Track Session Type

Evaluation: Research in OER, Evaluation student engagement, OER Impact and Programmatic Assessment

Presentation Type

Panel Presentation

OER Level of Expertise

Beginner, Intermediate

Audience

Faculty, Librarian, Administrator

Assessing OER-Enabled Pedagogy from a professorial and a student perspectives.

Session Abstract

In this session, we will discuss the assessment of OER-enabled pedagogy. During the first part of the presentation, students and faculty will introduce the different OER-enabled pedagogy projects they had been involved with. Then, the faculty member will explain how he used the Liberal Arts mission of the university and the commitment toward employability to create qualitative and quantitative assessment tools. Faculty in the audience will be able to adapt the information provided in their tenure and promotion application. From this standardized assessment, students will provide their individual assessments of the educational experience they receive in a course using OER-enabled pedagogy. Finally, we will conclude this session by answering the questions of the audience.

Objectives of the Session

First Objective: Comparing and contrasting the standardized and individualized assessments of OER-enabled pedagogy from professorial and student perspectives.

Second Objective: Help faculty to develop an assessment on OER-enabled pedagogy that they will be able to use in their tenure and promotion application.

Full Description of the Session

INTRODUCTION: 5 minutes

Defining Open Pedagogy and OER-enabled Pedagogy

Explaining why OER is only the first step in transforming education in the 21^st century and the need to include OER-enabled pedagogy

PART 1: 10 minutes

Describing the different OER-enabled pedagogy projects in which the faculty member and the students had been involved.

PART 2: 5 minutes

Asking the members of the audience what other type of OER-enabled pedagogy projects they had been involved in.

PART 3: 10 minutes

Explaining how the faculty member created quantitative and qualitative assessment tools to evaluate the student understanding and use of the different Liberal Arts skills and how students will be able to use these skills in a professional environment.

Describing how to use this assessment in the tenure and promotion application.

PART 4: 10 minutes

Assessing OER-enabled pedagogy from students who participated in specific projects.

PART 5: 10 minutes

Q&A

Presenter Bios

Nicolas P. SIMON

Dr. Nicolas P. Simon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and Social Work at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic Connecticut. His major research interests include Sociology of Higher Education, First-Generation College Students, Community Service, Open Educational Resources, Open Pedagogy, and Sociological Theories. Dr. Simon holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree from Université de Caen in France.

Tyler S. Fairbanks.

My name is Tyler S. Fairbanks. Studying Sociology at Eastern, I aim to work others to construct a better world than the one I was born in. To do so, I would like to take on the barriers within the systems that govern our lives. Currently, I work as a SOAR Benefits Specialist helping people apply for disability benefits to remedy financial barriers. Open Pedagogy is yet another invaluable tool to fixing another key system in our nation: the educational system.

Kiyana-Nicole Smith

Kiyana-Nicole Smith (she, they) is a junior at Eastern Connecticut State University, studying Sociology. Kiyana-Nicole shares her joy and time through campus involvement. Volunteering in the community may help her finalize what age group she would like to teach. Kiyana-Nicole is passionate about people and helping them in any way she can.

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Presenters

Nicolas Simon, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityFollow
Emma Burke, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityFollow
Tyler Fairbanks, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityFollow
Kiyana-Nicole Smith, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityFollow

Start Date

4-4-2023 3:00 PM

End Date

4-4-2023 4:00 PM