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Breakout Sessions Room 105 Making Writing Open: Preparing the Curriculum to Respond to SLCC’s Diverse Student Body Room 209 Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Deeper Learning

Karen Gail Miller Conference Center Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus

9750 South 300 West, Sandy, Utah February 23, 2018

Friday, February 23, 2018

Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus

Conference Schedule

8:15 – 9:00 a.m Check in at Registration and

Continental Breakfast

Karen Gail Miller Conference Center

9:00 – 9:30 a.m Utah: The State of OER

9:30 – 10:30 a.m Keynote — Robin DeRosa

10:40 – 11:30 a.m Breakout Sessions

Room 105 Making Writing Open: Preparing the Curriculum to

Respond to SLCC’s Diverse Student Body Room 209 Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Deeper

Learning Practices for All Students Room 213 Open and Inclusive: Making Sure Your OER Materials Are

Accessible to Everyone Room 220/224 Approaches for Student Engagement: Personalized

Learning and Customizable Courses Room 226 Initiation: OER Production as Personal and Professional

Exploration Room 228 Integrating OER into Gen Ed Classes: A Case Study from

the Trenches Room 229 Students Choose Their Own Textbook: Meeting OER

Objectives the Old-Fashioned Way

11:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m Lunch

12:40 – 1:30 p.m Breakout Sessions

Room 105 Adopting OER for Personal Financial Literacy Room 209 Open for Business: Promoting Southern Utah

University’s Multiyear Cross-Curricular Open-Access Initiative

Room 213 The Task that Refreshes: Creating an OER for BYU’s

Marriott School of Business Room 220/224 Opening the Door to Change: Leading OER Advocacy

Efforts in the Library Room 226 Stimulating OER Implementation Room 228 Body of Work: OER in an Integrated Anatomy and

First-Year Writing Class Room 229 Bracing Yourself and Students for the Comments

Section: Using OER to Explore Rhetoric on Social Media

1:40 – 2:30 p.m Breakout Sessions

Room 105 Bolstering Textbook Affordability at the University of

Utah Room 209 Using OER as the Center of Course Design and Gen Ed

Pedagogy at SLCC Room 213 Strength in Numbers: A Story of Collaboration Across

Institutions Room 220/224 Integrating OER Texts, Interpretative Structures and

Contributive Open Pedagogy in an Upper-Division Humanities Course: A Working Model and Case Study; or, Cool Things I Did in My U.S History Course

Room 226 From OER Lecture to OER Lab: Using an OER Textbook as

the Foundation for Creating a Matching OER Laboratory Manual

Room 228 Addressing Challenges in Online Teaching and Learning

With OER: Selecting, Implementing and Evaluating Resources 

Room 229 Using Open Pedagogy in an Upper-Division Mathematics

Course

2:30 – 2:50 p.m Dessert Reception

2:50 – 4:00 p.m Concluding Remarks — David Wiley

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Robin DeRosa — Keynote Speaker

Dr Robin DeRosa enjoys her work teaching in and directing the IDS program at Plymouth State University Her current research focuses on open education and how universities can innovate in order to bring down costs for students, increase interdisciplinary collaboration and student contribution to scholarly knowledge, and refocus the academic world on strengthening the public good Robin is an editor for

Hybrid Pedagogy , an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education You can learn more about Robin at her website, or follow her on Twitter @actualham.

David Wiley

Dr David Wiley is Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to increasing student success, reinvigorating pedagogy and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources by schools, community and state colleges, and universities He

is also currently the Education Fellow at Creative Commons, an Ashoka Fellow and adjunct faculty in Brigham Young University’s graduate program in Instructional Psychology and Technology, where he leads the Open Education Group (and was

previously a tenured associate professor).

Breakout Sessions

Addressing Challenges in Online Teaching and Learning with OER: Selecting, Implementing and Evaluating Resources 

Jennifer Quinlan, Carolyn Andrews

Observe how a BYU team of faculty, instructional designers and a campus consultant have made OER resources available in various online course offerings Take a look at the motivations behind the team’s approach as well as the benefits and challenges they have experienced.

Adopting OER for Personal Financial Literacy

Kyle Wells

Personal Finance Literacy curriculum in secondary education that has traditionally not had a common set of instructor resources now has an option of delivery utilizing an OER text and free online resources.

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Approaches for Student Engagement: Personalized Learning and

Customizable Courses 

Alyson Indrunas, Dr Anton Tolman, Dr Jessi Hill, Dr Marc Jorgensen

This session will feature a show-and-tell from faculty piloting next-generation

personalized learning and other OER courseware. This panel will discuss opportunities

to explore and evaluate efficacy of personalized learning as well as how they customize their courses.

Body of Work: OER in an Integrated Anatomy and First-Year Writing Class

Dr Lindsey K Roper, Dr John Belk

These presenters have proposed an integrated course that would satisfy requirements for both Human Anatomy and English 1010 by both assigning OER as texts and focusing student writing on the production of OER.

Bolstering Textbook Affordability at the University of Utah

Allyson Mower, Heidi Booth, Steven Peck, Cagney Smullin

Listen to members from the University of Utah’s Course Material Service Team discuss their purpose and goals as this newly formed team combines efforts to offer affordable resources to students.

Bracing Yourself and Students for the Comments Section: Using OER to Explore Rhetoric on Social Media

Nkenna Onwuzuruoha

Experience the journey one professor took in creating and revising an assignment using social media in conjunction with an OER text  “What do Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and the Beef that Defied Space and Time All Have to Do with How Language Works”? See the motivation behind crafting such an assignment, strengths and weaknesses and select student responses.

From OER Lecture to OER Lab: Using an OER Textbook as the Foundation for Creating a Matching OER Laboratory Manual

Dr Tim Beagley

The SLCC Biology Department is currently piloting the new OPENSTAX Microbiology Textbook, but they, along with other institutions, are going one step further by creating

an open source lab manual to be piloted during the summer 2018 semester  See how this manual incorporates open access student research projects and creative teaching strategies alongside traditional laboratory protocols.

Initiation: OER Production as Personal and Professional Exploration

Ron Christiansen, Clint Johnson

While we all know the benefits OER brings to students, this session delves into the reflective nature of OER creation.

Integrating OER into Gen Ed Classes: A Case Study from the Trenches

Dr Laura June Davis

This session on teaching and learning with OER will discuss the variety of ways to implement OER in history courses, both general education and upper division, including the use of OER textbooks, student use of OER for research projects and high-impact practices that incorporate OER.

Integrating OER Texts, Interpretative Structures and Contributive Open Pedagogy in an Upper-Division Humanities Course: A Working Model and Case Study; or, Cool Things I Did in My U.S History Course

Dr Richard Saunders

Students read, compared and discussed the differences in approach and content taken by authors in two U.S History survey open textbooks They then were invited to contribute “what was missing” from their interpretive perspective, chapter by chapter Observe what students learned in this open textbook activity.

Making Writing Open: Preparing the Curriculum to Respond to SLCC’s Diverse Student Body

Justin Jory, Ann Fillmore, Jessie Szalay

This session highlights the flexibility of SLCC’s new composition curriculum designed around threshold concepts  The session details how the OER curriculum was adapted to

a learning community paired with GEOG 1700 and how the curriculum was also used in a women’s prison setting.

Open and Inclusive: Making Sure Your OER Materials Are Accessible

to Everyone

Christopher Phillips

This session will highlight specific practices you can do to ensure the learning needs of all students are considered and how you can make sure your learning experiences are open and inclusive.

Open for Business: Promoting Southern Utah University’s Multi-Year Cross-Curricular Open Access Initiative

Rosie Liljenquist

SUU has established a four-year program promoting OER across campus with the primary goals to increase student completion, persistence, and ultimately retention by reducing education-related, non-tuition out-of-pocket expenses. This presentation will discuss campus-wide marketing and promotion of OER on campus.

Opening the Door to Change: Leading OER Advocacy Efforts in the Library

Erin Davis

This session will explore strategies for implementing successful OER initiatives, including partnerships that may be crucial to a successful OER initiative on your campus.

Stimulating OER Implementation

Anne R Diekema, Dr Matthew S Weeg

Learn how the Provost’s Office and the Center of Excellence for Teaching & Leaning at Southern Utah University launched a curriculum innovation grant initiative with OER as one of the four areas of emphasis Application requirements, faculty eligibility, phased compensation, cross-campus collaboration, proposal selection, faculty support and assessment will be discussed.

Strength in Numbers: A Story of Collaboration Across Institutions

Paul Golisch, Ruth Trygstad, Dr Maggie Cummings, Spencer Bartholomew,

Dr Afshin Ghoreishi

In this session, a panel comprised of faculty from SLCC, the U of U and Weber State University will share their story of collaboration to create college algebra and

trigonometry courses that will be taught at all three institutions.

Students Choose Their Own Textbook: Meeting OER Objectives the Old Fashioned Way

Dr Matt Nickerson

Instead of courses having a required textbook, students must get a textbook, but they choose their own with basic guidelines provided. The benefits of this method include better student preparation, improved in-class discussions, more effective group work, and a wider diversity of thought.

The Task that Refreshes: Creating an OER for BYU’s Marriott School

of Business

Lisa Thomas

Faculty at BYU’s Marriott School of Business partnered with the library to create an open textbook for business communication  This presentation will outline the rationale and approach behind this project as well as the realities of funding, creating, managing and assessing an open textbook.

Using OER as the Center of Course Design and Gen Ed Pedagogy at Salt Lake Community College 

Dr Ted Moore, Marianne McKnight, Dr Tam Hoskisson, Dr Chris Case, Jeff Brandt

A moderated discussion with SLCC history faculty who were involved in the creation of a new HIST 1700 textbook used in traditional classrooms as well as online This will explain challenges and issues considered regarding how to “publish” the textbook and issues

of long-term sustainability, further editing and updates The participants also had to address the flexibility of the OER textbook that would be used by faculty with diverse teaching styles. Finally, how students received the text and strategies to ensure OER have academic integrity and legitimacy.

Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Deeper Learning

Practices for All Students

Cecilia Weingartner

Students are ready to engage with OER learning This session will share data collected regarding students’ online learning and how data can help move faculty toward more open approaches.

Using Open Pedagogy in an Upper-Division Mathematics Course

Dr Andrew Misseldine

This workshop explores how an instructor modified an Abstract Algebra course using OER and engaged students with the Open Pedagogy of Renewable Assignments One result is that students were allowed to be creators of content knowledge instead of just consumers of knowledge.

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Special Thanks

Our thanks to the following individuals on the USHE OER Committee:

Julie Hartley Jason Pickavance Richard Saunders Alyson Mower Jen Hughes Seth Gurell Erin Davis Andrea Scott Collen Packer Kathleen Broeder Jon Glenn Jon Ostler Kelly Peterson-Fairchild Rosalyn Liljenquist

Conference Volunteers:

Kristin Morley Jenn Balfour Jeff Brandt Ann Filmore Breigh Johanson Deb Mahre Kate North David Rodriquez Sanfiorenzo

We appreciate the assistance of the following

college organizations and OER partners:

Lumen Learning OpenStax SLCC Center for eLearning SLCC Associate Deans Karen Gail Miller Conference Center – Rachelle Brough

SLCC Institutional Marketing and Communications – Steve Speckman, Amber Giles

Miller Catering SLCC Printing Services Utah: The State of OER Conference Presenters