Library: Open Education & OER: PD Opportunities

Webinars, Conferences, Presentations, Recorded Training, Slides, and more

CCCOER Webinars
The popular Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) webinars feature leaders and practitioners in open education with relevance to community college faculty, students, and staff.
OpenCon
Highlights, presentations, and sessions from OpenCon conferences.
LCC OER Summit Keynotes
Presentations from the LCC OER Summits
Open Education Week
The week-long event spotlights amazing work from over a dozen categories including live, face-to-face events, webinars, projects, and resources. The Best-of-the-Best participate in Open Education Week.
OERhub Presentations
The Open Education Research Hub (OER Hub) are leaders in researching the impact of open educational resources (OER) on teaching and learning practices.
OE Global Conference 2017
Presentations from the Open Education Global Conference, held March 8-10, 2017 in Cape Town South Africa.
ETOM 2012 - OER Presentation
Open Educational Resources are a way for the academic industry to share teaching methods and teaching objects. Technology enables this effort through high bandwidth networks, cloud storage, and open standards in Learning Management Systems. This effort is further enabled by licensing support from Creative Commons and leadership from the US Department of Education. Participants of this session will learn about the current OER repositories, the considerations of using OER, and the drivers behind the OER initiatives. Participants will reflect on the quality and future of OER.
Conferences and workshops related to open access
OpenAuthor Training
Archived video of January 27, 2017 web training.
OpenAuthor is the publishing tool for the MCO repository. This session will provide participants with an overview of the tool. The presenters will cover how to combine text, pictures, sounds, files, and video, and save them as openly licensed educational resources using OpenAuthor.
Presented by Kate Katz, OER Commons/MCO Project Manager and Tina Ulrich, Northwestern Michigan College/Director of Library Services
Mainstreaming Open Access Monographs
Archived presentation of January 31, 2017 webinar presented by CHOICE/ACRL
The Beauty of Some Rights Reserved: An Introduction to Creative Commons
Recording of February 3, 2017 session which provided a quick review of copyright basics, covered the principles behind Creative Commons, and explored some of the ways that faculty and students can benefit from Creative Commons as educators, learners, authors, and creators. Presented by Molly Kleinman, Open Michigan - University of Michigan
OER authoring platforms
Hear from several providers of OER authoring platforms who will share how their platform supports the creation and customization of open courses and other open educational resources. Faculty and other users of the platform will be featured.
Presented by CCCOER.
Marketing OER Degree and Certificate programs to Students
Lyda Kiser, Director, Office of Transition Programs and Title IX Coordinator, Lord Fairfax Community College, Virginia and Mark Haskins, Executive Director of Pierce College at JBLM, Washington
presented by CCCOER
Effective strategies for OER initiatives
Nicole Finkbeiner of Rice University’s OpenStax draws on her experiences working with faculty and schools across the U.S. to highlight the most effective strategies that encourage faculty to adopt, adapt, and create OER while protecting academic freedom. She also walks us through a strategic planning model to plan, track, and produce effective and measurable results for our OER initiatives.

Interactive Courses & Tutorials for Faculty

Open Oregon : Finding Free and Open Resources
Welcome to Finding Free and Open Resources, a chapter-by-chapter informational tutorial for USG faculty and staff interested in replacing expensive commercial textbooks with affordable resources.
Open Oregon: Tutorial 2: Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources
Welcome to Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources, a chapter-by-chapter informational tutorial for USG faculty and staff interested in creating or adapting open educational resources.
Open Washington: How to use Open Educational Resources
This course walks you through techniques to incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) into your teaching practice. The course will cover the fundamental aspects of OER including open licensing and public domain. It focuses on providing practical guidance in locating and applying openly available resources.
Open University Course: Creating open educational resources
OER Tutorial - Algonquin College
This course is meant as a primer to anyone interested in learning more about the OER movement. It provides learning opportunities related to the origins of open resources, copyright and open licensing.
OpenStax: Introduction to OER
Overview of the open educational resources movement and available tools.
Canvas Network MOOC: Making the Transition to Open
Creative Commons Certificates
Welcome to the Creative Commons Certificate! The Certificate is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. The course is composed of readings, quizzes, discussions, and practical exercises to develop learners’ open skills.

Past PD Hosted by SC4

Open Education @ SC4

Presenters: Ryan Johnson & Kendra Lake

This session is focused on the idea of openness in education, specifically on the use if Open Educational Resources in the classroom. Learn more about the discovery, evaluation, use, creation, and sharing of OER. Engage in an “open” discussion regarding the benefits, challenges, and future of these resources in the classroom.

Session dates: Jan. 4, 2017, 6:30-7:15pm College Center A101 (Adjunct faculty) ; Jan. 5, 2017, 12:30-1:30pm (Full time faculty)

OER Faculty Workshop

Presenters: Kendra Lake, Liz Jacoby, and Suzanne O'Brien

What are open educational resources (OER) and how can they help my students? What are the steps to implementing OER in my class? How do I find OER materials and who on campus will help me? Join us on November 11 at 10:00am for some answers to these questions and more. Bring your syllabus for hands on help during hour two of the workshop

Session date: Nov. 11, 2016, 10:00am-12:00pm. SC4 Library room A100a.

Committees with standing members

Organization / Committee	Member Representing SC4
Michigan Colleges Online / OER	Kendra Lake; Rob McGregor
Michigan Academic Library Association / OER Interest Group	Jane Lewandoski; Kendra Lake; Hayley Bommarito

If you are currently a member of an organization that has a focus or an interest in the Open Education Movement, please contact Kendra Lake with the name of the organization and/or committee to be added to this list.