OPEN FL

Presenter(s):

Hugh McGuire, Founder and CEO, Pressbooks, (hugh@pressbooks.com)

James R. Paradiso, Instructional Designer, University of Central Florida (james.Paradiso@ucf.edu)

John Martinous III, Wiki Knights Founder and President, University of Central Florida (john.martinous@knights.ucf.edu)

Session Description:

Join this informative conversation between UCF’s Jim Paradiso and Pressbooks’ Hugh McGuire about the power of OER adaptation, and how it can positively impact student learning in the classroom. Follow along as they describe how the true power of “open” is the freedom to optimize large, introductory open textbooks to have a greater impact on student success. Learn how Jim and a group of dedicated educators have enhanced an OpenStax textbook (General Psychology) by importing it into Pressbooks and adding H5P interactive activities, quizzes, and other interactives to make it more engaging for students—and by doing so, created an open solution that rivals costly commercial, pre-packaged courses.

Presenter(s):

Dr. Lori Baker, Southwest Minnesota State University (lori.baker@smsu.edu)

Dr. Amanda Bemer, Southwest Minnesota State University (amanda.bemer@smsu.edu)

Lisa Lucas Hurst, Assistant Professor of English, Southwest Minnesota State University, (lisa.lucas@smsu.edu)

Session Description:

This presentation will explain the process of writing three different grants (all funded through the Minnesota State University System Office) that resulted in an open, online textbook for a 200-level research writing course that introduces students to the reading, writing, research, and documentation expected in their respective disciplines.

Learn about the vision and process for implementing the grants, why an online textbook was the chosen format, how faculty contribution and adoption were achieved, how the textbook is changing campus conversation and aiding campus equity initiatives, and ways that you can build upon these successes and contribute a disciplinary perspective at your institution.

Presenter(s):

Nashla Dawahre, Director of Online Career & Academic Advising Services, Florida Virtual Campus, (ndawahre@flvc.org)

Ashley Thimmes, Product Manager, Florida Virtual Campus, (AThimmes@flvc.org)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Director of Digital Services and OER, Florida Library Services , (rsauls@flvc.org)

Sarah Paige, Instructor/Librarian, Eastern Florida State College, (paiges@easternflorida.edu)

Ujjwal Chakraborty, PhD, Dean of Arts & Sciences, FSCJ Online, (U.Chakraborty@fscj.edu)

Session Description:

The Florida Virtual Campus will share details about its collaboration with a statewide workgroup to add textbook cost indicators to Florida’s public postsecondary course catalog.  Learn how low and zero textbook costs are defined and identified; recommendations on classifications, use and design of the indicators; and best practices for implementation.

Presenter(s):

Amanda Coolidge, Director of Open Education, BCcampus, (acoolidge@bccampus.ca)

Andrew McKinney, OER Coordinator, City University of New York, (andrew.mckinney@cuny.edu)

Session Description:

Anyone familiar with the OER community knows that questions about the role of OER work in tenure, promotion, and reappointment are constants at conferences and on listservs where OER practitioners and administrators congregate. However, as criteria for tenure and promotion vary greatly between different types of institutions – and even between different departments within an institution – answering those questions can be daunting.

An adaptable advisory model, called the “OER Contributions Matrix,” has been created to approach this conundrum and to help guide faculty as they attempt to include their OER work in their tenure and promotion portfolios. The tool was developed by a work group within Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) -- a collaborative of state, province, and system wide OER initiatives that work together to help the OER community realize the potential of OER in a sustainable fashion. During this session, members of DOERS3 will provide insight into the OER Contributions Matrix, explain how it came about, and will share some potential uses for the document. Includes a short brainstorming session on how the matrix can be adapted for use at local institutions.

Presenter(s):

Yang Wu, Open Resources Librarian, Clemson University (ywu9@clemson.edu)

Session Description:

Peer learning services in higher education provide students free tutoring and supplemental instruction, supporting tens of thousands of college students each year.

This session examines the importance of peer learning services in building and sustaining the impact of OER programs, and will highlight ways to foster collaboration between OER and these services. The presentation will focus on a case study at Clemson University where peer learning services have worked since 2019 to integrate OER into its activities, and will discuss examples from a qualitative survey of 100 tutors who have used OER to highlight the usefulness of OER in peer learning.

Presenter(s):

Hailey Babb, Open Education Coordinator, SPARC, (hailey.e.babb@gmail.com)

Session Description:

Over the course of 16 years, the Open Education Conference ("OpenEd") evolved into the largest North American-based conference for open education advocates and practitioners. In 2020, the conference was left to the community to organize, and the pandemic moved the event online for the first time. Thanks to hundreds of community members, the virtual #OpenEd20 was a great success. A 2-year interim organizing team is busily planning for the 2021 conference.

But what happens after 2021? That part has yet to be decided—and you are invited to help! Between now and September 2021, OpenEd is going through a strategic planning process to reimagine what its role in the field should be, and how to redesign itself sustainably with the values of diversity, equity and inclusion at the core.

This session invites you to participate in a conversation about the future of convenings in the open education field, and the place the OpenEd might occupy within it. Led by members of the strategic planning team, the session will seek to share its lessons learned, listen to the perspectives of others, and shape ideas together that can help chart the future of OpenEd.

Presenter(s):

Meggie Mapes, Introductory Course Director, Faculty member, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas (meggiemapes@ku.edu)

Session Description:

Long-term OER sustainability and integration require graduate student buy-in. As future generations of pedagogues, OER advocates must create partnerships with graduate programs to integrate awareness and education about OER possibilities. In this session, an Introductory Course Director -- tasked with teaching, supervising, and overseeing graduate teaching assistants -- discusses strategies and barriers in creating formal and informal OER GTA dialogues.

Presenter(s):

Judith Sebesta, Executive Director, Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas, (judith.sebesta@austincc.edu)

Session Description:

Take a journey (virtually) to the Lone Star State for a tour of Texas Learn OER, a set of ten peer-reviewed, openly licensed, self-paced modules for faculty, staff, and administrators that can be remixed and adapted for any college, university, or state.

Presenter(s):

Lisa Lucas Hurst, Assistant Professor of English, Southwest Minnesota State University (lisa.lucas@smsu.edu)

Session Description:

This session will share and explain a curated collection of OER videos and ancillary materials that support reading, writing, and research skills in any class. Topics center on building knowledge and skills around information literacy (scholarship as conversation, the research process, using sources properly, paraphrasing), reading (efficient reading strategies, how to read a journal article), and writing (annotated bibliographies).

Learn how Lisa uses these materials in her online and in-person classes, and how concurrent enrollment teachers in high school settings are now also benefitting from this shared collection.

Presenter(s):

Mike Meth, Associate Dean of Libraries, Florida State University (mmeth@fsu.edu)

Michael Pritchard, Distance Library Services Specialist, Florida State University (mpritchard@fsu.edu)

Lindsey Wharton, Extended Campus & Distance Services Librarian, Florida State University, (lwharton@fsu.edu)

Session Description:

Library-licensed material is a central aspect of any open and affordable initiative in that it solves one common criticism of OER: the limited amount of material for higher-level coursework. FSU Libraries’ eResources expand the amount of materials available for higher-level coursework and complements other OER materials.

In this session, you will learn about the new Course Adopted eResource program at FSU Libraries, piloted in the Fall 2020 semester, which identified 848 total titles for 382 courses that are owned by the Libraries through existing licenses currently assigned as Spring 2021 required course materials. Learn about the program’s workflow, goals, overall impact, and its careful alignment with the Libraries’ and University’s strategic goals of reducing barriers to information and student success. The session’s presenters will also provide valuable recommendations for academic libraries looking to build upon current OER efforts.

Presenter(s):

Javian Morgan, Undergraduate Student, University of Florida Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (javian.morgan@ufl.edu)

Samuel P. Toby, Undergraduate Student, University of Florida Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (spromise.toby@ufl.edu)

Matthew Traum, Senior Lecturer, University of Florida Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (mtraum@ufl.edu)

Session Description:

Writing course materials is hard. Collaborative online OER platforms like Pressbooks allow academic authors to engage students as co-authors by crowd-sourcing content distribution generation workload. This talk describes two methods we have used successfully for student engagement in OER co-authorship of a textbook for a senior-level capstone engineering design course: 1) graded in-course assignments and 2) paid writing internships given to students who completed the course. The benefits and drawbacks of both approaches along with content output examples will be given. Students who are OER content co-authors representing both type of experience will give their impressions during the presentation on writing parts of an OER textbook from the student perspective. Finally, we'll posit a forward-looking Blockchain-based idea describing a new method to verify that the content of OER textbooks "in the wild" is valid by assigning Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to original digital files so their provenance can be independently authenticated.

Presenter(s):

Rouba El-Helou, Instructor of Gender and Communications, Notre Dame University (rouba.elhelou@gmail.com)

Rima Malek, Professor of Educational Technology, Lebanese University, (rimamalek@ hotmail.com)

Eugene Richard Sensenig, Professor for Gender, Communications and Global Mobility Studies; Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Notre Dame University Lebanon (esensenig@ndu.edu.lb)

Session Description:

The issues involved in the introduction of Creative Commons and the start-up of OER in the 2000s and 2010s prepared us to promote respect for intellectual property and original research during the global pandemic.

This session explores the challenges inherent in introducing OER in a country in which rule-of-law is weak. It will illustrate how online teaching tools and methods can assist instructors and students to cope with academics in a failed state. The three presenters -- Eugene Sensenig, Rima Malek, and Rouba El-Helou – have each worked with OER for over a decade, and have collaborated during the pandemic transition as of March 2020.

Presenter(s):

Meagan Button, Electronic Resources Specialist, Pacific University (meagan.button@pacificu.edu)

Michelle Lenox, Acquisitions & Cataloging Manager, Pacific University (mlenox@pacificu.edu)

Robbie Pock, Instructional Designer, Pacific University (pockr@pacificu.edu)

Jerica Tullo, Interlibrary Services Manager, Pacific University (nonellj@pacificu.edu)

Session Description:

The past year has brought challenges of a number and magnitude most of us had never experienced. As we head toward the light at the end of this very long tunnel, we are reflecting on not only what we lost, but what we might have gained.

For our small OER committee, this was, unexpectedly, a breakthrough year.

Despite increased workloads and strained bandwidth, we were able to clarify our charge, imagine a way forward for developing OER programming, and conceive of an architecture that coordinates separate but related efforts within the Libraries under one larger initiative: Affordable Learning @ Pacific.

In this session, we will share the struggles we had during our first year trying to scope, inventory, and focus. We’ll discuss the unexpected breakthrough and progress we made this year. We willshare the framework we’ve imagined to coordinate OER and other affordable learning efforts within the Libraries.

Affordable Learning at Pacific University

Pandemic Progress: Unexpected Achievements in Unprecedented Times

Pandemic Progress: Unexpected Achievements in Unprecedented Times - TRANSCRIPT

Presenter(s):

Arenthia Herren, OER Librarian and Chair of Libraries, Florida SouthWestern State College (aherren@fsw.edu)

Dr. Rozalind Jester, Assistant Vice Provost, Online Learning, Florida SouthWestern State College (rozalind.jester@fsw.edu)

Teri Wright, Coordinator, Instructional Design, Florida SouthWestern State College (twright8@fsw.edu)

Session Description:

In 2020, Florida SouthWestern State College created DEV 101, a self-paced, blended course designed to provide online instructors with the tools and knowledge to create an engaging and enriching online experience for students. The course design was a collaborative effort with instructional designers, librarians, and accessibility specialists. DEV 101 requires participation in activities in both the LMS and in three synchronous workshops: “Quality Matters (QM) APPQMR,, “OER, Copyright, and Fair Use,” and “Universal Design and Access.” The capstone assignment is a detailed Course Map, used by deans and chairs for course development approvals.

This session’s presenters will outline the DEV 101 implementation process, and share feedback and successes from the faculty who have completed the certification. Participants will learn the importance of cross departmental collaboration in creating well-rounded, student-centered training for online course development.

Presenter(s):

Susan Ariew, Librarian, University of South Florida (sariew@usf.edu)

LeEtta Schmidt, Assistant Librarian, University of South Florida (lmschmidt@usf.edu)

Matt Torrence, Associate Librarian, University of South Florida (torrence@usf.edu)

Session Description:

This session discusses the creation of a curated collection of openly accessible media in response to the expanding need, faculty demand, and rising costs related to commercial streaming video services as instructional tools in online courses. Given the context of COVID-19 and the push to move classes to online formats, the need and demand for streaming media content has only increased, while library budgets have continued to shrink. Presenters will outline the many challenges libraries face in providing instructors with quality commercial video content, including limitations related to cost, format, and interlibrary loan restrictions.

This session discusses the creation of a curated collection of openly accessible media in response to the expanding need, faculty demand, and rising costs related to commercial streaming video services as instructional tools in online courses. Given the context of COVID-19 and the push to move classes to online formats, the need and demand for streaming media content has only increased, while library budgets have continued to shrink. Presenters will outline the many challenges libraries face in providing instructors with quality commercial video content, including limitations related to cost, format, and interlibrary loan restrictions.