Stories & Calendar

Today we're going to discuss showing your work, tools for reporting impact. We are joined by Tara Lebar, who is Associate Director of Academic Affairs with the Kansas Board of Regents; Barb Thees, who is Community Manager with the Open Education Network; and Emilia Bell who is Coordinator of Evidence Based Practice with Library Services at the University of Southern Queensland.

Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This April 13, 2022, session is hosted by Amanda Hurford of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). Amanda is joined by guest speaker Jacqueline Frank from Montana State University for a discussion of accessibility and inclusion in OER.

Alicia Conrardy is a digital repository specialist at Colorado State University Libraries (CSU) where she is responsible for coordinating technical, bibliographic, and metadata for CSU’s digital repository collections. Her cataloging expertise and guidance during the OTL’s early years profoundly impacted the library’s growth that we’re celebrating in 2022.

Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. In this 2022 initial session, OEN Publishing Director Karen Lauritsen provides foundation setting and facilitates discussion with guests Gabby Hernandez and Sunyeen Pai on how to get started with publishing. 

The Open Education Network (OEN) has launched its Manifold Pilot, welcoming more than a dozen institutions and organizations to experiment with Manifold, a web publishing platform, for a variety of open educational publishing practices. 

With an initial kick-off in September 2021, the Open Education Network (OEN) Colleague Connector program creates one-to-one opportunities for members to discuss, support, and inspire one another (as well as occasionally commiserate) on open education initiatives. 

Chelsea Green is an associate professor of music at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Drawing on her experience as a professional guitar soloist and ensemble player, Chelsea also directs the Cairo Guitar Collective (CGC) and the AUC Guitar Ensemble, both of which perform regularly throughout Egypt. In 2020, the Rebus Community published Chelsea’s first open textbook,  Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method Book and Video Series (CC BY), which is included in the Open Textbook Library.

Today we are joined by four guests, and we are going to be talking about OER and instructional design. Iwona Gniadek is here with us, she's the Educational Developer at the University of Manitoba. Also, Veronica Vold, Open Education Instructional Designer with Open Oregon. Brenna Clark Gray who's Coordinator with the Educational Technologies area at Thompson Rivers University. And Nicolas Parés, who is Teaching & Learning Specialist with the University of Denver.

This month the Open Textbook Library’s collection of open educational resources (OER) reached 1,000 titles, all available at no cost to higher education students. The searchable, online catalog of openly licensed materials is hosted by the Open Education Network (OEN) based at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Open Education.

We will hear from three guests today who will speak informally about their experiences with instructional design for OER. And then we will look to all of you to direct the conversation, ask questions, share your local experiences, and otherwise kind of guide us in making this a useful and helpful hour for you.