Faculty | Open Auraria | Apr 18

A campus gathering at the Auraria Library's Discovery Wall for Open Educational Resources (OER)

Come join your tri-institutional colleagues for learning, ideas and celebration. Come to share, mingle, and enjoy lunch and dessert! Register here, or just drop by to grab materials. Walk-ins are welcome!

11:30-11:35: Welcome!

11:35-12:00: Let’s Brag!

Learn what’s up with campus OER, including OER state grant activities at MSU Denver, CU Denver and CCD. Each campus institution received generous state grants to enhance OER awareness and growth. And plenty of OER initiatives have already been instituted. Get the scoop on what's been done and what's planned. Brad Hinson, CU Denver, Emily Ragan, MSU Denver and Karen Danielson, CCD.

12:00-1:10: Adopting & Creating OER on the Auraria Campus

Campus faculty share their experiences implementing and creating OER. James Morski will discuss the CCD Math Department's experience with converting from publisher-created materials to OER using OpenStax texts and WeBWork for homework questions. Courses so far converted include College Algebra, Trigonometry, and Calculus I, with Precalculus and Calculus II ready to be piloted in the Fall. Karen Danielson will share her experiences writing and compiling OER for Art courses after her course-level assessment demonstrated a need to affordably engage students with the arts. Emily Ragan will discuss her experience developing a section of General Chemistry I by starting with learning objectives, OER Web content, including PhET simulations, and her own online homework system in Blackboard. She added an OER textbook, OpenStax Chemistry, at the end of the course development process. Todd Laugen and Meg Frisbee are completing their work on creating the OER textbook Colorado History Detectives. Todd will talk about the path to authorship, the use of PressBooks to create the text, and other associated issues.

1:15-2:15: Digital Education and Copyright

In this session, we will examine the copyright implications of incorporating OER material into coursework. We will look specifically at how the concepts of ‘fair use’ and creative commons licensing interact with copyright when sharing, adopting and adapting OER and other educational material. Ben Harnke, Strauss Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

2:20-3:30: Open Pedagogy and Open Learning

This session will introduce participants to open educational practices and open pedagogy, showcase projects and technologies that encourage open learning practices, and share resources that can support the development of open education. Remi Kalir, CU Denver

3:30-4:00: Open Time.

Join us for casual and, of course, open, conversations.