Track Session Type

Sustainability: Grant Acquisition & Management, Sustainability, Engaging Student Leaders, OER for Resilience, OER Community Building, OER and Technology

Presentation Type

Presentation

OER Level of Expertise

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Audience

Faculty, Librarian, Staff

WITHDRAWN: QUBES as a case study for OER Resilience and Community Building: How a community built Science Education Gateway can support OER creation, management and sustainability

Session Abstract

The QUBES platform was conceived as a Science Education Gateway and designed to accelerate innovation in undergraduate STEM education. In this presentation, we introduce and demonstrate the four QUBES platform services: OER Library Access; Professional Learning; Partner Support; and Customizable Workspaces. This technical infrastructure was purpose built to provide more equitable access to professional resources, support learning that reflects authentic science, and promote open education practices.

Objectives of the Session

Participants will be able to do the following after this presentation:

  • Utilize the QUBES Platform including accessing and exploring the modules published in the QUBES OER libraries and building awareness of partner communities

  • Understand what a Science Education Gateway is and how its cyber- and social-infrastructure supports OER through the entire life cycle

Full Description of the Session

Science Gateways are websites that make scientific resources (e.g., data, software, communications & collaboration tools) accessible to educators, students, and researchers, and have had large impacts on diverse fields in STEM. The QUBES platform was created as a Science Education Gateway, designed to broaden participation in scholarship around teaching and learning. The integrated nature of the QUBES four platform services (OER Library Access, Professional Learning, Partner Support, and Customizable Workspaces) makes it possible to collect, curate, and disseminate a diverse array of OER in a scalable and sustainable manner.

Participants in this session will first be invited to share their view of the challenges to (1) bringing authentic scientific practice into the classroom, and (2) getting faculty to adopt and adapt use of OER. Following this discussion, we will give a brief overview of the QUBES four platform services and how they work together to address these challenges.

In the second half of our session, participants will actively explore the central QUBES OER library, as well as multiple QUBES hosted sub-communities spanning varied disciplines that have leveraged OER as a key component of their community building and professional learning. During and after this hands-on exploration of the QUBES OER library, we will explore the many ways in which these community-based platform services integrate synergistically with the OER library, illustrating a holistic approach whereby community drives the OER engine, with the OER library itself drawing in new community members looking to use the material in their classrooms.

Presenter Bios

Sarah Prescott

I am the President and Executive Director of BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, which manages and supports the QUBES platform and associated projects. I am also an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of New Hampshire. My research interests are in genomics education, green chemistry education, open pedagogy and practice, and STEM educational reform. I have been involved as a faculty participant in the past for several QUBES groups, and currently in my role as Executive Director of BioQUEST I oversee projects we support on the QUBES platform. I am currently a co-PI on the NSF funded Online4Bio project which is bringing the Course Source journal esubmission portal to the QUBES platform. I am also the PI of the NSF RCN-UBE-funded project “Quantitative Biology and Community Colleges”, where I facilitate interdisciplinary groups of faculty who are designing and implementing new OER for STEM classrooms.

Drew Lamar

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at William & Mary and the Director of Cyberinfrastructure at BioQUEST. I have a PhD in Mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin. My research interests are in mathematical biology, scientific computation, open source software development, quantitative biology education, and development of science education gateways. I have been working as lead software developer for the QUBES platform for almost 10 years, with much of that development centered around building an infrastructure that supports OER and community building.

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5-4-2023 12:00 PM

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5-4-2023 1:00 PM

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WITHDRAWN: QUBES as a case study for OER Resilience and Community Building: How a community built Science Education Gateway can support OER creation, management and sustainability

Science Gateways are websites that make scientific resources (e.g., data, software, communications & collaboration tools) accessible to educators, students, and researchers, and have had large impacts on diverse fields in STEM. The QUBES platform was created as a Science Education Gateway, designed to broaden participation in scholarship around teaching and learning. The integrated nature of the QUBES four platform services (OER Library Access, Professional Learning, Partner Support, and Customizable Workspaces) makes it possible to collect, curate, and disseminate a diverse array of OER in a scalable and sustainable manner.

Participants in this session will first be invited to share their view of the challenges to (1) bringing authentic scientific practice into the classroom, and (2) getting faculty to adopt and adapt use of OER. Following this discussion, we will give a brief overview of the QUBES four platform services and how they work together to address these challenges.

In the second half of our session, participants will actively explore the central QUBES OER library, as well as multiple QUBES hosted sub-communities spanning varied disciplines that have leveraged OER as a key component of their community building and professional learning. During and after this hands-on exploration of the QUBES OER library, we will explore the many ways in which these community-based platform services integrate synergistically with the OER library, illustrating a holistic approach whereby community drives the OER engine, with the OER library itself drawing in new community members looking to use the material in their classrooms.