Effordability Summit 2020: Full Schedule

TBA

OER Resources for Nursing

In 2019, CVTC was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Department of Education's Open Textbook Pilot grant program to lead the collaborative creation of five Nursing OER textbooks and 25 Virtual Reality scenarios that are aligned with the Wisconsin Technical College System statewide nursing curriculum. Visit our poster to learn more about the deliverables and projected impacts of the grant as we make nursing education more innovative and affordable for students.

Speakers

Kim Ernstmeyer

Open RN Project Director, Chippewa Valley Technical College

I am a nurse who is passionate about improving healthcare by enhancing nursing education with active learning and simulation.

Vince Mussehl

Library Director, CVTC

Vince is the library director at Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) - a two-year institution in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. As director, he has focused on customer service, the student experience, and student resource affordability, including open educational resources (OER). As... Read More →

Tuesday March 17, 2020 TBA

Poster Session, Intermediate

Audience Faculty, Librarians

9:45am CDT

Open Access and the Academic Library - Integrating OA into Discovery

As the current academic publishing system becomes increasing unsustainable, open access journal publishing has been lauded as the future of scholarly publishing. Indeed, there are thousands of open access e-journals available. This presentation seeks to discuss the challenges libraries face providing access to this OA content within the context of their discovery systems, its viability as a long term replacement for expensive journals, and methods of selecting OA content and making it available.

Speakers

Zorian Sasyk

E-Resource and Discovery Librarian, Metro State University

Zorian M. Sasyk is the Electronic Resource and Discovery Librarian at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has worked in library electronic resource management roles for over 6 years, including resource activation, overseeing resource troubleshooting, discovery... Read More →

Tuesday March 17, 2020 9:45am - 10:45am CDT
Ballroom C

Standard Presentation, Intermediate

Audience Faculty, Librarians

9:45am CDT

Using Inclusive Access as An Affordability Solution

Open Educational Resources can be a great option for providing students with quality, affordability course materials. However, for faculty and staff who are interested in continuing to use the publishing material they know and love, inclusive access offers a low cost option available on the first day of class through a digital delivery for all students. This session will explain what is Inclusive Access, why institutions choose Inclusive Access, how to get started with Inclusive Access.

Speakers

Courtney Williams

Pearson

Tuesday March 17, 2020 9:45am - 10:45am CDT
Willow/Walnut

Standard Presentation, Beginner

Audience Faculty, Instructional Designers, Bookstores, Director of Auxiliary Services, Librarians

9:45am CDT

Z-Degree or bust

Z-Degrees (Zero textbook cost degrees) are one of many goals of an OER program. There are a lot of players involved in having this actually come to fruition. This is Nicolet College's story on how we turned what started out as an organic movement in the Criminal Justice program into the state's first Z-Degree in Criminal Justice program and how it is now helping students in other programs as well.

Speakers

Cindy Domaika

Manager of Open & Inclusive Academics, Nicolet College

Tuesday March 17, 2020 9:45am - 10:45am CDT
Ballroom B

Standard Presentation, Intermediate

Audience Faculty, Instructional Designers, Librarians, Administrators, OER Coordinators

11:00am CDT

Using Cengage Unlimited and LMS Integration to reduce Textbook costs in Accelerated Courses

I will present the process and technological aspects of how SWTC was able to offer a flat yearly fee for textbook access to students participating in the Leadership Development accelerated courses. Highlights include LMS integration, student/faculty experience and lessons learned.

Speakers

Joshua Krohn

Instructional Design Specialist, Southwest Technical College

Interested in Adapting Schoology to a Technical College application including Standard Performance data collection, mandatory reporting of data and Innovative Instructional Practices via Schoology.

Tuesday March 17, 2020 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Ballroom C

Other, Beginner

Audience Instructional Designers, Faculty

11:00am CDT

Development of OER Textbooks for Large-Enrollment General Chemistry Courses at UW-Madison

In this panel session, the ongoing development of OER textbooks for large-enrollment General Chemistry courses will be explored. The panel will consist of faculty and instructional staff who have worked on the development of these course resources. The panelists will describe and answer questions on lessons learned in their development of OER textbooks used by thousands of students each semester, as well as ongoing work and future directions of these efforts.

Speakers

Lindy Stoll

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday March 17, 2020 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Ballroom B

Panel Discussion, Intermediate

Audience Faculty, Academic Staff, Instructional Designers, K-12 Instructors

11:00am CDT

Open Resources for Nursing

In 2019, CVTC was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Department of Education's Open Textbook Pilot grant program to lead the collaborative creation of five Nursing OER textbooks and 25 Virtual Reality scenarios that are aligned with the Wisconsin Technical College System statewide nursing curriculum. The panel will share our progress, successes and challenges as we create affordable and innovative resources for nursing education in Pressbooks and H5P. Audience questions are encouraged!

Speakers

Vince Mussehl

Library Director, CVTC

Kim Ernstmeyer

Open RN Project Director, Chippewa Valley Technical College

I am a nurse who is passionate about improving healthcare by enhancing nursing education with active learning and simulation.

Nic Ashman

Librarian and Pressbooks Champ

Dominic Slausen

Instructional Technologist

Elizabeth Christman

Instructional Designer and HP5 Champ

Tuesday March 17, 2020 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Willow/Walnut

Panel Discussion, Intermediate

Audience Faculty, Instructional Designers, Librarians

1:30pm CDT

Equity in the Classroom: Is OER Accessible to Everyone?

Speakers

Erin Lucas

Head of Digital Accessibility, RedShelf

Erin Lucas is the Head of Digital Accessibility at RedShelf where she ensures their suite of digital products exceeds expectations for all customers. Based in Chicago, RedShelf has helped thousands of colleges, businesses, and publishers transition effortlessly from traditional print... Read More →

Tuesday March 17, 2020 1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
Ballroom B

Standard Presentation, Intermediate

Audience Faculty, Instructional Designers, Bookstores

3:00pm CDT

Advancing Equity with Open Education

This presentation will provide an overview of educational equity gaps across Wisconsin and affordability needs. We'll then explore ways in which OER can help address these barriers and help close student equity gaps in access and success. We'll close with a discussion on how to use this information to advance equity within your role.

Speakers

Hilary Barker

Education Director, Wisconsin Technical College System

I coordinate the WTCS OER Network, which connects OER Champions across our 16 technical colleges to accelerate and advance OER adoption and use.

Tuesday March 17, 2020 3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Ballroom A

Standard Presentation, Beginner

Audience Faculty, K-12 Instructors, Anyone in helping students succeed

3:00pm CDT

Leveraging the Power of Canvas to Utilize Affordable Textbooks

UW Superior has been working on an Affordable Textbook and Learning Resource Initiative. Currently discussions are focused on ways to implement affordable textbooks and learning resources to reduce costs and barriers for students. During the fall 2019 Digital Innovation Symposium, a session was presented bringing awareness of what an affordable textbook are and how to implement them in Canvas as well as the tools available for learning using LTIs. Awareness is key to moving forward.

Speakers

Rebecca Graetz

Instructional Program Manager II, University of Wisconsin-Superior

Accessibility, OER, Canvas Migration, Online Learning

Tuesday March 17, 2020 3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Ballroom B

Standard Presentation, Intermediate

Audience Instructional Designers, Faculty

3:00pm CDT

Open Textbooks, Information Literacy and Learning Assessment

Our information literacy integration focus at UWM Libraries gave us an edge in our early Open Textbook advocacy efforts, especially in advocating for readings that are specifically targeted to learning outcomes and application of knowledge. In turn our Open Textbook advocacy led to deeper partnerships with our faculty, especially around decentralizing information literacy from a single lesson. We will share a set action steps we have taken toward an Open Pedagogy model.

Speakers

Kristin Woodward

Teaching And Learning Team Lead, UW Milwaukee

Tuesday March 17, 2020 3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Willow/Walnut

Standard Presentation, Intermediate

Audience Faculty, Librarians, Instructional Designers

3:00pm CDT

The Politics of System-wide OER Advocacy

I'd like to talk about my efforts to navigate the various constituencies interested in OER and coordinate their priorities to move forward with OER adoption on my campus (BSU). Would welcome additional perspectives if we could turn this into a panel, but if not I'd talk about basically the same info I'll be presenting at OE Global in Milan in November (plus I could talk about that conference a bit).

Speakers

Dan Allosso

Asst. Professor/ History, Bemidji State University

I taught Environmental, US, and World History at Bemidji State University (this will be my sixth and final year due to university budget crisis) and write OER textbooks that you can find in the Open Textbook Library. I was the inaugural Director of BSU's Equity Certificate Program... Read More →

Tuesday March 17, 2020 3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Ballroom C

Standard Presentation, Expert

Audience Faculty, Librarians, Administrators

9:45am CDT

Building a bridge between K-12 and Higher Education

Where can K-12 meet higher education? WISELearn Resources Library, a repository managed by The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. WISELearn joined forces with COW and made a hub available as a bridge between K-12 and Wisconsin higher education for collaboration and sharing of OER resources. It’s called College & Lifelong Learning Hub. https://wlresources.dpi.wi.gov/ https://wlresources.dpi.wi.gov/hubs/college-lifelong-learning

Speakers

Sam Kong

IS Development Services, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Wednesday March 18, 2020 9:45am - 10:45am CDT
Ballroom C

Demonstration of an OER Project, Beginner

Audience Faculty, Librarians, K-12 Instructors

11:00am CDT

OER in the LMS for Concurrent Enrollment courses

The session will discuss the relationship between higher ed faculty and Concurrent Enrollment instructors students, and how technology can help foster professional growth on both sides of the partnership. This can be achieved through a collaborative mindset supported by innovative uses of software. In addition, there will be an overview of OER and the training needed to become fluent in using OER within students.

Speakers

Lisa Lucas Hurst

Assistant Professor, Southwest Minnesota State

SABIER

Executive Director, SABIER

SABIER is a non-profit that assists K12 districts and Higher Ed faculty in funding professional development to: - Create or Curate OER - especially, Science, Math, and Engineering - Engage students with OER in the classroom using a learning management system - Revise OER to meet specific... Read More →

Wednesday March 18, 2020 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Ballroom C

Standard Presentation, Beginner

Audience Faculty, K-12 Instructors, Administrators

1:10pm CDT

Using Opendora to access and store OER materials

Opendora is an exciting new OER repository created by Minnesota State designed to hold materials of all types, including textbooks, lecture notes, syllabi, reading lists, and videos. Learn what's available and how to access it, and for Minn State faculty, how to upload items of your own. The facilitator will also explain how they are using an Innovation Grant to promote Opendora awareness and usage across 5 campuses in the system using a decentralized training network.

Speakers

James Smrikarov

Instructional Designer, Saint Paul College

Wednesday March 18, 2020 1:10pm - 2:10pm CDT
Ballroom B

Demonstration of an OER Project, Beginner

Audience Faculty, Librarians

2:30pm CDT

Affordable Instructional Resources Initiative at a Highly Selective Midwestern University

A highly selective university in the midwest has launched the Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR) initiative that aims to make instructional resources affordable for its first-year undergraduates. To raise awareness of the issue and support faculty the AIR initiative has been building a network of faculty and staff interested in reducing or eliminating costs associated with required textbooks and supplemental material. The initiative is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and libraries.

Speakers

Asmita Dani

Northwestern University

Wednesday March 18, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Ballroom A

Standard Presentation, Beginner

Audience Faculty, Instructional Designers, Administrators

2:30pm CDT

Climb the Summit: Creative Common Licenses and Resources for Education

Copyright and Creative Common Licenses may sound dry, but this session is full of pizazz! For beginners or those knowledgeable about copyright law and creative common licenses, this interactive session includes information, as well as free resources to use. Four free virtual faculty development programs about copyright and creative common licenses are shared. Narrative pedagogy and fun interactive application activities with a fresh approach makes for a stimulating session!

Speakers

Nancyruth Leibold

Acting Chair And Associate Professor Of Nursing, Southwest Minnesota State University

Creative Commons Faculty Development Flyer By Nancyruth Leibold pdf

Wednesday March 18, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Ballroom B

Standard Presentation, Beginner

Audience Faculty, Instructional Designers, Librarians

2:30pm CDT

The Curriculum Garden

Using the analogy of a garden, this presentation gives strategies for curriculum design for perennials (content that can be planted once, and then re-used each term), annuals (content that needs annual planting and updating, but remains the stable within each term), and cut flowers (content that is fresh and shows off student work and understanding). By creating content within this framework it becomes easier to maintain a fresh, vibrant, and colorful curriculum for your students.

Speakers

James Falkofske

University of Wisconsin-Stout

Wednesday March 18, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Willow/Walnut

Standard Presentation, Beginner

Audience Instructional Designers, Faculty, K-12 Instructors