Track Session Type
Creation: OER Creation & Management, Copyright, Licensing, and CC101, Instructional Design and Ed Tech for OER, Open Pedagogy
Presentation Type
Panel Presentation
OER Level of Expertise
Beginner, Intermediate
Audience
Faculty, Librarian, instructional designer, Administrator
Session Abstract
Faculty engaged in the creation or adaptation of open educational materials through the Massachusetts ROTEL grant will share their experiences in the authoring, publication, and first semester of teaching with their new resource. These representatives of the first (pilot) group of faculty in the ROTEL program have many stories about lessons learned, challenges overcome, experience in working with the ROTEL Publishing Support Team, and their ongoing excitement and passion for this work. These panelists represent faculty at both state universities and community colleges and provide a variety of approaches to publishing and using their work.
Objectives of the Session
Faculty will share the process they have gone through to create or adapt OER materials with a focus on the development of materials that are culturally relevant for their students, highlighting lessons learned and challenges overcome so others can learn from their experiences.
Full Description of the Session
The ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens) program provides stipends to faculty at six Massachusetts Higher Education Institutions to create or adapt OER resources using an equity lens for their general education or career and professional development course. To support their work ROTEL created a Publishing Support Team with content, interactive media, licensing, and technical writing expertise, engaged with partners, and developed an Assessment Plan.
Join this session to hear from four faculty who have embraced ROTEL’S vision by creating culturally relevant materials that are key for student success, especially those students coming from underrepresented backgrounds. They will share processes and how they met challenges along the way. Larry McKenna discusses the creation of his text “Conversations with the Earth” using PreTeXt. Joan Giovannini shares her experience in adapting materials for “Children, Families, Schools, and Communities” using Pressbooks. Rachael Norton shares work that she and Peter Staab have done to adapt statistics problems for cultural relevance, depositing in WebWorks. Patricia Lynne completes the panel by sharing her pilot work “Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students” in which she embraces student perspectives while also being a pilot for the ROTEL Publishing Support Team and the best practices the team has adapted.
Brief Q&A will follow each presentation. x Massachusetts Institutions of Higher Education along with the MA Department of Higher Education will test the hypothesis that underrepresented students will student success outcomes
Funding is provided through the federal Department of Education’s Open Textbooks Pilot Program.
Presenter Bios
Millie Gonzales, Dean of Henry Whittemore Library at Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
Email: Millie Gonzalez vgonzalez@framingham.edu
Phone: 508-626-4652
Millie is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Remixing Open Textbooks Through an Equity Lens (ROTEL) program funded by the federal Department of Education's Open Textbook Pilot grant program. She also is the co-chair of the MA OER Advisory Council which leads statewide open education efforts with the MA Department of Higher Education. In addition, she is the lead of the Framingham State's team that is participating in the 2022-2023 AAC&U Institute on Open Educational Resources.
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Publishing Permission
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Start Date
4-4-2023 11:00 AM
End Date
4-4-2023 12:00 PM
Faculty Perspectives Creating Inclusive OER
The ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens) program provides stipends to faculty at six Massachusetts Higher Education Institutions to create or adapt OER resources using an equity lens for their general education or career and professional development course. To support their work ROTEL created a Publishing Support Team with content, interactive media, licensing, and technical writing expertise, engaged with partners, and developed an Assessment Plan.
Join this session to hear from four faculty who have embraced ROTEL’S vision by creating culturally relevant materials that are key for student success, especially those students coming from underrepresented backgrounds. They will share processes and how they met challenges along the way. Larry McKenna discusses the creation of his text “Conversations with the Earth” using PreTeXt. Joan Giovannini shares her experience in adapting materials for “Children, Families, Schools, and Communities” using Pressbooks. Rachael Norton shares work that she and Peter Staab have done to adapt statistics problems for cultural relevance, depositing in WebWorks. Patricia Lynne completes the panel by sharing her pilot work “Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students” in which she embraces student perspectives while also being a pilot for the ROTEL Publishing Support Team and the best practices the team has adapted.
Brief Q&A will follow each presentation. x Massachusetts Institutions of Higher Education along with the MA Department of Higher Education will test the hypothesis that underrepresented students will student success outcomes
Funding is provided through the federal Department of Education’s Open Textbooks Pilot Program.