Open Texas 2022

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The second annual Open Texas conference once again convened librarians, faculty, administrators, and other open education practitioners and advocates in Texas and beyond. The 2022 conference was held fully online via the Cvent conference platform and was FREE to attend. The conference theme, "The Labor of Open Education," invited participants to reflect on the work, creativity, art, and science of open education. Jasmine Roberts-Crews and Dr. Karen Cangialosi served as keynote speakers for the conference.

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Session 1B | Welcome from OT SC & Housekeeping / Code of Conduct "Sharing the Labor of Open Education"
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Park, Kristi; Torre, Kylah; Karoff, Rebecca; Pike, Ursula
The organizers of Open Texas will kick off the 2022 conference with an opening plenary session focused on statewide partnerships and initiatives that promote the frameworks, programs, and people advancing Open Education in Texas. This session will be live captioned. All are invited to join.
Session 1C | Student Advocacy & Power: Moving Fast & Driving Meaningful Change at UT Austin
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Prasad, Rohit; Shah, Alexander; Morrison, Ashley
Over the past three years, student leaders and library staff at UT Austin have worked together to advance campus awareness and adoption of OER and other types of affordable course materials. In this presentation, you will hear directly from two student leaders and one librarian as we share a short history of this work at UT Austin. We will discuss how student leaders have translated interest to legislative action, scaled data collection related to students’ course materials affordability concerns, and initiated conversations with administrators on a very large campus with many stakeholders on complicated topics such as course markings and recognition of OER activities in promotion and tenure. We will also share an overview of the specific programming that we’ve used to recognize and encourage faculty adoption of OER, focusing on the Affordable Education Champions program that has successfully run for two years with no budget and little administrative overhead. Finally, we will discuss how this long term work is sustained as student leaders graduate through thoughtful legacy planning.
Session 1D | Open Music Theory Version 2: A Multi-Institutional Model for Developing Open Online Textbooks
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Hamm, Chelsey; Gullings, Kyle
This presentation provides a practical model for how teams of authors across multiple institutions can collaboratively write a useful and sustainable online textbook. It takes as its case study Open Music Theory Version 2 (https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/), a natively-online open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. Authored by seven faculty members at six different institutions, OMT2 was supported primarily by a $30,000 Course Redesign grant from Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium (VIVA) (https://vivalib.org/viva/homepage). Drawing from their experiences authoring OMT2, the presenters articulate a coherent model for assembling a multi-institutional team of authors, seeking grant funding, and establishing a clear division of labor. The importance of internal style guides, templates, and non-author editors is highlighted. The presenters detail various online platforms and software for efficient project management, then enumerate the many benefits of a multi-institutional approach to OER authorship.
Session 1E | Building a solid foundation to support OER adoption on your campus
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Simmons, Megan; Gits, Carrie
Join ISKME and OERTX institutional partners as we share tools and best practices for successfully implementing and leading Open Educational Resources and Practices on your campus. Connect and learn directly from our diverse community of faculty, librarians, specialists, and administrators who are advancing OER throughout Texas. We will share specific ways that we have supported OER adoption through professional learning offerings, planning guides, design tools, and online collaboration.
Session 1F | Show & Fails
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Larson, Amanda; Boulden, Meredith; Hess, Carl; Lucero, Angela; Randtke, Wilhelmina
Show & Fails include (1): No Matter How You Build It: They Won't Come, (2): I Tried Really Hard and All I Got Were These Lessons About What Not to Do When Running an OER Incentive Program, (3): If You Build It, They Might Not Come: Developing OER Training Resources for Faculty Through an OER Grant, & (4):Orange Grove Postmortem: Discontinuation of Florida's Open Educational Resources Repository for K20
Session 1G | Recognizing the Labor of OER Work: Providing Guidelines for Tenure and Promotion Policies and Portfolios
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Gallant, Jeffrey; Buck, Stephanie; Tijerina, Tiffani; Hofer, Amy
Since the release of the OER Contributions Matrix from the DOERS3 (Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success) Collaborative, OER initiatives at the institution, state, and organizational level have revised and redistributed new versions of the matrix in an effort to draw attention to the valuable work being done in OER. In this panel, representatives from the University System of Georgia and Open Oregon Educational Resources will present their versions of the contributions matrix and how they are supporting OER work through tenure and promotion recognition. Panel members will discuss the development process of their guidelines, differences in the two renditions and how they cater to their states’ needs, and use-cases for how the guidelines are being used within their states. Attendees will be encouraged to join the conversation with their own examples of OER recognition in tenure and promotion practices and to ask questions in support of implementation in their own institutions.
Session 1H | Keeping Track of What’s What: Creating a free CRM using Airtable
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Hernandez, Gabrielle
Open Education Librarianship is an ever evolving field of cutting edge and innovative projects. These positions are held by people who are accomplishing massive amounts of work by running programs of various sizes that support entire institutions with minimal personnel. In trying to balance simultaneous affordability initiatives, faculty outreach efforts, and data tracking, the amount of information open education practitioners handle can easily become overwhelming. In order to keep track of what’s what, having a tool to manage all these records is invaluable. In this workshop participants will hear an overview of how an Open Education Librarian was able to create a relational database using Airtable and consolidate 3 years of programming data into one place. Attendees will also be able to copy the Textbook Affordability Tracking Airtbale template and engage in step-by-step virtual hands-on training on how to create records, input data, and modify their own program management tool. By the end of the presentation, participants will have a tangible database that can help them keep track of all of their textbook affordability initiatives needs and more!
Session 1J | Inclusive or Exclusive? Reexamining "Inclusive Access" Textbook Programs
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Radtke, Trudi
Session 1K | OERINSPANISH: A service-learning multidisciplinary initiative
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Fages Agudo, Maria Mercedes; Fudacz, Jamie; Stepanyan, Liana
Session 1L | Too Legit to Quit: Five Recommendations for Creating Sustainable Institutional-level OER Programs
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Ozuna, Arturo
Despite the growth of OER development funding and programs, institution-level OER development has been underrepresented in the existing literature on OER sustainability, particularly on faculty OER developers who engage in this work. In this session, I will present key findings from a recent study that explored institutional and intrinsic factors that contribute to faculty members’ decision to engage in OER production. Findings from this research align with existing literature on main benefits, incentives, and challenges tied to OER development. However, this study also established a more nuanced understanding of how institutional context (through the lens of legitimacy) and personal motivators impact a faculty member’s decision to develop OER. Based on these findings, I will share five recommendations to promote sustainable institution-level OER development. Participants will be provided with resources for strategic planning to better communicate the benefits of OER, to better address perceptions and challenges of OER development, and to clarify how OER development fits within established institutional processes and behaviors in order to create more sustainable programs.
Session 1M | Hosting and Delivering of Open Educational Resources by the Nigerian Universities
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Abdu, Alkasim Hamisu
Open Educational Resource (OER) movement is often predicated on the need for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the educational enrolment, performance and achievement. Thus, all regions of the world need to be involved and integrated in the process. Accordingly, the Commonwealth of Learning in 2017 engaged the National Universities Commission – regulatory agency of university education in Nigeria, the engagement culminated in a draft policy for OER in Nigerian Higher Education. As a result, OER tab or link appeared on the websites of many universities in Nigeria. However, there has not been attempt to evaluate OER take-ups among the universities or in the country in general. This study intends to analyse the content of the Nigerian Universities websites in order to trace and analyse OER manifestations among the Universities. Though, the work wouldn’t serve as evaluation of the OER programme of the Nigerian Universities however, it would provide data and information that would facilitate usage as well as forging areas of collaborations among the universities and between the Universities and other universities across the globe. The study would also recommend possible ways to improve.
Session 1N | Analyzing OER Gaps Across Texas Regions to Advance Statewide OER Supports
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Karaglani, Anastasia; Godwin, Amee; Burns, Selena
ISKME, a global education research and innovation non-profit, has been collaborating with Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) during the last year to leverage findings from the 2019 and 2021 bi-annual Texas OER Landscape Surveys, which were developed by THECB and DigiTex in partnership with ISKME. As part of this work, ISKME has been conducting secondary analyses of regional differences in OER implementation in order to help guide the state’s strategic support of OER within and across regions in Texas. This session will walk through the regional analysis approach and findings from this work, including a summary of regional OER profiles and key factors related to advancing OER programs and policies across institutions. The work has implications for state level strategies for developing programs that can be tailored to a wide range of OER implementation, from early stage to more advanced, and for targeting regions to offer support for using OER in ways that fit regional needs.
Session 1O | Non-Traditional OERs for Teaching First-Year Calculus
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Potter, Dustin
The power of mathematics lies in the formal definition and the rigorous logic used to extend these definitions into realms unimagined by their creators/discoverers. Calculus is a great example with applications reaching from distant stars to quantum particles. First-year students, however, often fail to find the beauty, let alone relevance, in the traditional definitions of calculus as formalized by Weierstrass and instead stumble through the course with little understanding. A more intuitive formalization of calculus relies on infinitesimals, a concept that can be traced back to ancient Greek mathematics. However, it was not until 1960 that Robinson demonstrated the definition of hyperreals (which contain infinitesimals) was as rigorous as any approach to calculus. Several textbooks have been written, with the first-year calculus student in mind, that incorporate the infinitesimal definition, and many of these texts are in the public domain. In this presentation, available OERs related to an infinitesimal approach to calculus will be discussed as well as a general introduction to MyOpenMath (MOM) and resources in MOM directly related to calculus using infinitesimal numbers.
Session 1P | Down the Copyright Rabbit Hole: the unexpected labor of copyright clearance in OER projects
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Savage, Stephanie
Open Educational Resource projects are often spearheaded by faculty members who have extensive teaching and learning experience, but are less familiar with the additional work that goes into transforming an in-class resource into a public, open one. Transforming a learning resource into a true OER can involve complex copyright analyses and instructors are often not prepared for this additional work. This is where copyright librarians and OER support staff often step in to consult and suggest workflows that will make this work more manageable. This brief presentation will explain why copyright considerations for OER are different than other educational contexts and will outline workflows and strategies to help OER creators recognize and prepare for this additional labor. Note, while the presenter is Canadian and Canadian copyright law differs from US law, this presentation will be general enough to be applicable in the US context.
Session 1Q | OER Buy-In in Lab Science Courses
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Jackson, Tonya
For faculty, to lead, and then associate dean, this session will explain how the presenter’s passion for OER has helped to build momentum in the move to embrace open pedagogy and resources at her institution. Through a focus on learning, content expertise, and using local resources, buy-in was fostered for a progressive OER adoption program. The transforming principle in the adoption of open pedagogy/OER is an understanding of the flexibility and control it offers. It allows for day-to-day teaching with a focus on faculty passion and fosters courses that are more enjoyable. Stripping back courses to competencies and objectives and building up may seem like the obvious pathway to some. However, it’s not for those without development in building quality courses. Getting faculty to understand first how to wrestle with the core components of curriculum building, and then shining the light on OER and open pedagogies helps institutions on their journeys to being inclusive. As with most changes, positive management is key to a smooth transition. While our process is far from perfect, the leaps made are to be celebrated. Let’s discuss how to encourage that excitement in your own.
Session 1R | Out of Time: Using OER to Aid "Last-minute" Hires
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) McConachie, Mike; LaRue, Patrick; Stanaland, Les; DuBois, Chris
How can OER help administrators in one of their most daunting tasks - filling course sections within 48-72 hours of the start of term? How can OER be used to ensure that new adjuncts can focus on students instead of curating content? In this presentation, we demonstrate our turn-key course shell for GOVT 2305, one of the required courses for all two-year college students. Using only OER, we create an entire course - content and assessments, all ADA-compliant and tied directly to student learning outcomes - that can be modified as needed for any new hire. This way, administrators and new faculty alike can be confident at the beginning of the semester instead of rushed and concerned. We believe this approach can be used in most, if not all, courses at any two-year institution, but is specifically aimed at those high-demand courses with large amounts of added sections late in the registration period.
Session 1S | A Case of “Many Hands Make Light Work” or “Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth”? A Departmental Journey of Shared OER Creation
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Breuer, Kimberly; Cole, Stephanie
Five years ago, the UTA History Department embarked on the creation of an OER on Historical Methods for use across courses. We began planning an all-encompassing OER, but this first design failed to move forward adequately. Adding an additional lead author with a fresh, narrower vision, brought the project to completion. This presentation discusses the circuitous road to publication of the OER and the labor involved: multiple content creating faculty, lead authors of varying technological skill (one describes herself as “almost devoid of technological skills”), tech savvy graduate assistants working with H5P, supportive OER librarians, and instructors/students providing actionable feedback on the pilot. The OER's current version, while differing from the original, is a superior text offering flexibility (as evidenced by newly hired faculty adding materials) and serving multiple purposes (including university required study and professional skills content) while still allowing faculty across the department to share short, usable directions on such arcane topics as citation style and how to research outside a Google box to students without the skills history majors should possess.
Session 2B | Keynote: Jasmine Roberts-Crews
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-22) Roberts-Crews, Jasmine
Jasmine Roberts-Crews is a lecturer in the School of Communication at the Ohio State University, where she teaches in the areas of public relations writing, digital activism and campaign strategy. Her advocacy work centers on the experiences of people of color, women and queer communities. Along with her communication expertise, Professor Roberts-Crews is also a renowned open education leader. She has delivered numerous keynote presentations across the country on the topics of inclusion and social justice in open education. She is the author of the openly-licensed book "Writing for Strategic Communication Industries." In her spare time, she loves to connect with her wife, fur babies (2 dogs), and green babies (50 plants total).
Session 2C | Labor and Compensation in Collaborative OER Creation: The American Yawp as Case Study
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-22) Wright, Ben; Locke, Joseph
The American Yawp is the leading OER in the discipline of history. Hundreds of historians have collaborated to produce this open access history of the United States that is published by Stanford University Press. This presentation explores the creation of the American Yawp and considers it as a case study for models of compensation in the production and maintenance of OER. In so doing, the presentation will also draw on Locke and Wright's landmark article in the American Historical Review that historicizes the open access movement more broadly, demonstrating how its ideological origins in both utopian democracy and neoliberal libertarianism continue to shape the rhetoric and practice of OER.
Session 2D | Faculty Perspectives on Implementing Open Educational Practices
(Texas Digital Library, 2022-09-22) Wallis, Kendra; Kilpatrick, Cynthia
In this interactive workshop, two faculty members will discuss a faculty perspective on Open Educational Practices (OEP), including why they’re needed, why they can be difficult, and how we can do them successfully. Because research indicates that the use of OEP is a high impact practice for equity and inclusion in higher education, this workshop will help faculty consider their own perceptions and how they can better meet the needs of their students by ensuring they all have equal access to their educational materials. We will discuss the barriers that faculty participants encounter when contemplating using or creating OEP, address why OEP are crucial to both student and faculty success in a diverse educational environment, and offer perspectives on how we have addressed our own barriers. Workshop participants will be actively involved in discussion and will be guided through steps in the development and creation process. The presenters will provide information and resources they found helpful in their own journeys. We will brainstorm together how we can all be successful in moving closer to our goals for increasing inclusivity and capitalizing on the diversity of our students.

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