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Closing Keynote: Open Educational Resources in the Future of Education: Materials Made for the New 2020 Reality

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Open educational resources have found their way into classrooms all over the world over the past decade.  As classrooms change and learning evolves, free and flexible materials are uniquely designed to change with the education landscape.  Rice University’s OpenStax textbooks have saved students more than $1 Billion on textbook costs and have been used by more than 36,000 educators and 14 million students.  The unprecedented events of 2020 present OpenStax and the OER movement with new opportunities: what has always been important to OpenStax and the OER movement — truly equitable access and diversity, equity, and inclusion in content and practices — is now critical to the success of students and institutions everywhere.
PRESENTER(S)
Daniel Williamson
Managing Director, OpenStax

Tracking Faculty Adoption Across Campus

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Understanding student and faculty perceptions of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) materials is an important first step of campus adoption programs/committees. A second important step is tracking faculty adoptions across campus to understand elements of student impact. This session explores how an OER Working Group determined what information to collect and why.
PRESENTER(S)
A. Nicole Pfannenstiel
Assistant Professor, Millersville University
 
Alex Redcay
Millersville University
 
Dan Albert
Millersville University

Faculty Perspectives on Open and Affordable Education: A Moderated Faculty Panel

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Faculty from institutions across Pennsylvania will describe their experiences with adopting and creating open and affordable educational resources. Panelists will respond to a series of questions about the challenges and successes of adopting and developing OER and share their advice for encouraging other faculty to participate in open and affordable initiatives. Audience members will also have the opportunity to ask questions.
PRESENTER(S)
Eric Landquist
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Kutztown University
 
Rosemary Martinelli
Lecturer of Communications and Marketing, Pennsylvania State University
 
Christopher Stieha
Assistant Professor, General Biology, Botany, Population and Community Ecology , Millersville University
 
Jennifer Swann
Professor of Biological Sciences and Interim Director of Africana Studies, Lehigh University

Meeting Immediate Needs Through OER Advocacy During a Pandemic

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The transition to remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced faculty members with the challenge of providing required course content in an online format. In an effort to support faculty members working on transitioning their classroom courses to a remote learning environment, Library Services continued its advocacy efforts through professional development programs. Offering numerous workshops during a week in March, librarians were able to demonstrate how to locate, evaluate, and adopt OER. In addition to searching for OER, librarians discussed how to use tools like Faculty Select (Ebsco) to use existing library eBooks to make the transition to remote learning easier while using this opportunity to discuss the difference between subscription resources and open content. These efforts have proven successful as faculty member adoption of OER content has increased.
PRESENTER(S)
Michael LaMagna
Associate Professor & Reference Librarian, Delaware County Community College
 
Louise Feldmann
Assistant Professor & Reference Librarian, Delaware County Community College

Taking OER to the LIS: Launching an Open Education Course for Library Science Students

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While there are open education continuing education programs for practicing librarians, there were no known courses focusing on open education in any of the ALA-accredited library science programs. This presentation will focus on the development and delivery of an online, one-credit course in Open Education Librarianship for the San Jose State University iSchool. Attendees will learn about the nature of the course, its learning objectives, structure and content. To encourage aspiring librarians to develop an appreciation of or passion for open education it is desirable to incorporate it into the LIS curriculum. This presentation will consider the potential and effectiveness of this approach for developing the next generation of Open Education Librarians.
PRESENTER(S)
Steven Bell
Associate University Librarian, Temple University

Open Education During the COVID-19 Era

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This keynote address will address how open educational resources address the pressing needs of students and faculty as we navigate the many educational challenges that come with the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, this talk will address how OER improves the conditions of marginalized student and faculty populations, who have particularly deleterious experiences, through more inclusive and equitable practices. The keynote will also challenge the audience to think more critically about traditional academic practices, procedures, and infrastructure by encouraging the adoption of open education philosophies at the institutional level.
PRESENTER(S)
Jasmine Roberts
Strategic Communication Lecturer,
The Ohio State University
 
Jasmine Roberts is an educator, speaker, writer and strategic communication professional. She joined the School of Communication at The Ohio State University in 2012, where she teaches upper level undergraduate courses in the areas of communication campaigns and strategic communication writing. Her specific areas of expertise include public relations writing, digital activism, campaign strategy, global marketing, feminist media, and media effects. Roberts’ advocacy work centers on the experiences of people of color, women and queer communities. She delivered a TED talk titled “I’m tired of talking about race”, where she speaks about the emotional fatigue experienced by people of color when discussing race with their white counterparts, coupled with solutions to this growing concern. Along with her communication expertise, Roberts is also a renowned open education leader. She has delivered numerous keynote presentations across the country on the topics of inclusion in open education at Rice University, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), University of Arkansas, Cleveland State University, San Diego State University, and more. She is the author of the highly-rated, openly-licensed book “Writing for Strategic Communication Industries”. She is a member of the Open Education Conference Steering Committee and the Midwestern Higher Education Compact. She earned her bachelor’s degree in communication studies and Spanish at the University of Michigan and her master’s degree in communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lightning Talks

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OER Advocacy and the Regional Campus

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This poster will delineate the connections and collaborations between a central campus and a regional campus, the parties involved, and the communication structure for advocating for the adoption and creation of OER materials.
PRESENTER(S)
Catherine Baldwin, Instruction Services Librarian, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford Campus
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Curating for the Course with OER

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Curating for the course with Open Educational Resources is a Lightening Talk to engage the audience with the three main points for moving away from outdated and non-inclusive textbooks to curating timely, relevant, inclusive, and cost effective resources for learners.
PRESENTER(S)
Bari Dzomba, Assistant Professor and MSHI Program Director, Temple University
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How Can OER Improve a Course?

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The purpose of this presentation is to provide a faculty perspective on how open educational resources can help instructors move beyond stale resources and actually improve a course for students. Points of discussion will include lowering financial barriers, molding open educational resources to fit course objectives, and improving student outcomes.
PRESENTER(S)
Jacqueline Phillips, Assistant Professor, Temple University
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Focus on OER: One Librarian’s Personal Plan for Promoting OER Usage During Fall 2020 at East Stroudsburg University

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During this lightning talk, I will discuss how I’ve been promoting the use of OER with my liaison department faculty (Education Department). I will also talk about how I plan to use Faculty Select from EBSCO to promote OER to all faculty on campus. I will finally discuss some of the challenges I’ve come up against while planning for Fall 2020.
PRESENTER(S)
Allyson Wind, Electronic Resources Librarian, East Stroudsburg University
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Using a student textbook survey to advance an OER initiative

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Learn how one library created, administered, and used the results of a student textbook survey in order to advance an OER initiative. We will cover fundamental details, including how we modified an existing survey, chose an administration tool, and promoted the survey. Additionally, we will share our approach to analyzing data and sharing results with various campus stakeholders. This session will focus on the practical aspects of the project in hopes that other libraries will feel empowered to conduct local surveys that support programmatic goals.
PRESENTER(S)
Janelle Wertzberger
Assistant Dean and Director of Scholarly Communications, Gettysburg College
 
Mary Elmquist
Gettysburg College
 
Sarah Appedu
Gettysburg College

So Many Ways to Save: Library Access to Course Materials

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In an effort to save students money on their required course materials, the university library can lead the way by providing more sustainable, centralized access to these readings. Presenters from Millersville University, Marshall University, and Villanova University will share their experiences with purchasing different types of course materials for student use and will answer attendee questions about how to enact similar programs at their own institutions.
PRESENTER(S)
Krista Higham
Access Services Librarian, Millersville University
 
Angie Strait
Collection & Resource Management Librarian, Marshall University
 
John Banionis
Metrics & Assessment Librarian, Villanova University
 
Marianne Watson
Director of Resource Management and Description, Villanova University