An annual celebration, Open Education Week (OE Week) is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide.
Can’t attend live? All webinars will be recorded and the recording with be sent to all registrants as well as posted here.
CCCOER’s OEWeek 2024 Schedule
- Tuesday, 12pm PT/ 3pm ET – Building an Open Education Research Community
- Wednesday, 12pm PT/ 3pm ET – Updates on the U.S. Department of Education’s Negotiated Rulemaking for Automatic Billing
- Friday, 9am PT/ 12pm ET – CCCOER Membership and Benefits Panel
- Friday, 2:30pm PT/ 5:30pm ET – Open for Antiracism: Leveraging Open Education to Support Antiracism in the Classroom
Tuesday, March 5, 12pm PT/3pm ET
Building an Open Education Research Community
Join us for a 20-minute webinar hosted by members of the CCCOER Research & Impact Committee for an introduction to the committee’s history and emerging CCCOER discussions and resources around open educational research and impact. We’ll explore how the committee can seed cross-institutional collaboration and be a place for new research connections. Participants will be invited to share their perspectives on Open Education (OE) research and contribute to ongoing discussions about the impact of open education on institutions and the students they serve. Following the webinar, we’ll invite participants to share their favorite OE research on OEG Connect.
Presenters:
- Michael LaMagna, Delaware County Community College, Learning Commons
- Amanda Di Battista, Conestoga College, School of Business
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Wednesday, March 6, 12pm PT/3pm ET
Updates on the U.S. Department of Education’s Negotiated Rulemaking for Automatic Billing
The U.S. Department of Education is considering the elimination of a provision that allows books and supplies to be charged as part of tuition and fees as a part of the negotiated rulemaking process. This would require higher education institutions to get student authorization for course material charges, which would effectively make “Inclusive Access” and automatic textbook billing programs “opt-in” for students. Presenters will discuss the implications of this proposal and shed light on its potential impact on students, institutions, and open educational resources. Please bring your thoughts and questions!
Presenters:
- Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC
- Liliana Diaz, Senior Policy Analyst, WICHE
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Friday, March 8, 9am PT/12pm ET
CCCOER Membership and Benefits Panel
Don’t miss the opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER). The panelists will talk about access to traditional benefits, leadership opportunities, and the invaluable community of practice CCCOER offers. They will also share personal journeys of involvement with CCCOER, with insights into real-life networking experiences.
Moderator:
- Shinta Hernandez, President of the CCCOER Executive Council and Dean of the Virtual Campus, Montgomery College (MD)
Panelists:
- Marina Aminy, Executive Vice President of the CCCOER Executive Council and Executive Director of the California Virtual Campus
- Gracie McDonough, Instruction and Reference Librarian at the College of Southern Nevada
- Andrea Scott, Director, Co-VP EDI of the CCCOER Executive Council and Director, Open Educational Resources, of the Office of Learning Advancement at Salt Lake Community College
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Friday, March 8, 2:30pm PT/ 5:30pm ET
Open for Antiracism: Leveraging Open Education to Support Antiracism in the Classroom
In this 45-minute panel discussion, we address the question: “How can the open education field engage effectively with antiracist pedagogy?” The Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR) provides an example. OFAR supports US community college faculty to transform their classrooms to be antiracist through the affordances of OER and open pedagogy. Now in its fourth year, OFAR has supported 150 instructors from 40 institutions to learn to adapt and author OER, integrating antiracist activities and perspectives and co-creating materials with their students.
Two propositions inform the design of OFAR:
- Academics wish to change their classroom practices to be antiracist and need guidance on promising practices and a safe place to explore with peers;
- OER and open pedagogy can be effective tools to transform classrooms to be antiracist.
Program participants learn about antiracist pedagogy, OER, and open pedagogy. Participants then implement a change to their teaching by integrating OER or open pedagogy to make their class antiracist. Participants receive on-going support through webinars, coaching, and OER support.
In this session, attendees will learn about program design, successes, and challenges, including results from three years of research on faculty perceptions and student outcomes.
The audience will be invited to share how they can apply this work in their own context to improve student success for marginalized and underserved students.
Panelists:
- James Glapa-Grossklag, Co-Director, Open for Antiracism, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons
- Laura Dunn, Co-Director, Open for Antiracism, Director of Assessment and Writing Programs, Santa Clara University
- Gayathri Manikandan, Professor Mathematics, Math Instructional Specialist, Student Success Center, PD Liaison, STEM Guided Pathway, Compton College
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The Open Education Week 2024 images used in the post are all available in the OE Week 2024 Visuals Kit, created by Mario Badilla, OEGlobal Creative Director, and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.