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Envisioning Open Pedagogy In Graduate Book Marketing, Corinne Gould May 2021

Envisioning Open Pedagogy In Graduate Book Marketing, Corinne Gould

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This short presentation will outline an assignment for adoption in the Fall 2021 graduate-level Book Marketing course at Portland State University. Students will collaboratively develop an OER best practices guide to empower and support OER creators in marketing, advertising, amplifying, and making more discoverable their OER to an audience of faculty, librarians, and other stakeholders who influence OER adoption. Sample marketing plans and case studies will be designed in partnership with Open Oregon and PDXOPEN. The idea for this assignment comes from Amy Hofer (Statewide Open Education Library Services) with support from Karen Bjork (Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Publishing at …


Oregon Open Learning: Oregon’S K-12 Oer Hub, Susan Payne, Vanessa Clark May 2021

Oregon Open Learning: Oregon’S K-12 Oer Hub, Susan Payne, Vanessa Clark

Open Educational Resources Symposium

A brief introduction to the Oregon Open Learning Hub and its potential to impact K-12 education, including how it can be a powerful tool utilized by pre-service educators.

OER Symposium Asynchronous Materials:

  1. Video introduction to the Oregon Open Learning Hub (10 mins.)
  2. Activity: Guided exploration of the Hub
  3. Video: Story of a Resource (4 mins.)
  4. More to Explore: User Guide for Oregon Open Learning

Birds of a Feather Session 2: May 14, 1-2

Room 2: OER in Oregon’s K-12

Zoom Link: https://lanecc.zoom.us/j/92705512361


Writing Equitable Test Questions, Michelle Huss May 2021

Writing Equitable Test Questions, Michelle Huss

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Generating test questions can be a challenging and ominous task. What if we could generate relevant questions that also allowed space for the diverse voice of the student response? Several strategies for building questions that are equitable and towards higher levels on Bloom's taxonomy are shared. Further, we can empower our students to take responsibility of their own learning by generating their own tests using Open Pedagogy.

Equity in Open STEM Courses (Google Doc)
- Generating High Level Assessment Questions that Allow Student Voice

Writing Assessment Questions (YouTube) - that foster critical thinking - that allow the student to use …


Open Source Learning Materials For Introductory Chemistry Coursework In General, Organic And Biochemistry: Meeting Education Needs From High School To College, Patricia Flatt May 2017

Open Source Learning Materials For Introductory Chemistry Coursework In General, Organic And Biochemistry: Meeting Education Needs From High School To College, Patricia Flatt

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This panel discussion will focus on the development and pilot implementation of an interactive, multimedia online OER resource for the 100-level General, Organic and Biological Chemistry course series. This OER project has been developed by a team of faculty and upper division undergraduate students. The panel will present their team approach to developing these resources and the software utilized to create video tutorials, interactive PDF files, and online quiz materials. Stumbling blocks and program challenges will also be presented.


Oer Collaboration Between Colleges, John Schoppert, Jackie Ray May 2017

Oer Collaboration Between Colleges, John Schoppert, Jackie Ray

Open Educational Resources Symposium

In an ongoing effort to bridge OER collaboration between colleges, Blue Mountain CC, Columbia Gorge CC, and Klamath CC collectively worked on the adoption of several transfer courses. We worked with faculty teams who adapted OER for courses in sociology and US history sequences, and a communication course. Through cross-collaboration these teams adapted OER to fit their own needs while also adding OER resources accessible statewide. We will share how we developed bridges, managed collaboration, and tried to guide OER adaption in a collaborative environment.


How To Open Pedagogy: Tools And Techniques For Transforming Teaching, Robin Derosa May 2017

How To Open Pedagogy: Tools And Techniques For Transforming Teaching, Robin Derosa

Open Educational Resources Symposium

In this workshop, we will explore the possible ways that OER and Open Pedagogy can enliven courses, empower students, and excite faculty. We will look at real examples of creative and successful Open Ped assignments from across multiple disciplines, and cover some of the most useful tools that are out there to help faculty engage students with their scholarly and professional communities beyond the university walls. There will be an opportunity to engage in a short design sprint focused around a course assignment, and participants will leave with concrete ideas about how they can reduce the cost of course materials, …


Oer-Enabled Pedagogy, David Wiley May 2017

Oer-Enabled Pedagogy, David Wiley

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Lunch keynote


Human A&P: Collaborative Oer Adoption, Lindsay Biga May 2017

Human A&P: Collaborative Oer Adoption, Lindsay Biga

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Despite the availability of open source textbooks, few faculty have adopted OERs as primary course resources for several reasons. Faculty are dubious as to whether OERs are sufficiently rigorous academically and as extensively reviewed as traditional textbooks distributed by major publishers. Additionally, faculty note that many scientific disciplines rely heavily on high quality, scientifically accurate figures, an area in which OERs pale in comparison to traditional textbooks. Further, OER ancillary materials are often inferior when available at all. But perhaps most importantly, faculty have not adopted OERs because they are basically satisfied with their current textbooks and lack the time …


The Oer As Open Creative Act, Jenn Kepka May 2017

The Oer As Open Creative Act, Jenn Kepka

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This session will discuss ways that OER texts can be opened for student and colleague input, both as a way to encourage open pedagogy and as a way to increase the work's sustainability. The example used will be the 2017-2017 writing texts created for WR121 and WR122. We will also discuss the constructivist and connectivist value of creating educational resources that are adaptable by students and faculty. Attendees will be invited to brainstorm and then workshop their own materials during the session so that they leave with an action list of next steps to take in opening their own class …


Statistics: The Text For Student Success, Larry Shrewsbury May 2017

Statistics: The Text For Student Success, Larry Shrewsbury

Open Educational Resources Symposium

My session is for those looking for an open source textbook for Statistics (MTH 243). As a grant recipient the faculty from both Southern Oregon University and Rogue Community College looked at several open source textbooks for our MTH 243 classes. We first looked at the very popular OpenStax Statistics, but the consensus was that it wasn’t as good as the textbook we’ve been using (Michael Sullivan’s Statistics, Informed Decisions using Data, 4th Edition). So we agreed to keep looking at more open source Statistics textbooks. We came across one that doesn’t seem to be very well known, but some …


Introductory Psychology Oer Adoption, Alishia Huntoon May 2017

Introductory Psychology Oer Adoption, Alishia Huntoon

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Introductory psychology courses enroll many students each year, and at least one is typically taken by students at Oregon Tech for their general education requirements. The project's aim was to provide open educational resources, including study resources, for those enrolled in all sections, negating textbook purchase requirements. This presentation will cover this project's process and end products.


The Benefits Of Oer In A University Arabic Course, Lina Gomaa May 2017

The Benefits Of Oer In A University Arabic Course, Lina Gomaa

Open Educational Resources Symposium

I will share my experience writing and e-publishing my open textbook and using it in the classroom. It is the first Arabic textbook in the Open Textbook library at the University of Minnesota and Portland State University’s library website. The book has been downloaded over 300 times all over the world in a year and counting. In addition to the e-book, I will discuss my experience with mediaspace.pdx.edu in class teaching and the students’ reactions to incorporating it in teaching Arabic.


Converting Calculus Oer Into A Multimedia Text, Alex Jordan, Carly Vollet May 2017

Converting Calculus Oer Into A Multimedia Text, Alex Jordan, Carly Vollet

Open Educational Resources Symposium

We have used MathBook XML software to convert two popular OERs for calculus into a multimedia format that

integrates online homework support. We'll demonstrate various features of the output, and the methods we use to edit these OERs. As time permits, we'll peek at some other OER projects that are using MathBook XML.

Our goal is to promote these two particular OERs and also the use of MathBook XML, which, in spite of its name, is an excellent tool for writing OER in all subjects. Potential attendees who are not particularly interested in mathematics may still be interested in the …


A Living Text: Rethinking Developmental Reading & Writing, Monique Babin, Carol Burnell, Sue Pesznecker May 2017

A Living Text: Rethinking Developmental Reading & Writing, Monique Babin, Carol Burnell, Sue Pesznecker

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Carol Burnell, Nicole Rosevear, Susan Pesznecker, and Monique Babin of Clackamas Community College (CCC), along with Jaime Wood of Portland State University, are currently developing an OER for CCC's developmental reading and writing courses, WRD-090 and -098. This project grew from a desire to create a resource that would evolve and grow along with the experience of the students and educators who use it. Their OER provides practical advice for reading and writing about college-level texts (books, articles, websites, visual texts, videos, and other multimedia). It guides students to work with these texts in different ways, according to the demands …


Oer Impact Research, Zip Krummel, John Schoppert, Jennifer Lantrip, Jessica Knoch, Jenn Kepka, Amy R. Hofer May 2017

Oer Impact Research, Zip Krummel, John Schoppert, Jennifer Lantrip, Jessica Knoch, Jenn Kepka, Amy R. Hofer

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Open Oregon Educational Resources sponsored a research group to measure the impact that OER have on teaching and learning. This session will report on preliminary research results from some of the research teams across the state.

Columbia Gorge Community College implemented a comparative research project looking at the effects of OER in the classroom. During the winter and spring terms of 2017, two psychology courses - 201A and 202A - were split in half. One half of the students in class used a traditional publisher’s textbook, the other half used OER developed by the instructor. Guided by the question “How …


Open Education Collaborations In Higher Education, Marilyn Billings May 2017

Open Education Collaborations In Higher Education, Marilyn Billings

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Morning keynote.