On the surface, course marking is a very straightforward process. Course information pertaining to the cost of learning materials is collected from faculty and provided to the Registrar’s office, who then assigns an attribute in the student information system to identify these courses under an agreed upon word or phrase (e.g. NoLo, ZTC, NoCo, etc.), or a “course marking.” But what happens when faculty don’t mark the courses? Or when students don’t know how to navigate the markings? If there is a last-minute change in either the assigned instructor or materials? How do we honor student choice and expectations alongside academic freedom and the realities of adjunct assignments?
Join Annika Many (Midwestern Higher Education Compact) and Lindsey Gwozdz (New England Board of Higher Education) in an interactive session focused on navigating the sometimes-difficult conversations and scenarios of change management.
Presenters
Annika Many, President and CEO, EDU-PM, LLC and OER Consultant for the Midwestern Higher Education Compact. Annika Many is an education leader with 20+ years of experience in higher education and K-12, specializing in college access and affordability, open education, academic innovation, and workforce alignment. As President and CEO of EDU-PM, she provides strategic consulting and project management services to help higher education institutions and organizations achieve their goals, drive student success, and overcome challenges through thoughtful planning and stakeholder engagement. Previously, Annika co-led edBridge Partners, a consulting firm supporting education institutions and philanthropies through organizational growth and transformation. Before that, she spent nine years at the College Board, where she held a variety of roles across advocacy and policy, strategy, and project management. Annika holds a BA in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, an MA in education and politics from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MPA in nonprofit management from Pace University. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Lindsey Gwozdz is the Assistant Dean of the Library at the Community College of Rhode Island, having spent 11 years prior as an Associate Professor and the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Roger Williams University. She also serves as the Fellow for Open Education at the New England Board of Higher Education, leading its open education initiatives and helping to expand the awareness of Open Educational Resources from a cost-savings tool to be more inclusive of pedagogies that create systemic changes for more representative and equitable information creation, evaluation, and access.
Lindsey has co-authored articles and book chapters that center social justice and pedagogical innovation with respect to open education, most recently a new framework for open education research that centers social justice: SCOPE of Open Education: A New Framework.
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