OER Advocacy and the Regional Campus
DESCRIPTION
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
DESCRIPTION
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Open Educational Resources is a Lightening Talk to engage the audience with the three main points for moving away from outdated and non-inclusive textbooks to curating timely, relevant, inclusive, and cost effective resources for learners.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?
DESCRIPTION
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
DESCRIPTION
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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