Program Overview

REGISTRATION AND POSTER SHOWCASE (with light breakfast) | 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 

Learn from the 2018 M.O.S.T. mini-grantees in addition to colleagues across two- and four-year Maryland public higher education institutions who have successfully adopted, adapted, created, and advanced OER at their institutions.

• M.O.S.T. Mini Grant Program at HCC Jessica Adams
• University of Baltimore: WRIT 300 OER Efforts
• Rethinking Calculus I with OER and Dynamic Visualizations
• The Magic of Student Learning & Participation: What Does The Evidence Show
• Scaling OER in Human Growth and Development
• Open source for Environmental Sustainability
• CMAT 201: Communicating Effectively
• ENG 101 – College Composition
• Precalculus I: College Algebra and Precalculus II: Trigonometry
• HLTH 101 Health and Wellness
• General Chemistry for Engineering: Interactive LibreTexts
• Prince George’s Community College OER
• OERs in Core Curriculum Courses: Scaled Use Across Multiple Sections

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTORY REMARKS | 9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | West Village Commons Ballroom A and B

PLENARY ADDRESS | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

MJ Bishop, Associate Vice Chancellor and Director, William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, University System of Maryland

What is the potential for open educational resources and open education to transform higher education for students, faculty, and institutions?  The plenary speaker will review the fundamentals of what constitutes OER, highlight its advantages for faculty and students, and set the stage for thinking about OER and open education as tools to increase access, affordability, and achievement.   

Resource: Improving Access, Affordability, and Achievement with OER

CONCURRENT SESSION BLOCK 1 | 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Finding High-Quality OER

Learn how to look for openly licensed, fully accessible instructional material and evaluate their quality. 

Resources

• Finding High Quality OER
• Learning Impact in Maryland
• Curating and Finding OERs: A Resource Guide 

Adopting and Adapting High-Quality OER

Learn how to identify and address gaps in existing OER content and customize content to best meet your teaching objectives and your students’ learning goals.

Resource: Adopting and Adapting High Quality OER

Open Licensing

Gain an understanding about copyright, the public domain, and open licensing. Learn how to use Creative Commons licenses to allow users to share and adapt your learning materials.

Resource: Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons

OER Accessibility

Learn what "fully accessible OER" means, how this impacts OER adoption, and how to successfully meet accessibility standards.

Resource: OER Accessibility

Teaching with OER

Learn from expert faculty and intstructional designers on how learning analytics can be combined with the 5Rs of OER to continuously improve course content.

Resource: Teaching with OER

Implementing, Scaling, and Sustaining OER

Learn how institutions in Maryland have begun to scale OER, and build the capacity to sustain their initiatives.

Resources:

• Implementing, Scaling and Sustaining OER (PGCC)
• Implementing, Scaling and Sustaining OER (Montgomery College)
• HowardOpen

LUNCH | 12:15 p.m. - 12:40 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION BLOCK 2 | 12:50 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.

We will be repeating the same concurrent sessions for Concurrent Session Block 1.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | 2:00 p.m. - 2:55 p.m.

Discuss OER implementation, scaling, successes and challenges, and how M.O.S.T. can support your work with colleagues from across the state.

CLOSING SESSION: REFLECTIONS FROM THE DAY AND NEXT STEPS | 3:05 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

After a day of learning about the evolving landscape of OER, the closing session will allow attendees  the opportunity to move the conversation to next steps. Where are we along the continuum of OER adoption? What kinds of support will we need to move forward?