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Action: Navigating OAR Essentials |
Sara Parme & Heather Tompkins
ACA
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Resources and tips on how to define and explain OAR, as well as available resources when you need training or need to provide training on OAR. |
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| 10:00-10:50 am EST |
Open Minds, Open Doors: Faculty Collaboration and Affordable Education |
Ruth Ann Marotta & Jody Hanshew
Emory & Henry College (VA)
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Reaching past costly textbooks and dipping into the free pool of open access resources (OAR) enables teachers to level the academic playing field for students. While there is an increasing awareness of OAR’s value, there is still room for growth in the adoption and creation of these resources. This presentation highlights the importance of fostering a culture of communication and collaboration, thereby encouraging the use and creation of open materials. This makes creative content accessible and offers emotional and social rewards to faculty, fostering a sense of community within departments and the institution. Our presentation also encourages participants to evaluate course materials and how they are used, strengthening pedagogical awareness. We will use beginning writing courses to showcase the integration of open materials and the importance of collaboration between faculty members and the library. Finally, we will explore the value of recognizing and rewarding the creation of innovative open educational resources. Librarians, academic administrators, and faculty in all disciplines will benefit from this presentation. |
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Brainstorms, Investigations, and Resource-Sharing If learning materials are not provided in a textbook, we must ask ourselves what material is most essential, effective, and supportive? What material do we use most frequently? For example, is there a resource that you will return to over and over again in your course/s? First, we will spend five minutes brainstorming/listing the most important material we use in one or more courses. Second, we will enter into a ten-minute investigation of OAR-related sites where we might find this information. Finally, we will take a few minutes to share what we have found with session participants. |
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| 11:00-11:50 am EST |
Collaborative Learning and Creation of Open Educational Resources: A Heutagogical Approach |
Teri Terigele
University of the South (TN) |
This presentation introduces an interactive class activity aiming to cultivate learner agency by engaging students in the collaborative creation of Open Educational Resources (OERs). Grounded in a heutagogical approach, the activity empowers students to take ownership of their learning journey and contribute actively to the broader learning community. The activity guides students in developing diverse OERs, including case studies, real-world scenarios, quizzes, interactive videos, and podcasts, leveraging their unique perspectives and experiences to demonstrate understanding of concepts and theories. The benefits are manifold. This activity enhances students' understanding of OERs and motivates them to integrate these resources into future learning. The collaborative nature fosters the sharing of insights and improves students’ communication and decision-making skills in a group setting. The process of promoting the created OERs beyond the classroom cultivates students’ autonomy, responsibility, and effective communication with diverse audiences. The presentation will provide an example of integrating this OER activity into a cross-cultural psychology class. Attendees are encouraged to adapt the activity to their specific classes or disciplines, emphasizing the importance of involving students in creating and adopting OERs for overall student success. This presentation is particularly relevant for faculty interested in incorporating OERs into their teaching and librarians with expertise in or a desire to educate colleagues on licensing and promoting open educational resources. Together, attendees can tailor the activity to different disciplines and institutions, fostering a collective effort to enhance the educational experience. |
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The interactive activity following the presentation will invite attendees to customize the activity for their specific discipline or institution. Faculty members will individually pinpoint a type of OER suitable for their classes, collectively deliberating on the learning goal(s) the activity can address. Librarian attendees will compile potential logistics for licensing and promoting student-created OERs, taking into account the intended audience. By the session's conclusion, participants will collaboratively formulate action plans to adapt the activity to their institutions, weighing potential benefits and challenges. |
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| 12:30 - 12:50 pm EST |
Action: Advocating for OAR Adoption |
Sara Parme & Heather Tompkins
ACA
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Research and references are presented for when you need to "make the case" for OAR on your campus. |
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| 1:00-1:50 pm EST |
Pedagogical Collaboration: Designing a Team Approach to Adopting OER and OAR Resources |
Rob O'Lynn
& Naulayne Enders
Kentucky Christian University (KY)
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The focus of this proposed workshop will be to demonstrate an approach to collaboration between faculty and library staff to adopt OER and OAR resources for classroom instruction. The learning objectives for this proposed workshop are:
1. To IDENTIFY common concerns expressed by faculty when adopting OER and OAR resources.
2. To CONSTRUCT a collaborative model between faculty and library staff to adopt OER and OAR resources.
3. To EVALAUTE the provided collaborative model for adopting OER and OAR resources.
4. To DESIGN appropriate models based on the learning contexts of those participating in the workshop.
The workshop will operate functionally to a case study, with a faculty member struggling to discover OER and OAR resources for a religious studies course, a discipline that has been hesitant to adopt OER and OAR resources. The workshop will then move to a discussion between the faculty member and library staff about a model for selecting OER and OAR resources, which will be demonstrated. This demonstration will use the principles of backward course design to create a list of resources that meet objectives and assessments. The workshop will conclude with the participants being invited to begin the collaborative process. The workshop is designed primarily for faculty in a variety of academic disciplines and librarians. |
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The interactive activity will use the principles of backward course design to create a list of resources that meet objectives and assessments. A form will be provided to participants that will be used to record course objectives and assessments and then utilized in a step by step process to identify OAER. |
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| 2:00-2:50 pm EST |
Empowering Educators: A Guide to Creative Commons Licensing for Open Educational Resources |
Maria Taylor
Berea College (KY) |
Are you interested in creating your own open textbooks or adapting existing ones? Do you have other course materials such as assignments and syllabi that you would like for others to be able to reuse and adapt? In this presentation, we’ll explore Creative Commons (CC) and why its licenses are integral to the process of OAR adoption, adaptation, and creation. We'll delve into the anatomy of CC licenses, applying CC licenses to your own work, and the licensing considerations when adapting CC licensed works. Lastly, attendees will leave with ways to get involved with Creative Commons, helpful CC resources, and places to share their CC licensed works. This presentation is geared toward faculty and librarians that have little to no experience with Creative Commons licenses. After this session, attendees will be able to apply a CC license to their own creations and/or adaptations of other CC licensed works. |
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Attendees will be able to share ideas and reflect during the presentation by using Padlet. At the end of the presentation, attendees will apply a Creative Commons license to an assignment, syllabus, or other course material that they have already created. There will be an opportunity to share with the group and discuss ideas for using CC licensing in the future. |
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| 3:00-3:20 pm EST |
Action: Building OAR Conversations |
Sara Parme & Heather Tompkins
ACA
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An action plan on how to share the information you learned today out to your campus community. |
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