Track Session Type

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

Presentation Type

Roundtable or Special Interest Group Discussion

OER Level of Expertise

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Audience

Faculty, Librarian, instructional designer, Administrator, Staff, Other

Session Abstract

Participants in this roundtable will explore how we can encourage graduate students to connect and engage with open education, particularly open educational resources and open pedagogy, on our campuses. The facilitators will pose a series of questions meant to stimulate conversation and ideas about customizing open education outreach and initiatives for this unique student population.

Graduate students occupy a liminal position as both students and potential future faculty, and on many campuses they are teaching already. Ideally, once they explore and become familiar with the benefits of open educational concepts and practices, not only can they act as student advocates for open education, but also chances are they will carry forward and expand upon open practices as new faculty. We will brainstorm about how to help this happen.

Objectives of the Session

Participants will examine the unique positionality of graduate students in the context of open education.

Participants will generate ideas about how to engage graduate students in open education initiatives.

Full Description of the Session

Graduate students occupy a liminal position as both students and potential future faculty, and on many campuses they are teaching already. They are just starting to develop their scholarly identities and practices. Meanwhile, it often can be difficult to convince faculty members to explore and adopt open educational practices after they’ve already mastered their own approaches to pedagogy and scholarship. Ideally, once graduate students explore and become familiar with the benefits of open educational concepts and practices, not only can they act as student advocates for open education, but also chances are they will carry forward and expand upon open practices as new faculty. Exposing these students to open education concepts and helping them understand their own potential role in open practices can help our open education initiatives succeed.

Participants in this roundtable will explore how we can encourage graduate students to connect and engage with open education, particularly open educational resources and open pedagogy, on our campuses. The facilitators will pose a series of questions meant to stimulate conversation and ideas about customizing open education outreach and initiatives for this unique student population. An interactive brainstorming activity will also be included.

Presenter Bios

Andrea Kingston (she/her) is a Social Sciences & STEM Librarian at the University of Rochester, where she serves as liaison to Psychology, Linguistics, and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. She is a member of the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries’ OER Working Group, which seeks to advance open education at the university and oversees an open educational grant program. Andrea has been involved in various OER initiatives since 2014. For her capstone project for the 2022–23 cohort of SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellows, Andrea is creating an openly licensed introduction to open education for graduate students.

Jennifer Englund (she/her) serves as an Instructional Designer at the University of Minnesota. In her work, she creates, adopts, and adapts openly licensed instructional development materials and advocates for open licensing to be used within her team. For her doctoral dissertation, Jennifer plans to conduct a mixed-methods study to discover and understand the range of awareness, knowledge, and use of open educational practices by instructional designers. She also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the University of Minnesota's Learning Technologies program and has introduced over 150 students to the Creative Commons licenses. Additionally, Jennifer serves as a facilitator for the CC Certificate program and looks forward to facilitating conversations, exploration, and knowledge-building about open licensing with new cohorts of educators and librarians.

Katherine Fata (she/her) is a graduate student at the University of Illinois pursuing her master’s degree in Library and Information Science. She also has a BA in English-Writing from Illinois Wesleyan University. In her graduate studies, she plans to pursue questioning about open access resources and publishing in local media. In addition, Katherine works at Knowledge Futures, where she collaborates with the community team and members to create accessible, effective, and interactive publishing communities. On campus, she is a coordinator for Project READ, a state educational grant program that promotes literacy efforts and tutoring for community members. Her interest in open education comes from a distinct recognition of the gap in knowledge about OER between faculty and graduate students, and she looks forward to engaging in conversations that will begin to close this gap.

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5-4-2023 12:00 PM

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5-4-2023 1:00 PM

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Apr 5th, 12:00 PM Apr 5th, 1:00 PM

Baking in Open: Getting Graduate Students Involved in Open Education

Graduate students occupy a liminal position as both students and potential future faculty, and on many campuses they are teaching already. They are just starting to develop their scholarly identities and practices. Meanwhile, it often can be difficult to convince faculty members to explore and adopt open educational practices after they’ve already mastered their own approaches to pedagogy and scholarship. Ideally, once graduate students explore and become familiar with the benefits of open educational concepts and practices, not only can they act as student advocates for open education, but also chances are they will carry forward and expand upon open practices as new faculty. Exposing these students to open education concepts and helping them understand their own potential role in open practices can help our open education initiatives succeed.

Participants in this roundtable will explore how we can encourage graduate students to connect and engage with open education, particularly open educational resources and open pedagogy, on our campuses. The facilitators will pose a series of questions meant to stimulate conversation and ideas about customizing open education outreach and initiatives for this unique student population. An interactive brainstorming activity will also be included.