Track Session Type
Sustainability: Grant Acquisition & Management, Sustainability, Engaging Student Leaders, OER for Resilience, OER Community Building, OER and Technology
Presentation Type
Panel Presentation
OER Level of Expertise
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Audience
Faculty, Librarian, Administrator, Staff
Session Abstract
Session Abstract:
The National Consortium for Open Educational Resources (NCOER), a collaboration between the four regional higher education compacts—Midwestern Higher Education Compact, New England Board of Higher Education, Southern Regional Education Board, and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, aims to provide policy and practice support, enable substantial research efforts, develop open education solutions that promote equity, and endorse complementarity and coordination across states to scale and sustain the use of high-quality, open education resources and practices. Panelists from NCOER will share insights and strategies for elevating the use of OER to help address various institutional challenges, while also addressing questions, challenges, and opportunities solicited ahead of time from each compact’s constituents. Participants can expect to walk away with a better understanding of the national Open Education landscape and how the regional compacts are working together to identify and address existing gaps and future opportunities to remove barriers to student success.
Objectives of the Session
Session objectives: List 1-2 objectives for this session. (What will your attendees know or be able to do after your presentation?)
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Explain what a regional educational compact is and identify all four in the United States
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Explain how and why all four compacts are working together under a new entity, NCOER (National Consortium for Open Educational Resources)
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Identify the different challenges and opportunities with respect to Open Education in each compact’s region
Full Description of the Session
Session description:
Please state in 250 words or less what you plan to cover during your session and how you will incorporate attendee participation. i.e. real time polls, Twitter feeds, small group discussions, etc. Interactive sessions are strongly encouraged. Include who should attend and what level (beginner, intermediate or advanced) the presentation is geared toward.
The regional educational compacts are trusted entities in the higher education, government and business sectors, and these constituents often rely on them to advise on best practices and policy making. The compacts have longstanding, established relationships with these entities, which makes it easier for them to communicate and demonstrate the value of innovation and practices that are happening on the ground. The compacts, and more specifically, NCOER, see its role in this space as one that takes advantage of these established relationships to work with and for its states to support them in their own efforts to bring Open Education to their individual institutions. This panel presentation will directly address how each of the four compact’s regions has slightly different strategies and approaches to advancing the awareness and use of open educational resources (OER) and practices. As mentioned in the session abstract, panelists from NCOER will share insights and strategies for elevating the use of OER to help address various institutional challenges, while also addressing questions, challenges, and opportunities solicited ahead of time from each compact’s constituents. Participants can expect to walk away with a better understanding of the national Open Education landscape and how the regional compacts are working together to identify and address existing gaps and future opportunities to remove barriers to student success. While a handful of questions will be solicited from constituents ahead of the live panel, the panelists will also utilize Padlet or another similar technology that will enable attendees to interact and ask questions.
Presenter Bios
Presenter 1
Name: Lindsey Gwozdz
Email: lgumb@nebhe.org
Phone: n/a
Lindsey Gwozdz is an Associate Professor and the scholarly communications librarian at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. She also serves as the Open Education Fellow at the New England Board of Higher Education in Boston, Massachusetts. With an active interest in the intersections of information literacy, open education, and critical librarianship, Lindsey works with faculty on her campus and region-wide to transform the awareness of open education from a cost-savings tool to be more inclusive of pedagogies that allow for opportunities to create systemic changes in more representative and equitable information creation, evaluation, and access.
Presenter 2
Name: Charlotte Dailey
Email: Charlotte.Dailey@sreb.org
Phone:901-239-0018
Charlotte Dailey is the Program Specialist for Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Postsecondary Office of Student Success and Access at the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) in Atlanta, GA. In her role as program specialist for Open Educational Resources (OER), she is responsible for development and successful implementation of programming to increase awareness and adoption of OER across the 16 states in the southern region. Charlotte enjoys being able to influence education across the region. As a long-standing advocate for education, she holds degrees in Business Administration and Higher Education. Charlotte brings over 20 years’ work experience to SREB in non-profit management, higher education, and small business consulting.
Presenter 3
Name: Liliana Diaz Solodukhin
Email: ldiaz@wiche.edu
Phone:
Liliana Diaz Solodukhin, as a policy analyst with WICHE works on a diverse range of activities including conducting and communicating policy research on a wide array of higher education-related topics, developing, and sustaining relationships with external stakeholders, and conceptualizing and executing short- and long-term collaborative projects with states. Diaz received her B.S. in journalism and mass communication, B.A. in film studies, and a certificate in Technology, Arts, and Media from the University of Colorado at Boulder, earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Denver.
Presenter 4
Name: Jenny Parks
Email: jennyp@mhec.org
Phone: 608-461-0138
Jenny Parks is Vice President of Policy and Research at the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC). She leads the exploration, development, and implementation of projects that help Midwestern postsecondary institutions improve the way they serve students. Jenny has worked at all levels and in multiple sectors of education, including state and federal compliance, institutional research, and policy advocacy. She earned her master's degree in Educational Policy and Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently she is writing her dissertation for the doctoral program in Higher Education from Northeastern University in Boston.
Presenter 5
Name: Annika Many
Email: annikam@mhec.org
Phone:
Annika Many is a Co-Founder and Principal of edBridge Partners, a mission-driven women-owned management consultancy founded in 2013, committed to helping education institutions, membership organizations and philanthropies transform their organizations. As a Principal of the firm, she serves a national client base with services that include organizational effectiveness, academic innovation, policy and advocacy, program development and management, strategic partnerships, and leadership counsel and strategy. Prior to joining edBridge, Annika spent over nine years at the College Board. Annika holds a MA in education and politics from Teachers College, Columbia University, a MPA in nonprofit management from Pace University, and a BA in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Start Date
4-4-2023 10:00 AM
End Date
4-4-2023 11:00 AM
Open Education Across the Nation: The Regional Educational Compacts Weigh In
Session description:
Please state in 250 words or less what you plan to cover during your session and how you will incorporate attendee participation. i.e. real time polls, Twitter feeds, small group discussions, etc. Interactive sessions are strongly encouraged. Include who should attend and what level (beginner, intermediate or advanced) the presentation is geared toward.
The regional educational compacts are trusted entities in the higher education, government and business sectors, and these constituents often rely on them to advise on best practices and policy making. The compacts have longstanding, established relationships with these entities, which makes it easier for them to communicate and demonstrate the value of innovation and practices that are happening on the ground. The compacts, and more specifically, NCOER, see its role in this space as one that takes advantage of these established relationships to work with and for its states to support them in their own efforts to bring Open Education to their individual institutions. This panel presentation will directly address how each of the four compact’s regions has slightly different strategies and approaches to advancing the awareness and use of open educational resources (OER) and practices. As mentioned in the session abstract, panelists from NCOER will share insights and strategies for elevating the use of OER to help address various institutional challenges, while also addressing questions, challenges, and opportunities solicited ahead of time from each compact’s constituents. Participants can expect to walk away with a better understanding of the national Open Education landscape and how the regional compacts are working together to identify and address existing gaps and future opportunities to remove barriers to student success. While a handful of questions will be solicited from constituents ahead of the live panel, the panelists will also utilize Padlet or another similar technology that will enable attendees to interact and ask questions.