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Tuesday, October 27
 

12:15pm EDT

Another Kind of Open: What a Community Pow Wow Can Teach Us About Openness
Tuesday October 27, 2026 12:15pm - 12:55pm EDT
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Open education often emphasizes digital access and sharing, but I’ve been thinking more about the relationships that actually make openness possible. In this session, I reflect on a community Pow Wow hosted at Cambrian College as an example of “another kind of open.”

As someone working in reconciliation education, I’ve come to see the Pow Wow as more than an event. It’s a space where learning happens through connection, respect, and reciprocity, a space where social justice and intercultural exchange are lived and felt. I see Indigenous pride and allyship in action. Helpers each play a unique role in creating an inclusive space rooted in Anishinaabe culture.

The Pow Wow encourages me to question the idea that openness is primarily digital, and to think about how the ethos of open education lives in relationships and community practices. I’ll invite attendees to reflect on how these observations might influence their own work and understanding of openness beyond the screen.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe how a community Pow Wow can function as a site of relational learning and “another kind of open”.
  • Reflect on how relationships, roles, and responsibilities shape meaningful open practices.
  • Identify ways that openness can extend beyond digital spaces into community-based contexts.
  • Consider how reconciliation education, allyship, and Indigenous-led spaces can inform their understanding of open education.
  • Apply insights from this session to re-think their own approaches to openness in their teaching or work.
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avatar for Jessica O'Reilly

Jessica O'Reilly

Professor, Cambrian College
From humble beginnings scooping ice cream at her grandparents' Supply Post, Jess now spends her time serving up scoops of decolonial truths (tastes awful, but it works)! In the Truth and Reconciliation course she facilitates, Jess endeavours to disrupt colonial narratives in a gentle... Read More →
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 12:15pm - 12:55pm EDT
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1:00pm EDT

A Metatheoretical Investigation of Expanding Open Education to Union Education Environments
Tuesday October 27, 2026 1:00pm - 1:25pm EDT
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While open educational practices (OEP) have shaped countless classrooms in higher education, K-12, and beyond, these ideas are largely unheard of in the world of organized labour. This session presents a metatheoretical model suggesting that the scholarly processes that proliferate OEP in formal academic settings are predominantly disconnected from organized labour, yet there are existing channels to bridge the connections. The model employs a systems thinking framework with two main subsystems. First, is the prospect for OEP in union education settings. For example, in Joint Health and Safety Committee certification training programs, there are numerous OEPs that have the potential to enhance engagement and inclusion. The second subsystem comprises open labour practices (OLP), which are practices with concepts similar to OEP such as renewable content. Renewable union reports will be discussed as a manifestation of OLP with a case study of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand the metatheoretical model explaining why OEP practitioners are primarily present in higher education settings and absent from union education settings.
  • Understand the ways that OEP can be applied to union education settings such as the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
  • Understand the way that open labour practices (OLP) can facilitate advocacy for wider adoption of OEP in union settings.
  • Understand the channels by which unions in higher education settings can catalyse exchange of such ideas to the broader movement of organized labour beyond academia.
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 1:00pm - 1:25pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Scaling Open Education With Student Success and Institutional Innovation
Tuesday October 27, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm EDT
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As open education initiatives expand, the next challenge is connecting OER to broader institutional and statewide priorities such as student success, workforce readiness, and digital learning innovation. This session explores how open education moves beyond affordability to become an integrated part of innovative success strategies. Using statewide initiatives as practical examples, presenters will share how open education efforts can be connected to student success, institutional partnerships, and emerging innovation to expand reach and impact. Attendees will explore how positioning OER within broader student success efforts expands opportunities for collaboration, sustainability, and buy-in. Participants will explore resources and partnerships designed to support institutions as they scale open education initiatives. This session will highlight practical strategies for connecting OER efforts with broader institutional goals and ensuring open education continues to expand its impact.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Connect OER initiatives to broader organizational priorities, positioning open education as part of institutional and statewide success frameworks.
  • Identify ways to expand collaboration across institutional units and partnerships to strengthen and scale open education initiatives.
  • Examine practical examples of resource hubs, OER playbooks, and innovation frameworks that support institutions in expanding the reach of OER.
  • Consider how integrating open education into student success conversations can increase visibility, sustainability, and impact for OER programs.
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Critical Open Educational Practices: Educators Redesigning Courses for Meaningful Change
Tuesday October 27, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
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What would it look like if every course you taught was more inclusive, more transparent, and more centered on the learners in front of you? At a time when educators are being asked to do more with less, and to do it more equitably, Critical Open Educational Practices (Critical OEPs) offer a framework for meaningful change. This session centers the practitioner experience of seven MinnState educators who arrived at Critical OEPs through different pathways, and whose engagement with the framework affirmed their values, expanded their practice, and moved their teaching in new directions. Grounded in four pillars, collaborative dialogue, critical reflection, inquiry-based learning, and transformative action, Critical OEPs offer a path toward pedagogical transformation. This session explores how educators negotiated authority, practiced equity, and sustained change within institutional constraints. Attendees will reflect on their practice and leave with concrete ideas for their classrooms.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify the four pillars of Critical OEPs and connect them to their own existing teaching practices.
  • Describe how educators negotiated authority, equity, and learner agency within real institutional constraints.
  • Articulate at least one concrete next step for deepening their engagement with Critical OEPs in their own classroom.
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
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3:30pm EDT

The Hidden Curriculum and Hidden Open Education Partners
Tuesday October 27, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
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U.S. higher education recognizes a “hidden curriculum” that students experience alongside their disciplinary studies, which include norms and practices that are unexpected and often unstated. The college and university community has implicit and established structures and processes in place that students, especially new students, may not be aware of or may not have experienced before. Navigating the course material and textbook landscape requires a keen understanding of faculty expectations, academic bureaucracy, and self-advocacy that students learn and develop over time. As students experience the hidden curriculum, they learn from faculty, student advisors, and student affairs staff, but most prominently, students learn to navigate the hidden curriculum from their peers. This presentation explores opportunities to close the space between open education practitioners and others within the institution actively working to mitigate the effects of the hidden curriculum.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Define the hidden curriculum.
  • Contextualize open education as part of the hidden curriculum.
  • Identify potential campus partners.
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LT
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Strategic Stakeholder Partnerships to Guide OER Development and Adoption
Tuesday October 27, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
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This session examines how intentional, multi-sector stakeholder partnerships drive the design, implementation, and scaling of open educational resources. Drawing on a multi-institutional engineering initiative, participants will explore strategies for engaging faculty, industry partners, and students throughout the project lifecycle.

The session will highlight structured approaches to stakeholder involvement, including advisory boards, workshops, peer review processes, and continuous feedback loops that inform content development. Emphasis is placed on how stakeholder input enhances relevance, accessibility, and adoption of OER materials.

Attendees will gain tools for integrating stakeholder engagement into project planning, sustaining collaboration across institutions, and leveraging partnerships to support dissemination and long-term impact. Common challenges such as coordination, incentives, and maintaining engagement will be addressed with actionable, experience-based solutions.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify key stakeholder groups essential to the development and adoption of open educational resources across academic and industry contexts.
  • Analyze effective strategies for engaging stakeholders throughout the OER project lifecycle, including planning, development, evaluation, and dissemination.
  • Evaluate different models of stakeholder collaboration (e.g., advisory boards, workshops, peer review) for their impact on OER quality and adoption.
  • Apply practical frameworks to integrate stakeholder feedback into OER design and continuous improvement processes.
  • Develop an actionable plan for building and sustaining strategic stakeholder partnerships to support scalable and equitable OER implementation.
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Macarena Lange

Project Manager for Digital Visualizations, Colorado State University
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

The Overlooked Third Space: Where Student-Faculty Partners Plan, Promote, and Implement OER Work
Tuesday October 27, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
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The open education literature details how OERs positively impact college student success. This literature also documents the value of student voice and participation in open pedagogy projects. However, less attention is paid to how students can benefit as ‘Third Space’ professionals outside of their disciplinary silo as they learn about OERs, collaborate on open projects, and develop career skills (Whitchurch, 2012). This case study will demonstrate how a Students as Partners (SaP) framework can be used to craft sustainable learning environments that can prepare students for complex workplace demands. Meaningful faculty-student partnerships can help student workers develop confidence and transferable skills. Session attendees will take away lessons learned from both the faculty and student perspectives about partnering in open education work in the library. Recommendations on how to design and plan a more holistic OER and open education working environment will also be provided.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explore the concepts of Students as Partners (SaP) and Third Space collaboration to enhance working with with students on open education projects.
  • Consider how a Students as Partners (SaP) approach to student collaboration in OER work can be used by students and faculty in ways that promote informal engaged learning and development of transferable skills beyond the open education experience.
  • Examine new strategies to help student workers learn about open education and OERs by ‘doing’ OER design and development, becoming a co-author, and mentoring other student workers.
  • Envision how a Students as Partners model could be used in their OER work context to create a more sustainable and collaborative third space.
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Donna Ziegenfuss

Librarian, Faculty Services, University of Utah
Dr. Donna Harp Ziegenfuss, is a Librarian in the Faculty Services department in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. She earned an Ed.D. in Academic Leadership/Higher Education and an MS degree in Applied Technology/Instructional Design. Dr. Ziegenfuss has over 10 years of experience w... Read More →
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
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Wednesday, October 28
 

9:30am EDT

Collaboratively Developing Open Resources Across Cultural Boundaries
Wednesday October 28, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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This session will describe the development of an OER by collaborators in India and Canada. The original idea for this project arose out of a thought that, like common journalists, teachers and students are not capable of reporting, writing and analyzing the news information they want to share with the academic community.

The team engaged in a joint collaboration on an Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) project in 2021-22. The OE4BW project involved the creation and delivery of a MOOC in Educational Journalism. This then led to a collaboration by the three participants in the development of an open resource through the Pressbooks platform.

One of the goals of the project was to create a more accessible and interactive resource for educationists/academicians in educational journalism.

An additional goal of this presentation is to describe the best practices for selection of cross-cultural teams, digital tools, interactive multimedia and strategies for maintaining openness.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the challenges involved in cross-cultural open education collaborations.
  • Identify strategies for addressing challenges to maintaining downstream openness.
  • Explore processes for identifying appropriate digital tools for open content development.
  • Identify the skills needed to pursue cross-cultural open content creation projects.
  • Gain insights into how to create effective cross-cultural teams for open educational projects.
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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10:00am EDT

Beyond Cost Savings: Making Multi-Dimensional ROI Visible in OER Grantmaking
Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
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OER funding decisions at the university level are often driven by a narrow ‘return on investment’: how many dollars saved, how many students reached. But meaningful open education work—especially projects with ripple effects beyond our campuses—generates value that is qualitative, communal, and long-term. This session explores the “space between” quantitative and qualitative ROI in OER grant project evaluation, sharing a tool and strategies for making multi-dimensional impact visible and actionable for grant makers and practitioners alike.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Generate and prioritize examples of non-monetary ROI geared to their respective institutions.
  • Construct a customized copy of the shared rubric for non-monetary ROI.
  • Incorporate elements of non-monetary ROI in their grantmaking work to illuminate the broader and deeper impact of funded OER projects.
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
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10:30am EDT

Open Publishing in the Curriculum: Experiential Education Supporting Sustainable OER
Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
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Many English majors at the University of New Haven aspire to careers in the publishing industry. This presentation will describe how we are building competencies for a range of careers in publishing with our university’s first open publishing press, OpenKeep. Emerging from the open pedagogy movement and built in partnership with our library, OpenKeep’s mission is to transform the ecosystem of educational publishing by helping faculty produce OER that invite students into the creation of new knowledge. We do this sustainably through a practicum that runs every semester, empowering students to edit learning resources authored by faculty. Our student team has expanded beyond English majors to include film and graphic design students, who produce videos and design book covers. Our authors are experts in their fields who are ready to tackle pressing issues with students in and out of the traditional classroom. We feature perspectives from the editorial team and our editorial advisory board.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand the challenges facing faculty who want to author OER.
  • Envision an open publishing initiative that doubles as an experiential learning opportunity for students.
  • Recognize the expertise of student editors.
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Mary Isbell

Associate Professor of English, University of New Haven
I am an Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Haven. I have published on adaptation, open pedagogy, and scholarly text encoding, while also engaging students in projects guided by these principles. From... Read More →
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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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Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
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11:15am EDT

Beyond Fair Use: Section 121 for Title II Accessibility Compliance
Wednesday October 28, 2026 11:15am - 11:55am EDT
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Are you using Section 121 of the Copyright Act (the Chafee Amendment) as a tool for meeting the Title II Digital Accessibility Mandate? Academic libraries typically rely on fair use analysis or pursue permissions from publishers when creating accessible formats of copyrighted materials. But these tactics can cause delays that leave students without the materials they need.

With Section 121, libraries are given explicit statutory permission to create accessible formats for patrons with print disabilities--no fair use analysis is required, and no publisher permission is needed. Unlike fair use, market impact doesn't matter: libraries can create accessible versions even when publishers sell their own "accessible" products.

Through real scenarios--urgent textbook needs, inadequate publisher "accessible" versions, and institutional transition planning--attendees gain confidence using Section 121 to serve students legally and effectively while building sustainable, proactive accessibility.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Distinguish between fair use analysis and Section 121 authorization, identifying when each applies to creating accessible formats and why Section 121 provides clearer legal protection for libraries.
  • Explain how Section 121 authorizes libraries to create accessible formats without publisher permission for patrons with print disabilities, supporting Title II Digital Accessibility Mandate compliance.
  • Apply decision frameworks for library accessibility work: prioritizing born-accessible acquisitions, evaluating vendor accessibility claims, and using Section 121 when accessible versions are unavailable or inadequate.
  • Develop library policies integrating Section 121 into reserves, interlibrary loan, and special collections while avoiding common mistakes that forfeit legal protection.
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Beth Chenette

Associate Librarian, Texas A&M University Libraries
Elizabeth Chenette is an Associate Librarian, member of the OpenEd team, and Reserve Services Coordinator at Texas A&M University Libraries in College Station, Texas. With an MLS from the University of North Texas, Elizabeth has worked in higher education for 13+ years. She has Creative... Read More →
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 11:15am - 11:55am EDT
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1:15pm EDT

The Space Between Adoption and Relevance: Libraries, Consortia, and OER Localization
Wednesday October 28, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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This panel explores the “space between” OER adoption and increasing the relevance of OER through localization—the intentional adaptation of open materials to reflect local cultures, curricula, communities, and learner experiences.

The session draws on Recentering Relevance: Exploring the Role of Academic Libraries and Library Consortia in Supporting OER Localization, a 2023 IMLS grant awarded to the University System of Maryland. Panelists will highlight project components, including a national forum of OER library leaders and a national survey, followed by lessons learned: how localization is understood in practice; the gaps between values, policy, and impact; and the strategic roles libraries and consortia can play in bridging them.

Participants will gain an understanding of localization, glean practical takeaways for how libraries and consortia can support localization as a community-centered practice, and assess their readiness to embark on or deepen OER localization efforts.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Define localization.
  • Connect institutional mission and priorities to specific localization use cases.
  • Articulate unique library/consortial contributions to localization efforts.
  • Assess their current institutional and library/consortial priorities for OER vis-a-vis localization.
  • Assess readiness to embark on or deepen OER localization efforts.
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Nancy O'Neill

Executive Director, Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation University System of Maryland
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Sidebars as Seedbeds: How a Modular Design Can Help With Updating, Customizing, and Localizing OER
Wednesday October 28, 2026 2:00pm - 2:25pm EDT
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We discuss how building a modular design into OER can facilitate its downstream adaptation and localization. As a case study, we examine the development of our recently published textbook, The Craft of Sociological Research (https://viva.pressbooks.pub/sociology-research-methods). This OER was designed with a special structure: modular sidebars embedded throughout the text that describe notable examples of research, present interviews with prominent researchers, discuss local issues that past research has illuminated, and cover advanced methodological topics. The use of these modular sidebars makes updating the textbook’s research examples easy and assists other authors in revising its content to better connect with their own target audiences. It allows instructors to customize the course to match the skill level and interests of their students. And it presents an opportunity for open pedagogy, providing opportunities for students to write short-form content for an OER’s sidebars.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Apply a modular design to their OER content that makes it easier for other authors to update, localize, and customize that content, expanding its adaptability and thus its potential reach.
  • Insert different kinds of supplemental modular content into their OER, such as Q&As, sidebars with examples and discussions of issues tailored to specific communities, and optional advanced material.
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 2:00pm - 2:25pm EDT
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2:30pm EDT

Productive Friction: Queer Pedagogy and the Limits of AI in Open Education
Wednesday October 28, 2026 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
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Open education's foundational promise is access. But access to a system that normalizes particular ways of knowing is not equity; it is assimilation. As AI tools enter open education, they inherit and amplify this problem: adaptive learning systems, AI writing assistants, and OER generation tools are trained on dominant epistemological frameworks and optimize toward measurable outcomes. Queer pedagogy offers a different orientation: valuing friction, centering non-normative knowledge formations, and refusing the smoothing work of optimization. This session introduces queerness as a practical framework for AI use in open education and draws on Bernard Stiegler's concept of the pharmakon to argue that AI in open ed is both remedy and poison. Attendees will leave with concrete strategies for designing AI encounters that interrogate what counts as knowledge, who AI is built for, and how to treat productive friction as pedagogy rather than a problem to fix.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Outcome 1: identify how AI tools deployed in open educational contexts normalize particular knowledge formations and marginalize others.
  • Outcome 2: recognize moments in their own practice where AI smooths over productive friction that should be preserved pedagogically.
  • Outcome 3: apply a queer pedagogical framework to redesign at least one AI encounter in their courses so that students engage friction critically rather than resolve it.
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
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5:15pm EDT

OER That Don’t Look Like OER: Designing Learning That Meets Students Where They Are
Wednesday October 28, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm EDT
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Students today engage with learning in spaces like short-form video, podcasts, interactive apps, and social media, yet many open educational resources still rely on traditional formats like textbooks and PDFs. This workshop challenges that assumption by exploring how OER can be reimagined in formats students already use and enjoy.

Participants will explore strategies for creating non-traditional OER, including social-media-style content, audio, interactive media, comics, and microlearning modules, while emphasizing practical ways to maintain openness, accessibility, and impact.

A hands-on activity invites participants to take a concept and reimagine it as a short video, microlearning chunk, podcast segment, or visual/comic resource, collaborate to share ideas, and reflect on engagement and accessibility. Designed for instructors, designers, librarians, and open education advocates, this session provides actionable ideas to create resources that truly meet learners where they are.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify non-traditional OER formats, such as social-media-style content, audio resources, interactive media, comics, and microlearning modules, and explain how these formats can increase learner engagement and accessibility.
  • Take a concept or learning objective and reimagine it in a format that aligns with learners’ habits and preferred platforms.
  • Evaluate how different formats support diverse learners, promote accessibility, and enhance meaningful engagement with content.
  • Outline practical steps for adapting or creating OER in non-traditional formats, including starting small, layering formats, and co-creating with learners.
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Pranjal Saloni

Open Education Lab Supervisor, Ontario Tech University
I manage the Open Education Lab at Ontario Tech University, where I oversee student-driven projects that advance open educational practices and the creation of open resources. With a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering and Management, I bring an interdisciplinary perspective... Read More →
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm EDT
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Thursday, October 29
 

9:30am EDT

Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity: An Exploration of Open Textbooks and the Humanities
Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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The use of open textbooks is often associated with STEM fields, likely due to their large intro courses and costly textbooks. This is a misconception, however, as humanities courses can and do benefit from OER. A review of the literature yields numerous examples of OER adoption in fields like art history, English, and world languages. Taking this perceived gap between STEM and the humanities as a starting point, this presentation will consider the space between what we know and would like to know about the use of open textbooks in humanities disciplines. The presenter will share the findings of an original study of characteristics of humanities textbooks in the Open Textbook Library. These findings will be contextualized in the scholarly literature on the use of OER in the humanities, including potential benefits and barriers to adoption, and the presenters’ experiences as a humanities librarian participating in a program that incentivizes the use of open and affordable resources.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Summarize the findings of a study on the characteristics of open textbooks in the humanities included in the Open Textbook Library.
  • Identify one or more potential benefits of OER or barriers to OER adoption in the humanities.
  • Generate potential strategies to best support humanities faculty interested in OER adoption and/or creation.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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  Concurrent Session (25 min)

10:00am EDT

Mix-and-Match Modular OER: From Concept to Campus-Wide Implementation
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
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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
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From Inception to Practice: Developing Open and Inclusive Education Resources
Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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This session will tell the story of how a series of accessible open education resources were developed and how the project helped inform ways educators practice inclusion and accessibility. In 2024-2025, the English Language Arts Network of Ontario (ELAN) developed a series of over 30 resources to support teachers in implementing the Grades 1 to 9 English Language Arts curriculum in Ontario, Canada. This story will be told by classroom teachers, curriculum leaders, resource developers, designers, and accessibility specialists. The session will trace the project from its inception to the use of the resources in the classroom. Presenters will share critical points in the process as well as the “spaces” in between that helped reshape and reposition previously held ideas about learning resources.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the accessibility features built into a set of resources (Accessible authoring practices).
  • Understand how to make OERs more inclusive and accessible for both educators and learners.
  • Access to a website containing a library of downloadable ELAN Ontario OERs that support the provincial curriculum. OERs include lesson plans and monographs authored to be accessible for a diversity of educators and learners.
  • Gain insights into how decisions at each stage may impact accessibility and inclusion downstream.
  • Understand how teachers are using the resources to support student learning and professional learning.
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CW
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Authenticity by Design: A Business Spanish OER Case Study in Spanish for Specific Purposes
Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
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This short presentation examines the instructional decisions involved in the creation of an OER for Spanish for Business Professionals at the University of Kentucky. Authenticity serves as a core principle in these decisions, as it lies at the intersection of OER practice, instructional design, and second language acquisition. Using this Business Spanish resource as a case study, the presentation will discuss its planning, development, and classroom implementation, showing how these choices are informed by instructional design and learning theories. It will also explore how authentic materials, meaningful tasks, and real-world professional contexts are integrated into the resource to support relevant and transferable learning, and it will reflect on possible next steps for further improvement.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain how OER, instructional design, and second language acquisition inform one another.
  • Evaluate the role of authenticity in the design of second language learning materials.
  • Analyze how learner needs and instructional context influence OER development.
  • Apply practical principles for planning and developing OER in higher education.
  • Identify transferable strategies for revising and improving openly licensed teaching materials.
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JF
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Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
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