Program Overview

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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.

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• Bontempo_HagerstownCC_OER_Pilot_for_Art_Appreciation
• Kharel_DeBenedetto_UMES_DesigningPHAR681
• McMaster_Frederick_PrinciplesofMacroeconomics
• Morlier_DiDonato_Poster_Frederick_GeneralPsychology
• Vlahovici-Jones_UMES_ENGL203_FundamentalsofContemporarySpeech

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTORY REMARKS | 9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Henson Ballroom

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 (slides)

Resource: Video of Live Keynote Address

CONCURRENT SESSION BLOCK 1 | 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Finding, Adopting, and Adapting High-Quality OER

Explore sources for high-quality OER and 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: Finding, Adopting, and Adapting OER

Open Licensing and OER Accessibility

Gain an understanding about copyright, Creative Commons licenses, and accessibility standards that allow you to adopt and share learning materials that meet open licensing and accessibility standards.

 Resource: Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons

Resource: Accessibility

LUNCH | 12:00 p.m. - 12:40 p.m.

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

Teaching with OER

Learn from expert faculty and instructional 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 OER initiatives.

 Resource: Implementing, Scaling, and Sustaining OER

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 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 | 3:00 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?