Below is a detailed outline of the conference schedule. You can see the full program on our conference site and or download a PDF of the program here. Please contact open.ed.texas@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
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Room 3 |
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9:30 AM |
Networking session | ||
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10:00 AM |
Welcome and Conference Orientation: Welcome from Conference Organizers and Planners, plus useful information to help you navigate the virtual conference environment |
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10:30 AM |
#GoOpenHumanities: Building Bridges between Scholarship and Teaching with OER | Building institution-wide programs to support and grow OER on your campus | Changing the Narrative with Pre-Service Teachers: From Copyright Restrictions to Creative Commons Permissions & OER |
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11:00 AM |
One Engineering Professor’s Evolution into an OER Advocate | Meet Your OER Ambassadors from Texas Digital Library | Community Building: Using peer review to engage librarians and faculty in the design of an OER Community of Learning |
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11:30 AM |
Writing Their Own Way Through History | Open Educational Resources and Texas A&M University’s Student Success Initiative: Evidence of Impact | Documenting Fall 2020/Spring 2021: Using Runner Research Press and Pressbooks to Capture Student Reflections |
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12:00 PM |
Lunch | ||
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Room 1 | Room 2 |
Room 3 |
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1:00 PM |
Keynote Address: Dr. DeRionne Pollard (click here to learn more about Dr. Pollard) |
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2:00 PM |
OER Plug And Play: De-mystifying OER for faculty using Brightspace | Public Good or Common Pool Resource: What does it mean to share an OER commons? | Ins and Outs of Publicly Available Resources: Traversing the OER Landscape |
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2:30 PM |
Break | ||
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Room 1 | Room 2 |
Room 3 |
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3:00 PM |
Open Pedagogy: Moving from OER for Students to OER with Students | Workshop: Building Momentum on OER Across the University of Texas System | Workshop: Lights, Camera, Action – Creating Engagement with OER Materials |
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4:00 PM |
Lightning Talks:
“Creating Clinical Case Studies as OpenEducational Resources at a New Medical School” “Beyond OER: Exploring Other Opportunities to Reduce Student Costs” “The Librarian-Faculty OER Consultation Process – A Community College Librarian’s Perspective” “My Journey with OER” |
Enhancing and Assessing Teamwork through an Open Educational Resource |
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4:30 PM |
Adjourn – see you on Day 2 | ||
Friday, March 12, 2021
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TIME |
Room 1 | Room 2 |
Room 3 |
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9:30 AM |
Networking sessions | ||
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10:00 AM |
The OER life cycle: Guiding faculty members through the process of OER development | Universal Usability | Workshop (10:00-11:00am): The OER Equity Blueprint – Work from the Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success Collaborative |
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10:30 AM |
Assessing the Efficacy of OER in Lifelong Learning Competencies | Tiered OER Professional Development: Bridging gaps between adoption, adaption, and creation | OER Equity Blueprint Workshop continues to 11am |
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11:00 AM |
Workshop: Making Our Classrooms and Institutions More Open and Equitable | Workshop: What Students Want: Advocating for OER Amid Other Course Material Models | Workshop: Strategies for Assessing an OER Incentive Program |
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12:00 PM |
Lunch | ||
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TIME |
Room 1 | Room 2 |
Room 3 |
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1:00 PM |
The State of OER Panel: Texas OER Updates from statewide organizations (Texas Digital Libraries, Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas, and the Higher Education Coordinating Board) |
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2:15 PM |
One Step at A Time: Transforming Three Lock-Step Courses to The Alternative Textbook Format | Authoring, Adopting, and Using an OER Textbook for a Business Ethics Course | Workshop: How Would You Teach if Copyright Wasn’t in the Way? Reimagining Open Education with the Best Practices in Fair Use and Fair Dealing for Open Education |
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2:45 PM |
Texas Learn OER: Project Overview & Outcomes | Virtues of Open Beyond Cost: Collaborative, Community-Driven, Locally-Focused | Fair Use Workshop continues to 3:15pm. |
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3:15 PM |
Break | ||
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3:30 PM |
Student Panel: A panel of students from Houston Community College, University of Houston-Downtown, and University of Houston, as well as other student groups, will come together to discuss their experiences with textbook prices, open textbooks, and OER at their institutions. |
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4:30 PM |
Conference Wrap-up |
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