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9:30am EDT

Not Everything Should Be Open: Ethics and Care in Open Education
Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
Open education is often framed in terms of access, sharing, and innovation. But what happens when openness creates risks for learners? This session explores open educational practices through a different lens, asking not only what we open, but what we protect. Drawing on experiences in carceral classrooms and work with marginalized communities, this presentation examines how openness is neither neutral nor inherently liberatory. Participants will consider how knowledge can be shared, appropriated, or weaponized, and how educators make intentional decisions about when to open knowledge and when to protect it. This session reframes open education as a relational and ethical practice rooted in care, responsibility, and lived experience. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of how to approach openness with intentionality in their own contexts.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe how open educational practices can function as relational and ethical practices, not just access-based approaches.
  • Identify risks associated with openness, particularly for marginalized communities.
  • Analyze how decisions to share or protect knowledge shape learning environments.
  • Apply intentional decision-making when implementing open practices in their own contexts.
  • Reflect on how care, authorship, and responsibility influence their approach to openness.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V3

10:00am EDT

From Learning to Earning: Building Workforce Skills for the Next Generation Using Customized OER
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
Across disciplines and institutions, instructors face growing challenges regarding student engagement and academic integrity. These challenges are compounded by the emergence of AI and shifting workforce needs. Our workforce requires students to develop an ever-increasing set of skills to obtain entry-level jobs. Traditional print textbooks can't keep pace with these shifts, but OER can!

Drawing on data from the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025, this session highlights the skills and competencies increasingly valued by employers worldwide. We’ll share practical strategies for customizing OER to support skill development, respond to emerging technologies, and meet local and industry-specific needs, all while maintaining academic rigor and relevance. Participants will leave with an AI prompt template to create five ready-to-implement, skills-based assignments that align with emerging workforce needs, meet course objectives, and incorporate OER content.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify key challenges facing college educators, including maintaining student engagement, managing the impact of AI, and equipping students with ever-changing, in-demand career skills.
  • Analyze emerging workforce skills from the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 and their relevance in specific academic disciplines.
  • Explain how OER can be customized to support skill development while maintaining academic rigor.
  • Apply a structured AI prompt template to generate 1) skills-based learning activities aligned with course objectives, open content, and industry needs, and 2) aligned instructional support materials (e.g., grading rubrics, scaffolding for struggling students).
  • Refine AI-generated activities to ensure they support individual course contexts, follow accessibility best practices, and meet activity design preferences.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V4

10:00am EDT

From Trust to Textbooks: Project Management Strategies to Strengthen OER Teams
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
Strong teams are the bedrock of successful OER projects. Across three federal grant initiatives LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network has sustained long-term team participation using a cohort model to produce sixty OER textbooks and accompanying LMS courses. This panel will discuss how LOUIS uses project management techniques to build resilient teams to ensure project success through - building a culture and atmosphere of trust, empowerment, and engagement. Cohort Leaders from the most recent “Building a Competitive Workforce” project will address common challenges, such as change, conflict, and distributed teams, and solutions to maintain team morale and momentum. Tailored to new or aspiring leaders of amazing humans and project leaders, this discussion emphasizes lessons learned and actionable insights participants can apply immediately to strengthen team dynamics.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain project management strategies to build strong OER teams through a culture of trust, empowerment, engagement and resilience in OER project teams.
  • Recognize common challenges and identify effective solutions for building resilient OER project teams.
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Jared Eusea

Assistant Professor of Nathematics, River Parishes Community College
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Amelia Brister

LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
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Michael Waller

Government Documents & Applied and Natural Sciences Librarian, Louisiana Tech University
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V3

10:00am EDT

Mix-and-Match Modular OER: From Concept to Campus-Wide Implementation
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
What if the gap between instructor autonomy and institutional consistency didn't have to be a compromise?

This session tells the story of modular OER in action — from framework to failed pitch to campus-wide adoption. Melissa Williams will introduce Minnesota State's mix-and-match model, where discrete learning modules snap together like building blocks, giving instructors creative freedom while preserving shared outcomes. Christine Rickabaugh will then share how she brought this model to a first-year seminar at the University of Arkansas- 160+ sections, one very flat initial pitch, a two-week about face, and an iterative OER creation structure that actually stuck.

They'll show what lives in the space between top-down mandates and every-instructor-for-themselves: a scalable, sustainable, instructor-owned approach to OER that works across platforms and contexts. You'll leave with a transferable framework and the kind of honest, hard-won lessons that only come from doing it together.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Design modular OER content that supports instructor customization while preserving shared learning outcomes and assessment.
  • Identify key components of a governance and maintenance plan for multi-section courses using customizable OER modules.
  • Apply strategies for building stakeholder buy-in for modular OER adoption.
  • Outline an implementation pathway for adapting the mix-and-match approach to their own institutional context.
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Christine Rickabaugh

Open Education Librarian, University of Arkansas Libraries
Christine Rickabaugh is a former early childhood educator who traded crayons and glitter for Pressbooks and Creative Commons licenses — and hasn't looked back. Now the Open Education Librarian at the University of Arkansas Libraries, she leads the university's OER program, chairs... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V5

10:00am EDT

The Open Nebraska (ONE) List: Developing a System of Academic and Publishing Authority Tags for OER
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
This session shares the ONE List, a tagging framework developed at the University of Nebraska Omaha to make visible the authority signals often missing from OER discovery systems: author credentials, publisher type, editorial oversight, revision history, accessibility features, and more. Grounded in information literacy and the ACRL frame “Authority Is Constructed and Contextual," this project aims to develop an objective system for categorizing OER according to standard notions of publishing authority through application of relevant metadata. This provides potential faculty adopters with ready markers of publishing authority when scanning for materials. The session will also discuss a newer phase of the work: investigating the feasibility of AI assistants in a human-in-the-loop workflow to assist with tagging while preserving transparency, evidence, and librarian review. Attendees will leave with a practical model for improving OER discoverability, trust, and adoption support.

It is not claimed that this system should be the primary method for categorizing and recommending OER to potential adopters, nor that traditional notions of publishing authority are the exclusive qualifiers of potential source quality. Rather, this presents a way to promote objective categorization, address common adopter concerns, reward the existence of still-important publishing attributes, and ultimately improve the toolkits we use in adoption and promotion.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify common metadata gaps that may be initial barriers to OER adoption.
  • Describe how an objective tagging attribute framework can surface markers of academic authority.
  • Apply fundamental information literacy tenets to OER discovery and selection.
  • Adapt key elements of the ONE List model to local OER, library, or instructional design workflows.
  • Evaluate the benefits and limits of using human-in-the-loop AI to support metadata creation in open education settings (this portion of the project is still in-progress).
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V1

1:15pm EDT

Dive Into the Warp: The Need for Standard Operating Procedures in OER Programs
Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
Every day, we hit warp speed. Every day, we forget what it means to warp. If Open Education programs want to survive, our captains need to stare into The Warp, the Immaterium, the Unspace: The Space Between.

The early years of open education management included what many leaders called "building the plane as we flew it." Open Education organizations and initiatives were assembled for pilot projects like grant programs or workshops - sometimes built solely around the existence of funding or an idea for one event. As OE programs mature, what used to be "the plane" now travels faster than light. But do we know enough about how we travel? Do we understand what it means to warp?

Through the cosmic lenses of Star Trek, Warhammer 40K, and Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jeff will take you through the sometimes-painful creation of an open Standard Operating Procedures document and how this practice could help build transparency and ethical automation into the fundamental processes that make Open happen.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify standard definitions and explain their open education programs within these terms.
  • Adapt and create a Standard Operating Procedures document for their own open education program.
  • Build accessibility into existing processes and target accessibility-by-default in both publishing and work procedures.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
V1

1:15pm EDT

OER Developers’ Perspectives on Creating Mathematics Visuals With GenAI
Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
This presentation shares preliminary findings from an ongoing research project on OER developers’ needs, preferences, and practices in generating mathematics visuals for curriculum materials using GenAI tools. Drawing on interviews from ten mathematics OER developers, the study explores how visual production workflows are evolving in response to emerging technologies. Early analysis suggests that developers increasingly adopt hybrid workflows that combine traditional design tools with AI support, using iterative processes to refine visual accuracy and pedagogical alignment. Findings highlight the advantages of AI in streamlining visual development while also identifying challenges related to the accuracy and accessibility of AI-generated content. Additional time is needed to present emerging findings, illustrate visual development workflows, and discuss practical recommendations from developers to support the responsible AI integration in mathematics OER development.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe key needs and preferences of OER developers regarding the generation of mathematics visuals in curriculum materials.
  • Identify common practices and hybrid workflows used by developers when generating mathematics visuals using generative AI tools.
  • Explain the advantages and challenges of using generative AI for mathematics visual development.
  • Describe practical recommendations from developers regarding AI tool development and integration to support a sustainable content development environment for OER developers.
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Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Associate Professor, University of North Dakota
Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell began her career in education as an ESL teacher in New York City. She then obtained her PhD in Educational Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science at the University of Minnesota where she was trained in educational research. She has published over... Read More →
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Candace Walkington

Southern Methodist University
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
V3

1:15pm EDT

Publish and Publicize: How to Help Your Open Textbook Find Its Audience
Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
Many authors spend months or years laboring over their open textbooks and find themselves faced with a similar challenge: how to get their book in front of the audience it was written for.

In this session, we’ll help first-time and experienced authors and publishers understand simple but effective things that they can do to ensure their publications find the audiences they were designed for. We'll cover how to add and improve your book's metadata, and how to add publications to institutional repositories, search engines, indexes, and popular open directories. We’ll discuss how to generate metadata exports that can be ingested in library catalogues and other discovery platforms. Finally, we'll share practical advice about promoting your published books, including tips for reaching a wider audience through email, online communities, social media and more. No matter what publishing platform you use, you'll leave with actionable next steps for increasing your books' visibility and impact.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • (1) evaluate and improve the quality of their book's metadata to improve its discoverability.
  • (2) identify key indexes and directories for OER submission.
  • (3) apply a practical promotion strategy to help their publications reach wider audiences and more potential adopters.
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Cheryl Casey

Open Education Librarian, University of Arizona
Cheryl Casey has led OER initiatives at the University of Arizona since 2014. She’s active in the OER community as a trainer for the Open Education Network (OEN) and one of the instructors for the OEN's Certificate in Open Education Librarianship. She holds a a Master’s in Library... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
V2

2:00pm EDT

From Silos to Shared Strategy: K-12 and Higher Ed OER in Conversation
Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
Open education often lives in the “space between”—but one of the least examined divides is between K–12 and higher education. Why have these OER ecosystems largely developed in parallel, and what would it take to align them toward a shared national agenda?

This interactive panel brings state leaders into conversation across sectors to surface the tensions and opportunities at that boundary. K–12 OER is shaped by standards alignment, district adoption, and system-level funding, while higher ed centers faculty autonomy and affordability. Where do these models clash—and where might they connect?

Panelists will engage the audience in tackling shared challenges—accessibility, sustainability, awareness, and responsible AI use—while exploring practical points of alignment, from pre-service teacher preparation to dual enrollment course design. The goal: move beyond comparison to identify where collaboration is necessary, and possible.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify key policy and practice differences shaping OER in K–12 and higher education.
  • Examine why these systems have evolved in parallel—and where alignment is emerging or possible.
  • Compare state and organizational strategies for sustaining OER across distinct governance and funding models.
  • Explore shared challenges across sectors.
  • Apply cross-sector insights to opportunities such as pre-service teacher preparation and dual enrollment.
  • Engage in dialogue to identify practical strategies for building a more connected, national OER agenda.
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Barbara Soots

OER and Instructional Materials Program Manager, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
In her role as Assistant Director, Open Education and Instructional Materials, at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in Washington, Barbara Soots implements state legislation directing collection of K‚Äì12 OER resources aligned to state learning standards... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
V2

2:00pm EDT

Launching Skills: Open Education’s Role in the Future of Work
Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
As education shifts toward skills-based learning and credentials, a critical question emerges: what lies in the space between open education and workforce-aligned recognition? This panel explores that space where values of openness intersect with the growing demand for verifiable, skills-based credentials. Panelists from community colleges, universities, and international open education leadership will share perspectives on how open practices can support more transparent, equitable pathways to employment.

Through a high-level demonstration of a microcredential authoring platform and a real-world use case, the Open Financial Services Essentials project, attendees will see how open, skills-based content can be designed, validated, and recognized. Grounded in practice and policy, this session invites participants to consider how we can bridge the gaps between learning and work, and reimagine what is possible when openness meets skills.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Articulate the relationship between open education and skills-based credentials within evolving workforce ecosystems.
  • Describe how open practices can support more equitable and transparent pathways from learning to employment.
  • Connect policy, practice, and technology to advance open, skills-based credentialing initiatives.
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Kevin Corcoran

Assistant Vice Provost, University of Central Florida
Kevin Corcoran is the Assistant Vice Provost of the Center for Distributed Learning. Kevin has over 25 years of experience in the development and support of strategies for the effective use of digital learning tools and content that focuses on quality standards and practices, student... Read More →
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Amanda Coolidge

VP, Strategic Engagement and Growth, Pressbooks
Amanda Coolidge is VP of Strategic Engagement and Growth at Pressbooks, where she leads marketing, sales, and customer success and serves as product manager for the company's microcredential platform. She is the founder of Coolidge Collaborative and former Executive Director of BCcampus... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
V1

3:00pm EDT

An Open Competency Framework to Recognize the Skills and Knowledge of Open Education Professionals
Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
People working in open education develop their knowledge and skills in open education in a range of ways. While some may take formal courses or training, often it is built through hands-on projects, the day-to-day work, and peer relationships. As such, BCcampus is working to develop a Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) framework for open education, a process to evaluate and provide formal recognition for the skills, knowledge, and experience gained through work, volunteer, and life experiences. This session discusses why BCcampus is pursuing a PLAR approach to recognition and badging, and shares the openly licensed competency and assessment frameworks being developed.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain the purpose of PLAR and its value for open education practitioners;.
  • Describe competencies that enable open education work in a post-secondary context;.
  • Identify flexible methods and options for demonstrating competencies; and.
  • Understand the assessment framework for evaluating mastery of competencies.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V1

3:00pm EDT

From AI Disclosure to Human Declaration: Centring Human Authorship in OER Creation
Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
As AI tools become increasingly common in OER creation, the question is no longer whether authors use them — it's how to disclose that use honestly and transparently.

The KPU AI Declaration Framework for OER Creation takes a human-centred approach, asking not "what did AI do?" but "what was the relationship between the author and AI?" The framework adapts Kari D. Weaver's AID Framework for OER contexts, identifying ten categories of activity relevant to publishing projects. It incorporates the Me & My Machine labels — adapted for a North American context — to capture the spectrum from fully independent human creation to AI-generated content, making human effort and creative direction visible even where AI plays a significant role.

A self-assessment rubric, interactive rubric tool, and Pressbooks front matter template support authors in building their own declaration statement. While developed for OER, the framework applies to any resource creation project.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the KPU AI Declaration Framework for OER Creation — including its categories, label system, and self-assessment rubric —and identify how it differs from existing approaches to AI disclosure.
  • Determine whether and how a human-centred approach to AI disclosure might be implemented in their own institutional or publishing context.
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Amanda Grey

Open Education Strategist, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Amanda Grey, MLIS, is the Open Education Strategist at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in British Columbia, Canada. Over the past several years, she has worked across the full spectrum of open education practice, supporting educators in textbook affordability, OER adoption and... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V2

4:00pm EDT

A Brave Choice: Zero-Textbook Cost at CCA or You’re Already Doing the Work
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
In unveiling the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan for the Division of Academic Success as CCA, we were presented with 5 “Brave Choices” or goals to focus on. The first Brave Choice is to “embrace ZTC pathways in our top 10 transfer programs and in our 15 highest-enrollment gateway courses.” This seemed like a formidable ask, until we ran the numbers. Sifting through the data, we discovered that CCA a) already has ZTC pathways for 3 degrees, b) we’re making good progress on all the degrees impacted by this goal, and c) 10 out of 15 of the highest-enrolled GT courses are OER! This lightning talk describes the ways the OER team at CCA gathered, sorted through, and distributed this data, showing attendees how they can do the same at their institutions to visualize the progress toward their Open goals.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Participants will.
  • Understand how their institutions are already building Zero-Textbook Cost pathways.
  • Understand what data to gather when tracking goals related to Open.
  • Leave inspired to run the numbers and track their own Open progress.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Amplifying Open at the Intersection of Science and Education
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
This lightning talk will introduce the Open Education Ecosystems Research Coordination Network (OEE-RCN) and highlight our work at the intersection of open science and open education. We are a diverse community of open science service providers, education reform projects, professional communities, open education specialists, and teaching faculty. The integration of open science resources (data, protocols, tools, collaborative spaces, publications) with open education practices has the potential to transform undergraduate STEM education. The goals of this project include surveying the landscape at the intersection of open science and open education to highlight emerging opportunities and identify barriers to adoption. We are currently seeking partnerships with projects, organizations, and individuals interested in joining the conversation to catalyze adoption of open practices in science classrooms. https://oee.qubeshub.org

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Gain familiarity with the Open Education Ecosystem project.
  • Find additional information about how to collaborate with the OEE-RCN.
  • Recognize some of the opportunities and challenges associated with working to integrate open science and education.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Bridging the Space Between: Using AI and UDL to Open Access in Higher Education
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
The space between traditional course design and truly open, accessible education is where too many students get lost. This session presents a practical framework for using generative AI through a Universal Design for Learning lens to close that gap — making course materials more flexible, inclusive, and openly adaptable. Drawing on real examples from economics and finance courses at Berklee College of Music, participants will see how AI tools can help faculty move from rigid, one-size-fits-all content toward open educational practices that meet every learner where they are. Three key takeaways: (1) How UDL principles function as a prompting framework for AI-assisted course design; (2) A replicable workflow for creating openly adaptable course materials using AI; (3) Strategies transferable across disciplines and institution types.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain how UDL principles function as a framework for open, AI-assisted course design.
  • Use generative AI to create or adapt course materials that reflect open educational practices.
  • Identify at least two strategies for moving their own courses toward greater accessibility and openness.
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Building a Foundation for an OER Badge
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
The course badge was designed to educate students from San Antonio College about open educational textbooks/resources. After many redesigns, over a span of two years, it has grown to be a badge available for anyone (students, faculty, staff). It is now an advocacy tool to give a foundation component to open educational practices and resources.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Develop a sample course map relating to the course badge.
  • Describe the process of creating a course badge.
  • Utilize the badge as a gateway for open advocacy.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Co-DREAM OER: An End of Project Update on Innovative STEM Open Resources
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
In 2021, Co-DREAM OER, a multi-institutional project to develop 9 innovative open textbooks and interactive ancillary materials on robotics, mechatronics and advanced manufacturing for the associates, bachelor's and graduate levels, received a $2 million US Department of Education’s Open Textbook grant. In 2026 the project is near completion. This presentation introduces all the works of the project and discusses the critical gaps in STEM OER that they fill. It also discusses the many features that they contain to support the learning needs of all learners, which includes availability in print and online format, ability to be used online and offline, the inclusion of multimedia resources, such as videos, interactive simulations and animations, programming packages, and well as compliance to WCAG 2.1 AA standards. The presentation concludes with a discussion of the first implementation of the books, as well as attempts to build a community who can improve and sustain them over time.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Learn the purpose of the Co-DREAM project and the important gaps in OER that its textbooks fill.
  • Identify the benefits of new textbooks produced by the project, the types of institutions, courses, and programs they are designed for and the innovative features they contain.
  • Discover how the accessibility and other features of the books meet the needs of a variety of learners.
  • Hear about the project's efforts to build a community of users by having a small group of faculty conduct a trial implementation of each textbook.
  • Describe the educational research being conducted to assess the impact of the textbooks.
Speakers
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Yang Wu

Open Resources Librarian, Clemson University Libraries
Yang Wu, Open Resources Librarian at Clemson University, South Carolina is a OER specialist with experience in many types of Open Education activities. He served on several major OER organizations, including the Open Education Network Steering Committee and OpenEd Conference Advisory... Read More →
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Designing an Open Tutorial for Accessible Lecture Capture Using Embedded Audio Description
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
This session presents the design, pilot testing, and dissemination of an open tutorial that trains faculty to integrate embedded audio description (AD) into lecture capture videos. Grounded in digital accessibility and universal design principles, the tutorial positions AD as an extension of existing teaching and recording practices rather than an added burden. Beyond improving accessibility for learners with disabilities, the session argues that targeted training in accessible multimedia production can substantially enhance the overall quality, clarity, and usability of OER video content. Data from a pre–post study—including survey outcomes and think-aloud reflections—will illustrate changes in faculty knowledge, self-efficacy, and implementation intentions. The tutorial will be released as a Creative Commons–licensed OER, enabling broad reuse and adaptation.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the role of embedded audio description in enhancing accessibility of lecture capture videos.
  • Explain how accessible multimedia practices can improve the overall quality of OER artifacts.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Do Open Textbook Grants Reach Students Who Need Them Most?
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Do Open Textbook Grants Reach Students Who Need Them Most?

This session presents the first cross-institutional evaluation of the U.S. Open Textbooks Pilot (OTP) program, examining whether federal OER investments translate into measurable student outcomes and reach the highest-need institutions. Using College Scorecard, IPEDS, and American Community Survey data, we employ propensity score matching, panel difference-in-differences, event-study diagnostics, and empirical-Bayes benchmarking to compare 12 OTP grantees against matched controls. Results show a significant 6.9 percentage-point completion rate increase at four-year grantees (p = .044), with null debt effects. However, the grantee pool is concentrated in the four-year sector with a mean Pell rate below the national median, revealing a persistent gap between federal investment and realized equity impact -- the space between policy intent and student benefit.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain the difference between course-level OER evidence and institution-level OER policy evaluation.
  • Describe how matched comparison and panel methods can be used to study open education initiatives.
  • Identify the main findings of this evaluation of the Open Textbooks Pilot program.
  • Assess how competitive grant design may shape who benefits from open education funding.
  • Consider policy and implementation strategies for making OER investment more equitable.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Don’t I Know You?: Re-Designing Open Programming for the Space Between
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Open Education programming often favors the familiar, but curiosity and connection can take us somewhere meaningful and new.

This talk explores what happens when we treat programming not as event planning, but as relationship-building. It highlights how curiosity, informal conversations, and community feedback can lead to more inclusive and responsive programming. I’ll share two experimental formats shaped by this philosophy: 1) From the Field, and 2) Open Exchange – both designed to create space for dialogue, not just delivery.

Working in “the space between” means making room for new perspectives, unexpected connections, and the kind of conversations that don’t always fit neatly into a traditional webinar format, but matter just the same. This is an invitation to consider not just what we share, but who we make space for, how we design it, and who we might become as a result.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Reframe programming as relationship-building, understanding how curiosity, informal conversations, and community feedback can guide more responsive and inclusive programming.
  • Apply design strategies for dialogue, recognizing how experimental formats, like unrecorded peer discussions, can create safe spaces for candid conversations and richer engagement.
  • Explore how intentionally designing for connection and new perspectives can enhance the impact of Open Education efforts.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Expanding Education: Narrative Role-Playing Games and Open Education Resources
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Despite growing interest in game‑based learning and the rising cultural popularity of role‑playing games (RPGs), most narrative RPG materials remain commercially produced and sold, making them difficult to license and adapt for educational use. As a result, educators and education researchers interested in narrative roleplay often rely on purchased systems, create their own materials from scratch, or attempt to adapt the limited number of existing RPG‑focused OERs, many of which may not suit their specific teaching contexts or learner needs. This lightning talk briefly highlights the unique capacity of narrative roleplay to foster intrinsic motivation, agency, and engagement across age groups. The session then explores existing RPG OERs and research‑informed entry points that educators can use to navigate this emerging area of open, narrative‑driven pedagogy, and, if inspired, contribute to the development of new, openly shared narrative RPG tools.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Define key components of game-based learning, including distinctions between gamification, game-based learning, and gameful learning, and describe how these approaches differ in goals and implementation.
  • Articulate the pedagogical promise of narrative role-playing games, particularly their capacity to support learner motivation, agency, collective meaning-making, and engagement with complex ideas through storytelling and play.
  • Identify existing open educational resources related to narrative RPGs, as well as gaps in current literature and resource availability, in order to imagine how their own teaching, research, or open education work might contribute to this emerging area.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Generating Reach by Embedding OER in Volunteer Formats for Sustainable Marketing Programs
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Open Educational Resources (OER) are promoted in different ways around the world. In the US, this work is often called “OER advocacy,” while in South Africa the Open Education Influencers MOOC (https://oe4bw.org/project/open-education-influencer/) is a notable example.

This lightning talk shares how the University of Innsbruck is reaching a wider audience:

* OER practitioners talked about the creation and the publication of their projects in The JOERney@UIBK: Experience Talks (https://oerworldmap.org/resource/urn:uuid:75e1c2a7-8540-4ff2-b2c6-04b2f23b3cda?language=en).

* The Aqua MOOC, a 2021 citizen science MOOC on water communities, was presented at a local district club. Volunteers from Computerias and libraries were invited.

The findings from this talk may inspire attendees of the lightning talk to leverage local venues, themselves; using a single, high-interest MOOC or resource, other OER and the OER repositories can be cross-promoted to potential re-users and interested people.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • …find connections between marketing OER at their institutions and involving local volunteers in the dissemination of information about OER.
  • …think outside "the box", aka their institutional limits, and reach for a wider audience.
  • …generate new leads for their OER practitioners to create OER for and broadening their understanding or who their ideal audience might include.
  • …gain an understanding for the value of “old” OER and the sustainability efforts included in the production and the active advertising of a MOOC with so-called "ever-green contents" that is intended for a "long run".
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Individuals & Institutions: The Structure of Change and the Open Education Network
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
In this presentation, Robin DeRosa, Executive Director of the Open Education Network, will explore the theory of change that undergirds the OEN. In a community that focuses its activities on the grassroots work of educators (including faculty, librarians, instructional designers, technologists, and other support staff), the OEN’s membership structure centers around institutions and consortia. What is the relationship between individuals who engage with open practices and the systems that contain, support, and sometimes thwart them? How can organizations that leverage open education to make change respond to the needs of learners and teachers while building support from the surrounding educational systems that don’t always center those needs? Hear about the rationales, hopes, and tensions that animate the OEN’s model, and the current ways we are envisioning our role in advancing open education and building a more equitable future for higher education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Reflect on the tensions and synergies between individual practice and systemic support in the open education movement.
  • Articulate reasons why both grassroots practice and institutional commitment are key sustainable and impactful open education progress.
  • Understand the approach of the Open Education Network, and how it leverages institutional commitment to make structural change in higher education.
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Robin DeRosa

Executive Director, Open Education Network
Dr. Robin DeRosa is an educator and community leader who has served in many roles over the span of her career. She has been a middle school theater teacher, a high school literature and writing teacher, and a college professor of both English and Interdisciplinary Studies. She has... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Mapping OER to State Numbering Systems
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
This session focuses on finding ways to reduce the cognitive load for faculty, and faculty supporters, interested in adopting OER for the general education courses in Texas, with potential replicability for other states. This is done through the overview of the following resources:

* Texas Common Course Numbering System (TCCNS),

* Academic Lower Divison Guide for Texas Higher Education courses,

* Open Educational Resources, and

* University specific course numbering systems

The overview is followed by an exploration of how these systems work together to create an articulated interface, the Core to Open tool, that facilitates quick and wasy to understand OER discovery for faculty and faculty support providers. The presentation wil conclude with a demonstration on how to use the Core to Open tool itself. From investigation to deliverable, the process emphasizes learning, making connections, and supporting iterative design.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain the relationship between course numbering systems, course learning objectives, and OER – as well as how this could be replicated for their state or system.
  • Choose a relevant gen ed course and navigate to OER for that course.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Reducing Students’ Psychological Distance From Climate Change: Design of an Open Mapping Assignment
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
This session introduces an open (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) climate distance mapping assignment designed to help students connect climate change to places, systems, and near-future conditions relevant to their lives. Drawing on the concept of psychological distance, we examine why students may understand climate change but struggle to situate it in their own contexts.

Participants will learn how assignment design can reduce abstraction without pressuring students toward personal or potentially traumatic disclosure. The session demonstrates how structured choice allows students to engage at varying levels of personal proximity while still making meaningful, place-based and life-path connections.

Educators, instructors, and those teaching late high school and introductory college courses may find this session most useful.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain how psychological distance influences students’ perceptions of climate change.
  • Identify why students may struggle to connect climate change to their own lives.
  • Model assignment design that reduces abstraction without requiring personal disclosure for students.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Reframing Medical Education Through Theater of the Oppressed, Critical Pedagogy, and Open Education
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
This session explores innovative approaches to medical education through the integration of art-based methodologies, open educational resources (OER), and virtual learning communities. Grounded in the critical pedagogy of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal, it challenges traditional technicist models by promoting dialogical, participatory, and human-centred practices. The presentation highlights how the Theatre of the Oppressed can foster empathy, active listening, and nonviolent communication among future health professionals. Additionally, it examines the role of collaborative digital environments and OER in expanding access to knowledge and enabling co-creation. Participants will engage with the concept of virtual communities as spaces for experimentation, shared learning, and the development of more inclusive and ethical healthcare practices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain Theatre of the Oppressed can be applied in medical education.
  • Identify strategies to foster empathy, active listening, and nonviolent communication in healthcare training.
  • Analyze the role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in promoting inclusive and collaborative learning environments.
  • Critically reflect on the limitations of traditional technicist models in health education and propose human-centred alternatives.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Sowing Discord for Iterative Discovery: AI Roundtables Built on Friction
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Ask generative AI a question, and you get a confident answer. What you don't get is a second read, a dissenting take, a reason to dig deeper. When open educators use AI to create and remix resources that others will reuse, that untested confidence travels with the work.

The counterintuitive fix? Sow discord. Not by asking AI to see both sides, but by designing personas with named stakes that structurally conflict, then putting them in the same room. When multiple perspectives are built for friction, disagreement surfaces ideas neither would reach alone. Then run the output back through a critical lens, round after round, until what remains has been earned by both sides.

Open educators make decisions alone that deserve a panel, and this roundtable method convenes one on demand. Attendees leave with a replicable roadmap for building and running their own expert panel, no subject matter expertise required.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain why single-prompt AI use produces untested confidence and why that matters when the work will be reused by others.
  • Apply the roundtable method by assigning personas with structurally conflicting stakes to surface complex ideas no single perspective could reach alone.
  • Use iterative review loops to pressure-test AI output and recognize what repeated scrutiny reveals that a single pass misses.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

The Interstitium: An Emergent Practice for the Spaces Between
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Western scientists recently “discovered” a new organ in our bodies: the Interstitium. This collagen scaffolding had long been discarded by conventional medicine and belief systems as static and generally in the way. However, a fresh look with modern tools at LIVING tissue (!) revealed that the Interstitium has myriad life-sustaining functions, previously unrecognized or underappreciated. It activates the Spaces Between within our bodies.

The Interstitium is also a powerful metaphor and a generative frame of reference for situations where reciprocal flows of knowledge, creativity, and care are vital yet unnoticed. This metaphor, brought to light in a 2023 Radiolab podcast, has spurred a growing community of practice for “Interstitionaries” who do this essential but often unsung bridging work. In this talk, I’ll introduce the Interstium as metaphor and methods, and highlight how its methods (including a self-assessment and discussion prompts) might serve the open education community.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand the Interstitium as an inspiring and useful metaphor for any socially-connected work.
  • Use the Interstitium model and its practices to help unlock new approaches for relational and recognition challenges and opportunities in open education work.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Visible Impact: Creating Effective Alt Text With Students
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Alternative text (alt text) is important, though often a secondary thought, when creating digital resources. When creating open educational resources, the written content is often the focus, with visuals added to support it. Accessibility requirements mandate that written descriptions be added to visual content in educational resources. With recent advances in AI, many are using AI to generate alt text for images in OERs. This can be done relatively quickly, but still requires significant time for reviewing, editing, and correctly inserting alt text so screen readers can access it and provide detailed descriptions. This talk advocates working with students to develop alt text to focus on the educational component of OERs. Students are eager to work with faculty on meaningful projects and can successfully develop alt text and assess its effectiveness. This talk will discuss how to do this, the benefits, and the challenges.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Develop and refine alternative text.
  • Incorporate students in the process of developing and refining alternative text.
  • Encourage student involvement in OER development and creation.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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