Event Title
Panel Two: Open Educational Resources
Location
Charles B. Wang Center
Document Type
Symposium
Start Date
6-3-2020 11:20 AM
End Date
6-3-2020 12:00 PM
Description
Elizabeth Nelson, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Penn State Lehigh Valley
I co-created and currently help to run The Affordable Course Content Faculty Fellowship. The ACCFF is an OER adoption project funded by a campus grant supporting innovative approaches to student success at Penn State Abington’s campus.
As a panelist, I can share more about how the ACCFF is structured, how we present and manage an OER-adoption initiative on the Abington campus, and how we work with other OER initiatives within the Penn State system. I can also discuss how we discovered and addressed unexpected concerns among our participating faculty around the ideas of copyright and of students’ perceptions of authority in the presentation of an OER text.
As a relatively new partner to the OER movement, I can also speak to the steps of getting a second OER initiative off the ground at Penn State Lehigh Valley, where we’re beginning with a grass-roots model to harness pre-existing motivation and direct it toward a shared goal.
Kristen Nyitray, Director, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries
Students are often required to include primary sources of information in assignments, but they are unsure of how to identify, access, interpret, and incorporate these compelling sources created at the time under study. “Using Primary Sources in Research” is an OER tutorial developed for students to introduce them to concepts and to equip them with strategies for the effective and ethical use of primary sources in research and creative projects. Kristen Nyitray will provide an overview of how she developed the standards-based tutorial with the aim to expand and improve student learning, writing, and critical thinking skills across the curriculum.
Mona Ramonetti, Head of Scholarly Communication, Stony Brook University Libraries
In 2017, as a component of the Excelsior program, SUNY introduced the Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative. Stony Brook University Libraries, along with support from the Office of the Provost immediately got to work to educate the campus about OER and the advantages they afforded students. This presentation addresses the various challenges and unlikely collaborations that resulted from attempting to implement and support the OER initiative on Stony Brook University's campus.
Georgia Westbrook, Open Educational Resources & Instruction Librarian, Touro College
I will be speaking about leading a young OER initiative as a new librarian and the accompanying opportunities and challenges.
Panel Two: Open Educational Resources
Charles B. Wang Center
Elizabeth Nelson, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Penn State Lehigh Valley
I co-created and currently help to run The Affordable Course Content Faculty Fellowship. The ACCFF is an OER adoption project funded by a campus grant supporting innovative approaches to student success at Penn State Abington’s campus.
As a panelist, I can share more about how the ACCFF is structured, how we present and manage an OER-adoption initiative on the Abington campus, and how we work with other OER initiatives within the Penn State system. I can also discuss how we discovered and addressed unexpected concerns among our participating faculty around the ideas of copyright and of students’ perceptions of authority in the presentation of an OER text.
As a relatively new partner to the OER movement, I can also speak to the steps of getting a second OER initiative off the ground at Penn State Lehigh Valley, where we’re beginning with a grass-roots model to harness pre-existing motivation and direct it toward a shared goal.
Kristen Nyitray, Director, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries
Students are often required to include primary sources of information in assignments, but they are unsure of how to identify, access, interpret, and incorporate these compelling sources created at the time under study. “Using Primary Sources in Research” is an OER tutorial developed for students to introduce them to concepts and to equip them with strategies for the effective and ethical use of primary sources in research and creative projects. Kristen Nyitray will provide an overview of how she developed the standards-based tutorial with the aim to expand and improve student learning, writing, and critical thinking skills across the curriculum.
Mona Ramonetti, Head of Scholarly Communication, Stony Brook University Libraries
In 2017, as a component of the Excelsior program, SUNY introduced the Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative. Stony Brook University Libraries, along with support from the Office of the Provost immediately got to work to educate the campus about OER and the advantages they afforded students. This presentation addresses the various challenges and unlikely collaborations that resulted from attempting to implement and support the OER initiative on Stony Brook University's campus.
Georgia Westbrook, Open Educational Resources & Instruction Librarian, Touro College
I will be speaking about leading a young OER initiative as a new librarian and the accompanying opportunities and challenges.