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Monday, 5 October 2020 12:00 PM - Friday, 9 October 2020 6:00 PM EST
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The CSCU OER Advisory Council is excited to announce the upcoming CSCU OER Summit, a virtual event spanning five days for faculty to learn how to implement OER, discipline-specific case studies, and the concepts of Open Pedagogy, as well as engage with OER partners.
The CSCU OER Advisory Council promotes faculty academic freedom and student success through the use of accessible, affordable, and openly licensed course materials. The council membership consists of volunteers from each of the 17 CSCU campuses with various roles represented, including faculty and staff. (http://cscu.libguides.com/)
Launch Session
Moderator:
Cailyn Nagle, Affordable Textbook Campaign Director, US PIRG
Student Panelists:
James Angelopoulos, Central Connecticut State University
Hailey Moran, Naugatuck Valley Community College
Maya Vanderberg, Eastern Connecticut State University
Session Links: Lumen Course Catalog, Waymaker, and OHM.
2:00 - 3:00 Lumen Waymaker Affordable, Simple to Adopt, and Better for Learning: OER Courseware that Just Works
Explore how OER courseware can remove obstacles to success for faculty and students by simplifying the adoption process and combining outcome-aligned learning content with personalized nudges, intelligent messaging, interactive learning-by-doing, and other tools to strengthen student learning. 3:00 - 4:00 Lumen OHMThe Power of Open Content: Designing Low Cost, Highly Effective Math CoursesAs math faculty refine the design of math courses, OER offers unprecedented flexibility to shape the learning experience, test its effectiveness, and make improvements to better support students and learning. Open educational resources (OER) in mathematics education include not only open textbooks but also extensive video content and online homework systems with massive teacher-created question banks and algorithmically-generated problem sets. This session will include demos of 2-3 high-enrollment math courses and the process for easily designing and remixing courses. See how far math OER has come, thanks to a vibrant open education math community. Bring your questions about customizable OER course design, LMS integration, learning outcome alignment, courseware support, and other topics.
Presentation Slides
So you want to use OER, but where do you begin? For many, the journey to find OER for their courses can seem overwhelming, especially given already demanding schedules. Where does one begin their quest when there are so many options, numerous repositories, and multiple formats? This session, geared towards those newer to OER, will guide attendees through preparing for a search, including developing a list of your own criteria. Attendees will also learn about a few of the tried and true repositories and how to develop an effective search to yield the best results. Lastly, attendees will walk away with an understanding of how to evaluate the OER they find to ensure it meets your course objectives and facilitates student success.
This session will provide a basic overview of copyright law and Creative Commons licensing. The presenter will also explain how using Creative Commons licensed materials can give faculty more freedom and flexibility to use various resources in their courses.
This presentation will focus on the benefits and challenges associated with incorporating OER into the political science classroom. We begin with an exploration of helpful texts for implementing in survey courses. Next, we will look at resources for designing OER elements for advanced topic classes, with a particular focus on locating existing material in the public domain. The presentation concludes with a broader discussion of how the open education movement aligns with central tenets of political science, including promoting equality and democratic participation.
Exploration of OpenStax OER instructional materials
This session will explore how to evaluate OER resources for accessibility as well as provide tips on how to create materials that meet accessibility standards.
This presentation will discuss a pedagogical Open Educational Resources Journey, from the point of view of an educator and his students. The different steps of the journey will reveal its successes and challenges. It will start with the intention to find and use free resources to help low-income students and move to the adoption of OER. It will progress to the creation of supplemental material to support the use of Introduction to Sociology textbook created by OpenStax. Finally, it will discuss the use of Open Pedagogy, and the student’s creation of Open Educational Resources.
Participants in this interactive webinar will explore a number of free and open-source resources that are easily integrated into online, hybrid, or on ground life science lectures and labs across the subdisciplines. Active learning targeting deep concepts will be highlighted, along with the levelling of resources for majors, non-majors, and mixed majors classrooms. Finally, citizen science OER projects will be discussed for life science labs.
Two business faculty discuss how they started OER initiatives for two multi-section courses. Jason will discuss the process of creating his own OER materials for Managerial Communication, sharing those materials with colleagues, and then enlisting colleagues to help write a second edition of those materials. Robyn will discuss how she moved colleagues from resistance to adoption in the process of implementing OER in Introduction to Business and how students responded to these resources.
LibreTexts is a free, globally available, OER site with >1000 textbooks and tools that enable instructors to easily build custom ones. LibreTexts emphasizes ease of access with no extra IT costs for online reading, files to print every, book, export to LMSs, a new phone app, and more. To learn about LibreTexts come to our drop in Fri @ 2PM, or look at our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/LibreTexts or come to our pre-Open Ed 2020 workshop https://blog.libretexts.org/2020/08/06/next-librefest-scheduled-for-november-4-6-2020/ or drop us a line at info@libretexts.org
OERs are being used more and more for the instruction of introductory courses, but many faculty have been hesitant to adopt OERs for advanced courses. In this talk I will discuss how I took the opposite approach; my first OER was in a Graduate-level course because I was dissatisfied with the quality of available textbooks that were much too general for my specific topic, and sometimes had obsolete scientific information. I then started adopting OER for my advanced undergraduate courses and lastly adopted them for my introductory courses. I will discuss many ways that I have found OER to provide better quality, greater subject-matter specificity, and are more current than traditional textbooks in my advanced biology courses.
High-quality free resources like the Khan Academy are an excellent starting point for creating online content for art history and history courses. I will discuss how highlighting important pieces/topics using Blackboard Learning Modules helps students organize their learning and not become overwhelmed with content. Utilizing museum collections for virtual “visits” and taking advantage of Google Arts and Culture can further enhance student experiences.
This session will introduce the concepts of open pedagogy and highlight various ways that students across all disciplines can engage in creating or contributing to publicly available learning resources that benefit the community at large.
An exploration of OER materials as they have been applied in the Communication discipline in both individual courses and large-scale general education contexts.
PressbooksEDU offers a simple, affordable, and accessible way to create, customize, and host a single open educational resource or other educational online material.
Exploration of the use of OER in Chemistry courses and the impact on student engagement.
Student’s academic success or failure partially depends on their ability to purchase required course materials such as textbooks, computational software, and homework management software. While the cost of living and tuition continue to increase, wages and salaries are stagnated. How can the use of open educational resources (OER) help reduce the financial barrier for students and assist with their course completion? Dr. Kim Ward, the Coordinator of Math Foundations Program at Eastern Connecticut State University, began exploring OER in 2008. She has now introduced and utilized OER materials throughout two highly populated math courses at the University and it is her preferred option when teaching various additional courses within her department. Dr. Ward will share her experience selecting, preparing and using OER in her math classes to create an active learning and collaborative environment.
This panel session will discuss the role OER plays in supporting equity in various facets of higher education.
Moderator
G. Duncan Harris, CEO, Capital Community College
Panelists
Robin Avant, Dean of Academic Affairs, Housatonic Community College
Sharale Mathis, Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, Middlesex Community College
Josiah Ricardo, Professor of Sociology & Program Coordinator for Social Service, Capital Community College
Exploration of the OER Commons platform for OER curation and creation
Cailyn Nagle, the Affordable Textbook Campaign Director for U.S. PIRG, will lead the afternoon student session. The U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) advocates for student rights and has focused on the rising cost of college textbooks. Cailyn will lead a student panel discussion and provide strategies and tactics for students to advocate for greater OER awareness and adoption.
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