April Cunningham attended the OpenEd17 Conference in Anaheim in October.\u00a0 The following are notes from the sessions she attended.\u00a0 Bold text indicates resources or ideas that faculty could consider for their own practice.<\/p>\n
Open Ed Conference Schedule<\/span><\/a> 2017<\/span><\/p>\n General Notes<\/span><\/p>\n Look at the <\/span>business law textbook<\/span><\/a> that the presenter is co-creating with her students.<\/span><\/p>\n 10:15 10\/12 Table 4 discussion about <\/span>cross disciplinary work between fashion and languages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cNo-textbook courses\u201d in information technology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Recommended Podcast <\/span>Teaching in Higher Ed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Session Notes<\/span><\/p>\n Wednesday, October 11, 2017<\/b><\/p>\n 9:30am Student Panel Keynote<\/a>\u00a0(video of the panel discussion)<\/p>\n Students from\u00a0 Santa Ana College reflected on how textbook costs and OER affect their educational success.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10:30am Equity, Bias and OER <\/span>https:\/\/openeducation2017.sched.com\/event\/BXe8\/equity-bias-and-their-relationship-to-oer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Panel Facilitator: Francesca Carpenter from <\/span>Achieving the Dream<\/span><\/a>, her work started in a position where she was working with Arabic language instructors. \u00a0She noted a lack of diversity among OER creators.<\/span><\/p>\n Equity in OER is often discussed as economic equity, but this session focused on freedom from bias..<\/span><\/p>\n Culturally relevant content.<\/span><\/p>\n Panel:<\/span><\/p>\n How does OER content intersect with or exacerbate bias? <\/span><\/p>\n Does remixing from OER alienate students?<\/span><\/p>\n What advice would you give to people who want to create equitable learning experiences using OER?<\/span><\/p>\n How do we get OER and equity conversations to happen on our campuses?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11:30am Launching an OER Degree: Interim findings regarding Z degree development (<\/span>report<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/openeducation2017.sched.com\/event\/BXfW\/launching-an-oer-degree-interim-findings-from-atds-oer-degree-initiative<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n For Achieving the Dream grants all of the classes have to use OER, not other free sources or library licensed materials<\/span><\/p>\n There may be disproportionate impact on who is enrolling in the ZTC and LTC sections because there is evidence from other sites that students who are more advantaged are more likely to find and take ZTC courses.<\/b><\/p>\n Odessa College<\/span><\/a> has all core associates degree courses as OER this spring or spring of 2019??? \u00a0These might be available on their website later and they will be available on the ATD website when they\u2019re ready. \u00a0ATD will have\/does have a library of the OER courses that come from their grant projects. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/b>report<\/b><\/a> includes data about academic outcomes, economic impacts, what it takes to implement a degree and sustain it, impact on institutional culture as it\u2019s experienced by students and faculty.<\/b><\/p>\n OER has to become a core strategic initiative so that supports are put in place<\/span><\/p>\n Teaching online is a key characteristic of faculty who are willing to adopt OER. \u00a0Faculty who adopt ORE are more likely than other faculty to say that cost is in the top three criteria they consider for selecting materials. \u00a0<\/span>OER curation takes at least 50% more time than for a typical course preparation and often takes twice as much or more time. \u00a0So faculty need support to reduce the time that it takes. \u00a0Supports include other instructors, Lumen, instructional designers, library\/librarian, syllabus from other OER classes, student assistants<\/b><\/p>\n ATD will share their survey instrument that they used to gather data from faculty already using OER <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1pm OER in First-Year Composition <\/span>https:\/\/schd.ws\/hosted_files\/openeducation2017\/8e\/OER%20in%20First-Year%20Composition_%20Sharing%2C%20Implementation%20and%20Collaboration-1.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Pima College, funded by an Achieving the Dream grant<\/span><\/p>\n The faculty who did this were already teaching textbook free versions of the two courses; writing 102 was created by two professors in collaboration and that made it easier to build the course<\/span><\/p>\n Online sections of writing 101 and 102 are all using OER, and some are teaching with OER in face to face classes. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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