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The first annual Open Texas conference convened librarians, faculty, administrators, and other open education practitioners and advocates in Texas. Open Texas 2021 was held fully online and co-hosted by Houston Community College and the University of Houston-Downtown.
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Session 03C | Changing the Narrative with Pre-Service Teachers: From Copyright Restrictions to Creative Commons Permissions & OER
(2021-03-11)This presentation follows an academic librarian/faculty member partnership, formed with the original intent to instruct teacher candidates about copyright restrictions in education, as it transformed into a project involving ... -
Session 04A | Meet Texas Digital Library's OER Ambassadors
(2021-03-11)The OER Ambassadors, a working group composed of seven Texas Digital Library members, were selected to serve the consortium for a minimum of two years. OER Ambassadors are developing a Community of Practice and becoming a ... -
Session 04B | Community Building: Using Peer Review to Engage Librarians and Faculty in the Design of an OER Community of Learning
(2021-03-11)How can faculty become engaged - and more importantly - involved, in the use and promotion of OER? What kind of program will meet an important need and encourage long-term buy-in? How can faculty contribute to the enrichment ... -
Session 04C | One Engineering Professor's Evolution into an OER Advocate
(2021-03-11)This presentation will provide the audience with one engineering professor's reflection of her path from being introduced to the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER), to publishing an OER on Pressbooks and including ... -
Session 05A | Writing Their Own Way Through History
(2021-03-11)Students report that they appreciate learning about and researching people who shared their experiences and backgrounds, yet they rarely hear their voices and experiences reflected in traditional textbooks. This presentation ... -
Session 05B | Open Educational Resources and Texas A&M University's Student Success Initiative: Evidence of Impact
(2021-03-11)This presentation will evaluate the impact of OER adoption on student success in the Introductory Biology course sequence at Texas A&M University. The evaluation will include retention data and %DFW grades for students as ... -
Session 07A | Ins and Outs of Publicly Available Resources: Traversing the OER Landscape
(2021-03-11)This session will discuss research which examines currently available OERs and compares their characteristics to traditional texts. In addition, it offers an overview of creative commons licensing and criteria for evaluating ... -
Session 07B | Public Good or Common Pool Resource: What does it mean to share an OER commons?
(2021-03-11)There has been some debate, particularly between David Wiley and Jim Luke, about whether Open Educational Resources are a public good or a common pool resource. Wiley wants to challenge the very idea of an OER commons, ... -
Session 07C | OER Plug And Play: De-mystifying OER for Faculty Using Brightspace
(2021-03-11)This presentation will show faculty how to apply the OER Plug and Play strategy to their own campus OER outreach efforts. It will also demonstrate to faculty how to utilize OER and other no cost resources in a learning ... -
Session 09A | Lights, Camera, Action - Creating Engagement with OER Materials
(2021-03-11)This workshop will examine the possibilities that OER materials have to offer in terms of finding suitable material, creating video, electronic flashcards, and other interactive student activities that will allow students ... -
Session 09B | Open Pedagogy: Moving from OER for Students to OER with Students
(2021-03-11)This workshop focuses on the nuts and bolts of several open pedagogy approaches, including creating primary texts and supplemental teaching materials such as PowerPoint presentations, explanatory videos, annotation exercises, ... -
Session 09C | Building Momentum on OER Across the University of Texas System
(2021-03-11)This session will provide an overview of the work and recommendations of the University of Texas System's Affordable Learning Accelerator Task Force, resulting in the development of the UT System's OER Momentum Strategy. ... -
Session 10A Lightning Talk | Creating Clinical Case Studies as Open Educational Resources at a new medical school
(2021-03-11)This session will include an introduction to designing and publishing OER clinical case studies for health professional students. It will also demonstrate how to design teaching resources with learning objectives that ... -
Session 10B Lightning Talks | Beyond OER: Exploring Other Opportunities to Reduce Student Costs
(2021-03-11)In this presentation, Dr. Rob Austin McKee will discuss some options for course materials that do not meet the definition of Open Educational Resources (OER), but that may still help us reduce costs for our students. He ... -
Session 10C Lightning Talks | The Librarian-Faculty OER Consultation Process - A Community College Librarian's Perspective
(2021-03-11)This lightning talk will describe one ACC Faculty Librarian's experiences with faculty-librarian OER consultations and will detail the process of scheduling those consultations, the content covered during those consultations, ... -
Session 10D Lightning Talks | My Journey with OER
(2021-03-11)Dr. Tyler's journey with OER started in 2016. Rice University, in a partnership with Salt Lake Community College, had to develop several courses using their own textbooks. As a result of being a beta tutor pioneer in 2016, ... -
Session 11 | Enhancing and Assessing Teamwork through an Open Educational Resource
(2021-03-11)This presentation describes the creation of the OER and challenges faced around universal design principles. In addition, the presenters will describe the method of assessment for the OER and highlight results showing its ...
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