Track Session Type
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA): Engaging Student Leaders; Inclusion and Diversity in Open Education, OER Community Building
Presentation Type
Roundtable or Special Interest Group Discussion
OER Level of Expertise
Intermediate
Audience
Faculty, Librarian, instructional designer, Administrator, Staff, Other
Logical or Radical: Open Educational Practices at Private Universities
Session Abstract
When going beyond cost savings and realizing the power and feasibility of open, Open Educational Practices (OEP) demonstrate great impact and promise by fostering engagement in precarious times, enhancing learning, and spurring transformational potential for both instructors and students. In this engaging roundtable session, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Washington University librarians will discuss the activities and practices happening on our campuses that foster community-building. We will spark dialogue about OEP challenges with different audiences and contexts, share examples, and share a praxis that visualizes degrees of openness to help situate and strategize OEP efforts.
Keywords
open educational practices, open pedagogy, private institutions
Objectives of the Session
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Audience members will be able to share similar experiences from both logical and radical perspectives and gain ideas and community regarding open educational practices.
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Audience members will be able to strategize and brainstorm how to broaden and redefine open educational practices within their own contexts.
Full Description of the Session
Open educational practices bring many challenges: they are not a panacea and they require alternative, creative assessments. Rather than approaching “open educational resources” as another thing to learn, understand, build, and implement amidst burnout, there are many activities and practices happening at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Washington University.
For this roundtable, we will define non-monographic/textbook open educational practices by providing examples and a praxis that visualizes degrees of openness. Then, we will explain how we discuss and support open educational practices with different campus groups and contexts. Finally, we’ll review different challenges and reasons OER and open educational practices have not reached full potential at Harvard or WashU.
Open educational practices appeal to universities like ours because they address more than cost savings and they situate order and community to common practices that go under different names from “open education.” Open Educational Practices recognize that not everything can or should be openly shared or free, and they can represent marginalized voices and realize the learning power of failure.
In the true spirit of open educational practices, our session is intended to learn from each other and discuss how to resolve certain questions. Where institutional support is lacking, there is a community that has an answer. We will run questions from Poll Everywhere in the background to lead and facilitate a conversation with the audience. While all attendees are welcome, attendees with intermediate experience from private universities may benefit most from our conversation.
Presenter Bios
Presenter 1:
Treasa Bane
Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian, Washington University in St. Louis
Treasa is responsible for supporting copyright information policy and education, delivering services and outreach to faculty, students, and staff regarding topics such as fair use, authors’ rights, Creative Commons licensing, and privacy that connect to teaching, research, and library services.
Email: bane@wustl.edu
Presenter 2: Quetzalli Barrientos
Open Education Research Librarian
Gutman Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Information
Email: Quetzalli_barrientos@gse.harvard.edu
Bio: Quetzalli Barrientos is the Open Education Research Librarian at Gutman Library-Harvard Graduate School of Education. While she is the point person for open education at Gutman Library, her other duties include being a library liaison, student outreach, and conducting research appointments with students, faculty, and alumni. Prior to this position, Quetzalli’s prior library experience has included elements of teaching First Year Writing, conducting outreach to students via social media and collaborating with student centers on campus. She is excited to use her past experiences and skills to promote OER. Quetzalli has seven years of academic library experience. She graduated from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 2015 with a Masters in Library and Information Science. In 2013, she graduated from Illinois State University.
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Start Date
4-4-2024 11:00 AM
End Date
4-4-2024 11:50 AM
Logical or Radical: Open Educational Practices at Private Universities
Open educational practices bring many challenges: they are not a panacea and they require alternative, creative assessments. Rather than approaching “open educational resources” as another thing to learn, understand, build, and implement amidst burnout, there are many activities and practices happening at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Washington University.
For this roundtable, we will define non-monographic/textbook open educational practices by providing examples and a praxis that visualizes degrees of openness. Then, we will explain how we discuss and support open educational practices with different campus groups and contexts. Finally, we’ll review different challenges and reasons OER and open educational practices have not reached full potential at Harvard or WashU.
Open educational practices appeal to universities like ours because they address more than cost savings and they situate order and community to common practices that go under different names from “open education.” Open Educational Practices recognize that not everything can or should be openly shared or free, and they can represent marginalized voices and realize the learning power of failure.
In the true spirit of open educational practices, our session is intended to learn from each other and discuss how to resolve certain questions. Where institutional support is lacking, there is a community that has an answer. We will run questions from Poll Everywhere in the background to lead and facilitate a conversation with the audience. While all attendees are welcome, attendees with intermediate experience from private universities may benefit most from our conversation.