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Workshop Session Block 1: 8:30 – 10:30am
Room 162
Marketing and Encouraging Open Educational Resources
Nicole Finkbeiner, OpenStax
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
In this condensed workshop, Nicole Finkbeiner will draw on her experiences working with over 177 colleges and universities on their OER initiatives, as well as her marketing background, to guide participants through a process to create or refresh their marketing efforts and strategy around encouraging faculty to adopt OER. Each participant will walk away with a plan to increase OER use at their institution.
TOPIC AREAS
Advocacy Building
Outreach & Marketing of OER
PRESENTER BIO
Nicole Finkbeiner is the Associate Director of Institutional Relations for Rice University’s free textbook initiative, OpenStax, where she focuses on developing and managing the relationships with faculty adopters and administrators. A graduate of Kellogg Community College, Western Michigan University, and Michigan State University, she worked in college relations for community colleges prior to joining OpenStax. When not promoting Open Educational Resources, Nicole fills her time reading, working out, and dragging her friends to random cultural events.
Room 163C
Engaging Student Leaders
Kaitlyn Vitez, US PIRG
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
In this 2-hour workshop Kaitlyn Vitez will help develop strategies for OER leaders on campus to engage students and student governments, and help develop a plan of action, particularly to recruit dedicated student leaders to work directly with your program. Participants will leave the two-hour session with leads on how to identify good candidates and partnerships, incentivize interns, a job or project description customized to their program, and training plans and materials to bring back to their campuses for implementation in the fall semester of 2018. Participants are asked to bring a laptop to access sample materials during the workshop.
TOPIC AREAS
Advocacy Building
PRESENTER BIO
Kaitlyn Vitez is the Higher Education Advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG). She works to defend students on three key fronts: increasing investment in student aid programs, protecting student loan borrowers, and making textbooks more affordable. Working with the hundreds of Student PIRG volunteers and interns at schools across the country, they work to create and expand OER programs at the institutional, state, and federal level. Originally from New Jersey, Kaitlyn graduated from the University of Vermont in 2015 and now lives in Washington DC.
Room 165
Copyright, Licensing, and CC 101 Workshop
Ethan Senack, Creative Commons
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
In this session, we’ll cover the foundations of the copyright system and how CC licenses work within it – but more importantly, how they’re different from traditional, closed licenses. Geared particularly at demystifying the process and tackling common copyright fears, this session will be interactive as participants and presenters troubleshoot CC- and copyright- related questions, practice nailing the details around topics like attribution, and try out different CC-enabled platforms and search engines.
TOPIC AREAS
Hands on OER
PRESENTER BIO
As Outreach and Policy Manager for Creative Commons USA, Ethan’s focus is on crafting a message and strategy around open licensing, educating decision-makers about its potential, and expanding use of the Creative Commons licenses in the US. Previously at U.S. PIRG, Ethan worked as an advocate for students on affordable and accessible higher education, organized youth voter turnout campaigns, and conducted research around open educational resources and their impact.
Room 168C
Statewide Repositories
Jeff Gallant, University System of Georgia
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
In this 2 hour workshop, Jeff will work with participants on planning and implementing repositories for system-wide and state-wide OER programs. The workshop will consist of guided roundtable discussions, brainstorming sessions, and demonstrations, resulting in a collaboratively-generated list of criteria for an ideal OER repository with the potential for adaptation within future repository RFPs and project plans.
TOPIC AREAS
Sustainability and Scale
PRESENTER BIO
Jeff Gallant is the Program Manager of Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG), a statewide initiative to reduce the cost of textbooks to University System of Georgia students. Jeff manages the Textbook Transformation Grants program, now in its fourth year and eleventh round, runs all ALG communications including a website, newsletter, and monthly meetings with campus advocates, and is the administrator of GALILEO Open Learning Materials, a repository for all open educational resources created by ALG programs and partnerships. A Massachusetts native, Jeff has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and a Master’s Degree in Music Performance from Northwestern University.
Room 804
Measuring and Assessing Your Impact with OER
David Wiley, Lumen Learning
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
In this interactive workshop, Dr. David Wiley of Lumen Learning will introduce attendees to the OER Adoption Research Toolkit (co-authored by Dr. Wiley). The toolkit describes several pre-designed research studies in the areas of cost savings, student and faculty use of OER, student and faculty perceptions of OER, and changes in student outcomes. The toolkit also includes a brief refresher on research design, sample surveys for faculty and students, and a data collection template. The toolkit will soon include open source software for conducting some of the analyses it describes. After introducing attendees to the toolkit, Dr. Wiley will facilitate an adaptation activity in which attendees will design research studies for their own institutional contexts.
TOPIC AREAS
Measurement & Impact
PRESENTER BIO
David Wiley is co-founder and chief academic officer of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to increasing student success, broadening access and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources. Previously, David was Associate Professor, Department of Instructional Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University. Related to his contributions as a longtime champion of open education, David has served as Education Fellow at Creative Commons, Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and Shuttleworth Fellow. David conducted a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Instructional Technology at Utah State University, and earned a PhD in Instructional Psychology & Technology from Brigham Young University.
Workshop Session Block 2: 10:45-12:45pm
Room 162
Strategies for Scaling and Sustaining Successful OER Initiatives
Josh Baron, Lumen Learning
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS:
Designed around an OER Scaling and Sustainability Playbook, this workshop invites OER veterans and newbies to explore: 1) What are the common challenges around growing OER adoption, and what are successful strategies for tackling these challenges at your institution? And 2) What models are institutions pursuing to sustain their OER initiatives, and which might be a good fit for you? During the session, you’ll use the Playbook as a diagnostic tool to identify strategies to help you achieve your goals for making a significant impact with OER. We’ll also invite the group to recommend additional strategies and tactics to broaden the Playbook as a useful resource for the OER community.
TOPIC AREAS
Sustainability and Scale
PRESENTER BIO
As Executive Director for the Northeast (US) at Lumen Learning, Josh helps faculty, staff and institutional leaders to adopt open educational resources (OER) to increase access, decrease cost and improve outcomes for all learners. Previously Josh was Assistant Vice President for Information Technology and Digital Education at Marist College, where he led a variety of instructional technology initiatives. Josh earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan, and a Master of Arts degree in Educational Technology Leadership (ETL) from the George Washington University.
Room 163C
Using PressBooks to author an OER Textbook
Hugh McGuire, Pressbooks & Steve Covello Granite State College
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: In this 2 hour workshop Hugh McGuire and Steve Covello will guide participants through the process of creating an open textbook/OER on the Pressbooks platform. The workshop will consist of a collaborative effort to make, and publish a (very) short draft of an open textbook (subject to be determined by the group!). By the end of this workshop, participants will gain a greater understanding of the Pressbooks platform, and be able to confidentially enact/lead/discuss OER creation on Pressbooks at their institution.
TOPIC AREAS
Hands on OER
PRESENTER BIOS
Steve Covello is the Rich Media Specialist within the instructional design team at Granite State College. He earned an MS in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation from Syracuse University, with a concentration in Interactive Technology and Distributed Learning. Steve’s background includes teaching online, e-learning design and development in Articulate Storyline, website design and development on the WordPress platform, television commercial and broadcast post-production, graphic animation, and digital music composing.
Steve’s professional work involves working with faculty to improve student engagement in online courses through the use of multimedia, Web-based interaction, and common webtools used in professional practice. Steve is the administrator of GSC’s Kaltura video streaming system, Chalk & Wire e-portfolio system, and PressBooks ebook system. Steve has been a Research Assistant for the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction (IBSTPI) since 2013, an Open Education Ambassador for USNH, and a presenter for NERCOMP, AAEEBL, SUNY, and Emerging Learning Design.
Hugh McGuire has been building various tools and communities to support books on the web since about 2005. He is the founder of LibriVox.org (free public domain audiobooks, made by volunteers from around the world), Pressbooks (an open source book publishing platform built on WordPress). He is also Executive Director of the Rebus Foundation, a non-profit that is building the infrastructure to support books on the open web, by: building a new collaborative model for creating and publishing Open Educational Resources (OER), and building an open platform for scholarly reading. He lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
Room 165
Open Pedagogy
Karen Cangialosi, Keene State College
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
This workshop will begin with an exploration of an array of features that many practitioners feel are the essence or defining aspects of Open Pedagogy including leveraging the open license, connection, collaboration, student agency, sharing and contributing to the knowledge commons. We will then delve into a variety of tools and teaching approaches that can help to manifest these principles in our courses such as tools for building OER’s with students, Domain of One’s Own for creating and sharing openly licensed work, using twitter (and other social media) to build a personal learning network, tools for public web annotation like Hypothesi.is, student edited and created Wikipedia entries, and more.
TOPIC AREAS
Hands on OER
PRESENTER BIO
Karen Cangialosi is a professor of biology at Keene State College. Her courses include Animal Behavior, Evolution and Human Behavior, Tropical Marine Biology, Invertebrate Zoology and Ecology & Evolution. She runs a coral reef monitoring program in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and a research program on the behavioral ecology of spiders in Keene, NH. Karen spearheaded a movement to replace traditional textbooks with OER and other freely available resources for almost all Keene State College biology courses and has incorporated methods of open pedagogy in all of her own courses since 2016. She serves as the KSC Open Education Faculty Fellow where she facilitates an open pedagogy faculty learning community, assists in arranging Open Ed events, and is a co-leader of KSC Open, a Domain of One’s Own campus project.
Room 168C
Advocacy Building
Nicole Allen, SPARC
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
During this 2-hour workshop, Nicole Allen will provide a toolkit with tips for communicating effectively as an advocate. This will include power mapping and elevator pitches – as well as stakeholder mapping.
PRESENTER BIO
Nicole Allen is the Director of Open Education for SPARC. In this role she leads SPARC’s work to advance openness in education, with a dual focus on public policy and engaging the library community to advance this issue on campus. Nicole is an internationally recognized expert and leading voice in the movement for Open Education. Starting during her own days as a student, she has worked tirelessly to elevate the issue of college textbook costs and access to education into the public spotlight and to advance openness as a solution in both policy and practice. Drawing on her perspective as both a Millennial and as a professional with more than a decade of experience in this field, she has been widely cited in the media and has given hundreds of talks and trainings in more than a dozen countries on open education, open policy, and grassroots advocacy.
Nicole’s career began in 2006 with the Student Public Interest Research Groups, where she worked with college students across the United States to organize numerous large-scale grassroots campaigns on college affordability and related issues. In 2013, Nicole joined SPARC to develop and lead a new program on open education, which has since evolved into a robust community of practice of academic librarians at hundreds of campuses, and a diverse advocacy portfolio spanning state, national and international policy. She also continues to work with students through the Right to Research Coalition and as part of the organizing team for OpenCon.
Nicole graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 2006 with a Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy. Currently she splits her time between her home in Providence, RI and SPARC’s headquarters in Washington, DC.