SUNY Celebrates Open Education Week

In partnership with SUNY FACT2 we are pleased to host and showcase several presentations from our SUNY campuses in celebration of Open Education Week, March 2-6, 2020. Presentations represent the SUNY FACT2 Open Pedagogy task group and SUNY CIT Open Education track.

The following webinars are free to attend and do not require registration. All times are EST. Note: You cannot access the sessions until the start date and time.

Recordings and slides for each session will be added to this page at the end of Open Education Week.

Monday, March 2
9:30am – 10:15am
Title: Open Pedagogy: An Experiment in Trust
Presenter: Marcia Burrell, SUNY Oswego
Description: Access to students is a privilege. Students bring their aspirations, youthful approaches, passion, and excitement to their interests. When we ask students to create something (a product) for public consumption such as on YouTube, an online book, or shared Google docs assignment, the level of tension to create something worth viewing outside of class, is heightened. A creative project allows students to take risks different from just writing a paper.  An open pedagogy project confirms that our students want to do well, and we have to trust the process that brings them there.
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12:00pm – 12:45pm
Title: Developing Capacity and Support for Open Pedagogy through SUNY Create
Presenter: Ed Beck, SUNY Oneonta
Description: SUNY Create was established in 2019 to provide students at 4 public colleges in ​the State University of New York with the ability to develop or enhance digital skills on the open web. This project aims to develop capacity, policy, and support for open education pedagogy (OEP) in the SUNY system. SUNY Create encourages faculty and students to create public-facing resources as students demonstrate their learning.
Recording (coming soon)

1:30pm – 2:15pm
Title: Roadmap to Getting Started with OER
Presenter: Sherry Tshibangu, Monroe Community College
Description: This session aims to inspire faculty to consider Open Educational Resources (OER) by providing them with practical steps to adopting OER.  Participants will leave the session with a list of information sources to support faculty in OER course development.
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2:30pm – 3:15pm
Title: Using Open Educational Resources (OER) for COIL courses
Promoting Access to International Education
Presenters: Jie Zhang, Mary Jo Orzech, Ann Pearlman – SUNY Brockport
Description: The Brockport presenters will share the concrete examples as they collaborate to plan and implement OER materials in the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses.
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3:30pm – 4:15pm
Title: That Textbook Has No Test Bank! We are working on That! Students’ role in developing an open educational resource
Presenters: Talia Lipton, Rockland Community College and Ryan Hersha, Corning Community College
Description: “I would use the OER textbook, but it doesn’t have a test bank!” Join us for a discussion on how this open pedagogy project developed between faculty at Rockland Community College and SUNY Corning Community College in order to provide helpful ancillary materials for the OER textbook, Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking.
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Tuesday, March 3
9:30am-10:00am
Title: SUNY #EmTechMOOC for Students and Faculty to Learn 21st-Century Skills
Description: This half-hour webinar will help students, faculty, and instructional support staff to learn about #EmTechMOOC. SUNY’s Exploring Emerging Technologies for Lifelong Learning and Success (#EmTechMOOC), is an online learning opportunity available for students, faculty, staff, and anyone who wants to learn about freely-available emerging technologies for personal and professional growth. #EmTechMOOC and its companion resource collection helps participants identify the value and implications of using established and emerging technology tools for personal and professional growth and gain strategies to develop lifelong learning strategies.
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12:00pm-12:45pm
Title: Adaptive Learning and Open Pedagogy
Presenters: Judith Littlejohn, SUNY Genesee Community College and John Kane, SUNY Oswego
Description: Adaptive learning provides personalized, individual support while open pedagogy projects often involve students working together, collaboratively, with a common goal. We will share our experiences combining both types of learning activities in history and economics classes.
Recording (coming soon)

Wednesday, March 4
12:00pm-12:45pm
Title: Open Pedagogy: 3 Recipes you can try at home!
Presenter: Alexandra M. Pickett, Open SUNY
Description: For decades before the advent of OER, the term “open pedagogy” has been associated with learner-centered pedagogical practices. The power and public nature of the social web present endless opportunities, options, AND choices for how learners can make their thinking and learning visible in the online class environment. This session will demonstrate how to focus on the learner and creatively enhance your online learner engagement with learner-centered approaches that can be used to customize and tailor online learning experiences for learners with the use of simple freely available online tools.
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Friday, March 6
12:00pm-12:45pm
Title: Metaliteracy: Wikipedia and Open Pedagogy
Presenters: Trudi Jacobson, University at Albany, Christos Noutsos, SUNY Old Westbury, and Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Edu
Description: Two SUNY faculty members and a representative from Wiki Edu will discuss the use of Wikipedia editing and writing as an effect open pedagogical resource that supports metaliteracy and the acquisition of subject knowledge.
Recording (coming soon)

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