarship and teaching materials, the reach and impact of those materials can be limited based on the avenues and methods through which they are shared. Open practices such as open access publishing and open educational resources (OER) have emerged as an option to increase access to scholarly outputs by removing financial, legal, and technological barriers to access and reuse of scholarship and teaching materials. However, while faculty engagement with open practices is increasing, there still remain barriers to widespread participation. This research project seeks to identify those faculty-perceived barriers and evaluate their relative influence on faculty decisions. The project team hopes to use the gathered data to identify and recommend potential pathways to increasing faculty engagement with open practices. For example, one such recommendation could be the explicit support for creating OER in promotion and tenure (P&T) policies.

This poster will present the initial results of this research project from a pilot study at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education. This study employed an explanatory sequential mixed method research design, which included a web-based survey and follow-up interviews and focus groups with faculty to elaborate on survey responses. The project team will present the results from the section of our study exploring faculty perceptions and practices of creating or customizing OER, highlighting those results related to P&T, and how those results may be interpreted and applied.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the influence of promotion and tenure (P&T) affecting faculty engagement in open educational practices at an R1 institution
  • Outline the research project and identify possible future opportunities for collaboration or replication at their home institution
Speakers
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Jessica Kirschner

Open Educational Resources Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Sergio Chaparro

Behavioral and Social Sciences Reserarch Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University
Research Librarian at VCU and adjunct at University of Tennesse, Knoxville School of Information Sciences (SIS). 30 years in the field of information.
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Preeti Kamat

Doctoral Student, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Jose Alcaine

Director of Research Servives/Affiliate Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University
Currently working on a research project with VCU Library colleagues on faculty perceptions on OER and open practices.

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

What Made Colorado a Hub for Opened, and What Can We Glean from Its Origin Stories?
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Who or what are the catalysts that made Colorado a hub for Open Education? Open Education (OE) is both a movement and a philosophy that aims to grant access to educational opportunities for all. In this case study, I examine the various forces that helped Colorado emerge as a leader in OE practices and initiatives. Using a mix of qualitative methods (e.g. interviews, narrative analysis), self-assessment tools (e.g. Institutional Self-Assessment Tool for OEP Initiatives) and snowball sampling, the goal of this project is to map the forces —both actual and imagined— that contributed to Colorado's origin stories in OE. Rather than aim for an exhaustive study that isolates causal relations, this project attempts to identify the interdependent relationships between institutions, state/province priorities, and OE communities of faculty and staff.

This presentation will share the research design for studying Colorado OE communities and how they see the founding of their movement. The goal is not to deduce a formula for recreating OE engagement elsewhere; it is to instead recognize the interdependent themes that uniquely affect Colorado or that could be broadly translated in another context.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify thematic patterns of origin stories for OE engagement
Speakers
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Maya Hey

Post-doctoral Researcher, Colorado State University
Let's chat if you're based in Colorado (US) or British Columbia (CA), because I'm conducting a research project related to how these places became OpenEd hubs. No need to preface our convo; just tap me on the shoulder and let me know where you're based. Building on my work from last... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:30pm EDT

Build Your OER Brand: Fostering Emotional Connections with Stakeholders
OER leaders can derive important perspectives by assessing their program's brand for its ability to drive stakeholder value. While brands are very difficult to quantify, measure, and evaluate—they nevertheless exert a powerful influence on your campus's stakeholders. The process of building an OER brand goes beyond logos and visuals. Your brand should foster strong intangible and emotional associations with your program.

In this session, we will share brand strategy and identity principles for developing an OER brand. Our institution's OER program has been nationally recognized by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) via the prestigious Excellence in Academic Libraries Award.

This session will include an overview on our institutional context; brand strategy and identity principles; and powerful implementation examples that are low-cost and time-efficient.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Define brand strategy and identity in order to develop a campus-wide OER brand
  • Apply the "Three Hurdles" framework in order to assess their campus-wide OER brand
  • Adopt low-cost and time-efficient marketing tactics in order to build their campus-wide OER brand
Speakers
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Nathaniel King

Dean of the Library, Nevada State College
Nathaniel is the chief library officer for the College. He has primary responsibility for planning, developing, and administering library programs; creating and sustaining an environment supportive of teaching, research, and academic excellence. He holds a MSLS from the University... Read More →
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Alena Manjuck

Outreach and Engagement Librarian, Nevada State College
Alena Manjuck is the Outreach & Engagement Librarian at Nevada State College. She holds BAs in English and Art from Lafayette College and an MS in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

5:30pm EDT

Using Open Education Instructional Design to Transform the Classroom and the Community
In this session, Veronica Vold (Open Oregon Educational Resources, voldv@linnbenton.edu), facilitates a structured conversation with Elizabeth Pearce (Linn-Benton Community College, pearcel@linnbenton.edu) and Kim Puttman (Oregon Coast Community College, kimberly.puttman@oregoncoast.edu) about their open course packs that integrate with their open textbooks, with an emphasis on designing open pedagogy projects as a meaningful equity-minded response to crisis and complexity. We discuss the logistical barriers that challenged us, community connections that surprised us, and the design process that we developed together. Our goal is to showcase how open pedagogy not only allows students to meet key course learning outcomes but to contribute to their communities in profound and transformative ways. To access recommended tools and exemplars to design and develop meaningful open pedagogy opportunities, please see our Presentation Resources linked below.

In her Contemporary Families course, Elizabeth Pearce joined efforts with an Environmental Justice colleague to offer students a chance to propose their own project relating to the open textbook. In her Social Problems course, Kim Puttman invited students to analyze a local social problem of their choice through the creation of a short video interviewing a local community member. As an Open Education Instructional Designer, Veronica Vold collaborated with Liz and Kim to create open practices and tools that center student agency and empowerment. 

Open Oregon Educational Resources received Governor's Emergency Education Relief funding to develop openly-licensed, targeted pathway materials with an equity lens for Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) and Sociology. This project redesigns high-enrollment courses in disciplines that lead to in-demand occupations where high quality openly licensed course materials with an equity lens are not currently available. 

Please visit Elizabeth's Sched bio page: https://opened22.sched.com/pearcel1

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Discuss the value of equity-minded instructional design for open pedagogy projects
  • Recognize the power of community college students in creating and generating academic knowledge
  • Examine open pedagogy as a community intervention in times of crisis and complexity
  • Analyze the complex role of informed consent in designing an open pedagogy project
  • Recommend tools and exemplars to design and develop meaningful open pedagogy opportunities for students
Speakers
avatar for Veronica Vold

Veronica Vold

Open Education Instructional Designer, Open Oregon Educational Resources
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Kim Puttman

Adjunt Faculty, Oregon Coast Community College
I am an adjunct faculty member at Oregon Coast Community College. I teach Sociology, GED, and ESOL. We are a small but mighty community college located on the central Oregon Coast. I also am the discipline lead for Sociology at OpenOregon. I am the lead author of a new open textbook... Read More →
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Elizabeth Pearce

Faculty, Human Development and Family Sciences, Linn-Benton Community College
Elizabeth B. Pearce is the author of Contemporary Families: An Equity Lens, written with 13 student contributors who collaborated as part of an open pedagogy (OP) project. She continues to involve students in OP for this text and in another textbook, Introduction to Human Services... Read More →

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

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Monday October 17, 2022 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room D
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

6:00pm EDT

Daily Debrief: Monday
Each day will end with an informal conversation with the organizers and members of the conference community. The Daily Debrief will reflect on the conference so far, provide tips on what’s ahead, and create opportunities to get to know different perspectives in the field.

Tune into the Zoom meeting to participate!
Speakers
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Hailey Babb

Open Education Project Manager, SPARC
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Aishah Abdullah

Open Education Coordinator, SPARC
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Briana O'Neal

Conference Manager, SPARC

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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT
Room A
  Social activity, Daily Debrief

6:30pm EDT

Opening Reception
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Monday October 17, 2022 6:30pm - 7:00pm EDT
Room A
  Social activity, After Hours
 
Tuesday, October 18
 

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#OpenEd22 Welcome Desk
Welcome to the 2022 Open Education Conference! This is the nineteenth year the Open Education Conference community has gathered, and we are incredibly excited to welcome more than 1,000 attendees and speakers from across the U.S., Canada, and around the world.

To access the conference, you must be logged into Sched with your registered email address. You can tell that you are logged in if you see a message below the main menu that states you have a ticket, or if you are able to select sessions. You will not see embedded videos or the button to join sessions unless you log in (embedded videos will be visible to logged-in attendees starting October 17th).

If you are registered and have your Eventbrite ticket, a Sched account has already been created for you. Here is how to access it: 
  • Activate your account. Enter your Eventbrite order number and registered email to set a password and access Sched. 
  • Or, simply reset your password. Even if you've never logged in, you can access your account by resetting the password. Your username is your registered email address.
  • If you are unable to either activate your account or reset your password and it has been more than 15 minutes since you registered, you may contact us at contact@openeducationconference.org.
If you are not registered, visit the Tickets page to purchase a ticket. An account will be automatically created for you within 15 minutes, and you will have full access to the conference. See your confirmation email or return to this page for help logging in.

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How to Access the Conference

Welcome to #OpenEd22! We want to make sure you feel welcome and are able to have a great experience at this event. Below you will find several pages with information about how to access the conference. We've also created a few ways you can get help:Frequently Asked Questions: Che... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 TBA
TBA
  Support

TBA

How to Join Discord
Discord is a private social space where conference attendees can interact in voice and text channels. If you've ever used Slack, Discord is very similar. Participation in Discord is optional, but can be a lot of fun!

Here are some of the things attendees are doing in Discord:
  • Exchanging resources and tools related to open education
  • Chatting in interest groups for K-12, librarians, instructional designers, and more
  • Posting the cutest and most amazing pet pictures
  • Much, much more!

Here is how to join the OpenEd22 Discord:
  1. Create a free Discord account or log in to your existing Discord account
  2. Access our server by clicking the blue "join session" button above (visible to logged-in attendees only)
  3. Read the message in the Check in Desk channel and click the ✅ to enter
  4. A full list of channels should appear, and you're ready to get started!

If you can't see the "join session" button above, verify that you are logged in. You can also find a link to our Discord in the Day 1 and Day 2 welcome emails sent to all attendees.

Use of Discord is subject to the conference Code of Conduct, and more information about privacy in Discord is available in our post Managing Your Privacy at #OpenEd22.
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How to Access the Conference

Welcome to #OpenEd22! We want to make sure you feel welcome and are able to have a great experience at this event. Below you will find several pages with information about how to access the conference. We've also created a few ways you can get help:Frequently Asked Questions: Che... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 TBA
TBA
  Support

9:30am EDT

Open with Care: Examinations of Equity in Open Education
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In contemporary world, education within the four walls of a classroom alone no longer suffices in meeting the educational needs of individuals; with the proliferation of new technologies worldwide and in every aspect of human life, the educational environment is being rapidly transformed and the concept of open education is a trending area in meeting those educational needs. There are many qualities and characteristics attached to the state of being open but they are all dependent on an individual's ability to access, participate in, and take advantage of the full benefits of open education. When something (education in this instance), is said to be open, it means it can be used by anyone without discrimination with regard to status, race, gender, geographical boundaries and so on. In open education, for a resource to be open, it must be free/open; meaning that one must be able to access the educational resource at no cost and have the legal rights to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the resource and/or adaptations of the resource. There are no barriers to education or participation in it and everyone has equal right of access and equity to participation in the education arena. There are several benefits of open education including but not limited to: improvement in students' performance and satisfaction; wider participation in education; critical reflection by educators with evidence of improvement in their practice and financial benefits for students/institutions. However for these benefits to be maximally derived by all, the core fundamental principles of open education must be followed, which are design for: access, agency, ownership, participation and experience. This leads to some pertinent questions that require answers: is Open Education an innovation for everybody, or is it chiefly about removing barriers to the marginalized and excluded? Furthermore, countries within the different regions of the world are at various stages of Open Education Resources (OER) acceptance: many are still on raising its awareness and potential benefits while others are dealing with digital divide issues or struggling with business models and sustainability issues, so how will a balance be reached considering these countries. Also, the uncertainty regarding contextual appropriateness of OERs joins the previously existing suspicions regarding the Western industrial countries' motivation to provide development aid. Then, does it (that is, open education) follow the principle of social justice? Specifically, these and some other pertinent issues concerning open education would be discussed in this presentation.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • A better understanding of open education
  • Awareness of the importance of equity and equality to open education
  • Awareness of the relevance of accessibility and inclusion in open education
  • Knowledge on the fundamental principles of open education
  • Identify reasons for the disparities in open education practices
  • Get a better understanding of open education resources and attached technologies
Speakers
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Kolawole Aramide

Research Fellow, University of Ibadan
Kolawole Akinjide ARAMIDE. A faculty at the Department of School Library and Media Technology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. I will like to get informed and discuss issues around Librarianship and information science especially Technology Appropriation in school libraries, policy... Read More →
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Abiola Elaturoti

LIBRARIAN, LEAD CITY UNIVERSITY

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Aramide and Elaturoti Open with Care mp4
Tuesday October 18, 2022 9:30am - 9:40am EDT
Room E
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

9:30am EDT

Examining Resources to Center Students' Identities
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How are educators reviewing, selecting, and remixing OER resources to ensure that the resources sustain and affirm students' different cultural and linguistic identities? Are the resources creating space for students to see themselves, see others, and experience others? Those spaces in curriculum are referred to as mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors by Dr. Rudine Sims-Bishop and examining them is part of the work that educators in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Wisconsin have been doing to interrogate curricular resources for being culturally responsive. By using Open Education Resources (OER) as the basis for their curriculum review, educators are able to use a specific tool to identify and redress harmful bias. In this session, we will share the Identifying Bias tool and some of the work of the educators as they share their own lived experiences as a frame for looking at which identities are centered and which identities are left out. Participants will see how the unique licensing properties of OER not only allow for remixing, but encourage collaboration, decentering of dominant identities and the opportunity for supporting students in finding the genius and joy of their identities.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Reflect on one's own cultural lens
  • Examine a tool for Identifying Bias
  • Interrogate a given OER resource for harmful bias
  • Suggest possible ways to redress harmful bias by remixing the resource to include and affirm student identities
  • Build community for future anti-racist curriculum interrogation and future collaboration
Speakers
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Melinda Boland

VP, Services, ISKME
Creating and sharing OER, digital libraries, and how to spread the word, create advocacy, and empower teachers to create and share resources.
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Joanna Schimizzi

Professional Learning Specialist, ISKME
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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Examining Resources to Center Students' Identities 2 pdf
Tuesday October 18, 2022 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
Room C
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

9:30am EDT

Professional Development for Creating and Implementing OER: A Case Study from Haryana, India
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Due to the pandemic Open Educational Resources have gained increased attention for continuing educational practices. The rapid growth of using OERs provides new opportunities for students as well as at the same time challenges for teachers. This challenge is more amplified in those countries where not only teachers but also students are not tech-savvy. During the epidemic, education was going through different problems and unprecedented concerns related to teaching and learning. It has made us feel that our teachers require the knowledge and specific skills to maintain online teaching in such drastic situations so that they can contribute and participate in local as well as global educational space. Therefore, a need was felt that efforts should be made to train teachers who do not have much knowledge about the effective use, creation and revision of OERs in teaching. Fortunately, the wealth of open resources is already available, but it is crucial for school teachers to know how OERs can facilitate classroom instruction to meet the needs of their students. Teachers are the chief fabricators of educational resources, but many do not share these with others. Teachers can upload their resources at various platforms and their educational resources can pave the way to promote open education practices with the global teachers’ community. Therefore, it is a must for teachers to understand the OERs and the power of sharing resources to enhance learning outcomes. But adequate knowledge of creation and curation of OERs is also important.

With this purpose, NCERT and SCERT (Haryana) trained some teachers as master trainers to train others teachers from various districts of Haryana State in India. Different authoring tools were taught to them so that they can create resources and publish them as OERs. Various educational resources such as videos, presentations, mind-maps, podcasts and animations were created by teachers. And teachers were encouraged for knowledge creation by making them aware of the open availability of resources. Furthermore, creating open educational resources is not solely enough to encourage open education practices. Appropriate and effective use of these resources is also crucial. During the training, it was also taught how teachers can integrate these resources during teaching (either online teaching or blended learning). Along with this teachers’ digital competence was also studied before and after the training.

This paper reflects upon the effectiveness of teachers’ training programmes under professional development for creating OER with the aim to implement these OERs in the classroom. Further, it describes how teachers were trained to create, revise and reuse OERs in teaching. The paper concludes by outlining success of training for the implementing adequate OERs according to the local needs of the students and improved techno-pedagogical skills and digital competence of school teachers.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Reflect on need and significance of open educational resources in developing countries particularly in India
  • Reflect on ways for promoting open education practices in India
  • Reflect on various authoring tools for creating educational resources
  • Reflect on effectiveness of training programme for teachers‚Äô professional development
  • Outline the success of training for improving improved techno-pedagogical skills and digital competence.

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avatar for Anju Gandhi

Anju Gandhi

Post Graduate Teacher, Mathematics, GGHS Bighar, Fatehabad, Haryana
Dr. Anju Gandhi is working as Post Graduate Teacher in Mathematics. Before this she was serving as Assistant Professor in Education for Teaching of Mathematics. She was awarded a Ph.D degree from Panjab University Chandigarh. She has teaching experience of 11 years in Teacher Education... Read More →

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
Room A
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

9:30am EDT

Showcasing OER as Professional Development and Community Building: An Adaptable Campus Event Model
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OER work is important to faculty, students, and higher ed institutions -- but at the same time, it is not often well-recognized, compensated, or supported. This can create an unfair situation where faculty labor with OER has a positive impact on student success and retention, and thus a positive impact on institutional priorities and incomes, but the faculty themselves are not being appropriately supported or rewarded for this positive impact.

We set out to create a program to help address these gaps at our campus. The resulting Open and Affordable Showcase--which included lightning talks, roundtable discussions, a brainstorming session, and a crowdsourced voting process to determine the winner of a new OER Champion Award--provided faculty with a forum in which to share their OER work directly with their peers and administrators and gain formal recognition of that work for their evaluation, promotion, and tenure processes. Additionally, the Showcase served as a professional development opportunity by giving faculty and staff the opportunity to come together to discuss OER as a community, thereby offering support and inspiration for each other and attracting new OER adopters, as well as affirming and bolstering administrative support for ongoing and future OER work and advocacy.

We will share our initial goals for the Showcase, our timeline and process for creating the event in less than 3 months, and the outcomes of the Showcase as held in May 2022. We will discuss the formats we considered, the format we eventually created, and the options we are considering for future iterations. We will share feedback we received from both our presenters and attendees, as well as some specific openly-licensed resources for your reuse, like templates for the call for proposals, invitations to administrators, letters of thanks for presenters and speakers, and giveaway buttons.

We invite you all to bring your own thoughts, situations, and questions to our session!

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Attendees will be able to follow the process, timeline, and documentation used to create an Open Showcase
  • Attendees will be able to articulate some benefits and challenges of holding a campus event like our Showcase in their environments
  • Attendees will be able to begin to strategize what about our event, timeline, planning, etc could be adopted or adapted for their campuses
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Elizabeth Nelson

Reference and Instruction Librarian, Pennsylvania State University
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Tuesday October 18, 2022 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
Room D
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

9:30am EDT

Students Perspectives on the Intersection of Open Pedagogy and Community Engaged Learning
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Community Engaged Learning as a pedagogical practice has significant overlap with the concepts of open pedagogy including the emphasis on learning that extends beyond the classroom and affording students the experience of real-world engagement and connected problem-solving. Open pedagogy is well poised to transform community engaged learning by increasing student agency, participation, and engagement.
Traditionally, community engaged learning has emphasized experiential service as a means to enhance conventional learning goals through purposeful action, connection, and purposive reflection. By pairing academically relevant community service activities with course concepts and engaged reflection, community engaged learning provides avenues for application of the course material to real-life scenarios and to assist in addressing community needs. Community engaged learning has become a widely accepted practice with research highlighting its potential to positively impact students' academic success, social responsibility, and capacity for critical thinking.
Open pedagogy, with its emphasis on learner driven education, can shift the praxis of community engaged learning, to emphasize student partnership in construction of community engagement activities, shared learning practices, and authentic engagement in the reflection process. Further, open pedagogy can enhance the role of social justice in the community engagement process and allow students opportunities to collaborate with one another on the creation of solutions to community needs.
This presentation explores the results of a research study that compared project-based community engagement when employed using open pedagogy versus when it was fully curated by the course instructor. This study specifically explored student perceptions of the community engagement assignment in these different pedagogical iterations as well as the influence of project design and outcomes, renewable versus disposable, on student perspectives and overall satisfaction with the assignment.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify how community engaged learning can be enhanced by open pedagogical practices
  • Integrate innovative elements of an open pedagogy into community engaged classes and activities
  • Understand student perspectives on open pedagogical practices and community engaged learning including renewable assignments
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Christian Williams

Assistant Professor, Assumption University

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
Room B
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

9:45am EDT

Open Education Cooperative
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In my presentation, I would like to show an open education practice that support the creation of open educational resources by teachers and librarians in Poland. Project was created as part of the Centrum Cyfrowe (Digital Center Poland) project: SpołEd (EduCoop).
What I'm going to talk about:
- description of the Open Education Cooperative project
- materials description and usage suggestions
- EduCoop method
- ideas how to expended

For four years Centrum Cyfrowe in Poland have been cooperating with teachers and librarians, together we create open educational resources, but also talk about what open education is, what competences it requires, which of them are crucial for the learning process in general. In our project, we are guided by 4 values: cooperation, learning, openness and adventure. And it is the starting point for all our activities.
We collected practices, tools and methods that we have developed over the years, materials produced by other organizations, universities and sometimes private individuals. We show and practice the use of tools, but also learning methods. We support canvases and simple checklists. We encourage to create own learning resource. We shows the theory and history of Open Educational Resources, but the most important thing about our work is practice. Our experience shows that it is difficult to understand the idea of oer unless you make your own resource available. This is what we are striving for.

Last year, we translated the course into English and we selected more universal examples and materials so that it could also be used by teachers from other countries.
We are open to cooperation, translations into another language or new versions of the course. We know that this course can be modified according to the needs, because we did so in creating a separate version for librarians. We believe that such a formula not only enables easy translation, but also adaptation to the needs of various groups that may be interested in open education, not only teachers, but also parents, employees of cultural centers and institutions.

Therefore, I would like there to be space during the presentation for active participation, asking questions, adding insights and ideas, and possibly a short sample of the course itself.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Use EduCoop method to create own project
  • See how important is open education in K-12
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avatar for Aleksandra Czetwertynska

Aleksandra Czetwertynska

head of Open Education Team, Centrum Cyfrowe
Polish language and culture specialist, cultural activity organizer, trainer, active participant in education and the NGO environment. She has coordinated projects involving film education (Filmoteka Szkolna. Akcja!), literacy (Miłosz OdNowa) and cultural education (Sztuka Zaangażowana... Read More →

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 9:45am - 9:55am EDT
Room E
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

10:00am EDT

What's Prioritized in OER Libguides? A Preliminary Content Analysis of Selected OER Libguides
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Many institutions publish guides about OER on Springshare's LibGuides platform. As a component of a capstone project culminating participation in the 2021-2022 cohort of SPARC's Open Education Leadership Program, the presenter conducted a preliminary content analysis of a sample of OER and affordable content-focused LibGuides to inform a planned revision of her institution's own OER LibGuide and other key OER-focused communication and information pieces. Situated among a body of published LibGuide content analyses, this presentation will describe methods and initial findings, which reveal the most frequent top-tier topics within guides included in the sample. Viewers will hear how the process and findings informed the presenter's own revisions and content development as well as plans and opportunities for using and building upon this work.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Describe one methodological approach for conducting content analysis of online OER guides and other resources
  • List the most frequently included top-tier topics from a sample of OER LibGuides.
  • Imagine possibilities for conducting content analyses to inform creation or revision of their own OER guides or other OER communication resources
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Catherine Fraser Riehle

Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 10:00am - 10:10am EDT
Room E
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

10:00am EDT

Call to Action: OER Policy Status in Nigeria
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Open Educational Resources (OER) has already achieved an important milestone in the educational system of many developed countries. The United States is busy reporting successes in terms of students' enrolment and retention as well as financial saving within its educational system. However, a blurred area on the OER movement is the extent to which it underpins social justice and inclusiveness among regions of the world. Despite the rot and decay in the African educational systems, little has been reported about OER initiatives in the region. The impacts of OER are not easily noticeable in the region. In 2017 OER Policy was drafted by the Commonwealth of Learning at the instance of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education but still OER initiatives and programmes are not noticeable in the county. Therefore, this paper intends to report about OER policy status in the Nigerian university system. Content analysis of published document of two agencies - the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) would be studied, to identify policy status and potentials of OER in the Nigerian university system. The agencies are very crucial in formulating and implementing policies in the Nigerian universities. Recommendations would be offered towards promoting the use of OER in Nigeria.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Appreciate the status of OER in Nigerian Universities
  • Identify areas of collaboration and support on OER in Nigeria
  • Appreciate the need for all-inclusive OER policies
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Alkasim Abdu

Coordinator of Branch Libraries, Yusuf Maitama Sule University
An advocate for Open Educational Practices in Kano State Nigeria

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room A
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

10:00am EDT

Geo for All: Blending OER, Open Data and Open Software in GIS Education
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Over the last several years there has been both a maturation of open source geospatial software and a convergence of open educational resources (OER) and open data for teaching and learning geographic information science. This presentation will focus on transitioning an introductory GIS course from using proprietary software and expensive texts to an open source GIS course using OER and open data. Open source software such as QGIS, GRASS, and the R statistical programming language will be covered, as will the "Geo For All" initiative by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The presentation will also address the ways in which a transition to OER and open source are having a positive impact on student outcomes in GIS education at a small liberal arts college, as well as how the open GIS course is being used to make a push for wider adoption of open educational resources institution-wide. Finally, early efforts to incorporate open pedagogy into class assignments will be addressed.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Summarize the benefits of open source software and open data
  • Illustrate how open educational resources can be used to improve student experiences
  • Identify open educational resources for their own teaching
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David Abernathy

Professor, Warren Wilson College

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room D
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

10:00am EDT

Making Connections: Faculty OER Adoption and Attitudes in Relation to UN SDGs
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This session discusses the results of an instructor survey conducted at York University by the campus-wide Open Education Steering Committee. The survey was designed to surface current OER creation and use, to identify how instructors see the connection between OER and SDGs and to gauge current barriers preventing instructors from developing OER and incorporating OER into their curricula.

As the beginning of the Open Education Steering Committee's multi-step project to reach different constituencies in the university community, the survey will form the foundation for educational outreach and programming related to OE and SDGs. The presentation will share survey results and data analysis as a basis for crafting supportive programming that meets instructor needs. Additionally, this presentation will touch on future goals to recognize OER in the promotion and tenure process.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Further understanding of the connection between OER & SDGs as perceived by instructors
  • Further understanding of biases and barriers to OER implementation in the COVID era
  • Further understanding of instructors' academic integrity concerns, copyright & intellectual property regarding OER
  • Further understanding of faculty perspectives on tenure & promotion
  • Lessons learned and strategies for instructor engagement in the area of OER
Speakers
avatar for Andrea Kosavic

Andrea Kosavic

Associate Dean, York University
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Mojgan Jadidi

Associate Professor of Geomatics Engineering, York University
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Hilary Barlow

W.P. Scott Chair in Librarianship, York University
Hilary Barlow is an American archivist and librarian based in Toronto, Canada.
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Sarah Coysh

Director, Digital Scholarship Infrastructure Department, York University

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room B
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

10:00am EDT

Open Glam & Education: Teachers' and Educator's Perspective on Digital Culture Resources
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The global pandemic of COVID-19 has radically changed the way we learn and teach. Due to the restrictions, almost 90% of all countries worldwide have offered online learning.

Educators have turned towards digital resources. According to a recent European study conducted by Centrum Cyfrowe in 2021, as much as 38% of teachers used web pages and educational resources created by GLAM institutions such as libraries, art galleries and museums for the purpose of online education.

At the same time more and more digital cultural heritage collections are made open and available for educational reuse. How exactly are they being used? What are the main opportunities and challenges linked to having more GLAM content and GLAM content-based open educational interactive materials & resources used for educational purposes? How to make sure these are fit for the purpose of teachers & educators?

Our pan-European research provides us with information about teachers' and educators' motivation, ways of use and barriers regarding the usage of GLAM's open educational online materials & resources.

The study was conducted by Centrum Cyfrowe (Digital Center) in partnership with Europeana and EuroClio and aimed at
understanding the status quo in the use of GLAM's open educational interactive materials & resources for educational purposes,
supporting the development of new high quality, relevant f GLAM educational interactive materials & resources
promoting them among teachers and non-formal educators.

We will present main outcomes of the research - a set of recommendations which will include:
recommendations on how to develop high quality, open and relevant GLAM educational interactive materials & resources based on teacher' and educators' actual needs
recommendations on how to lower typical barriers recognized by teachers and educators regarding the usage of GLAM open educational interactive materials & resources
arguments in favour of the development of GLAM open educational interactive materials & resources as a part of every digitization process in GLAM institutions
recommendations on how to reach out and cooperate with teachers & educators in the process of developing GLAM open educational interactive. materials & resources.
All materials from the study including methodology and research tools, report, charts and diagrams in .png version and spreadsheets with collected data will be available for every participant of OpeED conference under CC BY Licence.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • How to develop high quality, open GLAM educational materials & resources based on teachers' and educators' actual needs
  • How to lower typical barriers regarding the use of GLAM open educational interactive materials & resources
  • Use arguments in favor of development of GLAM open educational interactive materials & resources as a part of every digitization process in GLAM institutions
  • Cooperate with teachers & educators in the process of developing GLAM open educational materials & resources
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Anahita Rezaei

Open Education & Advocacy Specialist, Centrum Cyfrowe
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Tuesday October 18, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room C
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

10:15am EDT

Exploring H5P: What Is It, and How to Use It to Create Engaging, Dynamic Content for OER
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Dynamic, interactive content can enhance Open Educational Resources such as textbooks and other online materials and allow for greater student satisfaction and higher levels of retention, comprehension, and understanding. H5P, or HTML-5 Packages, make it simple to create customized content such as dialog cards, image collages, drag-the-words, memory games, and much more—all of which can be added to Pressbooks and other publishing platforms. This presentation will help participants understand what HTML5 means and why it's so important to the modern web, and also demonstrate the process of locating, customizing, and implementing interactive H5P elements in OER materials.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand terms such as HTML5 and H5P
  • Interact with H5P activities in realtime to see how effective they can be
  • Locate H5P resources that can be used in OER materials
  • Evaluate interactive elements for their suitability in OER materials
  • Create unique H5P deliverables that can be used in textbooks and other resources
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SR

Simon Ringsmuth

Teaching And Learning Librarian, Oklahoma State University

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 10:15am - 10:25am EDT
Room E
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

10:30am EDT

Mindfulness and Relaxation
Got Zoom fatigue? Is your back sore from sitting at the computer? Add this break to your schedule and take some time to yourself. There will be an option to join a Zoom meeting for a shared experience of soothing music, or simply practice on your own.
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Social Activities

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

10:30am EDT

Tea Time (Break)
Tea time is a break in scheduled programming when attendees can rest, practice self-care, or dive into networking or asynchronous sessions.

Please use this time to engage in self-care activities to help keep you grounded throughout the day:
  • Look at your schedule for today. Make sure you have enough breaks built in, and that you are giving yourself the space to immerse in the sessions most important to you.
  • Take a few minutes to close your eyes, breathe deeply and set an intention.
  • Drink a glass of water.
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Social Activities

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
Room A
  Tea time (break)

11:00am EDT

Opened Through Connecting Universities at Their Library HIPs (High Impact Processes)
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At Kennesaw State University (KSU) and North Carolina State University (NC State), we have been implementing Open Education (OpenEd) on our own campuses for many years. Inspired by this mutual interest, we have spent the last year exploring opportunities to collaborate across our institutions. We have had successes and challenges collaborating. Three major successes emerged during the year: a) the strong ties between OpenEd and High Impact Practices in education, e.g., undergraduate research through science sprints; b) the benefit of ongoing, regular communication on OpenEd across our universities and disciplines; and c) the discovery of strong, yet underutilized OpenEd capabilities and connections between our universities' libraries, e.g., Libguides and student work repositories. Three significant challenges identified include a) navigating OpenEd through the rough waters of intellectual property; b) incorporating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into OpenEd; and, c) developing innovative, engaging OpenEd experiences for students through leveraging libraries and professors. This recorded session will start with a review of the past year's joint successes and challenges, move to present our collaboration plan for joint OpenEd development and operations for the upcoming year, and conclude with our sharing an invitation to connect with us by joining your OpenEd teaching with ours and your library with our libraries at the HIP or high impact processes, such as undergraduate research. Our intention is to facilitate a Community of Practice focusing on OpenEd as a Conduit for the Public Good, e.g., DEI, HIPs, OpenEd Conferences, Science Sprints, Sustainable Development, etc. During the viewing time, we will be available for Q&A and discussion.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify opportunities for cross-university OpenEd work
  • Incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into OpenEd work
  • Explain opportunities leveraging Libraries, e.g., Lib Guides, to implement OpenEd on and across campuses
  • Design new experiences that continue joining people, campuses, and HIP
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avatar for Carlos Goller

Carlos Goller

RLOE Leadership Advisory Team, Regional Leaders of Open Education (RLOE)
I was born in Mexico and grew up in the city of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. My father was a retired US NAVY Lt. Cdr., and my mother is a retired elementary school teacher who taught for forty years. I attended a bilingual elementary school and then a technical high school in... Read More →
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WC
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Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

11:00am EDT

Emergence of the OER Leaders Network in Quebec: Designing Tools and Prototypes
We would like to submit a proposal about the Open Educational Resources (OER) Leaders Network in Quebec. We would first present an overview of the context on OER in Canada and Quebec as well as the motivations for the creation of the OER Leaders Network within the framework of the Digital Plan (funded by the Ministry of Education in Quebec) for higher education. The Ministry of Education wanted to establish a network of OER leaders as a community of practice that would be built through a series of activities, meetings, webinars including a week of intensive training offered by the Creative Commons organization, which resulted in certification for those who participated. We will explore the challenges of implementing this network as well as those related to its ongoing continuity and development

Moreover, and more importantly, the intention of this presentation is to describe the concepts and prototypes that were developed during this week of intensive training (on Creative Commons Open Licenses) with participants from this network (librarians, teachers, educational advisors from the post-secondary education community (college and university)). These innovative, complementary and collaborative projects were focused on OER training, promotion and research, providing a toolkit to equip and empower the network. These tools and prototypes really deserve to be documented and promoted.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify and describe the situation et emergence of the OER movement in Quebec
  • Identify specific strategies for collaborating with practitioners and create a community of practice
  • Learn about an innovative portfolio and tool kit for the development of Open Education
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Marie D. Martel

Professor, Université de Montréal
I am a professor at the EBSI (School of Library and Information Sciences of the University of Montreal).

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
Room D
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

11:00am EDT

Student Recommendations for Strategic Sustainability of OER at HBCU Institutions
For the past 4 years, the HBCU Affordable Learning Community has been building the organizational, programmatic, and technical foundation for their Affordable Learning Solutions program for all HBCUs. Nine (9) HBCUs have been institutionalizing the Affordable Learning Solutions strategies, modelled after the programs develop by the California State University, MERLOT, and Skills Commons which are internationally recognized for providing access to free and open educational resources to millions of faculty, staff, students, and the broader education and workforce communities. Another eight (8) have initiated some elements of an AL$ project on their campus. The leaders of HBCU institutions such as Tennessee State University, Southern University, Bethune Cookman University and others within the HBCU AL$ community, in partnership with MERLOT-SkillsCommons have designed an open portal that provides easy access to:

• The largest aggregate collection of free and open e-textbooks, open courseware, open access journals, open learning objects, and more.
• Over 50 general education courses with multiple free and open e-textbooks aligned with the course curriculum.
• Free and open collections of virtual labs in STEM and workforce development curriculum.
• Over 100 free and open teaching ePortfolios that showcase faculty's adoption of OER across a broad range of disciplines.
• A free and open library of planning tools, guidelines, and professional development resources to support HBCUs developing and implementing their own AL$ programs.
• Free and open methods for sharing their use, reuse, revision, remixing, redistribution, and retention of OER that they have adopted and authored.

The MERLOT project has been scaling the adoption of free and open educational resources across the nation and around the world since 1997. Other higher education systems have already institutionalized the CSU's Affordable Learning Solutions program such as the University System of Georgia, and the Open SUNY system. "Putting educational innovations into practice" has been the mission of the MERLOT project and our ability to cost-effectively design and deploy open educational services such as derivative AL$ websites for institutions, enables us to fulfill this mission. Through the MERLOT institutional partnership processes, we learn about the innovative practices from our collaborators and in turn incorporates these innovations into MERLOT's baseline services.

The session will cover the research findings on the student adoption of Open Education Resources (OER) and their recommendations which include the following:

1) The need for OER awareness and benefits .
2) The need for hands on workshops.
3) The need for culturally related materials.
4) The need for more information about OER in their discipline.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • The participant will understand student needs and readiness for successfully adopting and creating OER
  • The participant will understand strategies for adopting and creating culturally relevant OER materials
  • The participant will understand Student Effectiveness of professional development programs to build capacities for AL$
  • The participant will understand Student Qualities of existing tools and technologies (e.g. MERLOT and others) to support AL$ programs
Speakers
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Dr. Effua Ampadu-Moss

Co-Director HBCU- Faculty, Tennessee State University
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Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
Room B
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

11:00am EDT

The War in Ukraine as a Catalyst for the Development of OER: Where Do We Start?
Feb 24th, 2022 changed the lives of thousands of librarians in Ukraine. On that morning, Russia launched a terrible large-scale war against Ukraine. Efforts are destroying the Ukrainian people as a nation, erasing its history, culture, science, and education.

Despite this, Ukrainian librarians are determined to continue supporting students and teachers: often in extreme conditions. They are taking the chance to implement Open Education (OE) solutions at a time when most at need.

It is still early days for OER in Ukraine. In recent years, the Ministry of Education and Science has prioritised engaging in more systematic work to bring Ukrainian academia closer to the European research and innovation community. Select open practices exist in some institutions; however, OE and OER are not yet mentioned in official national documents.

Since 2007, academic and university libraries have embraced openness and explained it to academics. Starting in 2019, the academic library of the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technology (USUST) has been working on OER locally (for teachers and librarians), nationally (for university librarians), and internationally. The experience gained with the European Network of Open Education Librarians, e.g. in workshops, survey participation, translating OER into Ukrainian or via contacts from different countries, has been extremely useful.

At the university level, faculty discussions on the benefits and opportunities of OER for distance or blended learning (e.g. during the COVID-19 pandemic) are ongoing. However, the interest of teachers/authors has been limited to isolated cases until now.

But the librarians continued their "Small Step Tactics - Little by little, but constantly!"

During wartime, the USUST's rector and vice-rectors have given more of a green light to the OER community, supporting the library's calls for introducing new models of information support for distance learning in Ukrainian. As a result, we have held meetings with key stakeholders; started conducting library consultations for teachers as potential OER authors to cover copyright and licencing. We also saw over 200 academics attend an online event, something we had never seen before. We have looked at technical possibilities to create, curate and preserve open textbooks and use multimedia in them, developed guidelines to produce open textbooks, created an open textbook and placed it in the institutional repository and in the Open Research Library. We have started to develop two new ones.

This has come about through the focus and determination of many USUST teachers and librarians. They share noble and strategic goals of great importance. This undertaking protects social justice and inclusion for current and future generations of students. It is crucial for those wounded in this war who will not be able to attend university physically but WANT TO STUDY AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO IT.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Learn more about the Ukrainian context of OER and OE
  • Have a better perspective on the work Ukrainian Librarians are doing in a time of high-level crisis
  • Analyse and discuss which aspects of this experience can inspire them to move forward in their context
Speakers
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Paola Corti

Oe Community Manager, SPARC_EU
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Tetiana Kolesnykova

Director of the Scientific Library, Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies
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Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:00am - 11:40am EDT
Room C
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

11:00am EDT

Decolonizing Learning in the Global South: Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education
Academic institutions in the Global South are managing several economic and structural concerns. OERs are growing in popularity as a solution to mitigate some of the challenges caused by financial hardship and inadequate infrastructure. Although OERs offer the potential to improve equity and access to higher education, recent literature suggests that open education is not necessarily inclusive education.

Panelists from different academic institutions discuss open education development and adoption throughout Africa. Their work focuses on ways OERs are used to address diversity, equity, and inclusion in African systems of higher education. They conducted studies examining the experiences of a range of stakeholders involved with OERs including students, faculty, textbook authors, and librarians. Researchers will share obstacles and successful approaches uncovered by their research as well as discuss recommendations to improve the development of OERs with a focus on social justice.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand OER development in the Global South
  • Describe opportunities and challenges faced by academic institutions in Africa
  • Identify OER stakeholders and methods to support their engagement with OERs
  • Explore strategies to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education
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Michelle Wilmers

Publishing and Implementation Manager, University of Cape Town
Background in scholarly communication and research project administration, with a focus on the African higher education sector. Interest in all things "open".
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Bianca Masuku

Junior Research Fellow, University of Cape Town
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Alkasim Abdu

Coordinator of Branch Libraries, Yusuf Maitama Sule University
An advocate for Open Educational Practices in Kano State Nigeria
JC

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
Room A
  55 min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

11:30am EDT

Statewide Collaboration in Action: A Librarian-Led Model of Creating OER
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This panel presentation will offer different perspectives on a year-long cross-contextual collaboration to create OER to meet the needs of diverse learners and institutional contexts.

LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network a consortium of public and private college and university libraries in the state of Louisiana, partnered with the Rebus Community, a global non-profit working to make knowledge freely available in the pursuit of equity, understanding, and the common good, to offer publishing support and guidance through a year-long professional development course, the Textbook Success Program. Librarians from the LOUIS member library community provided leadership to a team of five teaching faculty in the development of redeployable courses for one of 25 dual enrollment general education courses. The 25 dual enrollment courses were divided into 5 cohorts (grouped by discipline) that received Rebus TSP training to enable collaboration across teams and reduce duplication of efforts. Throughout the partnership, Rebus Community and facilitators aimed to gather expertise and insight into this process and areas of interest to ensure that it met the needs of participating cohorts.

Panelists will speak on their experiences collaborating on a system-wide level to support large scale OER grant implementation, using an uncommon but promising approach that can be applied to other contexts.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Describe a collaborative and librarian-led model of creating interactive OER
  • Envision statewide co-creation networks encompassing a variety of two-year, four-year institutions and professional roles
  • Apply and adapt lessons learned to your current open educational practices
Speakers
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Apurva Ashok

Executive Director, The Rebus Foundation, https://twitter.com/RebusCommunity
Apurva leads The Rebus Foundation and brings a tireless determination for systemic change in education at Rebus and through collaborative partnerships. She helps educational institutions build human capacity in OER publishing through professional development offerings such as the... Read More →
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Bryan McGeary

Learning Design & Open Education Engagement Librarian, Penn State University
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Maletta Payne

Emerging Techologies Librarian, Southern University A&M College

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

11:45am EDT

OER Discovery: Ensuring OER Rise to the Top
View the team-created materials on OER metadata in the presentation and in this Shared Resources Google Doc. 

Librarians and instructors are collaborating to create a wealth of OER, but what about ensuring the discoverability of these resources? Absent clear standards and practices for sharing OER, how should we spend our effort making OER discoverable, both regionally and globally?

To complicate matters, the majority of OER work traditionally has been handled by public services librarians outside of any technical services department within libraries. Without consistent collaboration and communication between these two entities, the Discoverability of OER materials is often limited to a list of links on a libguide or other website.

Panelists from Georgia Southern University and Affordable Learning Georgia will address these questions and complications in the context of both institutional and statewide OER initiatives. We'll highlight some of the main barriers to discoverability, and suggest some possible paths forward with specific examples derived from our own work.

Participants will be invited to contribute to the conversation through the use of Mentimeter, and also invited to brainstorm how we can all work together to increase the visibility of these valuable resources.

--Bothmann, B. (2020). A Recommendation for Core Metadata Elements for Use in OER Repositories.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand multiple challenges to ensuring the discoverability of OER materials for faculty and students
  • Evaluate at least two sets of current standards that will provide guidelines in providing strong metadata for OER materials
  • Gain both consortial and institutional perspectives which will help to guide decisions about the discoverability of OER at their institution, consortium, or state system
Speakers
avatar for Jeff Gallant

Jeff Gallant

Program Director, Affordable Learning Georgia, University System of Georgia
Jeff Gallant is the Program Director of Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of the University System of Georgia (USG) intended to promote student success and foster educational equity through supporting the adoption, adaptation, and creation of affordable and open educational... Read More →
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Jeff Mortimore

Discovery Services Librarian, Georgia Southern University
Jeff Mortimore serves as Discovery Services Librarian at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. Jeff's current interests include the impact of library automation on the discovery-to-delivery process and its ramifications for scholarly communications practice.
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Rebecca Hunnicutt

Collections Management librarian, Georgia Southern University
Rebecca Hunnicutt is the Collections Management Librarian at the Zach S. Henderson Library on the Statesboro campus of Georgia Southern University.  Rebecca leads the cataloging team in her department and has worked as both a public and technical services librarian, so understands... Read More →
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Beth Burnett

Digital Scholarship Librarian, Georgia Southern University
Beth Burnett is the Institutional Repository Librarian for the Georgia Southern University Libraries. Beth joined the repository team in 2020 and oversees Digital Commons@Georgia Southern, the University's open-access online repository. Prior to that, she served in various technical... Read More →
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Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Room C
  40min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

11:45am EDT

RLOE Network: Focusing on Marginalized Communities & Promoting Systemic Change for Open Education
The Regional Leaders of Open Education Network (RLOE) centers on building diverse human networks with a focus on perspectives that shift power to marginalized communities. Our model aims to create conditions for the inclusion of diverse voices to shape a new vision for open education critical to OE sustainability.

The RLOE network explores open education leadership and community expansion with social justice and equity at the forefront. The following components and stages of network development define our work:

1. The network is composed of people across the United States and Canada in these roles: leadership advisors, collaborating open education and underserved student-support experts, students that serve as mentors to faculty/staff/admin, and program participants. Our advisors, collaborators and student mentors are heavily represented by people with lived experiences and identification with BIPOC and/or LGBTQ communities.

2. We ran three cohorts of 30-38 program participants per cohort: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, and Spring 2022. Our open RLOE.org website provides content for learning, links to numerous resources, and a space for connection.

3. We began each cohort with synchronously and asynchronously building an online community for three weeks that grapples with contextualizing OER and Open Pedagogy within the enormous systemic problems inequity and racism bring to students who are often underserved and underrepresented. During these weeks, participants were paired with our collaborating experts that helped them begin the process of open education strategic plan development that targets underserved students.

4. After the three weeks, participants have ongoing monthly check-ins with their assigned collaborators and as much ongoing support as they desire throughout the duration of the grant period (2021-2022).

5. Leveraging OE Global's OEG Connect platform, asynchronous discussions in the RLOE OEG Connect group continue during the year.

6. We also run monthly RLOE "un-webinars" that are opportunities for participants from any of the cohorts to explore particular topics more deeply, engage in discussion, share ongoing development of their strategic plans and get support.

7. We held an in-person RLOE Summer Summit in Boston in July 2022 consisting of many members of the RLOE network to share ideas and continue community building.

In this session, RLOE network members will share how they are leveraging the power of open education to "lead from the middle''. Representative participants will talk about their process of strategic plan development and how their individualized plans align with their particular institutional stage of readiness and mission.

As we consider priorities for the future of RLOE, we consider these questions: How are networks key to the sustainability of Open Education? How can we expand the inclusivity, effectiveness, and connections of the RLOE network both within and beyond North America?

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand what the Regional Leaders of Open Education Network is and why it is important for Open Education sustainability
  • Explain the value in building diverse networks and empowering underrepresented communities to become leaders of open education
  • Describe who our underserved students are and how to support student success
  • See models for open education strategic plans that target marginalized communities
  • Learn how to support or become involved in the RLOE network
Speakers
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Manisha Khetarpal

Dean of Library & Information Services, Maskwacis Cultural College
Manisha Khetarpal is an economist turned librarian with a passion for serving FNs communities. She was the lead proposal writer and project manager for the implementation of open education initiatives in the Maskwacis community. Our approach towards open practices was to engage the... Read More →
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Kim Grewe

RLOE Program Developer, Regional Leaders of Open Education (RLOE)
I am excited to be back at the Open Education Conference and to share the work around Open I have been doing lately through OEGlobal projects and initiatives with which I'm involved. I look forward to exploring notions of leadership in Open and how we can leverage Open to expand traditional... Read More →
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Alegria Ribadeneira

Professor, Colorado State University
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Carlos Goller

RLOE Leadership Advisory Team, Regional Leaders of Open Education (RLOE)
I was born in Mexico and grew up in the city of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. My father was a retired US NAVY Lt. Cdr., and my mother is a retired elementary school teacher who taught for forty years. I attended a bilingual elementary school and then a technical high school in... Read More →
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Karen Cangialosi

RLOE Director, Regional Leaders of Open Education (RLOE)
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Mari Sakiyama

Professor, Western Oregon University
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Maribel Montelongo

Professor, Taft College
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Elizabeth Braatz

Graduate Student, Portland State University
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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Room B
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

11:45am EDT

Using Open Case Studies and Other Interactive Resources for Multiple Courses in Health Sciences
Together with the help of our Open Education (student) Lab, Teaching Innovation Fund grants and a grant from eCampus Ontario, we developed a series of open resources to use in multiple courses within the health sciences. These resources include interactive activities to use in anatomy and physiology-based courses and a series of interconnected case studies.

The interactive activities included drop and drag diagrams, fill in the blanks, multiple choice and flashcards that follow the sequence of the OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) textbook but can be used in conjunction with other A&P textbooks. As these are designed in H5P, they can be easily embedded within your learning management system and used for ipsative and formative review. These resources are regularly updated and can be accessed at Interactive Activities for Human Anatomy and Physiology.

The case studies highlight the lives of 10 individuals that are diverse and span multiple generations. Each case study includes multiple resources including a brief overview, comprehensive slide deck which can be easily adapted, a background story and suggested courses that the case study might be used for. We're currently developing teaching notes and a series of questions and answers to facilitate their use- these will hopefully be available for the start of the Fall 2022 term. Over the past 12 months, these case studies have been used in courses with a focus on human anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, mental health, social determinants, health promotion and nutrition. These resources are regularly updated and can be accessed at Multi-Course Case Studies in the Health Sciences.

Our undergraduate students were heavily involved in the creation of this content. The various grants enabled us to hire students as project coordinators and content creators. Students enrolled in our human anatomy and physiology wrote questions and answers as part of their assessments. Still other students working in our Open Education (student) Lab to provide the technical expertise to prepare and publish these resources as an open educational resources.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Learn how to involve undergraduate students in OER creation and delivery
  • Learn how to set up a specifications-grading style rubric to speed up marking
  • Learn how to set up generalized case studies to adapt for specific courses
Speakers
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Elita Partosoedarso

Senior Teaching Professor, OntarioTech University
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Sarah Stokes

Ontario Tech

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:45am - 12:25pm EDT
Room D
  40min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

12:00pm EDT

LEAD the Way: Creating a Multi-Campus Train-The-Trainer Model for Librarians Supporting OER Adoption
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Libraries are gaining a reputation as OER advocates on a national, if not global scale - but what does that mean for librarians? There are several excellent certification and training programs available to librarians in the US, but these require significant time, as well as participation fees, and provide more of a grounding in what OER work is, rather than direct training in what is available for OER work at each librarians' specific institution.

At Penn State, we have developed an institution-specific program, OAER Leads, designed to function as a combination "train-the-trainer" program for librarians and an incentivized OER adoption program for their faculty. This program allows us to identify librarians interested in supporting OER work, provide them with directly applicable training in supporting OER at our institution, and set them up with a cohort of faculty OER adopters to put those skills to practice immediately. In addition to providing support for OER adoption at more of our campuses, this program will also ultimately help us to build more OER expertise across our institution and make it possible for us to scale up our goals to include larger OER initiatives in future.

In 2022, our inaugural group included one program manager, two program facilitators who also assisted faculty adopters at their campuses, and five OAER Leads librarians who participated in the training program and are currently supporting OER adoptions at their campuses. Together, we are supporting the adoption of open, affordable, and library-licensed educational resources into nearly 40 courses across 8 of Penn State's campuses over Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.

In this session, we will provide a detailed overview of the process of creating OAER Leads, developing our training materials, recruiting librarians, and then transitioning from a train-the-trainer program over Spring 2022 to a full-on OER adoption program during Summer 2022. We will discuss our funding sources and structures, but knowing that those are institution specific and not available to all attendees, we will try to focus more on sharing content that you can adopt, adapt, and reuse in your own environments.

We'll discuss the obstacles and opportunities we've discovered along the way, share feedback from both OAER Leads librarians and our OER-adopting faculty, and provide our own views on the process of planning, creating, and managing a project like this. We'll discuss our next steps for assessing both our OAER Leads training program and our resulting OER adoptions. We hope that some of our OAER Leads librarians will be able to attend the live viewing of our pre-recorded presentation as well, so that they can answer your questions about their experiences with supporting OER through a program like this.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Attendees will be able to follow the process and timeline for creating a train-the-trainer OER support program
  • Attendees will be able to identify specific opportunities and challenges in creating a program like OAER Leads at their campuses
  • Attendees will be able to strategically access, adapt, and reuse the materials developed for OAER Leads for their own contexts
Speakers
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Christina Riehman-Murphy

Open & Affordable Educational Resources Librarian, Penn State Abington Library
Christina Riehman-Murphy, Assistant Librarian, is a Reference & Instruction Librarian at Penn State Abington College. She has her MSLS from Clarion University and a BA in English and Secondary Education from The Catholic University of America. She is the liaison for open Initiatives... Read More →
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Elizabeth Nelson

Reference and Instruction Librarian, Pennsylvania State University
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Bryan McGeary

Learning Design & Open Education Engagement Librarian, Penn State University

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Semillas, Rise to Action
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Semillas, Elementary Spanish I is an Open Educational Resources (OER) textbook that has been developed as a collaboration among faculty from two higher education institutions in the state of Iowa. This project was made possible thanks to a grant from the Regents OER program. This textbook was designed with four goals in mind: being affordable, engaging, research-based, and accessible to all students. To achieve these goals, the creation process consisted of a series of steps.

Before starting our textbook design, we surveyed faculty and k-12 teachers from various institutions to get feedback on their teaching styles and preferences. We also surveyed 294 undergraduate students taking Spanish at a large research institution to get feedback about content and interests. The second step involved creating a book layout that was informed by the survey results and research about language acquisition such as the stages of acquisition in Spanish. Our outline was centered around our students' interests, starting from the personal and local and moving outward in a meaningful and logical sequence. Each module is aligned with the ACTFL Proficiency Standards and with the World Languages 21st-century skills map.

Our team made an effort to present inclusive linguistic content and cultural representation of traditionally marginalized communities of the U.S. For example, we included the personal pronoun "vos", which is spoken in a majority of Latin American countries but almost never included in commercial textbooks of Spanish. We also chose to use the feminine ending as our base form instead of providing the conventional masculine form. Non-binary pronouns are also presented throughout the text. Finally, we made a conscious effort to include pictures that represent a variety of groups, places, and local communities.

Once completed, Semillas will allow students to appreciate their own cultures and the cultures of their surrounding communities from an inclusive and authentic lens. A direct benefit of using this OER textbook is that students will have access to it from the first day of class without a financial burden. Our goal is to promote Spanish as a way to foster students' interests in Hispanic culture and develop a future interest in serving as professional practitioners in their communities. Our collaboration expanded organically to the formation of a broader coalition of faculty interested in promoting and developing OER content for Spanish.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Advocate for the implementation of OER materials at their institutions and k-12 schools
  • Become familiar with OER design principles
  • Learn about best practices for OER design
  • Develop and find diverse and inclusive content for a language classroom
Speakers
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Gabriela Olivares

Interim Dean of the Graduate College, University of Northern Iowa
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Giovanni Zimotti

Director of Spanish CLAS Core, The University of Iowa
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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Room A
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

12:30pm EDT

Storytelling
Everyone is a storyteller. We tell stories all the time – to friends, family, colleagues and even strangers (or friends we haven’t met yet). We want to provide a space for you to tell your story. It can be about anything you’d like to share; a story, a reading from a favorite book of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, etc. All levels of experience are welcome! Stories can be up to 3 minutes in length, and you’ll be given a notice at the one minute mark to start wrapping it up. Come join us and share your story. We’d love to hear it!
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

12:30pm EDT

Tea Time (Break)
Tea time is a break in scheduled programming when attendees can rest, practice self-care, or dive into networking or asynchronous sessions.

Please use this time to engage in self-care activities to help keep you grounded throughout the day:
  • Look away from your computer screen for a minute, giving your eyes a chance to adjust and rest.
  • If you are able, stand up and take a walk around your office, home, or whatever space you may be in. Your lower legs and back will thank you!
  • Drink a glass of water. You may not think that you are dehydrated, but we often don't know until it is too late.
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Room A
  Tea time (break)

1:00pm EDT

[Keynote] Hope Behind the Paywall: How Unlocking Climate Science Can Lead us to Mitigations and Solutions (Recording)
Speakers
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Monica Granados

Open Climate Campaign Manager, Creative Commons
Dr. Monica Granados has a PhD in ecology from McGill University. While working on her PhD, Monica discovered that incentives in academia promote practices that make knowledge less accessible. Since then, Monica has devoted her career to working in the open science space in pursuit... Read More →

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Plenary Sessions

Each day will feature a plenary session where the whole conference convenes. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom webinar. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. All plenary sessions will be recorded and posted... Read More →


Tuesday October 18, 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Room A
  Plenary

1:00pm EDT

Tuesday Plenary (Full Session)
Tuesday October 18, 2022 1:00pm - 2:25pm EDT
Room B

2:30pm EDT

Tuesday Plenary Debrief
Join us to debrief and share your thoughts on today’s plenary session!
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

2:30pm EDT

Tea Time (Break)
Tea time is a break in scheduled programming when attendees can rest, practice self-care, or dive into networking or asynchronous sessions.

Please use this time to engage in self-care activities to help keep you grounded throughout the day:
  • Slowly roll your neck around your shoulders, two times clockwise and two time counterclockwise
  • Work on your mindfulness and deep breathing. If possible, take 5 minutes to just be and breathe to center yourself and reflect on all that you have done today.
  • Drink another glass of water. 
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
Room A
  Tea time (break)

2:30pm EDT

[Sponsored] Q&A with the Michelson 20MM Foundation
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Cailyn Nagle

OER Program Manager, Michelson 20 Million Minds Foundation

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Michelson 20MM

Founded by Dr. Gary K. Michelson in 2010, Michelson 20MM works through distinct grantmaking and policy initiatives to increase access and affordability in higher education. The Michelson Open Educational Resources Initiative centers on eliminating the cost of instructional materials and improving student outcomes by advocating  for equitable... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
Room C
  Tea time (break)

3:00pm EDT

OER at the Museum: Involving Local Cultural Institutions in Open Education
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Museums and open educational resources are ideal partners: both aim to be open to all, both are engaged in the process of intentionally diversifying, both rely heavily on digital content, and museums already provide formal and informal education within their communities. Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum found itself increasing its own online education efforts in 2020 and thus began a project to convert existing resources and create new ones as OER. After one year of this project, our experience has resulted in generalizable insights into how OER practitioners can begin co-creating resources with their local cultural institutions. This presentation covers our research and the knowledge gained regarding the challenges of getting started creating OER facing cultural organizations, the intersections between accessibility and museums, the potential for including diverse perspectives, and evaluating repository features for the needs of a cultural institution. Museums and similar institutions can serve as "educational multipliers," offering information (and enthusiasm!) on a breadth of related subjects or a depth of information on artifacts which may be illustrative of classroom concepts, so we focus on applying our experience to tools educators can use to involve their own local institutions in creating OER.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Co-create OER with informal educational partners such as cultural institutions
  • Recognize common challenges getting started with OER as they affect cultural institutions
  • Express the importance of accessibility to local cultural institutions, including the accessibility of licensed materials
  • Advocate for the use of OER to promote diverse perspectives from cultural institutions
  • Evaluate how significant features of OER repositories align with cultural organizations' needs
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Noah Boone

Digital Education Content Developer, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
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Chris Givan

Digital Education Coordinator, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Growing Open Education Programs with a Social Justice Lens
Community Colleges were one of the hardest hit higher education sectors as the pandemic spread, exposing inequities which grew as healthcare, job, and housing insecurities were disproportionately experienced by communities of color and other marginalized segments of society. Enrollment dropped as students' lives were disrupted through job loss, lack of childcare, and uncertainty about ability to afford schooling or safely attend classes. Faculty and staff struggled to support students with online and affordable materials accessible to those with limited technology resources and skills.

Community colleges strived to help impacted students persist. Instructors already using OER transitioned to remote instruction more easily as their materials didn't require physical access to closed bookstores or libraries. Interest in OER and open educational practices grew as the need for more flexible, accessible, and meaningful materials became apparent.

Join our faculty, librarians, and administrators from CCCOER member colleges that have sustained and expanded their OER programs over the challenges of the last few years. Hear how a deeper understanding of inequities in education has led these educators to find new, creative, and socially just approaches to open education.

Moderator: Una Daly, Director, Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER), a community of practice for supporting colleges in the collaborative development of open educational programs to ensure equitable access and success particularly for traditionally underserved students.

Beatrice Canales, Academic Unit Assistant, San Antonio College recently completed her SPARC Open Education Leadership fellow's capstone project demonstrating that student OER creation can build marketable skills leading to better opportunities for scholarship and employment. She is now developing standards for the skills attained in student OER creation.

Olivia Chiang, Professor, Manchester Community College is leading an NEH grant funded project to create an openly licensed digital reader of art history essays authored largely by scholars who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color), featuring global historical perspectives, as well as the art and histories of traditionally marginalized communities.

Kate Schellberg, Digital Librarian, Kirkwood Community College has supported and championed OER adoption for over a decade through workshops, advocacy, and one-on-one guidance for faculty. Through her leadership, Kirkwood is one of Iowa's leading community colleges in OER adoption and lowering costs for students.

Joy Shoemate, Director of Online Learning, College of the Canyons manages an OER team of staff and students who have co-developed hundreds of open textbooks with faculty. She is also a member of the Open for Antiracism leadership team co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons to support faculty in the use of open education tools to make their classrooms antiracist.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand how open education can be a lever for social justice and create resiliency at institutions of higher education
  • Summarize how the panelists and their institutions applied open educational practices to address inequities exposed by the crisis of the last couple of years
  • Consider how you might apply these open educational practices at your own institutions to promote social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
Speakers
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Joy Shoemate

Director, Online Education, College of the Canyons
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Una Daly

Director, CCCOER, Open Education Global
Una Daly is the Director of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER), a community of practice for open educators in North America. CCCOER promotes the awareness and adoption of open educational policies, practices, and resources. We believe that these practices will promote... Read More →
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Beatrice Canales

Academic Unit Assistant, San Antonio College
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Kate Cameron

Digital Services Librarian, Kirkwood Community College

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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

Open Ed with Social Justice Lens pptx
Tuesday October 18, 2022 3:00pm - 3:55pm EDT
Room B
  55 min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

3:00pm EDT

Impact Takes Action: Regional Education Compacts Working to Advance Open Education Across the Nation
Impact takes action. Learn how the collaboration at the four regional education compacts has advanced and accelerated Open Education initiatives within the U.S. educational systems, states, and territories. Each regional compact has addressed equity in policy, research, technology, and implementation. What will the regional compacts do next? Participants will learn the impacts that the regional compacts have had, while also having the opportunity to shape the next phase of work. What problems need to be solved? Bring your ideas to share with us in a lively, community-driven conversation.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Explain the functions and benefits of regional compacts in Open Education
  • Identify Open Education efforts in states and compact regions
  • Communicate cross-compact outcomes and successes
  • Inform the national scope and work of the compacts to advance Open Education in states and territories
Speakers
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Liliana Diaz

Policy Analyst, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE)
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Lindsey Gumb

Fellow, Open Education, New England Board of Higher Education
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Charlotte Dailey

Program Specialist, SREB
Charlotte Dailey is the Program Specialist for Open Educational Resources in Postsecondary Education at the Southern Regional Education Board. Before coming to SREB, Charlotte most recently worked in Higher Education where she managed federally funded grants to provide Farm Management... Read More →
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Midwestern Higher Education Compact

Vice President, Midwestern Higher Education Compact
Jenny Parks is Vice President of Policy and Research at the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC).  She leads the exploration, development, and implementation of projects that help Midwestern postsecondary institutions improve the way they serve students. Jenny has worked at... Read More →

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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 3:00pm - 3:55pm EDT
Room A
  55 min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

3:00pm EDT

Open Learning in the Fediverse
As a new generation of digital technologies evolves we are awash in new terms and concepts: the metaverse, the fediverse, blockchain, web3, acitivitypub, and more. This presentation untangles these concepts and presents them from the perspective of their impact on open learning. It describes and demonstrates with working examples that anyone case use the potential and the pitfalls of a distributed and decentralized open online learning environment. Participants will see clearly the relation between such diverse concepts as digital badges and credentials, cloud-based services, open data management, activity records and tools interoperability, and persistent digital objects such as digital IDs and non-fungible tokens.

This is a technical presentation that is structured and designed for a non-technical audience. The objective to describe what these technologies do, rather than how they do it. The intent is to enable practitioners to develop a sense of how open learning will evolve and how to take advantage of new affordances to enhance access and inclusion. This will include, for example, discussions of new types of open educational resources, the role of distributed data in personal learning analytics, and the development of learning cohorts in open online courses.

This presentation will also consider these technologies from a critical perspective, addressing affordances alongside potential risks and impacts, pedagogical considerations, access and equity, issues of privacy and security, and the role of policy and legislation. Participants will learn specific steps they can take to limit the adverse impacts of new forms of corporate control, surveillance and oversight, disinformation, and related harms.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify and describe a range of emerging technological concepts associated with web3 and the fediverse
  • Suggest ways and refer to examples that demonstrate the application of these technologies in open online learning
  • Take specific steps to mitigate adverse impacts of these technologies on open learning
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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 3:00pm - 3:55pm EDT
Room C
  55 min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

3:00pm EDT

The Wikipedia Assignment: How Instructors and Students Are Expanding Wikipedia Through Open Pedagogy
In 2010, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a program to see if students at post-secondary institutions could successfully contribute to Wikipedia. The concept was simple, but powerful—faculty would ask their students to contribute to Wikipedia as a graded assignment in their courses either in lieu of or in addition to traditional writing projects. Students occupy a particularly privileged position vis-a-vis knowledge. As members of their institutions, they often have access to knowledge that is behind pay-walls for much of the population, and they have subject-matter experts, namely their instructors, to guide them. The initiative's success has been born out term after term with students at institutions of higher education across the U.S. and Canada contributing close to ten million words to Wikipedia each year.

Wikipedia is an open resource par excellence and, by extension, the Wikipedia assignment is open pedagogy in practice. Students engage with a community, open to all, to construct and share knowledge, open to anyone seeking it out. Learning how to contribute to Wikipedia may not be easy or even without its barriers, but anyone can click on the edit button and help improve the articles. The Wikipedia assignment provides students with an opportunity to collaborate with a community beyond their classroom and to make a lasting impact to open knowledge.

In this panel, you'll learn how three faculty are using the Wikipedia assignment in their own subject areas. The panel will be introduced and moderated by Helaine Blumenthal, Senior Program Manager at Wiki Education, the nonprofit entity that facilitates these Wikipedia projects. She'll provide an overview of the program and discuss its impact more broadly. Stephanie Turner, Professor of English--Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, uses Wikipedia in an upper-division course in science writing. Kathleen Sheppard is Associate Professor of History at Missouri University of Science and Technology and uses the Wikipedia assignment in History of Science courses. Lisbeth Fuisz, a Lecturer at Georgetown University in the English Department, uses Wikipedia in first-year writing courses and in literature electives. Each will explore how they have implemented the Wikipedia assignment in their particular courses.

Topics to be explored include the pedagogical value and outcomes of the Wikipedia assignment; the production and consumption of knowledge in an open space; issues related to access, bias, and knowledge equity as they play out on Wikipedia; what it means for students to participate in an open community;the development of a public voice; and the challenges and limitations of the Wikipedia assignment.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Attendees will better understand the value of Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool
  • Attendees will have a better understanding of how to implement a Wikipedia project in their own classroom if relevant
  • Attendees will understand both the pedagogical value of having students contribute to Wikipedia as well as its limitations and challanges
  • Attendees will better understand how students can tackle knowledge equity on Wikipedia
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Helaine Blumenthal

Senior Program Manager, Wiki Education
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Stephanie Turner

Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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Lisbeth Fuisz

Lecturer, Writing Program, English Dept., Georgetown University
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Kathleen Sheppard

Associate Professor, Missouri S&T

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Live Concurrent Sessions

Live sessions will be held throughout the day. Return to the session page shortly before the start time for a link to join the Zoom room. The join button will only be visible to logged in attendees. See the FAQ for more details.Live session formats include panels, presentations, and discussions. These sessions are typically recorded and posted by the next day. Sessions marked "Discussion" may have interactive elements that are best to attend live.Note that live sessions begin on time, and the capacity limit for each session... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 3:00pm - 3:55pm EDT
Room D
  55 min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

3:30pm EDT

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Freuds: Student Perceptions of an Open Pedagogy Assignment
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This study describes a semester-long, multi-faceted Open Pedagogy assignment in multiple sections of an Introductory Psychology course. The assignment is based on Photovoice and has students taking photographs related to several topics within Introductory Psychology. Importantly, this project encourages students to think about the current representation in photographs within OER textbooks and invites them to contribute to diversity by openly licensing their photographs. As part of this study, students were asked to provide both quantitative and qualitative feedback about the project (e.g., how much they would like to do a similar project in another class, how concerned they were about openly licensing their photographs). In addition to their perceptions of the assignment, students were also asked questions about their perceptions of themselves. In particular, students' self-perceptions of themselves being outgoing and trusting correlated with some of their perceptions about the Open Pedagogy assignment.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify student self-perceptions that may affect their perceptions of Open Pedagogy
  • Describe a semester-long Open Pedagogy assignment that seeks to increase diverse representations in Introductory Psychology courses
Speakers
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Ashley Biddle

Instructor, Univ of Hawaii - Leeward Community College
Psychology professor committed to $0 cost textbooks and also infusing more Open Pedagogy assignments. Especially interested in using Open to decolonize the curriculum.

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

4:00pm EDT

Authoring to Enabling Future Adopters: Supplemental Materials Aligned with OpenStax Astronomy
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Recently, a new collection of supplemental resources aligned with OpenStax Astronomy (including interactive lecture slides, class activities, and assignments) has been published on OER Commons. These resources were developed and tested in-house by astronomy instructors at Lane Community College.

Following the theme of "Open in Action: Working to Advance Open Education," we would like to offer commentary on our strategy and process for authoring these resources. We will describe 1) why we chose to develop supplemental resources; 2) how we were supported by training and funding from LCC's OER librarian; 3) how we developed and tested resources in our astronomy classes; and 4) the process we used to prepare materials for publication, considering factors such as format, copyright, authorship, project management, and accessibility.

We hope that offering supplemental materials to the astronomy education community will enable growth in OER adoption in astronomy, and that community college educators in any field can relate to and learn from our process.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Find supplemental / ancillary resources aligned with open textbooks
  • Enable future adopters by identifying resource gaps you are equipped to address (in our case, by transforming existing in-house resources)
  • Describe factors to consider before embarking on your authoring journey, including scoping your project and seeking support for your time and effort
  • Apply a basic process for authoring collaboratively, by considering the 5Rs and Universal Design principles
Resources:
Speakers
avatar for Andrea Goering

Andrea Goering

Instructor of Physics and Astronomy, Lane Community College
Hi! I'm a physicist, currently teaching astronomy at Lane Community College using OpenStax Astronomy. I'll be publishing my course materials (lecture slides, activities, and project prompts) on OER Commons this year! Drop me a line if you'd like to be notified when I post them: goeringa@lanecc.eduCome... Read More →
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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room D
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

4:00pm EDT

One Step at a Time: Reflecting on the Path Towards an OER Creation Program
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In 2022, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries launched a new OER Creation Program, which provides funding, professional development, and library services to support the creation of open educational resources (OER) for UH courses or programs. The OER Creation Program was developed following several years of interest from faculty in creating new OER, and continual exploration of the resources needed to offer institutional support in this area.

This presentation will share the background and milestones that led to providing more robust support for OER creation, as well as themes and lessons learned from the development of the OER Creation Program. It was integral throughout the process to re-evaluate OER program goals and consider how to meet campus needs without overstretching our capacity. In sharing the experience of the University of Houston, this presentation will provide an example of how an institution supports OER creation without having a full library publishing program, as well as one of iterative growth, encouraging attendees to reflect on their own program goals and opportunities for growth over time.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Consider resources and capacity needed when developing services to support OER creation
  • Reflect on OER program goals and opportunities for growth
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Ariana Santiago

Head of Open Education Services, University of Houston

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room C
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

4:00pm EDT

Supporting Multilingual Learners: An OER Development Project
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Over the course of the 2021-22 school year, 32 Oregon K-12 educators participated in a grant project sponsored by the Oregon Department of Education's Oregon Open Learning team. The project culminated in the development of high-quality lessons in a variety of content areas that are designed to support secondary students who are emergent bilingual. The Oregon Open Learning team partnered with two Western Oregon University professors of Bilingual Education to engage participating educators in professional learning focused on lesson design and pedagogical practices that support multilingual learners, as well as an introduction to OER and open licensing. In this presentation, you'll hear from the project leaders and professional learning providers, who will provide insight into the organization and facilitation of the project, as well as several participants, who will share about the impact of the project on their teaching practice and their students.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Draw inspiration and leverage lessons learned when considering possibilities for collaboration between K-12 and higher education partners
  • Use an equity tool to inform the design of an OER development project
  • Access training materials, including tools for lesson development, critical self-reflection, and peer feedback, and model lessons created by content area, ELD and dual language teachers
Speakers
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Susan Payne

Oregon Department of Education
Open Education Conference Board MemberI have spent over 20 years working in K-12 education as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, school principal, and district administrator.  Currently, I am the Educational Standards and Systems Specialist at the Oregon Department of Education... Read More →
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Vanessa Clark

Program Analyst, Oregon Department of Education
MD
KL

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

4:00pm EDT

The Changing Future of OER in U.S. Higher Education
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We can no longer trust previous assumptions about what factors drive the awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. Changes in teaching and learning brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the newly adopted strategies that emerged among higher education institutions, publishers, and teaching faculty as a result of the pandemic, have drastically altered the landscape.

Faculty still seek the most effective materials to use in their courses, and continue to consider the same factors when selecting these materials:
+ Awareness of the resource
+ Cost
+ Coverage and content
+ The range of supplemental materials included
+ Flexibility to adapt to their teaching
+ Format of the materials
+ Ability to integrate into the course LMS

Teaching styles have changed, the availability of non-OER resources is now different, and faculty have far less time to explore and review alternatives. Barriers that previously seemed formidable, such as concerns about OER quality and a distaste for digital materials, have largely been addressed. And institutional pandemic responses often include the adoption of inclusive access agreements with commercial publishers, resolving cost issues in the minds of many faculty.

This presentation uses data from multiple large-scale national surveys of academic administrators and teaching faculty to examine these changes and speculate on what they mean for the future of OER adoption and use. Issues examined include:
+ The changes in faculty teaching and learning
+ The growing awareness of OER among faculty
+ The increasing faculty acceptance of (and preference for) digital materials
+ Changing perceptions of the quality of OER materials
+ Changes in the locus of decision-making for inclusive access agreements
+ Faculty perception of the importance of cost in material selection
Each of these factors will be examined, summarizing the OER awareness and adoption trends. The presentation will then speculate on the future trajectory of OER awareness and adoption and the critical issues to track going forward.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the trends in OER awareness in U.S. higher education
  • Understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the factors driving awareness and adoption of OER
  • See how the changes brought about by the pandemic have altered the future, both good and bad, for OER
Speakers
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Jeff Seaman

Director, Bay View Analytics
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Julia Seaman

Director, Bay View Analytics

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room A
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

4:00pm EDT

The DEI-OER Framework: Ensuring OER Relevancy and Sustainability on Your Campus
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Existing campus OER initiatives are in many ways aligned with their institution's DEI goals; however, beyond connections to campus and/or state-level affordability initiatives, formal connections between institutional OER work and campus DEI policies and programs often do not exist. Further complicating this problem are disparate unit and reporting line silos, often to different vice presidents within an institution, which complicates collaboration and functionally limits transparency regarding practices and approaches. As a result, there are many untapped opportunities for collaborative, co-referencing, co-supporting, and integrative campus efforts at institutions in higher education today. Such integration would strengthen DEI efforts and ensure the sustainability and relevancy of OER work into the future. This session reports the results of research into these challenges and complexities and offers guidance to those seeking to accelerate and instantiate OER practices on campuses in service to affordability and equity goals.

In July 2021, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), with expertise and leadership from OpenStax and ISKME, launched the Institute on Open Educational Resources. This Institute provided a year-long, online engagement opportunity for teams from campuses or state systems seeking to actualize an ambitious strategy to broaden campus engagement with and adoption of OER. Campuses sent teams of five or more individuals to participate during the inaugural year. AAC&U and ISKME received funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to engage in direct observation of and data collection with the 66 participating campuses, ranging from community colleges through doctoral institutions and state systems, in the Institute on Open Educational Resources. The purpose of this research was to assess the needed supports for teams to build and foster enhanced DEI-OER connections and collaboration on campus, as well as the impact of those connections on the institution, institutional culture, policies, curriculum, teaching, learning, and student success.

From this research, a freely available DEI-OER Framework was created which offers guidance to campuses as they seek to strengthen and accelerate efforts and connections associated with both DEI and OER. This session will provide an overview of the findings of this research and engage participates in an examination of collaborative opportunities with DEI offices and structures on their own campus leveraging the mechanisms provided by the new DEI-OER Framework. Those who attend this session will leave with purposeful, enhanced strategies for ensuring stronger DEI-OER efforts within their institutional context.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Describe strategies used by other campuses to connect OER and DEI work
  • Create action steps for connecting their work to other divisions and offices across their campus
  • Apply the new DEI-OER Framework to facilitate the growth and relevancy of their campuses OER initiative
Speakers
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Lisa Petrides

CEO, ISKME
Lisa Petrides, Ph.D., is CEO and Founder of the education nonprofit, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). As a scholar and international open educational resources (OER) expert, she leads research, policy, and practice to support the field of open education, with the goal to make learning and knowledge-sharing participatory, equitable, and open.Her work also includes the development... Read More →
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C. Edward Watson

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

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Room B
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

4:30pm EDT

Skribbl
Who doesn’t love Pictionary! Join us in our multiplayer drawing and guessing game session where you can test your virtual drawing skills against your fellow attendees. Each player will take turns drawing a picture of their chosen word while others guess and earn points. One game only lasts a handful of rounds and the person with the most points at the end, wins!
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

4:30pm EDT

Tea Time (Break)
Tea time is a break in scheduled programming when attendees can rest, practice self-care, or dive into networking or asynchronous sessions.

Please use this time to engage in other self-care activities to help keep you grounded throughout the day:
  • Have a snack! The mid-day sugar crash is real. Wash it down with a glass of water.
  • Take a minute to close your eyes and reflect on your day so far. Identify something you learned and something you are grateful for.
  • Take a few minutes to stretch. Bend over and touch your toes, then reach up toward the sky.
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Social Activities

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Room A
  Tea time (break)

5:00pm EDT

Devil in the Details: A Tale of Converting Formats for Accessible OER Materials
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Accessibility is an important consideration when adapting, adopting, or creating an open educational resource (OER). But what about OER preservation? How do we ensure that material remains accessible for the long-term?

It is often assumed that digital-born material is easier to make accessible than print material. This session will illustrate how this is not always the case. Presenters will share how their work to preserve OpenStax Connexions modules in an institutional repository revealed the complexity of accessibility remediation work. After discovering that the project would not be as straightforward as originally believed, the project plan was re-evaluated, with significant changes made. In this session, attendees will learn about remediation strategies and readily-available tools and will be encouraged to share their unique experiences with accessibility remediation.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand why accessibility and preservation is important for OER
  • Evaluate OER for accessibility
  • Identify strategies for accessibility remediation
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Shannon Kipphut-Smith

Scholarly Communications Liaison, Rice University
Rice University
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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:10pm EDT
Room E
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

5:00pm EDT

Breaking Down Silos in Open Education: Strategies for Collaboration
Crucial work to advance open education is happening across U.S. higher education. Despite the significant impact these initiatives have, many barriers stand in the way of collaboration across campuses, stakeholder groups, and states. This discussion will focus in on the issue of "silos" within the open education field: barriers to collaboration, factors that perpetuate those barriers, and strategies to break them down. Featuring speakers from across the country who have successfully navigated silos in their own institutions, states, and regions, this lively discussion will share insights based on best practices and explore how the open education movement can best build a field free of silos.
Speaker Titles:
Dr. Robert Awkward, Assistant Commissioner for Academic Effectiveness for the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education
Jenny Parks, Vice President of Midwestern Higher Education Compact
Dr. Lisa Young, Faculty Director for The Center for Teaching and Learning at Scottsdale Community College, Arizona

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Define Silos and learn how they impact community organizing and collaboration
  • Strategies on how to incorporate previously uninvolved campus staff into the campus OER work (online education, counseling, financial aid, etc
  • How to collaborate with organizations outside your institution and create cross campus and regional networks
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Lisa Young

Faculty Administrator, Open Education & Innovation, Maricopa Community Colleges
I serve Scottsdale Community College as the Instructional Design and Educational Technology faculty member.I am passionate about helping our students learn whether it be through excellent instructional design, the use of educational technology to resolve and mitigate instructional... Read More →
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Robert Awkward

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

Open Education Project Manager, SPARC/ Inclusive Access.org / Moorpark College
Trudi Radtke is an Open Education Project Manager at SPARC. In this role they spearhead advocacy and implementation for initiatives to make education more open and equitable. Their portfolio includes InclusiveAccess.org, an initiative to raise awareness about the challenges of automatic... Read More →
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Midwestern Higher Education Compact

Vice President, Midwestern Higher Education Compact
Jenny Parks is Vice President of Policy and Research at the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC).  She leads the exploration, development, and implementation of projects that help Midwestern postsecondary institutions improve the way they serve students. Jenny has worked at... Read More →

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room A
  55 min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

5:00pm EDT

Schedule Designation and Enrollment Research! Results!! Finally!!!
A group of researchers in Oregon has spent the past several years working on a study to determine whether the no- and low-cost schedule designation used statewide in public community colleges and universities had an effect on student enrollment behavior and whether it has a different effect for historically underserved student populations. We are finally ready to share not only the results of our study, but also our recommendations on how to operationalize these findings on student enrollment behavior through messaging to both faculty and students.

Our results suggest that students are potentially using the no- and low-cost schedule designation to lower the total cost of attendance of higher education in Oregon. Our findings also suggest that historically underserved groups are finding the no- and low-cost designated courses, and that the designation is potentially helping students in these groups get through college with an overall lower cost of attendance. However, the available evidence from the present study does not support the conclusion that historically underserved students had significantly higher enrollment intensity correlated with taking designated courses.

The findings of this study can be used by department chairs and administrators to mitigate impacts for instructors whose employment is precarious. Bookstore managers, registrars, schedulers, and others in support roles can feel confident that their work is improving transparency about costs for students. Agency staff and legislators can use this information to lower the cost of attendance and ensure that students' basic needs are met. We present actionable suggestions for each of these stakeholder groups based on our findings.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Consider whether to adopt/adapt the research method for a similar or larger scale study in their own environment to add to these findings
  • Answer with greater confidence questions about the effect of course marking on student enrollment behavior from faculty, staff, and policymakers (with the usual caveats about research limitations)
  • Argue for the data-driven recommendations that department chairs, administrators, and policymakers can adopt based on these findings
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Amy Hofer

Statewide Open Education Program Director, Open Oregon Educational Resources
Amy Hofer, Statewide Open Education Program Director, is the OER librarian for Oregon's 24 community colleges and universities. You can visit the Open Oregon Educational Resources website at openoregon.org. By night she is a fiddler and square dance caller.
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Shauna McNulty

Faculty, Umpqua Community College
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Jennifer Lantrip

Health Sciences Student Success Librarian, Pacific University

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room B
  55 min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

5:00pm EDT

Connecting Scholarship and Practice: Using a Book Club to Link Open Education and Equity
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In the summer of 2021, CCCOER's Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee launched a well received book club to explore the connections between open education and equity. In the summer of 2022, the committee led a second book club focused on Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Strategies for Teaching. The book club organizers wanted the book club sessions themselves - the meeting facilitation, the resources provided - to be equitable, diverse, and inclusive.

In Year 2, the committee remixed the book club structure by creating guidelines for the facilitators in response to comments from Year 1 participants. In Year 2 we created a facilitation guidebook to make the project more sustainable and to improve recruiting and training facilitators going forward.

This presentation will be an engaging discussion of the planning, implementation, and outcomes of the book club.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Lead a virtual book club focused on equity, diversity, and/or inclusion even if you're not an expert on the subject
  • Establish and enforce norms for book group conversations about EDI with diverse participants
  • Create an inclusive space for discussions that contribute to the advancement of equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education
  • Demonstrate knowledge of actionable steps to lead a community of practice for facilitators with a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion
Speakers
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Wayde Oshiro

Interim Learning Commons & Library Coordinator, Leeward Community College
Wayde Oshiro is the Interim Learning Commons and Library Coordinator at Leeward Community College. He has over twenty years of experience in academic librarianship, including public services, reference, instruction, and leadership positions. Since 2015 he has served as the co-lead... Read More →
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Andrea Scott

OER Coordinator, Salt Lake Community College
I'm the OER Coordinator for the Office of Learning Advancement and Co-Chair of the Open SLCC Advisory Committee at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). I have worked with the Open SLCC team since 2013. My primary role consists of overseeing the operations of the OER Initiative. I manage... Read More →
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Ursula Pike

Associate Director, DigiTex
Ursula Pike is the Associate Director of the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas (DigiTex). Ursula is a member of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee for the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources. She has a B.A. in Economics from Portland State... Read More →

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Development and Implementation of an Open Educational Resource General Chemistry I Laboratory Manual
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While there is an abundance of Open Educational Resource (OER) textbooks for the General Chemistry I lecture course (CHEM 1311) developed by OpenStax, Lumen Learning, and the Open Learning Initiative, a lack of OER manuals for General Chemistry I laboratory course (CHEM 1111) currently exists. Only three OER CHEM 1111 materials are currently available. Moreover, the existing OER CHEM 1111 lab manuals are not thorough in scope or content, and do not align with the widely used OER OpenStax Chemistry textbook, nor with the Student Learning Outcomes of the Chemistry department at Houston Community College (HCC).

Up until 2022, the HCC Chemistry Department has not adopted a CHEM 1111 OER and/or other free laboratory materials. Instead, it depends on a program-approved publisher’s laboratory manual that costs $28.55 per book. Additionally, every semester, the department and its students have to deal with printing errors, delays, and backorder issues as well as confusion for students as to where to acquire their manual (the HCC Bookstores or the publisher). The material is also copy-written so no modifications are possible.

Therefore, the goal of our project is to develop, redesign and implement a new Texas-compatible Open Educational Resource (OER) lab manual for General Chemistry Laboratory Course (CHEM 1111). The General Chemistry I Laboratory will comply with the Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM) set by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) standards for an OER course. By authoring our own laboratory manual, based on core curriculum requirements and the ACGM Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) as well our hands on experience in the lab and understanding of how students learn, what challenges they face most, and how they apply what they have learned in theory to the practicum, our objectives are to (1). create a high quality OER lab manual, (2). reduce student cost, and (3). improve student success and retention rates.

This proposed OER lab manual will be available via a Creative Commons license, easily accessible for download before the term begins on the Canvas Commons for faculty, who may also make modifications if necessary. This will make the lab manual available to students from the first day of the course and avoid any backlogs or obstacles to their acquiring it. Ultimately, our goal will be to create a manual that can be utilized in a variety of settings, regardless of limitations that may exist while still preserving the academic rigor and meaningfulness of the lab activity.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Evaluate existing OER materials for General Chemistry Laboratory
  • Develop new OER resources as needed
  • Implement newly developed OER materials in participating programs and institutions
  • Involve student, faculty, and department in the assessment of the newly developed OER
  • Evaluate student retention and success in courses using OER

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Grace Zoorob

Chemistry Chair, Houston Community College
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Yokabet Gedeon

Chemistry Faculty, Houston Community College

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Extra! Extra! Read All About Open Education News: Creating and Growing an OER Newsletter for Faculty
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The open education community regularly discusses the importance of faculty buy-in as a way to increase open educational practices (Roberts; Spilovoy, et al.). That is the reason why an open education working group from a large, public, urban university brainstormed ways to increase faculty engagement with open educational resources (OER) and open practices. How could we share learning opportunities, new publications, open pedagogical techniques, and more? We wanted to raise awareness about the libraries' own initiatives, as well as expose faculty to the wider world of open education. This poster will introduce our marketing and outreach initiative of a quarterly online newsletter.

Attendees will learn about our process from start to finish: planning, drafting, editing, and sharing the newsletter. We'll cover the guidelines and structures we put in place, both for the workflow and the newsletter itself. The types of information, where we gather stories, and how the team contributes and evaluates content will be detailed. The audience will learn what features to look for when deciding upon a platform, including the availability of metrics for assessing the newsletter's performance. We will share our strategies for advertising and encouraging subscribers. Finally, we will reflect on lessons learned as we finish the first year of this project. An openly-licensed template will be shared so attendees can start their own newsletter.

References
1 Roberts, J. (2018, May 16). Where are all the faculty in the open education movement? EdSurge. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-05-16-where-are-all-the-faculty-in-the-open-education-movement
2 Spilovoy, T., Seaman, J., & Ralph, N. (2020). The Impact of OER Initiatives on Faculty Selection of Classroom Materials. BayView Analytics. http://onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/impactofoerinitiatives.pdf

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Articulate a timeline for writing, editing, and publishing an open education newsletter
  • Gather information appropriate to an open education newsletter
  • Use an online platform to create and assess a newsletter
  • Market the newsletter through various channels to encourage subscribers
  • Modify an openly-licensed template for use in starting their own newsletter
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Courtney Eger

Learning and Engagement Librarian, Temple University Libraries
Hi! I'm Courtney Eger, the Learning and Engagement Librarian in the Health Sciences Libraries at Temple University. I was a SPARC #LeadOER fellow in 2021-22. I'm passionate about teaching, engagement and outreach, and of course, open education!

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Is This an OER? Addressing the Complex Relationship Between OER and Affordable Course Materials
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Our poster will examine the work that open educational resource (OER) advocates do to highlight OER and how this work often intersects with other affordable course material initiatives. Specifically, we will highlight the complex intersections between OER and affordable learning and why the differences between these types of course materials matter.

In addition to discussing the unique challenges that present themselves when advocating for both OER and affordable course materials, this poster will address:
-Messaging for instructors and institutional stakeholders about what counts as OER
-Navigating support for the use of affordable course materials without undercutting the open message
-The institutional labor connected to these material types

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Recognize the key markers of an open educational resource
  • Differentiate between OER and affordable course materials and why their unique characteristics matter
  • Identify strategies for discussing various open and affordable materials which might be used in teaching contexts
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Abbey K. Elder

Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian, Iowa State University
Abbey Elder is the Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian at Iowa State University. Her work uplifts and supports instructors who are interested in open education, open access publishing, and other scholarly communication topics. Over the past four years, Abbey has greatly... Read More →
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Shannon M. Smith

Open Educational Resources Librarian, Boise State University
Shannon M. Smith is the Open Educational Resources Librarian at Boise State University. She began working in the realm of open education in 2017 and was a 2020-2021 SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow. Her work engages the role of students and how they are key to a future where... Read More →

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Milestone Medals: Celebrating the Impact of OER Projects
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OER projects often receive limited recognition, especially from colleagues or policies like promotion and tenure (P&T). Grant programs that provide funding and support for the transition to zero-textbook cost courses or the creation of OER begin to solidify the argument that such projects are scholarly contributions through selection by peer committees and can be listed on P&T documentation. However, formal recognition typically ends with the awarding of the grant.

Virginia Commonwealth University's Affordable Course Content Awards tracks the impact of funded projects. The collected data is used to assess the impact of the grant program, but there was no connection to individual projects. Thus, to acknowledge the faculty undertaking OER projects, we developed the Impact Levels program. Milestones were developed in three categories: number of students impacted, total cost avoidance, and number of semesters a resource is used. Levels were selected to capture the smallest project yet grow exponentially to capture the largest and longest implemented OER projects. When a project reaches a new milestone, a badge-like medal is added to the grant program site's description of the project and shared with the project faculty. A formal letter for potential inclusion in P&T documentation recognizing and celebrating their accomplishments and the project is also shared.

Through these milestones, we establish benchmarks to recognize the impact of OER projects. Although we emphasize that milestones are not meant to be comparable across projects due to varying course size or textbook costs, converting abstract efforts to numerical measurements makes the impact of the projects more understandable to those not intimately involved and, we hope, more formalized for inclusion in P&T and other recognition structures.

This poster will provide an overview of the Impact Levels program, including development of the program, medal design, implementation, and reception thus far. We will share copies of the medals, which are openly licensed for those who wish to adapt our work at their home institution.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Evaluate whether a similar recognition program would fit at their institution
  • Plan the implementation of a local impact levels program, including selecting milestones and creating medals
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Jessica Kirschner

Open Educational Resources Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Open Lexicon
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Dyslexia manifests in a multitude of ways. While visual deficits like letter-flipping are the most widely known, it can also appear as a phonological deficit shown by a student struggling to break down words into sounds, or any number of other deficits. Because dyslexia presents in so many different ways, it is difficult to diagnose and even harder to accommodate in a classroom setting, especially in large classes with limited resources.
To address this concern, I designed an open source educational tool, Open Lexicon. Open Lexicon is a website where teachers can assign stories for their students to read. Students can change a variety of features in order to facilitate their reading. They can change the background color, font type, size, color, and spacing, and use a highlight ruler to focus on one line at a time; these should specifically help students with a visual deficit. A student with a phonological deficit can click on a word and see it broken down into phonemes; one can also click on it to get the dictionary definition. The teacher will be able to collect aggregate and individual data on which feature changes the students use, and which words they click on, in order to tailor whole-class and personalized interventions.
In my presentation, I will demonstrate how to use this website from both the student and the teacher's perspective, as well as how to use the web-based component on any website.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand how to use Open Lexicon in the classroom
  • Understand how to use different accommodations for dyslexic students
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Ava Powell

Johns Hopkins University

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Poster Session
This poster session will feature an opportunity to browse a collection of poster sessions during this 55 minute period. The session will be held in a Zoom room, which you can enter by clicking the button above at the time of the event. Each poster session will have its own breakout rooms, where presenters will be available to discuss their presentation.

Important! Before entering, please ensure you have downloaded the free Zoom desktop software and that you are using an up-to-date version. This will allow you to move yourself between breakout rooms without help from a host. However, there will be a host available to assist you if needed.

You can also browse poster content at any time by visiting individual poster session pages. Posters for this hour: 
  1. Connecting Scholarship and Practice: Using a Book Club to Link Open Education and Equity (Poster Link)
  2. Development and Implementation of an Open Educational Resource General Chemistry I Laboratory Manual (Poster Link)
  3. Extra! Extra! Read All About Open Education News: Creating and Growing an OER Newsletter for Faculty (Poster Link)
  4. Is This an OER? Addressing the Complex Relationship Between OER and Affordable Course Materials (Poster Link)
  5. Milestone Medals: Celebrating the Impact of OER Projects (Poster Link)
  6. Open Lexicon (Poster Link)
  7. Putting It Together: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Better Understand OER Efficacy (Poster Link)
  8. Small Steps and Giant Leaps: Creating an OER Grant Program at an Academic Library (Poster Link)
  9. Student Perceptions of Writing Open Case Studies: Benefits, Challenges, and Skills Developed (Poster Link)
  10. Transitioning Coursework Away from Disposable Assignments (Poster Link)
  11. Understanding Student Experiences of Renewable and Traditional Assignments (Poster Link)

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room C
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Putting It Together: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Better Understand OER Efficacy
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In fall 2021, the presenter conducted a mixed methods study of open educational resources (OER) impacts on students and faculty. Institutional quantitative data was gathered to gain the big picture of course passing and completion rates, and qualitative interview data was used to gather individual experiences.

The presenter asked these questions:
Does taking a course using open educational resources (OER) have a relationship to student academic success?
Which student demographic populations appear to benefit most or least from OER?
What are student perceptions of and experiences with learning and OER?
What are faculty perceptions of student learning and OER?
What are faculty experiences teaching with OER, and did their pedagogy change because of teaching with OER?

The presenter will share the context and motivation to do this study and the study results, including surprising findings related to perception versus actual impact of OER on academic success, and how results compare and contrast to other OER efficacy studies.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Consider the results of an OER efficacy study using mixed methods and how the quantitative and qualitative data did not always agree, and explore possible reasons why
  • Gain an understanding of how students and faculty view the role of OER in student academic success
  • Learn constructive critiques and practical tips regarding conducting OER efficacy studies
  • Learn how efficacy studies can help advance OER initiatives
Speakers
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Jen Mayer

Interim Assistant Dean of Libraries, University of Northern Colorado
My library-related interests include: mentoring, liaison roles, library use and student academic success, scholarly communication, and open educational resources.Outside of work, I enjoy going to thrift stores, exploring the outdoors, attending concerts and museums, and working on... Read More →

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Putting it Together Poster OpenEd22 (1) pdf
Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Small Steps and Giant Leaps: Creating an OER Grant Program at an Academic Library
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OER Grant Programs for faculty and staff can be challenging to get off the ground. In this presentation, we share our process, our documentation, and our progress so far. Projects funded include a class redesign to include open pedagogy, and two open textbooks: one interactive website, and one in Pressbooks.

Our process began with small steps, building towards a culture of open, and reaching out to other successful grant programs for assistance and feedback as we progressed. We gained support from our head of collections by having clear goals and assessments in place.

The giant leap - all of the grant requests we received were for our largest grant categories - redesigning courses and creating textbooks. Acquiring a Pressbooks account first on a trial basis and then through Reclaim Hosting, meant the learning curve was steep for everyone involved.

This presentation will be presented in Pressbooks - showing its versatility and ease of navigation.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Take steps to start an OER grant program at their institution
  • Understand how Pressbooks is a versatile application for sharing openly licensed work
  • Recognize and prepare for potential stumbling blocks in creating an OER grant program
Speakers
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Eileen Daly-Boas

Liaison Librarian, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
PS

Pauline Schwartzman

Librarian, University of Rochester

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Student Perceptions of Writing Open Case Studies: Benefits, Challenges, and Skills Developed
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In the open education community, there has recently been more interest in and practice of open pedagogy, including projects in which students are invited to produce work that is published publicly and with an open license. In recent years there have been a number of research studies discussing the benefits and challenges of such projects for student engagement and learning.

This poster discusses a study that adds to that growing literature by reporting on a survey of students who wrote case studies in three courses in forestry and conservation studies (two undergraduate and one graduate), most of whom agreed to publish publicly and with a Creative Commons license. Results from 127 respondents indicate that many students felt an increased sense of motivation and engagement in their work compared to traditional assignments. Many also reported putting more effort into their work to ensure it was accurate and useful to others. Skills students reported gaining include improved understanding of copyright and citation practices, as well as learning how to translate knowledge for a broader audience. Overall, without saying so in these terms, many students expressed a sense of increased understanding of their responsibilities as scholars and contributors to public knowledge.

However, this also led to increased stress for a number of students, who expressed concern about the impacts of saying things that may be incorrect, or whether they had enough knowledge and skills to contribute effectively, or whether they may be inappropriately speaking for others. We include some recommendations for open pedagogy projects based on the results of this survey, in order to support students while reducing stress where possible.

Finally, we conclude with suggestions for further research to explore the potential pedagogical impact and benefits of having students revise existing case studies created by former students. This could offer insights into whether students value contributing as one-time contributors or as active members of a knowledge community, building off work by others and contributing back as well.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Explain the benefits and challenges students reported after writing and publishing open case studies in several courses
  • Explore implementation of recommended strategies to increase student participation in open pedagogy projects
  • Consider further areas for research on the value of open pedagogy projects for students, based on the results reported in this study
Speakers
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Christina Hendricks

Professor of Teaching in Philosophy, Academic Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Philosophy, OER, open textbooks, open pedagogy, accessibility
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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Transitioning Coursework Away from Disposable Assignments
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A traditional Research Methods in Psychology assignment was replaced with a similar but non-disposable alternative that could be openly shared in the future outside of class. Student perceptions of the challenge level and engagement with the non-disposable assignment were assessed in comparison to a similar disposable assignment in the same course. On average, students did not view the non-disposable assignment differently than a traditional assignment. Student engagement with the non-disposable assignment was associated with the choice to share it.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Produce a non-disposable alternative assignment
  • Assess student engagement
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Travis Clark

Professor, University of North Dakota

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:00pm EDT

Understanding Student Experiences of Renewable and Traditional Assignments
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In the spring of 2021, 8 faculty members from the Northeast region of the United States participated in professional development in Open Pedagogy through a community of practice setting facilitated by the New England Board of Higher Education. Specifically, these faculty learned how to support and engage students in the design and completion of "renewable assignments." Assignments are renewable in that they have value outside of the classroom and can be openly shared through the application of Creative Commons licenses (Wiley & Hilton, 2018). Students who were enrolled in the classes taught by these faculty members were surveyed in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 on their motivation for assignments and social justice issues. The research was grounded in theoretical frameworks such as Lambert's (2018) application of social justice to open education, achievement emotions (Pekrun, 2011), and self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 1991). Our session will share the promising results of this research as well as discuss areas for future exploration. This session is intended for a wide range of participants.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Connect the experiences of renewable assignments to existing theoretical frameworks of motivation and social justice
  • Understand the different experiences with renewable assignments between students who publicly shared and students who did not publicly share their assignments
  • Explore how transitioning to renewable assignments could pedagogically improve their own students' learning experiences
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Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Associate Professor, University of North Dakota
Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell began her career in education as an ESL teacher in New York City. She then obtained her PhD in Educational Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science at the University of Minnesota where she was trained in educational research. She has published over... Read More →
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Lindsey Gumb

Fellow, Open Education, New England Board of Higher Education

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:00pm - 5:55pm EDT
TBA
  Poster

5:15pm EDT

A Developmental Milestone: Introducing a New Infant and Toddler OER Textbook
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The quality of care and education infants and toddler receive is important for later development; however, the care and education children receive during the first three years can vary widely in quality. Socioeconomic status (SES) is one factor that can have a significant impact on the development of children, beginning in the first three years of life. The experiences that SES environments can create for children can have an early-forming and long-lasting impact on their language, literacy, cognitive, IQ, academic achievement and brain development. Importantly, the effects of SES on development begin to appear during the first three years. To combat the negative effects of SES on development, providing caregivers with knowledge and training improves caregiving practices, positively impacting the development of children. Such knowledge and training is essential for caregivers of children from lower SES backgrounds since they benefit the most from attending high quality early childcare programs. However, knowledge and training of quality caregiving are often restricted to individuals and childcare programs with the financial means to access these resources resulting in the continual cycle of children from lower SES backgrounds disproportionately impacted by lower quality care, creating a social justice issue around access to critical knowledge and training.

The creation and sharing of Open Education Resources (OER) dismantles the wall that divides those who have the financial means to purchase access to knowledge and training from those who do not. OER are freely accessible, openly licensed materials allowing individuals to access, use and potentially even adapt the content for their specialized application. At the college level, OER is adopted by faculty as a step toward equity and social justice by reducing the requirement of students to purchase expensive textbooks. While many disciplines have large and growing OER libraries, the early childhood education (ECE) field has only recently started its OER collection and there continues to be an absence of OER on infants and toddlers. While this year's conference focuses on K-12, it excludes the first three critical developmental years. Creating and sharing OER on infants and toddlers provides more equitable access to knowledge and training in an effort to raise the quality of childcare for all children, especially those who are locked out of resources due to financial limitations.

Our presentation will introduce a new OER textbook for caregivers of infants and toddlers, consisting of thirty-four chapters hosted in Libretexts. Additionally, we will discuss how this new resource can be used and adapted by individuals and childcare programs in an effort to improve the quality of care and education for all children under three years of age.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Describe the overall content of the new infant and toddler OER resource
  • Prepare ideas for adapting the content for their own use
  • Integrate the content into college Canvas shells
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Amanda Taintor

Faculty Coordinator Instructional Design, Reedley College
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Todd LaMarr

Professor, American River College

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:15pm - 5:25pm EDT
Room D
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

5:15pm EDT

Students as Co-Inquirers: Collaboration in Course Content Creation
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Previous literature has demonstrated that courses that incorporate open pedagogy often result in improved student learning outcomes. Students have also reported shifts in their relationship with learning and knowledge production in their course work, as well as a different understanding of how their work and research can impact others outside of the limits of a single course.

Building off of previous literature, this presentation will outline my experiences as a Masters student engaging with students as key contributors to an open educational resource being created for a small social science department at a Canadian postsecondary institution. This case study will explore the way student co-inquiry has become central to the creation of both the OER and how it has begun to impact the development of future courses through non-disposable assignments from the perspective of students involved. This session will demonstrate the incredible value of student knowledge and participation in course material creation, as well as highlight the way that incorporating students in the creation of course materials provides the opportunity to diversify our course materials and address gaps within our disciplinary canons.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Learn about the implementation of OER and open pedagogy in a small-scale case study
  • Hear about the way that incorporating students into course design and course materials impacts student learning and engagement
  • Understand more about the student perspective of engaging in open pedagogy
Speakers
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Alyssa White

Graduate Student, University of Lethbridge

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:15pm - 5:25pm EDT
Room E
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

5:30pm EDT

Developing OER Reading Lists for Stem Courses: Increasing Inclusivity, Equity, and Flexibility
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As an instructor in a STEM field, I never felt completely satisfied with any textbook for several reasons. First, most of the conventional textbooks are filled with achievements by white males and leave out the voices and achievements of many other communities. Second, as science is a field that is constantly evolving, the information for some topics was out of date before it even went to the printer. And lastly, the textbooks are prohibitively expensive for many students, especially when they only use them for three months.

Additionally, as I tried to find an OER textbook that could simply replace the conventional ones that I was using, I realized that there was nothing that was comprehensive enough for the needs of my three lab science courses. Eventually, I decided that the best option would be to create my own materials. As I didn’t have the time needed to build an entire textbook, I decided to create an OER reading list for each of my classes. Each reading list consists of links to external websites and is organized by topic to match the flow of the course.

Creating OER reading lists has had its share of challenges, but has also allowed me to make my classes more culturally relevant and has given me the flexibility to update and change my materials easily. Plus, it has saved students a lot of money!  On the challenging side, sending students off to a series of webpages can result in issues with accessibility as well the need for maintenance to check for broken links and changing content. In this presentation I will describe the process I used to create these reading lists, the benefits of having such adaptable reading material, and how I have coped with the downsides of not using a traditional textbook. Additionally, my three reading lists will be shared.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the benefits and challenges of creating an OER reading list for your courses
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Taryn Oakley

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

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:30pm - 5:40pm EDT
Room E
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

5:30pm EDT

Integrating Open Pedagogy Into a Communication Course: Pedagogical and Practical Value Added
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Open pedagogy is a transformational approach to education that reflects many recent educational innovations — such as an emphasis on active and collaborative learning. Moreover, beyond its innovative approach to student learning, it has an additional benefit of being very practical. Rather than relying on "disposable assignments" (Wiley, 2013) and singular student learning experiences, open pedagogy empowers faculty and students to create a more enduring educational experience (DeRosa & Jhangiani, n.d.). Through open educational practices, learners are encouraged to be self-directed while contributing to a larger learning community, too.

In this case study presentation, the instructor shares how open educational practices were implemented into a strategic communication course to support both pedagogical and practical goals. In this term, three practices were integrated into the course: 1) collaborative syllabus-building; 2) student development of test questions; and 3) student scholarship for a course web site. While these course materials could have been created solely by the instructor, they were, instead, co-created with students to facilitate learning and student ownership of the course.

While adopting open educational practices can be challenging, they offer faculty opportunities to innovate course curriculum by engaging and empowering students. Certainly, there is compromise involved: instructors have to cede some control while students have to assume some more responsibility. However, the result is the development of a course that has the potential to more fully support current and future students, as well as instructors.

This presentation describes the pedagogical and practical value that open pedagogy offers. While these practices support individual student learning, they also provide opportunities for students to create work of enduring value that can support an ongoing learning community. This presentation describes three such practices that were integrated into an existing course. Lessons learned from this term and directions for the future will be addressed.


References:

DeRosa, R., & Jhangiani, R. (n.d.) Open pedagogy. Open Pedagogy Notebook. https://openpedagogy.org/open-pedagogy/

Wiley, D. (2013, October 21). What is open pedagogy? Improving Learning. https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify three open educational practices
  • Identify the practical and pedagogical benefits of open pedagogy
  • Create a template for a collaborative syllabus
  • Identify key steps and issues in developing a course web site
Speakers
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Heather J. Hether

Associate Professor of Teaching Communication, University of California, Davis

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:30pm - 5:40pm EDT
Room D
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

5:45pm EDT

Reducing the Reading Gap: Creating and Adapting Openly Licensed Books for Elementary School Children
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The reading gap begins early and is related to later literacy and academic achievement. Nationally only 36.9% of infants and toddlers are read to everyday. Disaggregated by race, 23% of Hispanic infants and 24% of Black infants are read to daily. The importance of reading for later literacy and academic achievement is documented in numerous studies. Reading one picture book every day with children can lead to an increase of approximately 78,000 words each year. Children between 1 to 2 years of age who were read to for at least eleven minutes every day had stronger reading, spelling, and grammatical skills by both third grade and fifth grade. The reading gap persists into elementary school and high school. Data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that in 2017, 65% of fourth grade students were not meeting grade-level proficiency benchmarks for reading, with rates highest amongst Black (81%) American Indian (79%) and Latinx (78%) students. Elementary school children who do not meet these reading benchmarks by third grade are at an increased risk for lower reading achievement later in elementary and middle school and in high school.

The reading gap is situated within the "achievement gap," both of which refer to outputs, while the "opportunity gap" refers to "inputs—the unequal or inequitable distribution of resources and opportunities" (Glossary of Education Reform, 2013). Two well-documented factors for the reading gap in elementary school are lack of access and reduced exposure. Numerous studies have shown that families with a lower socioeconomic status (SES) live in neighborhoods where fewer children's books are available, have fewer books in the home, and children are exposed to fewer words. This gap in access to reading material and exposure to language compounds overtime and has been shown to negatively impact children's literacy and academic performance. Open educational resources (OER) have the potential to help reduce the reading gap. OER (free and open access) children's books can be created, translated, and widely shared. As a result, children's books are much more easily accessed, irrespective of SES level, and hold the potential to positively impact literacy and academic growth.

Additionally, there is a lack of character diversity in children's books. When children see themselves (e.g., their race/ethnicity, culture, language, etc.,) represented in books, they are more likely to select them to read. By adapting OER resources to create children's books, more diverse children's books can be created and thus further support book engagement in elementary children.

In this presentation, we will share a few OER books we have created and adapted for elementary-aged children and discuss how we created and adapted them using existing OER, so others can create them too! By creating free, open-access books for elementary school children, we can help to reduce the reading gap and improve literacy and academic performance for all children.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Explain what the reading gap is and how it effects children
  • Create and adapt OER children's books
Speakers
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Kate Williamson

Librarian, American River College
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Todd LaMarr

Professor, American River College
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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:45pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room D
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

5:45pm EDT

Teaching: Cultivating an Open Faculty Guide for Diversity and Social Justice
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The Lake Washington Institute of Technology (LWTech) mission is to prepare students for today's careers and tomorrow's opportunities. In today's culturally diverse global workforce, this mission goes beyond teaching our students the technical skills they will use in their industry. It is important that our students have the knowledge and skills that prepare them for the multicultural workspace they are entering.

In Fall 2020, the LWTech decided to add an academic requirement to all students. This new requirement focuses on diversity and social justice (DSJ) and applies to all programs of the college. The requirement reinforces the college's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion while aligning our standards with many other colleges in Washington State. The LWTech DSJ requirement dives deeper into diversity and social justice in either an entire course dedicated to or contextualized around diversity and social justice.

To be approved and designated as a Diversity and Social Justice course, student learning outcomes and course content must satisfy four outcomes from three categories: communication, difference, and power, privilege, and inequity.

During Spring 2021, thirty-five LWTech faculty members, from different programs, participated in a quarter-long training. The training's main goal was to form a community of teachers and learners that focuses on diversity and social justice as an important part of our teaching. Through the training, faculty learned about social justice pedagogies and developed and shared classroom practices. At the end of the training, faculty were asked to submit their DSJ curriculum plan for the next academic year.

Following interest from the training's lead instructor, Professor Sharon Raz, and one of the college librarians, Professor Greg Bem, the faculty's resources gathered during the training were compiled into an open book using the PressBooks platform.

This book includes a variety of resources for teaching diversity and social justice in a community and technical college setting. The approach and conceptualization of DSJ education are discussed in the first parts of the book. The DSJ requirement was organized around 3 categories of learning outcomes, which are the focuses of the other parts of the book. A variety of resources and lesson plans are embedded in both. All contributions are used with permission and the original authors have been credited.

In this presentation we describe the vision of bringing open education into the DSJ training experience, the approach to the design of the book, and the trials and tribulations of the publishing process.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Present and describe the LWTech faculty guide for diversity and social justice
  • Outline the labor required in publishing an open book/anthology on PressBooks
  • Discuss the importance of inclusive pedagogy
  • Identify ways in which open education can support inclusive instruction
  • Highlights the benefits of open education in teaching and learning diversity and social justice
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Greg Bem

Faculty Library Coordinator, Lake Washington Institute of Technology
I am the current library coordinator and a tenured professor at LWTech in Kirkland, Washington. I have been working in open education and open culture since 2012.
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Sharon Raz

Professor, Department Chair, Lake Washington Institute of Technology

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Tuesday October 18, 2022 5:45pm - 5:55pm EDT
Room E
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

6:00pm EDT

Daily Debrief: Tuesday
Each day will end with an informal conversation with the organizers and members of the conference community. The Daily Debrief will reflect on the conference so far, provide tips on what’s ahead, and create opportunities to get to know different perspectives in the field.

Tune into the Zoom meeting to participate!
Speakers
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Hailey Babb

Open Education Project Manager, SPARC
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Aishah Abdullah

Open Education Coordinator, SPARC
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Briana O'Neal

Conference Manager, SPARC

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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 6:00pm - 6:25pm EDT
Room A
  Social activity, Daily Debrief

6:30pm EDT

Game Night
Join us for games night at OpenEd22! Choose between Among Us or Jackbox:

Among Us:
Among Us is a fun, easy to learn multiplayer computer/mobile game! The more the merrier - check out this Wiki "Among Us for Beginners" for basics and tips: https://among-us.fandom.com/wiki/Guide:Beginners

Jackbox:
If you have a competitive itch, or you just want a good laugh, this one's for you. A combination of game show and game night, JackBox lets people in different places all come together and play a variety of games -- kind of like Kahoot, but without that pesky educational side. Everyone who comes in will get a chance to participate, and audiences are welcome! The number of players is limited, but audience members also have a role: they get to vote on whichever answer they like the most, which can make or break even the cunningest of players. The game will be streamed over Zoom, all you need to participate is a stable internet connection. If you have a smartphone, that's helpful too, but don't worry: no need to download or install anything extra!


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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Tuesday October 18, 2022 6:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Room A
  Social activity, After Hours
 
Wednesday, October 19
 

9:30am EDT

3D OER Tools and Workflows
3D visualization software offers many valuable tools for creating open educational resources and expanding accessibility. 3D resources feature the potential for increased modes of user interaction and exciting new avenues for interpretation and sharing of information. This presentation will cover Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum's workflows for creating open 3D content and how we've implemented these tools into our OER content. We also will discuss closed aspects and concerns with 3D resources and how we have navigated and maintained the openness of these resources.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Learn about the benefits and challenges of 3D open educational resources
  • Identify tools and workflows for creating 3D open educational resources
  • Discuss how to maintain openness while creating 3D resources
  • Share examples of 3D OER resources and how they can be implemented
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Noah Boone

Digital Education Content Developer, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
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Chris Givan

Digital Education Coordinator, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Wednesday October 19, 2022 9:30am - 9:40am EDT
Room D
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

9:30am EDT

Open Access Monographs for Teaching and Research: Equity & Diversity Beyond Book Processing Charges
As international funders make welcome moves towards OA publishing models, it is crucial to ensure the benefits and opportunies remain equitable, communal and accesible to the broad academic community. The Open Book Collective is currently registering as UK charity with the aim to address these issues and our online platform is scheduled to launch in summer 2022. This talk will describe our work and its importance in the current OA landscape.

The OBC will host an infrastructure and revenue management platform for the support, access, distribution and promotion of OA academic books.
We have developed the OBC and platform in consultation with librarians, publishers, and researchers, via a series of interactive workshops and reflective sessions.It will enable stakeholders explore, discover, access and support OA books from a range of leading publishers and infrastructure providers via high-quality integrated metadata and a fully searchable catalogue. In a bid to think beyond the Book Processing Charges that can sustain inequity in academic publishing, we offer a choice of flexible subscription packages, through which patrons can choose to support individual publishers and schemes, or indeed the entire collective. Whilst our major stakeholders are be librarians and publishers, the catalogue and metadata functions will be freely available to everyone. We also provide space for OA publishers to display their current and forthcoming books. Our mission is to build and maintain a sustainable infrastructure to support the publication, discovery and distribution of OA books via a range of flexible subscription packages, and make it easy for OA books to be delivered to libraries. The platform assists librarians in easily assessing OA content for local and global relevance, and comparing the offerings from different publishers in one place. The OBC is guaranteed to remain not-for-profit and anti-monopoly.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the position of the OBC and the broader need for OA book publishing to remain non-commercial
  • Understand the problems with the potential monopolization and commercialisation of the OA landscape
  • Compare more equitable options for both funding and purchasing OA books
Speakers
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Judith Fathallah

Research and Outreach Associate, Lancaster University
I am a Research and Outreach Associate at the COPIM (copim.ac.uk) project. COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It... Read More →

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Wednesday October 19, 2022 9:30am - 9:40am EDT
Room C
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

9:30am EDT

An OER Staff Development Initiative for Librarians: Quick Wins and Lessons Learnt
Academic Librarians as part of Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) are often tasked with driving and leading Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives at their respective institutions. Despite these responsibilities, many do not have the confidence or skills required. An OER staff development programme at a medium-sized University in Singapore served as an intervention to fill a skills gap identified by the Library's strategic planning team. The programme encompassed pilot 1-1 coaching sessions, 2 workshop runs, and a bootcamp for academic librarians. Have the respective training initiatives adequately met the goals of developing liaison librarians' skills and confidence in advocating for OER? This presentation shares participant librarians views on the progamme's effectiveness and investigates how they perceive that the training has helped to build their skills and confidence. Semi-structured interviews reveal that although librarians feel that they have grasped the basic concepts and skills in OER, it appeared that retention and recall over time were limited. Librarians also reported being confident in the basics of OER, although the difficulty of the bootcamp exercises challenged their confidence in applying what they had learnt to practical situations. More encouragingly, learning from peers had emerged as a positive outcome. Through hearing the views of participant librarians themselves, these findings have uncovered what worked and what did not in this inaugural first-run of the OER staff development initiative, and has laid the ground for potential improvements prior to rolling-out subsequent runs for librarians locally or at other institutions moving forward.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the considerations in implementing an OER staff development programme for librarians
  • Apply the presenter's findings to similar initiatives at their own institutions
Speakers
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Melody Chin

Coordinator, Faculty Teaching Support & Research Librarian, Economics, Singapore Management University Libraries

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
Room B
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

9:30am EDT

Yeah, I Wrote That!: Advancing Open Educational Practices to Foster Student Engagement
Open educational practices (OEP) focus on open teaching and open content, offering students opportunities to do purposeful work that is available to a public beyond the classroom. Students can "contribute to the knowledge commons, not just consume it, in meaningful and lasting ways...shap[ing] the world as they encounter it" (DeRosa and Jhangiani, 2017). As active agents in their own learning, students need a community with which to explore their information privilege, test and contest ideas, and create meaning.

Wikipedia provides students an authentic public community with which to participate. It also provides an outlet for publishing information on topics that are underrepresented in traditional publishing or not adequately covered by mainstream media, allowing students to see scholarship creation as part of an ongoing conversation rather than an "end product." Wikipedia-editing permits diverse stories, histories, and contributors to become visible while promoting creative expression, connection, and collaboration among students.

In this session, the presenter will examine the relationship between open educational practices and information literacy, and how they intersect when Wikipedia is introduced in the classroom. The presenter will also discuss the collaboration between a librarian and a course instructor on iterations of renewable Wikipedia assignments across four years and two undergraduate Media Studies classes. Finally, the presenter will offer strategies for designing effective, scaffolded assignments involving Wikipedia-editing.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Make clear connections between open educational practices and information literacy
  • Articulate the characteristics of renewable assignments
  • Gain strategies for designing effective assignments involving Wikipedia-editing
Speakers
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Kristina M. De Voe

English & Communication Librarian, Temple University
Kristina De Voe is English & Communication Librarian at Temple University where she leads the library’s Open Education Group, facilitating conversation and collaboration about open educational resources on campus through initiatives, awards, and consultations. A current member of... Read More →

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
Room A
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

9:45am EDT

Academic Departments and the VCU Library Meeting Halfway: The Value of Diverse and Flexible Teams
Engagement and advocacy for Open Education may take multiple forms. However, what happens when faculty from and the School of Education (SOE) and librarians from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Cabell Library decide to collaborate to research and identify strategies to promote an effective open education culture? This lightning-talk presents, discusses, and reflects on proven successful strategies and tactics underlying this collaboration that could be transferable and adaptable to other higher education settings and academic libraries aiming to enhance the impact of Open Education. Among the few lessons learned so far: Rely heavily on your library liaisons, scholarly communication librarians, and OER professionals' skills to promote open education, insert actively the librarians within academic departments as gatekeepers for Open Education; identify, persuade, and cultivate knowledgeable and sensitive faculty who will speak and lobby for the value of Open Ed; be bold, fast, and fearless at promoting collaboration spaces and opportunities among all the stakeholders, and finally, work in teams and build them the most diverse possible since their cultural versatility and experiences will be a plus for Open education outreach. The results so far have been a notable increase in the Open Education culture among SOE faculty and administration, the VCU librarians and OER professionals team winning a competitive grant to investigate open practices among SOE faculty, and the recognition that for the library to successfully educate others about Open, librarians, academic liaisons, and OER professionals must engage, work together, and outreach directly to academic departments and administrators through symbiotic research or teaching partnerships that can benefit both parts. Meeting halfway is then possible.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Extract lessons for building successful teams to increase Open Education and practice in Higher Education
  • Learn strategies and tactics for effective advocacy in Open education
  • Identify why diversity is important for higher education teams to achieve success
  • Adapt and transfer best practices from this successful experience to their own contexts and realities
Speakers
SC

Sergio Chaparro

Behavioral and Social Sciences Reserarch Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University
Research Librarian at VCU and adjunct at University of Tennesse, Knoxville School of Information Sciences (SIS). 30 years in the field of information.
JG

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 9:45am - 9:55am EDT
Room D
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

9:45am EDT

How to Build and Facilitate an OER Hack-A-Thon
In this 10-minute lightning talk, we will give you an overview of what an OER Hack-a-thon is and how it can be used as a method to promote Diversity, Equity, and inclusion in an institution. We will talk about how we set up the Hack-a-thon, our goals, and our outcomes.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify what an OER Hack-a-thon is
  • Review if it's right for your institution
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MC

Melissa Colon

Associate Professor, Behavioral Sciences, Bunker Hill Community College
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Miguel Zepeda Torres

Associate Dean Chelsea Campus, Bunker Hill Community College

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 9:45am - 9:55am EDT
Room C
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

10:00am EDT

OER Plateau: Where Do We Go from Here?
From 2014-2019, the College of Lake County in Grayslake Illinois experienced rapid growth in OER adoption, and then this progress plateaued. We needed an OER "jumpstart" to help us to the next level and achieve our goal of 50% of our course sections using OER materials exclusively by end of AY2024-25. The OER Task Force at our college, along with the help of the AAC&U Institute's yearlong OER program, has helped us to chart a clearer path to our goals. We needed to increase faculty buy-in, that meant a more compressive support of faculty projects, and a single place where all information regarding OER was located at the college. In other words, what had been just passion projects needed to become part of the college's strategic plan. Using the college's SharePoint site, we created the OER Hub, a place where employees could learn about OER, how the college could help with their projects, and to showcase what faculty were already using. This session is applicable to all stages of OER adoption.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Using SharePoint or other similar programs to organize information about OER
  • Creating a catalog of college adoptions
Speakers
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Suzanne Valentine-French

Instructor Psychology/OER Champion, College of Lake County
Psychology; OER Faculty Champion College of Lake County.
PW

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 10:00am - 10:10am EDT
Room C
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

10:00am EDT

Applying Universal Design for Learning Guidelines to OER Outreach
Open educational resources (OER), open access (OA), and other areas focused on open values, have clear connections with universal design for learning (UDL). Much like UDL, open values are focused on student success, accessibility, and educational equity. While the connections between OER, OA, and UDL are valuable, this presentation will provide a different approach to connecting OER with UDL. This presentation will discuss ways for academic librarians to apply the UDL guidelines, as outlined by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), when marketing the importance of OER adoption to university stakeholders. University stakeholders could include faculty, students, department chairs, Dean's, and the administration. Each stakeholder group is likely to have different needs and agendas based on their varying positions and responsibilities, so it's important that librarians are marketing OER accordingly for each group in order to achieve maximum adoption at their institutions. Throughout the presentation, the presenter will examine 2areas of UDL (engagement and representation) and provide examples on how to apply those areas when librarians are creating web pages, libguides, workshops, presentations, and other promotional materials related to the adoption and support of OER when working with their various university stakeholder groups. The hope is that this presentation will be helpful to all academic librarians who are wondering how to approach different groups on campus regarding OER, and that the information provided in the presentation can be used by all librarians, despite the size and type of institution where they are employed. Attendees are encouraged to look at the UDL Guidelines at this link https://udlguidelines.cast.org/ throughout the presentation. 

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify ways to effectively market the importance and relevance of open educational resources (OER) to the various stakeholders on their campuses
  • Create OER outreach and marketing materials based on the needs of their campus stakeholders
  • Find ways to reach their campus stakeholder groups with the OER outreach and marketing materials that they've created
Speakers
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Sabrina Davis

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

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room D
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

10:00am EDT

Collaborative Open Textbook Creation, Student Voice and Sustainability
The rise of remote learning and digitally-enabled education threatens to deepen the education divide as large numbers of university students and lecturers struggle to access the connectivity, devices and educational tools required to participate in new ways of teaching and learning.
In addition to the imperative to address issues relating to cost and accessibility, higher education institutions (HEIs) also face increasing pressure to address issues related curriculum transformation in order to include marginalised voices and obtain better epistemic representation for the diverse range of students entering HEIs.
Within this context, open textbooks have a critical role to play as a solution to addressing issues related to cost, accessibility and representation, in that they constitute a more democratic, collaborative and cost-effective means of developing and disseminating content, both within and beyond the institution.
Conceived with an explicit social justice and intersectionality focus, the Digital Open Textbook for Development (DOT4D) initiative at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, investigates and supports the interventions required to promote open textbook production that improve affordable access and support curriculum transformation efforts. This research was conducted in a Global South context and adds valuable empirical evidence from a developing country perspective.
The work done with open textbook creators at UCT has enabled the DOT4D initiative to articulate models of open textbook production that are being employed by academics at UCT who are using their open textbooks to address social (in)justice in the classroom. As part of its advocacy agenda, the project has also explored institutional support mechanisms required to promote further work of this kind and address issues related to long-term sustainability.
Highlighting the injustices which motivated authors in the DOT4D initiative at UCT, this presentation uses Bovill's (2020) framework of inclusion to examine the processes of 11 open textbook initiatives at UCT in terms of their degrees of inclusivity, with a focus on student participation and sustainability. The authors also draw on the work of political philosopher Nancy Fraser (2005) and her central norm of "parity of participation" in order to analyse the cases in terms of their ability to provide affirmative or transformative remedies to injustice.
Examining authorship, quality assurance and publishing activities as nodes of inclusivity, this presentation provides insight into the collaborative strategies open textbook authors at UCT are adopting in order to address social injustice in the classroom, with a particular focus on the values, attitudes and challenges associated with student co-creation. It also identifies ways in which HEIs can address sustainability in order to support open textbook development efforts that can address access and inclusivity in the classroom.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Have insight into collaborative, social justice oriented open textbook creation models
  • Improve their understanding of open textbook creation activities, specifically as relates to authorship, quality assurance and publishing
  • Have a deeper understanding of the role of students in open textbook creation activities, specifically as relates to authorship, quality assurance and publishing
  • Have practical ideas on institutional support mechanisms for open textbook production
Speakers
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Michelle Wilmers

Publishing and Implementation Manager, University of Cape Town
Background in scholarly communication and research project administration, with a focus on the African higher education sector. Interest in all things "open".
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BM

Bianca Masuku

Junior Research Fellow, University of Cape Town

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room A
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

10:00am EDT

Open Pedagogy and Ungrading: Overlapping Pedagogies of Care
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, both Open Pedagogy and Ungrading are gaining traction in pedagogical conversations. Proponents of both focus on how each can increase equity in the classroom - traditional grades have been shown in the research to actively harm students and are not always accurate measures of learning, while open pedagogy provides opportunities for student empowerment and agency by increasing student voice and choice in the classroom. Both ungrading and open pedagogy, in my opinion, work hand in hand as pedagogies of care in the classroom, as both pedagogies require the development of a relationship of trust between students and instructors.

This session will begin with an overview of the concept of ungrading then segue into how I employ ungrading in assessing an open pedagogy project in a general education science course, mostly using self-evaluation and feedback/revision strategies.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Become familiar with the concept of ungrading and alternative assesment strategies
  • Understand the potential value in ungrading open pedagogy projects
Speakers
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Heather Miceli

Lecturer, General Education, Roger Williams University
Interests: Open pedagogy in science courses, Adjunct support systems

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Room B
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

10:15am EDT

Establishing an Open Education Community of Practice at a Bilingual University: Year 1 Reflections
This lighting talk will explore some of the challenges and benefits that we encountered during the first year of establishing an Open Education Community of Practice (CoP) at our Canadian bilingual University.

The creation of an Open Education CoP builds on the recommendations from a cross-campus working group on open and affordable learning materials. The group found that while the campus had pockets of innovation, the larger university community lacked a cohesive vision for the use, creation, and dissemination of OER. Meant to be a vehicle for awareness building, information sharing, and support, the CoP is also meant to lay the foundation for a culture of open pedagogy.

After careful planning, the Open Education CoP met for the first time in October 2021. It has been an enriching experience with some notable benefits, including participation from students and the university press, and hearing from OER champions on campus and elsewhere. The CoP also faced its share of technical, linguistic and strategic challenges, ranging from competing priorities and content hosting to conducting activities in two languages and the limits of "openness".

This talk will focus on lessons learned and what is in the works for year two.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the challenges and benefits of establishing an open education CoP
  • Identify lessons learned from establishing a CoP in a virtual environment
Speakers
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Michelle Brown

Head - Learning & Student Success, University of Ottawa
Michelle Brown is the Head- Learning & Student Success at the University of Ottawa Library.  Prior to this position, she worked for several years as the Liaison Librarian in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.  Michelle received her MLIS from McGill. She also holds... Read More →
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Melanie Brunet

Open Education Librarian, University of Ottawa
(she/her/hers) Open Education Librarian (Interim) at the University of Ottawa. 2020-2021 SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow. Attending from Ottawa, Canada, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People.

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 10:15am - 10:25am EDT
Room C
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

10:30am EDT

Show & Tell - Books
Book worms unite! Join us for some rapid-fire sharing and conversation about the books you're currently reading in your leisure time. Want to share your latest read? Bring your book and get ready to share with us the title, author, what it's about, and whether you're enjoying it! Or simply join just to listen in on the fun and gain some inspiration for your future reads. We'll be making a list of all the books to share with the rest of the OpenEd Community. Post your book recommendations in Padlet, and keep the conversation going on Discord.
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Wednesday October 19, 2022 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

10:30am EDT

Tea Time (Break)
Tea time is a break in scheduled programming when attendees can rest, practice self-care, or dive into networking or asynchronous sessions.

Please use this time to engage in self-care activities to help keep you grounded throughout the day:
  • Look at your schedule for today. Make sure you have enough breaks built in, and that you are giving yourself the space to immerse in the sessions most important to you.
  • Take a few minutes to close your eyes, breathe deeply and set an intention.
  • Drink a glass of water.
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Social Activities

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
Room A
  Tea time (break)

11:00am EDT

Open Education Leadership Project Showcase
The SPARC Open Education Leadership Program is an intensive professional development program to empower academic professionals with the knowledge, skills, and connections to lead successful open education initiatives that benefit students. The two-semester program blends online, peer-to-peer, and project-based learning to build a comprehensive understanding of the open education space coupled with practical know-how to take action on campus and beyond. Structured as a fellowship, each cohort becomes a vibrant community of practice that is further enhanced by expert instructors and mentorship support.

This lightning talk offers a summary of the outcomes and leadership lessons from the program's 2021-2022 cohort. Fellows in this fifth year of the program hailed from diverse institutions across the U.S. and Canada, allowing for rich conversations about what it takes to engage stakeholders and develop successful open education programs that serve all students, while working to more intentionally center issues of equity and inclusion. Each fellow also published an openly licensed resource of value to the broader open education field as an output of their capstone project, along with a final report articulating lessons learned.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Reflect on wisdom and lessons learned by participants in an intensive open education leadership program during the pandemic
  • Access 25 newly published resources that are applicable in various aspects of open education work
Speakers
AB

Amy Blau

Scholarly Communications Librarian, Whitman College
Research data management, digital humanities, Yiddish
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Rachel Becker

Copyright & Open Educational Resources Librarian, Madison Area Technical College
Librarian currently at Madison Area Technical College working with Open Educational Resources, instruction, technology, and copyright issues. Advocating for textbook affordability, affordable education, and equitable access. SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow 2021/2022.
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Hailey Babb

Open Education Project Manager, SPARC
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Beatrice Canales

Academic Unit Assistant, San Antonio College
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Courtney Eger

Learning and Engagement Librarian, Temple University Libraries
Hi! I'm Courtney Eger, the Learning and Engagement Librarian in the Health Sciences Libraries at Temple University. I was a SPARC #LeadOER fellow in 2021-22. I'm passionate about teaching, engagement and outreach, and of course, open education!

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:00am - 11:10am EDT
Room D
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

11:00am EDT

A Journey in OER: Growing Awareness, Discovery, and Use of OER at the University of Calgary
At this session attendees will learn about the University of Calgary's Libraries and Cultural Resources' journey in open educational resources. We'll share our recent initiatives and strategies for expanding capacity in our journey to building a community around OER on campus.

More specifically we'll discuss expanding roles within the library to support OER, OER discovery initiatives, awareness and learning opportunities, grant funding, and the development of a new Open Course Materials Matching Service (OCoMMS). Attendees will gain insight into UCalgary's journey and practices in the early stages of OER advocacy.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand UCalgary Libraries and Cultural Resources' journey in Open Educational Resource advocacy
  • Consider how to apply UCalgary's OER initiatives and resources within their own institution
  • Identify ways to engage with and support campus partners and other OER advocates
Speakers
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Sarah Adams

Open Education Librarian, University of Calgary
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James Murphy

Learning and Engagement Librarian, University of Calgary

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

11:00am EDT

Decolonizing Curation? Opening Arts & Cultural Knowledge for Digital Education
As the Curationist team discussed in our panel at #OpenEd21, digital cultural literacy is more important than ever as collections and media are experienced almost entirely online. Everyone—students, professionals, and the general public—need skills to navigate the glut of content at their fingertips. However, digital literacy and online curatorial work are not enough if it isn't taught alongside anti- and decolonial principles for data sovereignty and community ownership of cultural history.

Beginning with an interrogation of our project name, Curationist, this panel will first explore the latent power dynamics involved in "curation" as a field that historically has been used to emphasize the power of colonial empires since the establishment of the British Museum in 1753. Using our own work as an example, we will lay out our internal thinking about how the word "curation" in Curationist is understood, critiqued, and ideally rebalanced or reclaimed by the co-created metadata tools of our platform (as introduced in our #OpenEd20 panel).

From there, we will engage panelists and audience members in a discussion of how our platform and others within the Open Education field can bring in principles of indigenous data sovereignty, community engagement, and decolonization practices to push these principles even further. Topics for this discussion include:
- History of curatorial and museum work as education materials
- Good citizenship in open education as a field
- Online pedagogy and art
- Critical geography of de/coloniality
- Critical digital literacy

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand OpenGLAM digital cultural heritage objects as a source for antiracist, decolonial open educational resources
  • Explore OpenGLAM metadata in particular as a site for social justice education and engagement
  • Understand how Open resources create greater accessibility for learners
  • Discover how to empower students and communities through contributions and critical discourse over cultural artifacts
  • Learn more about Curationist and how they can be involved
Speakers
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Maha Bali

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

Community Director, Curationist
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Sadik Shahadu

Social Media Manager, MHz Foundation
Sadik is a researcher and the Social Media Manager for Curationist. He is an open advocate and a digital strategist with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. He is a co-founder and executive director of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group.Sadik currently serves... Read More →

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
Room A
  55 min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

11:00am EDT

Say "It Depends" With Conviction! Assemblage Theory & the Complexities of Open Education Leadership
How many times have you asked an open education leader about how to do something and the answer you received was "it depends?" It is an ambiguous and sometimes frustrating response when you are looking for an easy-to-deploy, tried-and-tested universal strategy. "It depends" can be an emotionally taxing response: if "it depends" is what you know, are you the expert, or are you an imposter?

Jeff Gallant, Program Director of Affordable Learning Georgia, who has often said "it depends" as a mentor, volunteer consultant, and author on open education leadership, has been drawing connections between our leadership practices and a modern philosophical theory. In this presentation, Jeff will take you on a quick tour of what he found in Manuel DeLanda's Assemblage Theory: a way of thinking about the world in terms of entirely unique parts of a whole, where every individual human being, institution, and organization is dependent on interactions and capable of emergence.

Assemblage Theory can go a long way in explaining some of the greater mysteries of open education: why grant programs are a primary tool in the field, why deciding on one average cost of a textbook seems impossible, what faculty mean by "quality" in educational materials, or why a majority of us share an interest in increasing student agency in the classroom alongside aspects like affordability and student success.

This presentation will include:
• An overview of Manuel DeLanda's Assemblage Theory
• Connections from DeLanda's work to what we do as open education leaders
• A look at how the COVID-19 pandemic may have affected our work in terms of assemblages
• A short activity exploring why "it depends" may be the most accurate and "expert" answer we have

Together, we will create new interactions within this assemblage we call the open education community. Jeff hopes you will come away from this session feeling a little better and more empowered in dealing with the ambiguity and complexities of your open education work.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Ientify and recall key aspects of Assemblage Theory
  • Make connections between Assemblage Theory and open education work
  • Make future strategic decisions with interactions and emergence in mind
  • Feel a little better as an open education leader when dealing with ambiguity and complexity
Speakers
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Jeff Gallant

Program Director, Affordable Learning Georgia, University System of Georgia
Jeff Gallant is the Program Director of Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of the University System of Georgia (USG) intended to promote student success and foster educational equity through supporting the adoption, adaptation, and creation of affordable and open educational... Read More →

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
Room B
  55 min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

11:00am EDT

Youth Engagement in Open Science Through Students Organizations
Medical students are key stakeholders of Open Education as Open Educational Resources can bridge the existing gaps in medical education and they are future researchers and authors who can contribute to the movement. The International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), representing 1.3 million medical students worldwide, is a firm proponent of the Open Education movement. IFMSA has solidified stances on Open Education in its Policy Documents on ‘Open Science' (LINK), and has committed to promoting the movement through its Global Priorities, activities, programs, and initiatives.
IFMSA has aimed to increase awareness of Open Science among medical students through the annual Open Access Week campaign and by promoting National Member Organisations' activities on Open Science. IFMSA has further created educational activity toolkits and introduced Open Educational Resources that can be useful to medical students. Along with these capacity-building efforts, IFMSA has strengthened the presence of students in events discussing Open, such as OpenCon and Open Education Conference 2021.
This session will feature a panel discussion introducing the role that student organizations play in youth engagement in Open Science and Open Education. It will feature why involving students in the Open movement is important, and local, national, and international efforts of students to advocate Open Education, the existing barriers that students face during their studies and research.
The panel will consist of student organization representatives and a practitioner whose path in advocating open started during their time in a student organization. The student organization representatives will introduce the role that student organizations play in youth engagement on Open Science and Open Education, sharing some methods and examples like campaigns. They will introduce why involving students in the Open movement is important, and how they are spreading the idea through local, national and international efforts. The practitioner can share their story of how being introduced to the Open Movement at an early stage in their career has impacted their paths and how to make the Open movement sustainable. Along with discussing the pre-prepared questions, the panels will receive questions from the participants and provide specific advice to the students and mentors.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Participants understand the importance and the impact of involving and engaging students in advocating the Open
  • Participants learn different methods for youth engagement in Open Science
  • Participants understand student-led strategies to advocate Open Science and can implement them back in their local and national communities
  • Participants have ideas on sustainable ways to spread the Open movement
Speakers
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Lucía Pérez Gómez

Lucía Pérez Gómez is a 5th year medical student based in Spain, Madrid and currently serves as the Liaison Officer for Medical Sciences and Research Issues for the International Federation of Medical Students Association.  

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
Room C
  55 min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

11:00am EDT

Pre-Recorded Sessions Room D (Wed 11am Eastern)
Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:00am - 11:55am EDT
TBA
  Multiple Videos

11:00am EDT

Pre-Recorded Sessions Room E (Wed 11am Eastern)
Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:00am - 12:25pm EDT
TBA
  Multiple Videos

11:15am EDT

Where to Start?: Building an Effective OER Outreach Strategy
Making the case for OER can be overwhelming and frustrating, especially when stakeholders from many departments are involved. OER isn't just about saving students money. Many institutions are incorporating OER into their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion plans. The presenter will share how they successfully built an outreach initiative based on DEI on their campus using simple tools. Through practical steps attendees will learn how to create an outreach plan for their OER program by identifying key stakeholders and customizing their message.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify key OER stakeholders at their institution
  • Write an outreach plan based on their institution's unique needs
  • Customize an OER outreach message to their program
Speakers
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Rachel Becker

Copyright & Open Educational Resources Librarian, Madison Area Technical College
Librarian currently at Madison Area Technical College working with Open Educational Resources, instruction, technology, and copyright issues. Advocating for textbook affordability, affordable education, and equitable access. SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow 2021/2022.

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Stakeholders in the House identifying campus OER allies (1) pdf
Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:15am - 11:25am EDT
Room D
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

11:30am EDT

Beyond Just Marking: Using Outreach to Raise Awareness of OER Courses
Cost savings are one of the commonly-touted benefits of OER textbooks, and those savings can be crucial for many students, especially those who are financially disadvantaged. But the impact of OER textbooks is limited if students don't know about textbook costs when they are choosing their costs for the semester. To facilitate this knowledge, many institutions have implemented course marking systems. Although course marking is helpful, many students don't know how to navigate such systems (or that such systems exist).
In this session, a librarian at an institution with an existing course marking system will detail how they designed an outreach campaign to inform students, parents, faculty, and academic advisors about OER textbooks and the course marking system. They will share ideas for how to connect students with information about OER textbooks and course marking at the time that they need it - when they are preparing to register for classes.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify at least three target audiences for an outreach campaign focused on course marking
  • Access openly-licensed templates for an outreach campaign focused on course marking
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Sarah LeMire

Coordinator of First-Year Programs, Texas A&M University
Sarah LeMire is the First Year Experience and Outreach Librarian at Texas A&M University. She is interested in information literacy instruction, assessment, scalability of instruction and outreach, and outreach to special populations, especially veterans.

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:30am - 11:40am EDT
Room D
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

11:30am EDT

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Opening Distance Education in the Northwest Territories
During Open Ed 2020, these three presenters from the Northwest Territories discussed the challenges and successes with opening education in a remote community college. They are returning in 2022 with a pre-recorded presentation of learning these past two years; both in creating more accessible educational opportunities for northerners, and in challenges that are currently beyond their sphere of influence. Each of these individuals has unique roles and experiences within the college community, yet share similar foundational beliefs about equity in education. Challenges presented include student experiences, relational limitations, and administrative roadblocks.
The intention of this presentation is to recap the experiences, discuss lessons learned, and changes made. Through a storied approach, they will discuss limitations not overcome and new opportunities on the horizon. Many aspects of openness still elude them and their organization as they also consider perennial challenges and work to overcome them.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Imagine, create, and develop more equitable educational situations for marginalized learners
  • Lead small localized changes to improve learning
  • Explain how equitable access has improved in remote postsecondary distance education
Speakers
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Jim Stauffer

Adult Learning Specialist - Educational Technology, Aurora College
lifelong learning, connected learning, rural and remote Indigenous communities, non-western ways of knowing and being
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Tammy Soanes-White

Adult Learning Specialist Instructional Design, Aurora College
My interests are in distributed teaching and learning, remote post-secondary and higher education and in technology enabled practices. 
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Wanda Roberts

Program Head, Health Programs, Aurora College

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

11:45am EDT

Open Ped for Med Ed: Strategies for Marketing Open Education and Pedagogy to a Medical School
This lightning talk will briefly describe a project created for the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program, 2021-22 cohort. This project, Marketing Open Education and Pedagogy to a Medical School, was developed with a school of medicine in mind, an underrepresented population in open education. With an emphasis on encouraging open pedagogy in medical education, this project serves as a resource for other health sciences librarians. Librarians can use these outreach and marketing materials in their own communication with health sciences faculty and students. These materials are general enough to be used or adapted by any academic library.

This project produced a social media marketing campaign aimed at medical faculty, staff, and students. This marketing campaign is informational and launched during Open Education Week in March 2022. Other components of this project included two infographics, a short video, a sample assignment, and a workshop about open scholarship. This presentation will cover the pros and cons of each type of marketing tool. The openly-licensed community resource will be shared so viewers can create their own open pedagogy marketing campaign.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand the importance of interviewing stakeholders
  • Create their own social media plan for raising awareness of open pedagogy and open education
  • Use other techniques for outreach, like infographics, videos, and workshops
  • Access, edit and reuse an openly-licensed resource to create their own outreach campaign
Speakers
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Courtney Eger

Learning and Engagement Librarian, Temple University Libraries
Hi! I'm Courtney Eger, the Learning and Engagement Librarian in the Health Sciences Libraries at Temple University. I was a SPARC #LeadOER fellow in 2021-22. I'm passionate about teaching, engagement and outreach, and of course, open education!

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 11:45am - 11:55am EDT
Room D
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

12:00pm EDT

Building Open Research, Community and Values with the Global OER Graduate Network
The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) is a network of PhD and EdD candidates around the world whose research projects include a focus on open education (i.e. OER, OEP, MOOC). These doctoral researchers are at the core of the network; around them, over two hundred experts, supervisors, mentors and interested parties connect to form a community of practice. The Global OER Graduate Network is currently funded through the OER programme of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and administered by the Open Education Research Hub from the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK.

The aims of the GO-GN are to:
- raise the profile of research into open education
- offer support for those conducting PhD research in this area
- promote equity and inclusion in the field of open education research, and
- develop openness as a process of research.

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, GO-GN has made a number of changes to better support the network. This presentation will detail ways in which the GO-GN pandemic response was coordinated around the concept of developing an informal - yet supportive - community of care, based on open values and practices. This included:

- In encouraging members to explore openness in their own context, GO-GN promoted moral values including autonomy, criticality, representation, equity and commitment to sharing
- Co-production of community openly licensed resources, including The GO-GN Research Methods Handbook and The GO-GN Conceptual Frameworks Guide as well as a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education which shared a range of international perspectives on open education with a global audience
- A continuing focus on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, particularly in Africa and Latin America
- Developing a Fellowship scheme to provide alumni with enhanced visibility and recognition and the opportunity to share their expertise with the wider network
- Co-chairing the OER22 conference in London, UK.

Through exploring the activities of the GO-GN network, this presentation will share one example a community of care. We will examine how the GO-GN example could potentially be used in other contexts and to support different communities. Central to the GO-GN community of care are open values and open research. During this presentation we will highlight examples of what these practices and values are and mean within the varied GO-GN context, thus highlighting doctoral researcher perspectives and contributing to the wider discussion in these areas.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Have a better understanding of what a community of care is, and how the example of GO-GN could be applicable to other contexts
  • Explore open values in practice through the example of GO-GN
  • Gain a better understanding of open research in practice, within the doctoral researcher context
Speakers
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Francisco Iniesto

Research Associate, The Open University
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Beck Pitt

Senior Research Fellow, The Open University
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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Room C
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

12:00pm EDT

English Is Also "Foreign": Discussion with an Experienced ESOL Open Practitioner
When we think of "foreign" language learning, English is seldom the first thought. Even though learning English as a non-primary language is exceptionally common, it is often a silent yet severe challenge that learners have to grapple with. This is especially true in a North American context, where communicating in English is presumed and expected, the stress of which may add to the already existing barriers that English learners are likely to encounter. As Open Education hopes to have a wider scope in accessibility and serve a greater number of people in an equitable way, it can make a real difference for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learners—whether it be through interactivity, collaboration, sense of community, or simply in that it is available without a paywall. Consequently, good ESOL education is imperative in this day and age for all English learners. In this pursuit, there are some open practitioners who have paved the way.

In this session, Pressbooks' Customer Success Manager, Amy Song, speaks with a seasoned open practitioner who has created many English language learning OERs. They discuss the considerations necessary when teaching English, how to bring work to fruition, the importance of Open, approach to pedagogy, and guidance to those who are looking for insight and consultation while creating ESOL OERs.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Appraise the technical requirements for creating language learning open textbooks
  • Apply techniques described by ESOL teachers to their own pedagogical practices
Speakers
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Amy Song

Customer Success Manager, Pressbooks
I talk to & support many people in the educational community about open education and technology, especially surrounding the creation of OERs at Higher Eds. As the client manager at Pressbooks, most of my days are spent having conversations with faculty and members of the Open community... Read More →
LK

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Room E
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Four Years in Review: Sustaining and Maintaining a System Wide OER Collaborative
The Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) Collaborative is a group of 28 (and growing) public higher education systems and statewide/provincewide organizations that are committed to supporting student success by promoting free, customizable open educational resources (OER). Launched in 2018, DOERS3 helps member organizations implement, scale, and sustain OER by advancing research and policy, sharing tools and learnings, and showing how OER can foster equity and student success.

DOERS3 positions member organizations to realize the promise of high-quality, accessible, and sustainable OER implementations to achieve equity and student success at scale. Leveraging the collective strength of the Collaborative, DOERS3 members build capacity to take established OER initiatives to scale and shape national and state innovation in the areas of OER research, data, policy, accessibility, equity and quality.

Join steering committee members as they share the lessons learned over the last four years of how to sustain and maintain an system wide volunteer-led organization. Presenters will share challenges as well as stories of impact from each of the three working groups: Equity, Research and Capacity Building. In addition, presenters will share what is next for the DOERs organization and how audience members can work with their institutions or organizations to become members of the DOERs collaborative.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Articulate challenges and successes of maintaining and sustaining a system wide collaborative
  • Identify how to become a system member of the DOERs organization
Speakers
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Amanda Coolidge

Executive Director, BCcampus
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Andrew Mckinney

Open Education Coordinator, City University of New York
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Rebecca Karoff

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, The University of Texas System
MB

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Wednesday October 19, 2022 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Room B
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

12:00pm EDT

In the Room Where It Happens: Exploring Student Intersections with Open Ed Beyond the Classroom
This session will discuss the ways students intersect with furthering the work of open education outside of the classroom. We'll explore why it is crucial to seek out student perspectives and invite them into your work as peers, ready to learn together. Examples will address recognizing students in the sustainability of our open infrastructures. Students can challenge the comfort that institutions may have with unwieldy systems or workflows and speak firsthand to their common barriers and shared goals. In this interactive space we'll reflect on the ways students are changemakers, collaborators, and co-authors in open education.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Identify opportunities to engage students in open education projects in their own institutional contexts
  • Reflect on the inclusion of student voices and intentionally providing space for their active participation
  • Devise strategies for ongoing student involvement outside the classroom
We welcome you to share your ideas and thoughts on this topic at this padlet.
Speakers
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Amber Hoye

Director of World Languages Resource Center, Boise State University
Amber Hoye (M.E.T), is the Director of the World Languages Resource Center and a Co-Director of The Pathways Project at Boise State University. In her role, she supports faculty implementing educational technologies and innovative practices including open educational resources (OER), supervises an interdisciplinary team of student employees, and teaches a required course for language majors to... Read More →
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Hailey Babb

Open Education Project Manager, SPARC
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Tiffany MacLennan

Research Analyst, Higher Education Strategy Associates
Tiffany MacLennan is a recent graduate of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS and has been a strong advocate for OER adoption in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Through her time as the Vice President Academic for the StFX Students’ Union, a Senator for the StFX Senate... Read More →
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Shannon M. Smith

Open Educational Resources Librarian, Boise State University
Shannon M. Smith is the Open Educational Resources Librarian at Boise State University. She began working in the realm of open education in 2017 and was a 2020-2021 SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow. Her work engages the role of students and how they are key to a future where... Read More →
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Pre-Recorded Sessions

Pre-recorded videos are embedded in the session page for anytime viewing (visible starting October 17th). The video will also be streamed live in Zoom at the scheduled time. Videos and session login links are visible to logged-in attendees only. See the FAQ for more details.Pre-recorded sessions offer the best of both worlds! You can watch the video when it's convenient for you, or you can return at the specified time to watch it with other attendees. In most cases, the presenters will be joining the live viewings, so you'll also get... Read More →

Wednesday October 19, 2022 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Room D
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Launching an OER Curation Service and Framework
In this presentation, we will share our framework and template for curating lists of OER for instructors, discuss our implementation process, and highlight opportunities for similar documentation to make OER discovery work more sustainable.

Grand Valley State University launched an OER Curation service in Fall 2020. Faculty interested in adopting open educational materials submitted a request and the OER Curator provided a shortlist of potential OER, based on the course syllabus and faculty needs. We developed a curation report template to support this service, providing a consistent framework for shareable, reusable reports.

This session will cover how GVSU designed the curation template, the hurdles of implementing this service amidst an ongoing pandemic, and the current progress made with the service. We will analyze this service and framework through the perspectives of experienced OER librarians as well as a librarian new to OER support. We will explore opportunities for others to implement similar processes at their institutions to streamline the discovery and adoption of OER, as well as the potential for this approach to make OER discovery work more sustainable across many institutions.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Use and adapt the CC-licensed template developed by GVSU to curate and share lists of OER with educators
  • Identify opportunities and challenges for using this approach to OER curation in their own context
  • Share their own OER curations with the wider OER community
Speakers
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Matt Ruen

Scholarly Communications Outreach Coordinator, Grand Valley State University Libraries
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Chealsye Bowley

Director of Open Education, Colorado Department of Higher Education
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Erica Schiller

Substitute Librarian, Kalamazoo Public Library

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Pre-Recorded Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
Room A
  25min (pre-record), Presentation

12:30pm EDT

Show & Tell - Games
Enjoy Wordle, Splatoon, Tetris, Candy Crush, or Among Us? Join us for a conversation about the games you play! Give us a 2-minute spiel that includes the title of the game, the platform you play it on (i.e. phone, console, laptop, tablet), and why you enjoy it. We'll be making a list of all the games to share with the rest of the OpenEd Community. Sharer your responses in Padlet, and keep the conversation going on Discord.
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Social Activities

There are a wide range of social activities taking place throughout the conference. Join sessions during breaks or after hours to participate in everything from yoga to trivia to show-and-tell. Sign up for our private social space, Discord, to engage in chat  Social Sessions: Br... Read More →

Wednesday October 19, 2022 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Room B
  Social activity, Tea Time

12:30pm EDT

Tea Time (Break)
Tea time is a break in scheduled programming when attendees can rest, practice self-care, or dive into networking or asynchronous sessions.

Please use this time to engage in self-care activities to help keep you grounded throughout the day:
  • Look away from your computer screen for a minute, giving your eyes a chance to adjust and rest.
  • If you are able, stand up and take a walk around your office, home, or whatever space you may be in. Your lower legs and back will thank you!
  • Drink a glass of water. You may not think that you are dehydrated, but we often don't know until it is too late.
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Social Activities

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
Room A
  Tea time (break)

1:00pm EDT

It Worked in Japan Too: Open Educational Practices from Brooklyn to Kyoto
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My open education origin story began at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, and was very focused on cost. For me, OER provided a way for students at my public community college to access their course materials regardless of their ability to pay for a textbook. From that starting point, I experimented with more open educational practices, finding ways to increase student engagement and learning and decrease stress for students as well as myself. But how would these practices work in a completely different institutional and cultural setting? This was the question I set out to explore as a Fulbright Scholar in Kyoto, Japan. The prestigious private university I was matched with, Doshisha University, has very little in common with my home campus in Brooklyn, yet the open educational practices I brought with me were extremely helpful towards making my courses accessible to my students in Japan, despite my course being their first exposure to anything remotely open in education. Furthermore, the challenges I faced while teaching in Japan helped me push my open pedagogy even further, giving me new directions to explore in my teaching now that I'm back in Brooklyn. This lightning talk will quickly compare the different educational, institutional, and cultural differences and similarities between Kyoto and Kingsborough and how open educational practices were useful in teaching introductory as well as advanced courses at the community college, upper-level undergraduate, and graduate levels.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Session participants will learn that open educational practices are beneficial in a variety of educational contexts- not only in community colleges or intro classes, but also in upper level and graduate classes
  • Session participants will learn about several specific examples/adaptations of open educational practices that can be used in political science classes at multiple levels of higher education
Speakers
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Shawna Brandle

Professor, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Shawna M. Brandle (@ProfBrandle) is a Professor of Political Science at Kingsborough Community College and a member of the faculty of the Digital Humanities program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research areas... Read More →

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 1:00pm - 1:10pm EDT
Room E
  10 min (pre-record), Lightning Talk

1:00pm EDT

Curating and Creating Accessible OER with Confidence
Many institutions, states and school districts are using Open Educational Resources (OER) for reasons that are as much about innovation as they are about economy. OER are available for any curriculum and can be accessed, used, adapted, and re-distributed at no cost. And with careful consideration in the creation and curation process, they can be accessible to learners with disabilities and others who need accessibility supports to be successful in their learning. In this interactive session, we'll introduce openly available protocols for evaluating the accessibility of created or curated OERs in a number of formats (Word and Google documents, PDFs, videos, and more).

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Define what is meant when we say a resource is accessible
  • Explain the four foundational principles of accessibility in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  • Get started vetting for accessibility with an openly available protocol
  • Get started with creating accessible materials using readily-available tools and with guidance from an openly available protocol
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Cynthia Curry

Director of Technical Assistance, CAST
Cynthia Curry is CAST's Director of Technical Assistance and Principal Investigator and Project Director of the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM Center) and Principal Investigator of the Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems (CITES). Both projects... Read More →
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Luis Pérez

TA Specialist, CAST
Luis Perez is a Technical Assistance Specialist at the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials.  He holds a doctorate in special education and a master's degree in instructional technology from the University of South Florida.  He was selected as an Apple Distinguished... Read More →
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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 1:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Room D
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

1:00pm EDT

Get an Open Head Start! Introducing the OER Starter Kit for Program Managers
The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers is an open peer-reviewed and open copyedited textbook that was published this year to help individuals and groups who want to build and manage an open education program. The text covers learning about open educational practices, soliciting team members, collecting and reporting data on your program's outcomes, and more!
Join the contributing authors to learn about the book's creation process and how you can leverage its content in your own work. This session will start with an overview of our project's design and production, before jumping into an open discussion with the audience about the work involved in managing open education programs.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Understand, replicate, and customize our open peer-review and open copyediting process in the publication of their own open textbooks
  • Apply "The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers" in ways that fit their local needs
  • Extrapolate lessons learned from other program managers for use in their own context
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Jeff Gallant

Program Director, Affordable Learning Georgia, University System of Georgia
Jeff Gallant is the Program Director of Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of the University System of Georgia (USG) intended to promote student success and foster educational equity through supporting the adoption, adaptation, and creation of affordable and open educational... Read More →
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Abbey K. Elder

Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian, Iowa State University
Abbey Elder is the Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian at Iowa State University. Her work uplifts and supports instructors who are interested in open education, open access publishing, and other scholarly communication topics. Over the past four years, Abbey has greatly... Read More →
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Apurva Ashok

Executive Director, The Rebus Foundation, https://twitter.com/RebusCommunity
Apurva leads The Rebus Foundation and brings a tireless determination for systemic change in education at Rebus and through collaborative partnerships. She helps educational institutions build human capacity in OER publishing through professional development offerings such as the... Read More →
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Marco Seiferle-Valencia

Open Education Librarian, University of Idaho
Talk to me about Social Justice and OER! I am the open Education Librarian at the University of Idaho and a co-creator of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective.
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Stefanie Buck

Director, Open Educational Resources, Oregon State University

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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OpenEd Open Head Start Slides pdf
Wednesday October 19, 2022 1:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Room A
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)

1:00pm EDT

Localization of OER in Ghana: Overcoming Obstacles of Technological and Cultural Inaccessibility
In the research on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), authors are writing critically of the fact that OER developed in one part of the world may be "free" for users in another part of the word, but significant cultural and technological barriers render this hand-me-down OER ill-suited for recontextualization in lower-income countries. In this IRB research, we explore the lived experiences of facilitators in Ghana using OER created for a global audience and how they deal with intrinsic accessibility hurdles.

Multiple points of inaccessibility in terms of access, literacy, cultural context, and participation have been cited in the research (King et al., 2018). In terms of technological access, where close to 80% of the population of countries in Europe and North America have internet access in their homes, in W. Africa, internet penetration is at 27% for home connectivity and 50% for mobile connectivity (Measuring Digital development." 2020). Much of the OER research is done in English, and most OER is created in English, creating a language barrier for use (Cobo, 2013). Researchers in W. Africa indicate issues with cultural decontextualization and the "continual shattering" of African Indigenous Knowledge by Western education (Adyeye & Mason, 2020). In terms of participation, OER users from low-income countries are more likely than their higher-income counterparts to revise (mostly in translation), but problems with connectivity make it easier to download than to upload, creating barriers to participation.

We will then move into examples of localization practice. Given the complex barriers to the actualization of 5R potentials in lower-income countries, this presentation documents examples of how facilitators in Ghana actually localize OER both tacitly as teachers tailor content to fit their classes and intentionally through course revision and creation. Presenters will share how Ghanian youth are loading content onto mobile hotspot servers and gathering and creating content to be shared across W. Africa to address technological inaccessibility. We will also detail the experience of a handful of facilitators in Ghana, who use open content and seek to localize it for their learners. While their experiences are individual, they may have implications for better understanding practices in how decontextualized OER is localized and what barriers and solutions impact those practices.

As this is a participatory session, we will include participants in the discussion of what barriers they have experienced to localization. We will include participants in a discussion of how they have seen individuals localizing content. Finally, we will include pictures and examples of actual localization of content from Ghana.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Get a brief introduction to the literature on localization
  • Understand the barriers to localization
  • Share examples of localization from their own research and experience and how they see people overcoming these barriers
  • See and hear first-hand examples of localization practices in Ghana
  • Discuss implications for future research
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Emily Bradshaw

student, Curriculum Development Manager MTC
Localization of OER.
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Johnson Gbedze

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

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 1:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Room C
  40min (live), Discussion (Recorded)

1:00pm EDT

OER Creation Through an Equity Lens: a Collaboration Across Six Public Higher Education Institutions
Panelists will discuss their grant Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens (ROTEL): Culturally Relevant Open Textbooks for High Enrollment General Education Courses and Career and Professional Courses at Six Public Massachusetts Colleges' goal to create 72 culturally-relevant textbooks to improve student learning outcomes, particularly from underserved communities.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Determine strategies to identify, engage, and involve key stakeholders
  • Identify opportunities to incorporate external collaboration with community members and subject matter experts
  • Create a process for supporting OER design: onboarding faculty to an Open publishing process, locating content, assessing for cultural relevance, building and maintaining in a CMS
  • Discuss KPIs and their importance to assessing impact using a COUP Framework (i.e., Cost, Outcome, Usage, and Perceptions)
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Millie Gonzalez

Dean, Whittemore Library, Framingham State University
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Marilyn Billings

ROTEL Grant Consultant, ROTEL Grant
Please talk with me about the UMass Amherst Open Education Initiative, membership in the Open Textbook Network, the digital repository ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst and related services. I currently serve as the ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks with an Equity Lens) Consultant - Faculty... Read More →
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Sue Tashjian

Coordinator, Instructional Technology, Northern Essex Community College
Sue Tashjian is the Coordinator of Instructional Technology and Online Learning at Northern Essex Community College where she provides leadership for NECC’s Adopt Open project. She is co-chair of the Massachusetts DHE’s OER Advisory Council and is a member of the core planning... Read More →
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Robert Awkward

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

OER Librarian, Springfield Technical Community College
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Elizabeth McKeigue

Dean of the Library, Salem State University

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Live Concurrent Sessions

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Wednesday October 19, 2022 1:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Room B
  40min (live), Presentation (Recorded)
  • Topic Building Open
  • Region United States
  • Attribution Sue Tashjian, Millie Gonzalez, Robert Awkward, Jess Egan, Jacalyn Kremer, Emily Butler and Elizabeth McKeigue

1:15pm EDT

Zero-Cost Heroes: Creating Content to Celebrate Open Educational Resources in the Classroom
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Since the start of the pandemic, we have seen many instructors make an effort to create a more equitable experience for their students by replacing traditionally expensive textbooks with open, free, or low-cost materials. How do we recognize the efforts of these instructors and encourage others to do the same? At the University of Rochester, we created the Zero-Cost Heroes campaign to celebrate instructors who have gone the extra mile in incorporating free or low-cost materials into their instruction, making their classes more equitable and saving students money. The central focus of this project was a series of infographics made in Canva, a free design program, that have been featured on display screens throughout campus and across the university's social media.

In this presentation, I will share the process, workflows, and documentation involved in creating the Zero-Cost Heroes campaign. This will include strategies for reaching out to faculty and students, conducting meaningful interviews, and creating eye-catching graphics in Canva that celebrate the Open Education work already being done on your campus and encourage others to embrace Open as well.

By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Create infographics using Canva or a similar program in order to promote the use of Open Educational Resources on your campus
  • Take steps toward developing a marketing campaign that focuses on instructors who use Open Educational Resources in order to celebrate the use of open materials and encourage more faculty to do the same
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Pauline Schwartzman

Librarian, University of Rochester

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