March 3, 2022
10:30 am - 11:00 am: Showcase Session 1
How "open" is open in the age of mass incarceration?: Learning & partnering with higher ed in prison programs
- Katy Anastasi, Clark College (WA)
- Lauren Zavrel, Clark College (WA)
OER advocates often take for granted that instructors and students have some level of access to the internet and computers. But what about the 300+ higher ed in prison programs throughout the U.S. -- do they have internet access? Do they use (or want to use) OER? What does OER implementation look like in a prison setting? How can OER practitioners and librarians better advocate for incarcerated students and their instructors? In this presentation, librarian Katy Anastasi and instructor Lauren Zavrel will share their experiences navigating OER work in a prison education setting.
Strategic Planning Through a Pandemic
- Una Daly, CCCOER
- Judith Sebesta, Digitex
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), a national community of practice, began strategic planning in fall 2019 expecting to launch the following spring. Using the Strategies, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) framework, members, external colleagues, and staff were consulted and a resulting vision emerged. Just as the goals and aspirations were ready to be articulated, the pandemic struck with much of the Executive Council refocusing on the urgent needs of faculty, students, and staff who were abruptly switched to remote learning.
Four pillar goals surfaced from the 2020 member survey and aspirational objectives were created in the fall. Final decisions on the resulting projects were delayed pending the new Executive Council (biannually appointed) seating in spring 2021. The new council sprang into action building out the resulting projects and readying the plan for execution two years after the initial process.
Join a panel headed by the Director and President of the Executive Council to hear lessons learned and how the plan will continue to be updated. The audience will be invited to review the strategic planning pillars and objectives and provide feedback on how CCCOER can continue to grow as a strategic, member-driven organization.
Part 1: Create Engaging Learning Experiences Using Open Educational Resources from NROC
- Angie Smajstrla, NROC
In Part 1 we’ll explore how open and adaptable digital content and applications can support instruction and curriculum development. Discover online tools to help personalize learning and deepen engagement for any learner, anywhere. During this session, we will take a closer look at free and low-cost resources provided by The NROC Project—a nonprofit technology organization collaborating with educators to solve thorny problems—and together, discover tools to help you realize the meaningful impact on the success of your students.
11:15 am - 11:45 am: Showcase Session 2
UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship - Overview
- Shinta Hernandez, Montgomery College
- Michael Mills, Montgomery College
- Ken Monroe, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
Open educational resources (OERs) increase access to education and empower students in the learning process. Open pedagogy-a component of OERs-places students at the center of that learning process in a more engaging, collaborative learning environment in order to achieve social justice in the community. Launched in 2018 at Montgomery College in Maryland, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating interdisciplinary renewable assignments that engage students in their communities through open education. This fellowship provides support to cross-institutional, interdisciplinary faculty teams. There are now eight two-year and four-year partner institutions spanning across North and Central America. In 2020, Montgomery College was recognized by the Open Education Global consortium (OE Global) for this innovative open pedagogy fellowship. In this presentation, participants will learn about the various components of the fellowship, how open pedagogy contributes to social justice and equity, how faculty can engage in this work, and how staff and administrators can support the international fellowship efforts.
Is "Inclusive Access" Inclusive or Exclusive?
- Nicole Allen, SPARC
- Trudi Radtke, SPARC
As campuses seek to make course materials more affordable and accessible, "Inclusive Access" programs backed by publishers and bookstores have increasingly gained traction. Also known as automatic textbook billing, Inclusive Access is a sales model that adds the cost of digital course content to students’ tuition and fees. While this model advertises some of the same benefits as OER, such as day-one digital access, it also has many drawbacks that are not always clear up-front: limited options for students, one-size-fits-all content, and the potential for unlimited price inflation.
This workshop is geared toward OER advocates and practitioners on campuses that are implementing or considering "Inclusive Access" programs. Grounded in the student perspective, it will provide background on the Inclusive Access model, including how it works, common challenges it creates, and how it differs from OER—a model that is truly inclusive of all students. The presentation will also share advocacy strategies and resources from SPARC and InclusiveAccess.org.
Part 2: Create Engaging Learning Experiences Using Open Educational Resources from NROC
- Angie Smajstrla, NROC
Activities during this Part 2 session will include an overview of our adaptive learning tool, EdReady, with real-world examples of how this tool has been implemented to address teaching and learning needs in math and English. We will also explore HippoCampus, an open repository of digital resources (13 subjects) that can quickly and easily be adapted to enhance your lesson plans, and boost student engagement. Participants will be given the opportunity to make a playlist in Hippocampus.org and engage in creating a personalized learning plan at EdReady.org.
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm: Showcase Session 3
Fundraising for Affordability
- Brittany Blanchard, Northern Arizona University
- Elizabeth Berney, Northern Arizona University
- Theresa Carlson, Northern Arizona University
- John Doherty, Northern Arizona University
During the early days of the pandemic, Cline Library saw that students and faculty were struggling with access to resources. Working with a list of required material from our university bookstore, we went through our collections to find texts we currently had access to and shared the information with the faculty. We received positive feedback from faculty who never considered the library as a textbook resource. Thus encouraged, we looked for more funds to purchase e-materials for more classes, to make life a bit easier (and more affordable) for students. Join us as we talk about a successful fundraising campaign for affordable materials with some surprising hiccups.
OpenSkill: open active Tools to create interactive and immersive assignments
- An Ha, Arizona State University
- David Schonstein, Inspark Education
Join Arizona State University technologists to learn how you can use OpenSkill Tools, in any discipline. Easily create textbooks and assignments in your LMS using OER and our open source tools, which aim to promote essential workforce skills. You will learn how to create interactive and immersive learning experiences for your students such as peer review, charting, and virtual tours.
OpenSkill is developing high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER) to improve student outcomes and lower textbook costs. OpenSkill OER promotes active learning and implicitly teaches essential skills. It is funded by a $3.4M Dept. of Ed. grant and represents a unique collaboration between the Center of Education Through eXploration and the Inspark Teaching Network, at Arizona State University, and the three largest college systems in the country (Ivy Tech Community College, Maricopa Community Colleges, Miami Dade College).
Introducing Lantern: A Multiformat OER Publishing Toolkit
- Lauren McKeen McDonald, Northwestern University
- Chris Diaz, Northwestern University
Librarians play an essential role in the publishing of OER at colleges and universities, often providing technology services for the production, hosting, and archiving of OER. Lantern is a free and open-source digital publishing toolkit that provides workflows, templates, and instructions for publishing OER without the cost and sustainability concerns associated with repository systems and publishing platforms that are typically used.
In addition to providing instructions for OER publishing, Lantern also provides an entry-point to using open-source tools; no programming or command line knowledge is required to get started. Using Lantern’s step-by-step instructions, users can begin with an OER manuscript in Microsoft Word format and produce a static HTML website with multiple OER output formats entirely online (no software installation required).
Lantern was developed with support from the Association of Research Libraries. A portion of funding was used for a multi-institutional Librarian Review Panel, whose feedback was incorporated in the toolkit’s initial release. This presentation will provide a high-level overview of Lantern, introduce minimal computing concepts, and invite the open education community to use Lantern on their next OER project.
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Showcase Session 4
The Power of No
- Elizabeth Speer, University of North Texas
- Karen Bjork, Portland State University
- Johanna Meetz, Ohio State University
- Amanda Larson, Ohio State University
The thrill of a new opportunity often leads to an enthusiastic yes without taking into consideration our previous commitments, strategic plans, and at times overwhelming workload. Learning how to say no and establishing boundaries in which we can say yes is an integral part of managing an open initiative. Join the presenters in a conversation where you’ll learn how to establish professional boundaries through the art of saying no on an individual level, on a supervisory level, on a programmatic level, and on a collection management level. We’ll share our strategies for saying no, provide tips and tricks you can use in your daily work life to help manage the process of saying no and create a space to have a conversation to practice saying no in your specific role.
OER for Spanish 101, 102, 201 and 202
- Albert Shank, Scottsdale Community College
- John Ellis, Scottsdale Community College
Opportunities for collaboration across colleges/institutions, Institutional OER initiatives: successes and lessons learned, Engagement with students about OER and textbook costs, Local, regional, national, and/or global arguments for OER, Experiences authoring and remixing OER
A Software Solution to OER Case Management and Data Tracking
- Megan Crossfield, Yavapai
With OER programs continuing to grow at many institutions the need for case management software is becoming essential. Yavapai College recently adopted a new software platform to organize and manage all its OER data in one place. Moving away from shared spreadsheets with version control, this centralized platform offers a custom and cost-effective way to create your own OER database.
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm: Showcase Session 5
Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona – A Regional Grant Collaboration
- Megan Crossfield, Yavapai College
The Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona is a grant initiative established in September 2021. Led by Yavapai College, a consortium of seven rural Arizona community colleges was formed to increase student cost savings through access to Open Educational Resources (OER). The consortium serves 36,676 students in 11 Arizona counties (77% of Arizona geographically). This session will provide an overview of this exciting project.
Open Access Journals in the context of global knowledge distribution
- Ivonne Lujano-Vilchis, Arizona State University
Open Access is a movement that has been closely linked to OER. Open Access is mainly concerned with eliminating legal, technical, and cost barriers for readers to access scholarly publications, especially those funded with public resources. In the last two decades, open access journals have been fundamental to accelerate the communication of research results and improve teaching. In this presentation, I will talk about the most common open-access models, the main contradictions of some models, and the opportunities for teachers to access open-access information. I will also present some options of global open-access platforms and non-commercial journals, such as the journal Current Issues in Education, published by Arizona State University. In this context, I will present the keys to identifying open access journals that have evaluation processes for their contents and contain copyright systems suitable for open circuits of knowledge distribution.
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Workshop 1
New tools for OER development: Machine translation and project management
- Josh Halpern, LibreTexts
- Delmar Larson, LibreTexts
LibreTexts, a large OER project, is developing technologies for project management to help instructors build their texts and provide global access to them. Our new tools include a pilot effort at machine translation into multiple languages directly useful, but allowing polishing by native speakers who are in or join our community. We will also demonstrate LibreTexts’ new project management tool that coordinates all stages of textbook building, from team formation, to construction, to remixing, to accessibility evaluation, to peer review, and when completed to gather analytical data about use. LibreTexts uniform structure allows apps to assist across the libraries, greatly reducing the effort needed to bring OER to students and the wider public. In addition to an introduction, this presentation will allow those who participate to try them out.
Just Getting Started: A Crash Course in Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Newbie
- Karen Palmer, Yavapai College
Are you new to OER? Do you love the idea of OER, but have no idea how to get started? This session is a great place to begin! Based on the Yavapai College Open Pedagogy Course for faculty, this hands-on workshop condenses a six-week course into sixty minutes. In addition to learning OER basics, attendees will get hands-on practice in using OER principles. Karen will walk you through applying open licensing, adopting and adapting OER materials, and creating OER material.
Virtually Awesome: Collaboration Across Campuses
- Lori Walk, Glendale Community College
- Christine Jones, Glendale Community College
- Aaron Fried, Glendale Community College
Working with unfamiliar people across campuses can be a challenge. From the action plan to the completed project, it is possible to work across campuses with strangers and achieve team objectives. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to choose appropriate tools to optimize collaboration in the creation of Open Educational Resources. Participants will learn how to structure their meetings for efficient collaboration. The group will brainstorm ways to optimize team participation. They will learn to foster collaboration and networking with colleagues within or between institutions. Participants will leave with the skills needed to prepare for cross-institutional team collaboration This workshop focuses on the use of the Google Suite of Tools, as used by the facilitators for successful collaboration in the creation of OER. Bring your team and let us help you to streamline your teamwork approach.
March 4, 2022
11:15 am - 11:45 am: Showcase Session 1
The MOER you Know
- Marianne Smith, South Mountain Community College
- Seth Daugherty, Mesa Community College
Come learn about the Maricopa Open Educational Resource (MOER), a web-based STEM assessment tool and course management system.
Commercial textbook marketing and the challenges to OER
- Josh Halpern, LibreTexts
For OER to succeed requires understanding the marketing not just of OER but also of commercial educational materials. Traditionally textbooks were marketed by publishers by providing services to faculty. This included examination copies, presentation materials (at the turn of the century Vu-Graphs, now Powerpoints, test banks, and more). This model has been disrupted by used book marketing, availability of “unofficial” copies, and not least OER. Today, marketing to faculty is driven by the availability of online homework systems, the publishers practically give away online access to the texts. Publishers of higher education materials and college bookstores have also ported a new model, inclusive access, which can be thought of as a version of the K-12 textbook model, marketing texts to institutions as packages. I will explain why both of these commercial marketing models are problematic although they are attractive to faculty and institutions and how OER can meet their challenges.
UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship - Student Showcase 1
- Danielle Truskowski, Community College of Baltimore County
- Casiana Pascariu, Mesa Community College
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Open Pedagogy Fellowship provides faculty with an opportunity to work with their colleagues and students to impact change via open pedagogy and community engagement. This fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating renewable assignments to help students become agents of change in their own communities. Join us at the student/faculty showcase where students and faculty will present their work and the impact they have made on and how they improved their communities and achieved global justice through open pedagogy using the UN SDG framework.
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm: Showcase Session 2
Make Chemistry an OER
- Gino Romeo, Yavapai College
- Sandy Raysor, Carnegie Mellon University
To date, there are few OER’s for chemistry although Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has adopted and adapted the Openstax General Chemistry OER text. CMU has added numerous interactive problems, quizzes, and a gradebook to the static Openstax text. There is one popular OER chemistry text for fundamentals/GOB chemistry by the Saylor Foundation. Currently, there's an effort underway between Yavapai College and CMU to enhance the fundamentals/GOB text in the same way the Openstax text was enhanced. This presentation will show the General Chemistry 1 and 2 courses Carnegie Mellon has available online, and the progress of the collaboration on the fundamentals/GOB OER.
UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship - Student Showcase 2
- Lynn Brysacz, Glendale Community College
- Dawne Bringeland, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Open Pedagogy Fellowship provides faculty with an opportunity to work with their colleagues and students to impact change via open pedagogy and community engagement. This fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating renewable assignments to help students become agents of change in their own communities. Join us at the student/faculty showcase where students and faculty will present their work and the impact they have made on and how they improved their communities and achieved global justice through open pedagogy using the UN SDG framework.
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Showcase Session 3
The OER Process: From Finding Resources to Student Feedback
- Flora Rudacille, College of Southern Nevada
- Gracie McDonough, College of Southern Nevada
UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship - Student Showcase 3
- Patricia Rhea, Community College of Baltimore County
- Alicia Lammie, Rio Salado College
- Hikaru Belzer, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
- Zarin Mahmud, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
- Sharon Brewer, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Open Pedagogy Fellowship provides faculty with an opportunity to work with their colleagues and students to impact change via open pedagogy and community engagement. This fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating renewable assignments to help students become agents of change in their own communities. Join us at the student/faculty showcase where students and faculty will present their work and the impact they have made on and how they improved their communities and achieved global justice through open pedagogy using the UN SDG framework.
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Showcase Session 4
UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship - Student Showcase 4
- Patricia Rupert, Montgomery College
- Cora Veras-Nelson, Pima Community College
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Open Pedagogy Fellowship provides faculty with an opportunity to work with their colleagues and students to impact change via open pedagogy and community engagement. This fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating renewable assignments to help students become agents of change in their own communities. Join us at the student/faculty showcase where students and faculty will present their work and the impact they have made on and how they improved their communities and achieved global justice through open pedagogy using the UN SDG framework.
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Workshop 1
Student-produced OER Videos
- Cody Anderson, Scottsdale Community College
In this workshop, participants will learn about available free video production softwares (there are many available--no single one is preferred). They will choose one software to make a brief, open video. Discussions will focus on how to use student-made videos as a vehicle for OER production and incorporate those into course design.
Lessons Learned: Developing an Open Pedagogy Modern Literature Course
- Elliot Churilla, Pima Community College
Come learn from my triumphs and mistakes! Last academic year I redesigned my LIT261: Modern Literature course aligned with open pedagogy principles and using OER and college library resources, and developed it as a Pima Community College online "master" course. In this workshop, I'll showcase the incorporation of open education principles into the content and design of LIT261, and focus on how major elements of the course are designed toward learner agency and empowerment. Along the way, we'll discuss adaptable OE-inspired strategies (assignments, activities, and assessments) of varying scales and other practical advice for adopting open pedagogy in our classes.
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Showcase Session 5
UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship - Student Showcase 5
- Andrew Egan & Marissa Gilmour, Langara College, Canada
- Monica Affleck, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Open Pedagogy Fellowship provides faculty with an opportunity to work with their colleagues and students to impact change via open pedagogy and community engagement. This fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating renewable assignments to help students become agents of change in their own communities. Join us at the student/faculty showcase where students and faculty will present their work and the impact they have made on and how they improved their communities and achieved global justice through open pedagogy using the UN SDG framework.
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Workshop 2
OpenSkill Workshop: get hands-on with open-source platforms to create textbooks and interactive assignments
- An Ha, Arizona State University
- David Schonstein, Inspark Education
- Bianca Zietal, Arizona State University
Join Arizona State University technologists in a hands-on workshop using OpenSkill Tools, in any discipline. Easily create textbooks and assignments in your LMS using OER and our open source tools, which aim to promote essential workforce skills. You will develop interactive and immersive learning experiences for your students such as peer review, charting, and virtual tours.
OpenSkill is developing high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER) to improve student outcomes and lower textbook costs. OpenSkill OER promotes active learning and implicitly teaches essential skills. It is funded by a $3.4M Dept. of Ed. grant and represents a unique collaboration between the Center of Education Through eXploration and the Inspark Teaching Network, at Arizona State University, and the three largest college systems in the country (Ivy Tech Community College, Maricopa Community Colleges, Miami Dade College).