Celebrate Open Education Week 2021 with SUNY Online!

10:00-10:45AM 

Title: Let's Write a Textbook! Right? Why Not!

Presenter: Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury

Description: “Learning happens especially felicitously in a context where the learner is consciously engaged in constructing a public entity.” -Seymour Papert

When students are able to create or modify their own textbooks and learning materials, we shift the student emphasis toward contribution to knowledge rather than simple consumption of knowledge. In this presentation, I will share my experience in writing a textbook with my students. Students in groups of 4 are assigned to write a chapter in my Public Economics class. What are the steps that I have created in order to get this process going? Pedagogical approaches, logistical issues, technology used, and more will be shared.
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11:00-11:45AM

Title: Engaging Students as OER Contributors

Presenter: Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose, Hudson Valley Community College

Description: Undergraduate students typically view themselves as consumers of academic content, not creators. This presentation is a case study on how I set out to change this perception and engage students with course content by tasking them with content creation for an OER textbook.
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12:00-12:45PM

Title: Leveraging Ready-to-Adopt OER-based Courses to Support Student Learning: Lumen’s Waymaker

Presenters: Tony DeFranco, SUNY OER Services and Josh Baron, Lumen Learning

Description: If you are looking to replace expensive textbooks, foster student engagement, or easily identify struggling students, join SUNY OER Services and Lumen Learning who will offer two sessions on courseware that combines OER with powerful teaching and learning tools that improve student learning and academic success.

This session will focus on Lumen’s Waymaker personalized learning courseware and the tools and content it provides for teaching introductory business, English, social science, biology or Spanish courses.  Following the demonstration of Waymaker, time will be provided for Q&A.
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1:00-1:45PM

Title: Creating an Open Course WITH Students

Presenter: Dave Ghidiu, Finger Lakes Community College

Description: It's a slow burn, but over two years I was able to build an Information Security course - from scratch - with my students. The techniques evolved over time and have led to a framework that is repeatable. Join this session to engage with me as I share my experiences and lessons!
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10:00-10:45AM

Title: Enhancing Student Engagement Through Scaffolded Non-Disposable Assignments

Presenter: Trudi Jacobson, University at Albany and UAlbany students

Description: Students, regardless of level, have knowledge and/or experiences to share with others. Non-disposable assignments, such as contributing to openly available content online, have the ability to excite and engage learners, but often scaffolding is required to help them achieve their goal. This presentation will take a look at student content creation in two courses, one with first-year students and one with seniors, and ways to provide support in what may be a new experience for them. 
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11:00-11:45AM

Title: Wikipedia and Botany

Presenter: Christos Noutsos, SUNY Old Westbury

Description: In this presentation, I will be talking about my participation with the Wikipedia project. The aim in this project is to use Wikipedia Plant sites that do not contain enough information about a specific plant and enrichment using Botany scientific resources.
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1:00-1:45PM

Title: Let's Create Together: Incorporating Open Pedagogy Practices to Encourage Students to be Active Collaborators

Presenter: Jessica Kruger, University at Buffalo

Description: The idea of collaborating with your students to build course content can be intimidating and overwhelming.  This session will discuss strategies and lessons learned to engage your students to help create, build, and facilitate courses together. If we want students to be engaged in the course content, they need to feel included and heard. Inclusive pedagogy practices will be discussed.
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12:00-12:45PM

Title: Leveraging Ready-to-Adopt OER-based Courses to Support Student Learning: Lumen’s Online Homework Manager (OHM)

Presenters: Tony DeFranco, SUNY OER Services and Josh Baron, Lumen Learning

Description: If you are looking to replace expensive textbooks, foster student engagement, or easily identify struggling students, join SUNY OER Services and Lumen Learning who will offer two sessions on courseware that combines OER with powerful teaching and learning tools that improve student learning and academic success.

This session will focus on Lumen’s Online Homework Manager (OHM) courseware and the tools and content it provides for teaching math, chemistry and accounting courses.  Following the demonstration of OHM, time will be provided for Q&A.
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1:00-1:45PM

Title: SEHRA: Sunshine Electronic Health Record Academic Simulation

Presenter: Sandra Wright, SUNY Broome Community College

Description: Learn how a cross-disciplinary initiative led to the creation and implementation of SEHRA, an EHR (electronic health record) for simulating nursing, health information technology, medical assisting, and data analytics environments using Access 2019, and how SEHRA became an open educational resource.  Watch a brief demonstration of how SEHRA can be used in both on-campus and online instruction. 
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11:00-11:45AM

Title: OER in the Writing Classroom

Presenter: Stefanie Schaefer, SUNY Broome Community College

Description: Open educational resources can be used effectively in many different classrooms, but how can they be used in writing intensive classes? In this session, we will discuss in what ways OER integration has worked (and has not worked) with college students from article reviews on OER integration in the writing classroom as well as personal experience. Learn about different ways to use OER materials as well as different assignments that have been created from open educational materials.
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12:00-12:45PM

Title: The Use of Perusall in my Asynchronous Class

Presenter: Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury

Description: Persuall - Participatory Technology in Public Economics asynchronous class.

I use Persuall for two separate sets of readings - together worth 40% of students’ final grade. The first one is for actively engaging with the textbook material. The second one is for Weekly Read and Annotate Assignments where we carefully read one or two newspaper articles related to the topic covered in class. These assignments are intended to cultivate a collaborative reading experience that allows us all to engage one another and the materials in a thoughtful, social, and dynamic way. Annotating in detail and in this collaborative form is a step towards developing larger analyses and strategic reading skills.

Engaging in a participatory culture is regarded as a creative endeavor, in which more experienced contributors are able to mentor less experienced peers in a supportive and socially connected community. This promotes peer-to-peer learning, diverse cultural expression, and the development of skills valued in the modern workplace.
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1:00-1:45PM

Title: Using a Lumen Text to Create Course Modules

Presenter: Rachel Rigolino, SUNY New Paltz

Description: This presentation discusses how a Composition textbook provided by Lumen became the basis for the creation of online modules used by various instructors across a Composition Program.
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10:00-10:45AM

Title: Adopting OER-Enabled Pedagogy to Engage LIS Students

Presenter: Christopher Hollister, University at Buffalo

Description: The presenter will describe the adoption of OER-enabled pedagogy as a framework for engaging library and information science (LIS) students in a course on international and comparative librarianship. In this case study, LIS students were assigned to create their own textbook as an open educational resource (OER). Each student authored a chapter featuring the libraries and the field librarianship in a non-North American country, and the completed text was published on the presenter’s institutional repository. Given the experimental nature of this assignment, the presenter examined whether students who are required to create their own OERs perceive such work to be valuable, motivating, or rewarding, and whether they deem this undertaking problematic in any way. The presenter will provide an overview of the textbook creation assignment and highlight the key results of the investigation in terms of student perceptions and lessons learned. 
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11:00-11:45AM

Title: Ready, Set, Go...Online! Student Passport Experience

Presenters: Nicole Childrose & Stacey Hills, Columbia-Greene Community College

Description: Are your students actually ready to journey to the world of online and remote learning? By providing them with free, 24/7 open access to critical resources, campuses can help students develop learning readiness, quickly assess student needs, and easily onboard them to the virtual classroom all through their existing learning management system. Are you looking to motivate students? Empower them? Quickly create a strong learning community? Involve faculty from all disciplines? Instantly address potential student learning gaps? This presentation will explore the essential features of the development of a highly interactive student passport experience, intentionally developed to retain students that is anything but tedious! 
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12:00-12:45PM

Title: Improving Teaching and Learning with Open, Adaptive Courseware

Presenters: Tony DeFranco, SUNY OER Services with Norman Bier and Erin Czerwinski, Open Learning Initiative

Description: Join SUNY OER Services and Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI) team to learn how to you can adopt and customize OLI materials, from full textbook replacements to skills-targeted modules in subjects that include French, Spanish, Chinese, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Collaboration, Anatomy & Physiology, Logic, Programming, and many more. 

For more than two decades, OLI courseware has improved student outcomes, supported new instructional approaches and driven new insights into human learning. These ready-to-use learning environments provide students with assessments, labs, simulations and other active activities that offer targeted hints and feedback while providing teachers with actionable insights on where their students are struggling.  The presentation will highlight how SUNY faculty are using these materials, and will demonstrate tools that faculty can use to improve and customize the learning experience. Attendees will learn more about opportunities to collaborate with OLI with time provided for Q&A.
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