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Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Erin Jerome

Open Access Week

What is the benefit for choosing open access for your dissertation or thesis? How can your copyright choices help or hurt your scholarship? In this workshop, librarian Erin Jerome will present an overview of open access, copyright, and fair use as it relates to your research. We will also allow for plenty of time to discuss your thoughts and questions about these issues.

When Getting Funding Actually Slows Your Progress, Jennifer Nohai-Seaman, Michael Brown

Northeast Regional OER Summit

In 2014 Housatonic Community College began its OER journey with mathematics courses and the movement began to steadily grow. In 2016, we were proudly awarded the ATD OER degree initiative grant and then involvement of faculty in OER began to decline. We will discuss the strengths, shortcomings, and our future.

Growing Your Oer Initiative: Scaling And Sustaining Oer Adoption, Josh Baron, Ross Strader

Northeast Regional OER Summit

Moving OER from “early-adopters” innovating with new instructional models to mainstream use requires an institutional strategy aimed at removing barriers to adoption for faculty and students. This session will discuss strategies for scaling and sustaining OER adoption and building institutional support. Areas to consider include policies, sustainability models, professional development and support, technology, and achieving equivalency and improvement in the OER learning experience as compared to the non-OER resources it is replacing.

Leaping Into Oer At Ut San Antonio: Leveraging Partnerships And Communication To Spur Growth, Deeann Ivie

Northeast Regional OER Summit

This presentation will provide a snapshot of UTSA librarians’ work with OER in the past year and a half and will present future strategies for OER expansion. The UTSA Libraries began exploring OER in 2015, essentially starting from scratch in an unfamiliar realm. Since then, we have made substantial strides in building a framework to support OER awareness and adoption. In addition to learning about UTSA’s program, the audience will be encouraged to brainstorm, in small groups, strategies for improving existing OER programs and frameworks. What can we learn from each other to build more robust and effective OER programs? …

Affordable Learning Georgia: Lessons Learned From A Statewide Initiative, Jeff Gallant

Northeast Regional OER Summit

eff Gallant, Program Manager for the library-driven statewide Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, will discuss advantages, pitfalls, lessons learned, and necessary advice for librarians, instructional designers, administrators, and teaching faculty working within a large-scale OER program.

Affordable Learning Georgia (http://affordablelearninggeorgia.org/) is a University System of Georgia initiative that has implemented open educational resources and library resources at scale for three years. The initiative has focused on preserving academic freedom while providing support and incentives for OER adoption, while partnering with both internal and external organizations to foster the creation of new open textbooks, implement OER within a statewide core curriculum …

Open Rangers In Ontario: Fostering Open Community, Jenni Hayman

Northeast Regional OER Summit

Jenni Hayman, Program Manager for eCampusOntario will provide insight into new strategies that may help launch and sustain higher education open working groups. Using the Ontario Open Rangers as an example, Jenni will describe her work with this new community of practice, and share the Open Ranger Toolkit.

In this brief session I will cover the basics of the eCampusOntario Open Rangers initiative and describe some of the strategies for community building for higher education open working groups. Elements of the Open Ranger Toolkit will be shared and participants will be invited to describe challenges and successes starting or sustaining …

A Faculty Team's First Foray Into The Oer World: Using A Communications/Editing Course, Eileen Cusick, Renee Tetrault

Northeast Regional OER Summit

During this session, you will learn about the redesign of my communications course using OER – including curating resources, collaboration, and more!

How To Launch An Oer Degree: Discussing The Early Implementation Of Atd's Oer Degree Initiative, Ann Fiddler, Cheryl Huff, Richard Sebastian

Northeast Regional OER Summit

There is scant research on the impact of OER degree programs. For colleges to invest in launching an OER degree program, they need to know these programs benefit students and are sustainable. During this panel discussion, faculty in Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative will discuss the early data on OER degree implementation.

Achieving the Dream (ATD) launched the OER Degree Initiative in 2016, funding 38 community colleges from 13 states to create OER degrees by redesigning courses in a degree program through the replacement of proprietary textbooks with open educational resources. An important component of the initiative is a …

Community Of Practice For Open Education, Andrea Milligan, Jennifer Nohai-Seaman, Quill West, Una Daly

Northeast Regional OER Summit

No abstract provided.

Overview, Benjamin Davidovitch, Narayanan Menon, Jennifer Welborn, Wayne Kermenski

Patterns Around Us

No abstract provided.

The Open Hub: Six Years Of A Collaborative Oer Initiative, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Presentations Series

Presentation at the 2017 New England Faculty Development Conference

Closing The Digital Divide: Sharing Oer With Libraries, Schools, And Public Health Facilities In Africa And The World, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Presentations Series

Nearly 5 billion people around the world lack basic internet access, putting them at a severe disadvantage in terms of economic, educational, health, and social opportunity. While a number of providers are attempting to address this global digital divide, our panel will explore a collaborative effort to bridge this divide using several low-cost technological solutions, offering enormous potential for reaching the developing world. We will discuss our experiences using Outernet, Keepod, and RACHEL (Remote Area Community Hotspot for Education & Learning). These technologies allow our team to distribute open content to information-poor communities in a cost-effective and efficient way. In …

Discovering The Secrets Of Biology As Told By A Fruit Fly, Sonia Hall

Science and Engineering Saturday Seminars

No abstract provided.

Superhero Robotics, Frank Sup, Brian Umberger, Nick Sawyer

Science and Engineering Saturday Seminars

No abstract provided.