Wednesday, April 19, 2017
8:00 am – 2:00 p.m.
Cascade View A&B (CC 203 & 205)
Linn-Benton Community College
Join Open Oregon Educational Resources for a group viewing of a NISO Virtual Conference. Drop in for one session or stay all day! More details and session abstracts.
Coffee and light breakfast will be available in the morning; lunch on your own.
The 21st century educational environment demands a certain amount of re-thinking and re-design of classroom support for learning – textbooks, information resources, and interactive courseware. An emphasis on cost-containment and accessibility suggests that education will become more open. This virtual conference will address the complexities of delivering instructional tools and digital resources in the increasingly open educational ecosystem. What is a textbook? Can it be engineered into an online learning environment, with content, study aids and quizzes delivered as appropriate to a personalized student experience? What is the long-term role of Open CourseWare, as created by the likes of MIT or Yale? What does a growing interest in OER suggest for the various stakeholders? What types of technological support may be necessary?
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Opening Keynote: Open to Change: Situating OER in Global Higher Ed. Mary Lou Forward, Executive Director, Open Education Consortium
8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Lessons & Learnings from the Gates Foundation’s Investments in Open Education within US Higher Education. Rahim Rajan, Senior Program Officer, Gates Foundation
9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Creating and Assessing OER Materials. Julie Lang, OER Coordinator, Teaching and Learning with Technology, Penn State University
10:45 a.m. -11:15 a.m. Delivering Open Access Monographs. Rupert Gatti, Founder and Co-Director, Open Book Publishers
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Delivering Open Courseware. Dr. David Wiley, Founder and Chief Academic Officer, Lumen Learning
11:45 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. Open Textbook and Online Learning Materials. Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Content Camp: A Collaborative Assessment Model from Ohio State . Ashley Miller, Educational Technologist, Ohio State University
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Challenges and Barriers to be Addressed. Melissa Russell, Director of Content Strategy, and Mike Matousek, Director of Content Initiatives, Cengage Learning
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion. Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
