Tuesday, May 21, Hutchins Library Flexspace, Registration Required

  • A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 8:30am.
  • Lunch will be provided after the sessions at 11:30am.
  • Please bring a laptop or tablet to participate in the following sessions.

9-10am Empowering Educators: A Guide to Creative Commons Licensing for Open Educational Resources – Maria Taylor, Open Educational Resources Librarian

Are you interested in adapting existing open textbooks or creating your own? Do you have other course materials such as ancillaries or assignments that you would like for others to be able to reuse and adapt? In this presentation, we will explore Creative Commons (CC) and why its licenses are integral to the process of OER adoption, adaptation, and creation. We will 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. At the end of the presentation, attendees will have the opportunity to apply a Creative Commons license to course materials that they have already created, adapted, or remixed.

 10:15-11:30am Breaking Down Barriers: Accessibility and Open Educational Resources – Holly Hatfield, Disability and Accessibility Senior Specialist & Maria Taylor, Open Educational Resources Librarian

One of the goals of Open Educational Resources is to provide access to course content for more people, with fewer barriers. In this session, we will discuss why accessibility matters in the context of OER. We will walk through best practices for accessibility when creating OER, and you will have the opportunity to workshop an existing document such as a syllabus, assignment, or other course resource. We will also provide information about useful accessibility tools and resources.

Register for May 21 sessions today!

Wednesday, May 22 Virtual Session, Registration Required

10-11:30am Beyond Cost: The Pedagogy and Potential of Open Education  - Robin DeRosa

At the heart of Berea College is a commitment to equity and inclusion. The lack of tuition charges at Berea are an extension of these values, not the sum total of them. Open Education is a movement that is sometimes reductively defined by its focus on making learning materials free, but no-cost textbooks are just one extension of the values of equity and inclusion that underpin an “open" approach to teaching and learning. In this presentation, Robin will explore the connections between Berea’s values and the values at the heart of Open Education. She will especially consider how the pedagogical practices that have emerged in Open Education can amplify equity and catalyze student engagement, and offer ideas on how open values can help us rethink curriculum design, instruction, research, and the role of the higher education in supporting the public good.

About Robin DeRosa

Robin DeRosa is the director of Learning and Libraries at Plymouth State University, a public university in New Hampshire. While her academic training was originally focused on early American literature and history, she now researches and writes about higher education and advocates for open, public, and sustainable futures for learning. You can read more about Robin and her work on her website.

Register for May 22 sessions today!

Stipends

You are welcome to attend one or both days.  

  • Full attendance (May 21 & 22 sessions) = $300.00
  • May 21 sessions = $150.00
  • May 22 session = $75.00

Stipends are available for eligible teaching faculty.