Tuesday, March 8, 11 am - Noon (Watch recording)
Speaker: Tanya Spilovoy
Tanya Spilovoy, Ed.D. designed and currently leads instruction for SPARC’s Open Education Leadership Program, a first-of-its-kind professional development program to empower librarians as leaders for successful open education initiatives. Tanya designed the program’s curriculum and innovative format that blends online, peer-to-peer and project based learning. Tanya has a two-decade career in higher education leadership, during which she has led numerous education technology and open education initiatives. Currently, she serves as Director of Open Policy for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), where she leads the National Consortium for Open Educational Resources (NCOER), a collaboration among the four regional compacts (MHEC, NEBHE, SREB, and WICHE), all 50 US states and associated territories. NCOER focuses on the policy, practice, and implementation of Open Educational Resources in states, systems, and higher education institutions. Previously, she served as the Director of Distance Education and State Authorization at the North Dakota University System where she also led a statewide OER Initiative. In addition, Dr. Spilovoy has conducted valuable research on statewide OER in ND and CO, and published several reports on the impact of large-scale OER implementation on faculty selection of classroom materials in collaboration with Bayview Analytics. Spilovoy is a strong believer in ungrading and open pedagogy teaching practice and facilitates a collaborative and open learning environment for students online and face to face
Wednesday, March 9, Noon - 1 pm (Watch recording)
Faculty Panel - What do instructors need to know about OER to get started?
Kim Carlson, Ph. D. Biology
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Courtney Hillebrecht, Ph. D. Political Science
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Holly Zimmerman, MS, CGC, Assistant Professor
College of Allied Health Professions
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Julie A. Pelton, Ph.D. Sociology & Anthropology
University of Nebraska Omaha
Thursday, March 10, Noon - 1 pm (Watch recording)
Faculty Speed Sessions (10 minutes each)
Session one: Pressbooks- Brian Moore, Ph. D. Professor of Music Education & Music Technology, and Sabine Zempleni, M.S. Assistant Professor of Practice Nutrition and Health Sciences
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Session two: Converting a Program to OER- Allan Donsig, Ph. D. Professor and Vice Chair Mathematics, Nathan Wakefield, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Practice Mathematics and Guy Trainin, Ph. D. Professor Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Session three: Adopting an OER Textbook- Carolyn Brown Kramer, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Practice Psychology
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Session four: Skyepack- Kim Carlson, Ph. D. Biology Department and Tyler Trame, Skyepack representative
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Session five: Creating OER Video- Congrui (Grace) Jin, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Session six: Q&A
Thursday, March 10, Noon - 1 pm
Panel discussion: UNO’s Department of Geography/Geology OER Project
Faculty and instructors in UNO’s Department of Geography/Geology have embraced Open Educational Resources (OER). What have they learned? What have they tried, and how have students responded? What have they observed concerning student recruitment and/or retention? What has been gained pedagogically (e.g., content flexibility)? Has anything been lost in the move away from textbooks and other purchased materials? This discussion will feature faculty who have been awarded OER grants to reduce or eliminate students’ costs for course materials in social science and natural science classes.
Moderated by Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Geology.
Bradley Bereitschaft, Ph.D. Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Geology.
Ashlee Dere, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Geology, Department of Geography and Geology.
Farrah Grant, M.A. Instructor, Department of Geography and Geology.
Zac Suriano, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Climatology, Department of Geography and Geology.
Gabrielle Tegeder, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography and Geology.