Track Session Type
Evaluation: Research in OER, Evaluation student engagement, OER Impact and Programmatic Assessment
Presentation Type
Presentation
OER Level of Expertise
Intermediate
Audience
Faculty, Librarian
Session Abstract
In this presentation, participants will learn about OER initiatives at the University of Saint Francis, a small, liberal arts college in Fort Wayne, IN. With the help of their OER librarian, faculty in English, Art History, and Photography redesigned their courses in Fall 2022 to utilize OER instead of traditional print textbooks. Their experience adapting their courses, teaching with an OER for the first time, and their students’ perceptions of these resources will be presented as various models. Participants will leave this session armed with knowledge of how to utilize OER in the classroom to help with student success and retention and greater instructor autonomy.
Objectives of the Session
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Participants will understand how they might begin to experiment with and gradually integrate an OER into their classroom.
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Participants will have a better understanding of how OERs serve students and instructors more than traditional print textbooks.
Full Description of the Session
Through our pandemic years, much attention has been paid to student well-being: to more compassionate grading systems, to more concern to accessibility issues, and to more inclusive policies. Benefits like accessibility and lower educational costs demonstrate that OERs fit into this timely conversation about student-focused classrooms. Using insights gained through first-time faculty adoptions of OERs, this presentation will show that OERs not only give students greater freedom to be active participants in the classroom, but they can offer greater instructor autonomy in curriculum design as well.
Participants of this session will learn about OER initiatives at the University of Saint Francis, a small, liberal arts college in Fort Wayne, IN. With the help of their OER librarian, faculty in English, Art History, and Photography redesigned their courses in Fall 2022 to utilize OER instead of traditional print textbooks. Their experiences adapting their courses and teaching with an OER for the first time will be presented as various models of implementation. Participants will understand how they might begin to experiment with and gradually integrate an OER into a classroom environment as well as reasons why an OER might serve their needs as instructors. This examination will offer specific strategies and analyze student perception surveys and other assessment tools as well.
Presenter Bios
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Chelsie is the Writing Center Director and Assistant Professor of English in the Division of Humanities at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, IN. Chelsie received an MA in Composition and Literature from Indiana University. She has transitioned her Rhetoric & Composition, Rhetoric of Inquiry, and Children’s Literature courses to incorporate OER.
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Beth is Associate Professor of Art History in the Division of Humanities at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, IN. Beth received her PhD in Art History and American Studies from Indiana University and teaches courses in modern and contemporary art. She uses some OER materials in all her courses and her online classes are exclusively OER.
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Cara is Professor of Photography in the Division of Creative Arts at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, IN. Cara received her MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design and specializes in analog and 19th century photo processes. She is in her second semester of using an OER textbook for her Intro to Photography courses.
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Start Date
5-4-2023 10:00 AM
End Date
5-4-2023 11:00 AM
Student Well-Being and Instructor Autonomy: Integrating OERs Into the Classroom
Through our pandemic years, much attention has been paid to student well-being: to more compassionate grading systems, to more concern to accessibility issues, and to more inclusive policies. Benefits like accessibility and lower educational costs demonstrate that OERs fit into this timely conversation about student-focused classrooms. Using insights gained through first-time faculty adoptions of OERs, this presentation will show that OERs not only give students greater freedom to be active participants in the classroom, but they can offer greater instructor autonomy in curriculum design as well.
Participants of this session will learn about OER initiatives at the University of Saint Francis, a small, liberal arts college in Fort Wayne, IN. With the help of their OER librarian, faculty in English, Art History, and Photography redesigned their courses in Fall 2022 to utilize OER instead of traditional print textbooks. Their experiences adapting their courses and teaching with an OER for the first time will be presented as various models of implementation. Participants will understand how they might begin to experiment with and gradually integrate an OER into a classroom environment as well as reasons why an OER might serve their needs as instructors. This examination will offer specific strategies and analyze student perception surveys and other assessment tools as well.