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The Open Education in Action gathering focused on the theme of using Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Open Educational Resources (OER) in institutions, taking place at Maskwacis Cultural College on December 6 and 7, 2016. The event highlighted the importance of OER in enhancing access to high-quality educational materials and featured sessions on various related topics, including professional communication, institutional repositories, and modern language instruction. Organized in partnership with multiple educational institutions and the Alberta government, the gathering aimed to foster collaboration and shared learning experiences among participants.
Information Package for Open Education in Action
- 1. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 1 Open Education in Action Gathering Yohtênikâtêw Kiskêyihtamâwin Kikâ Waskawîhtâhk The theme of the gathering is “Using Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Resources (OER) in our institutions” Location: Maskwacis Cultural College, next to Samson band office Two days: December 6 and 7, 2016 (Tuesday and Wednesday) Prior knowledge for participants: Read ABOER starter kit in particular how to find OERs, file formats and Creative Commons licensing OER materials are: available at no cost to faculty and to students can be modified or remixed by faculty and/or students can be redistributed by faculty who have made changes to the original OER work Most of this information can be gathered from the license accompanying OER materials. This gathering is brought to you in partnership with Ministry of Advanced Education-Government of Alberta, Alberta Open Education Initiative (ABOER), Maskwacis Cultural College, Olds College, Athabasca University, University of Lethbridge, University of Alberta, Mount Royal University, and University of Victoria.
- 2. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 2 Table of Contents Invitation........................................................................................................................................4 Partners..........................................................................................................................................5 Maskwacis Open Education Advantage............................................................................................6 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE..........................................................................................................7 December 6, Tuesday..................................................................................................................7 December 7, Wednesday..............................................................................................................8 SESSIONS.....................................................................................................................................9 December 6, Tuesday..................................................................................................................9 9:30 am: Registration...................................................................................................................9 9:45 am: Welcome address by the President, Patricia Goodwill-Littlechild......................................9 10-11:30 am: OER Development at Olds College ..........................................................................9 11:30 - 12 pm: Participant introductions and show and tells ...........................................................9 12 - 1 pm: Lunch and networking .................................................................................................9 1-2 pm: OER and AU Library Webinars and Tutorials .................................................................10 2-2:15 pm: Break and visit the information tables........................................................................10 2.15-3 pm: OER for modern language instruction: useful repositories, materials and online tools in the context of teaching German, ESL/ EAP, and Mandarin Chinese by University of Lethbridge ....10 3-4 pm: Lyryx Learning – A Sustainable Model for Open Educational Resources (OER)...............11 4 -4:15 pm: e-Channel, an Ontario Adult Online Learning Program..............................................12 December 7, Wednesday............................................................................................................13 10-11:30 am: OER and the Future of Education...........................................................................13 11:30-1 pm: Lunch and networking ...........................................................................................14 1-2 pm: Institutional Repositories: Open Archives for Research and Learning ...............................14 2-3 pm: Choices and Consequences in Transitioning from Closed to Open Resources and Courses. 15 3-4 pm: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of OER: Reusing OER for Academic Writing Support at Athabasca University.................................................................................................................15 4-4:30 pm: Champion's toolkits by ABOER Wrap-up and baby steps............................................16 PRESENTERS.............................................................................................................................17 Adien Dubbelboer .....................................................................................................................17 Andrea Mix...............................................................................................................................17 Erik Christiansen.......................................................................................................................17
- 3. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 3 Gordon Gilchrist .......................................................................................................................17 Inba Kehoe ...............................................................................................................................17 Jennifer Rempel........................................................................................................................18 Jördis Weilandt .........................................................................................................................18 Krysta McNutt..........................................................................................................................18 Larissa Stone.............................................................................................................................18 Leah Vanderjagt........................................................................................................................18 Linda McCloud-Bondoc ............................................................................................................19 Michael McNally ......................................................................................................................19 Rory McGreal...........................................................................................................................19 Stacey Layden...........................................................................................................................19 Sarah Stocker............................................................................................................................20 Stephanie Keyowski..................................................................................................................20 Tamsyn Murnaghan...................................................................................................................20 ZERO TEXTBOOK COST...........................................................................................................20 BLOGS........................................................................................................................................21
- 4. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 4 Invitation Open Education in Action Gathering Yohtênikâtêw Kiskêyihtamâwin Kikâ Waskawîhtâhk Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are freely available and can be legally used and modified by anyone. Properly leveraged, OER can help everyone in the world access free, high quality, learning materials. OER can help colleges, universities, literacy organizations, First Nations and governments meet the aims set out in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially with regard to SDG4: ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education, and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. This gathering will focus on different elements of open education - open courses, instructional design, open textbooks, where to store adapted and curated OERs, assessments, open licenses, and actions institutions and governments may take to support open education in their organizations. Open Educational Practices are designed to broaden access and eliminate barriers to learning. They include the creation and adoption of open educational resources, open course development, and open pedagogy. Please join us for the Open Education in Action conference on Tuesday, December 6th and Wednesday, December 7th at the Maskwacis Cultural College. The theme of the conference gathering is “Using Open Educational Practices and Resources in our institutions”and includes a series of presentations about: Professional communications OER Supports for OE adoption such as Library webinars and tutorials OERs for modern language instruction Institutional repositories: Open archives for research and learning Open journal hosting Book publishing programs Open Education Practices at Post Secondary Educational Institutions OER and the future of education Champions toolkit
- 5. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 5 These presentations will make a case for why the move away from traditional (closed) practices is not only desirable but inevitable and how students, faculty, institutions, and our communities all stand to benefit greatly from this transformation. We believe that learning is social -- learning revolves around collaborationand connection -- it is about bringing people together and sharing withone another. Because we value shared learning experiences so much, we want to provide an opportunity for you and your colleagues to participate inour upcoming Open Education in Action conference as a team! Partners This conference gathering is brought to you in partnership with Ministry of Advanced Education-Government of Alberta, Alberta Open Education Initiative (ABOER), Maskwacis Cultural College, Olds College, Athabasca University, University of Lethbridge, University of Alberta, Mount Royal University, and University of Victoria.
- 6. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 6 Maskwacis Open Education Advantage1 OER can increase our institution's "educational advantage" by: 1. reducing the cost of course development, revision and delivery; 2. reduce the cost of textbook development, revision and delivery; 3. improving staff professional development outcomes; 4. increasing the quality of the learner experience and student support; 5. attracting new students with scalable and blended delivery models; and 6. internationalizing programs and courses 1 Adopted on July 29, 2016
- 7. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 7 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE December 6, Tuesday 9:30 am Registration 9:45 am Welcome address by the President, Patricia Goodwill-Littlechild 10-11:30 am Professional Communication OER Development at Olds College 11:30 - 12 pm Participant introductions and show and tells 12 - 1 pm Lunch and networking 1-2 pm OER and AU Library Webinars and Tutorials 2-2:15 pm Break and visit the information tables 2.15-3 pm OER for modern language instruction: useful repositories, materials and online tools in the context of teaching German, ESL/ EAP, and Mandarin Chinese by University of Lethbridge 3-4 pm Lyryx Learning – A Sustainable Model for Open Educational Resources (OER) 4-4:15 pm e-Channel, an Ontario Adult Online Learning Program
- 8. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 8 December 7, Wednesday 9:30 am Registration 9:45 am Welcome address by the President, Patricia Goodwill-Littlechild 10-11:30 am OER and the Future of Education 11:30 - 12 pm Participant introductions and show and tells 12 - 1 pm Lunch and networking 1-2 pm Institutional Repositories: Open Archives for Research and Learning 2-2:15 pm Break and visit the information tables 2.15-3 pm Choices and Consequences in Transitioning from Closed to Open Resources and Courses 3-4 pm The Pleasures and Pitfalls of OER: Reusing OER for Academic Writing Support at Athabasca University 4 -4:30 pm Champion's toolkits and wrap-up, ABOER
- 9. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 9 SESSIONS December 6, Tuesday 9:30 am: Registration 9:45 am: Welcome address by the President, PatriciaGoodwill-Littlechild 10-11:30 am: OER Development at Olds College This session will examine the planning, development, and implementation of a Professional Communication OER at Olds College. We will share the details of each of these stages, lessons learned, things we could improve upon moving forward, and instructional design strategies. Presenters Gordon Gilchrist, Director, Educational Technology & Curriculum (ETC), Olds College, Olds AB. Gordon leads in the pedagogically appropriate integration of educational technology and curriculum processes at Olds College. He also manages external curriculum development projects. Andrea Mix, Training & Development Systems Analyst, Educational Technology and Curriculum (ETC), Olds College, Olds AB. Along with facilitating the Instructor Skill Workshop Series and the Mentorship Program, Andrea also assist with competency profile and course development, and Moodle and Google technical support and training. She recently became a Google Certified Educator and Trainer. Stacey Layden, Desktop Publisher, Educational Technology and Curriculum (ETC), Olds College, Olds AB. Stacey collaborates with instructors and instructional designers to build and maintain print and online learning materials; as well, she provides technical support and training for Moodle. She also manages projects to ensure learning materials are copyright compliant. 11:30 - 12 pm: Participant introductions and show and tells 12 - 1 pm: Lunch and networking
- 10. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 10 1-2 pm: OER and AU Library Webinars and Tutorials As an academic library serving a distance-education institution, Athabasca University Library relies upon webinars and web-based tutorials to help meet the information literacy needs of our students, faculty, and staff. This sessionwill focus on the combination of proprietary and free / open access tools and resources that AU Librarians and Library staffs use to build webinars and tutorials, as well as the licensing and access aspects of hosting these learning objects on our website. Presenter: Jennifer Rempel is the Information Literacy and Resource Access Librarian at Athabasca University Library. She holds a Master's in Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia. She took up her current position at AU Library in July 2015, after having worked at Selkirk College Library in Castlegar, BC; the Geoffrey R. Weller Library at the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC; and as Public Services Librarian at Nazarbayev University Library in Astana, Kazakhstan. 2-2:15 pm: Break and visit the information tables 2.15-3 pm: OER for modern language instruction: useful repositories, materials and online tools inthe context of teaching German, ESL/ EAP, and Mandarin Chinese by University of Lethbridge Requirements: All participants are encouraged to bring Wifi-ready device to do hands-on activities throughout the workshop. Learning Objectives: The presentation will allow participants to: Familiarize themselves with some major OER repositories/ specialized OER search engines and OER directory sites for language teaching and evaluate them for their own teaching contexts Understand how open licensing works to adapt OER language teaching materials to individual teaching circumstances Assess freelyavailable online tools for the purposes of feedback and self- evaluation in language classes
- 11. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 11 Explore the potential of transferring international language learning techniques to indigenous languages Note for the participants for this session Please register to a free LMS https://eliademy.com/catalog/catalog/product/view/sku/0355c45f73, on which Joerdis has built an OER course that can easily be accessed by anyone with the link above. This CC-BY licensed course is crucial for all participants if they would like to access all workshop materials throughout the sessionand do the activities related to it. Once you are enrolled, then you can access all materials at any time after the workshop too. https://eliademy.com/catalog/catalog/product/view/sku/0355c45f73 Presenter: Jördis Weilandt: My fascination for languages has been a driving force behind my own language learning and my teaching of German, English and Mandarin. Being a language learner and teacher, I often experience what it takes to stay engaged with a subject matter and to regulate one's own language learning progress. Here effective feedback and self-evaluation mechanisms come into play as crucial elements. Currently, I am working as an educational assistant for the Teaching Centre at the University of Lethbridge. I am also an affiliate teacher trainer of the Montréal/ New York Goethe-Institutes through which I get enjoy the exchange with other professionals in the field of modern language teaching/ education. I embrace an open culture in the sharing of expertise and resources. 3-4 pm: Lyryx Learning – A Sustainable Model for Open Educational Resources (OER) Many of the challenges associated with OER can limit its adoption amongst higher education institutions. Lyryx Learning has developed quality OER that are fully adaptable for instructors, affordable for students and accessible to all. This presentation will focus on how Lyryx implemented a sustainable model to support Instructors with adopting OER for their courses. Presenters Stephanie Keyowski is the Managing Editor at Lyryx Learning. She holds a B.Sc. In Pure Mathematics in addition to a B.Ed. In Secondary Mathematics. Spending two years teaching Junior High Mathematics in Calgary, she quickly came to appreciate the benefits of open pedagogy and open educational resources in developing personalized education
- 12. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 12 for students. In her current role she supports instructors and students through developing, customizing, and maintaining OER in mathematics, economics, and business math. Tamsyn Murnaghan is the Director of Client Services for Lyryx Learning. She holds a B.Mgt in General Management and a M.A. in Leadership. Working with Lyryx for the past nine years has permitted her to witness the uprising of open educational resources in higher education and garner an understanding of what is required to perpetuate this movement. She has also taught at the post-secondary level and recognizes the need for additional support when adopting OER. Larissa Stone is a Marketing Specialist at Lyryx Learning. She focuses on sharing the Lyryx message to Instructors that will benefit from a sustainable OER model. Larissa believes that social interaction and online outlets will aid the conversation of awareness towards OER in order to advance the way students learn. She supports how Lyryx spreads their brand across Canada and the United States. Larissa has obtained a BFA, a marketing certificate and an array of business courses. She continues to advance her professional development through coaches, seminars and training. 4 -4:15 pm: e-Channel, an Ontario Adult Online Learning Program This session will provide an overview of Ontario’s online adult basic skills program called e-Channel. You’ll learn about how it is delivered, its providers, and ways it makes a difference to learners. Presenter: Sarah Stocker, Contact North | Contact Nord’s Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) e-Channel Coordinator has worked with Contact North since 2007 to support online learning and LBS programming. Sarah first worked in LBS in the Niin Sakaan program with the Sault Ste. Marie Indian Friendship Centre following her family’s move from northern British Columbia where she had worked at Northern Lights College as the Fort Nelson Campus Literacy Project Coordinator and within the Adult Basic Education Program. Sarah holds a B. A. from the University of New Brunswick, Vancouver Community College’s Instructor Diploma with post-secondary specialization, and University of Victoria’s Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education. Sarah feels honored to work with organizations which support adult learners in LBS, and has been thrilled to help coordinate some of the native language resource developments that Contact North has posted on its http://e-channel.ca/ site.
- 13. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 13 December 7, Wednesday 10-11:30 am: OER and the Future of Education This presentation argues that the world’s knowledge is a public good that should be made available to everyone. The free and open sharing of educational resources can serve to promote the building of knowledge societies and the reduction of the knowledge divide that separates nations, as well as the divide within societies themselves. Open Educational Resources (OER) are becoming more widely available. The ability to reuse OER or repurpose, mix, mash, them without restrictionis a major advantage in supporting online collaborations and self-directedlearning. The relevance of OER is augmented by the exponential growth in online accessibility internationally. There are user rights that are relevant in supporting the growth of learning internationally. These rights include the right to use content under licences that favor access over proprietary limitations on any technological platform of the users’ choice. Portability should be paramount. This includes rights to highlight, annotate, print, and share content within the spirit of fair use and copyright. Other rights include the right to receive a file that is not locked or crippled and subject to recall by the publisher; the right to convert files to different formats for use on a variety of devices and computer platforms. An essential right for learning would be that of allowing other users to access content either for shared learning or for future use by additional classes. OER, by definition, fit this description. They have minimal if any restrictions. They are technologically neutral, transmittable on different platforms and when built using commonly accepted or open software conforming to international interoperability standards, can be transported with little effort or concern by the users. The internet houses the world’s treasure of knowledge. In this context the role of OER in providing learners and teachers with learning content, applications, games etc. is becoming increasingly more relevant. The internet is the world’s intellectual commons and OER renders this knowledge accessible to all. The world’s knowledge is a public good that should be made available to everyone. The free and open sharing of educational resources can serve to promote the building of knowledge societies and the reduction of the knowledge divide that separates nations, as well as the divide within societies themselves Presenter: Prof. Rory McGreal is the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning/International Council for Open and Distance Education Chair in Open Educational Resources (OER); and Director of the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University. He is also co-Editor of IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning). He is the founder of the OER Knowledge Cloud, a repositoryof research articles on OER. Previous
- 14. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 14 positions include Assoc. VP Research, Executive Director of TeleEducation NB, a Canadian province-wide eLearning network and Supervisor at Contact North/Contact Nord in Ontario. He is also the recipient of several national and international awards for open and distance learning. 11:30-1 pm: Lunch and networking 1-2 pm: Institutional Repositories: Open Archives for Research and Learning Institutional repositories (IRs) are open online database archives that aim to share the research and learning outputs of institutions of higher learning. Many kinds of materials can be found in institutional repositories, including learning objects that may be useful as Open Educational Resources. Leah Vanderjagt (University of Alberta) and Inba Kehoe (University of Victoria) will provide an overview of institutional repositories, highlighting content types that might be particularly useful, and explaining how to locate and access institutional repository content. Presenters: Leah Vanderjagt is the Digital Repository Services Coordinator at the University of Alberta, where she leads service operations for ERA: Education and Research Archive (https://era.library.ualberta.ca) and supports service management for ERA A+V (an audiovisual streaming service) and Dataverse (a data archiving service). Leah was also the first manager of the U of A Libraries Open Journal Systems Hosting Service. Leah has been working with repositories for 9 years and is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communications. Inba Kehoe is the Copyright Officer, Scholarly Communication and Research Repository Librarian at the University of Victoria in British Columba. Inba is also the manager of the university’s publishing program, which started in 2007. UVic currently publishes/hosts 31 academic journals created by undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty, as well as Centres and Institutes on campus. Similar to other university libraries, UVic also provides free journal hosting services to Associations and Societies who are looking for an online hosting solution. In 2010, Inba started a pilot program to publish faculty created academic books. The book publishing program is funded through faculty and other grants and made openly accessible on the web. UVic will also be publishing two open textbooks – one a K-12 Science textbook including Indigenous content.
- 15. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 15 2-3 pm: Choices and Consequences in Transitioning from Closedto Open Resources and Courses. This presentation examines the continuum from closed to open for both open educational resources in general and open courses. The presentation evaluates what instructional choices are needed to increase openness. In this regard the presentation will identify not only how to move resources and courses from closedto open, but also any potential negative impacts those decisions raise. Presenters: Michael McNally is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on intellectual property and its alternatives, user-generated content, broadband policy, and government information policy. He teaches courses on instructional practices in LIS and information polices. He is also a member of the Van Horne Institute’s Centre for Information & Communication. Erik Christiansen is an Assistant Professor Librarian at Mount Royal University. In addition to supporting various education and research initiatives, Erik has a long-standing interest in technology. Currently, his research interests include open education policies in Canada and mobile web usability for open access catalogues. 3-4 pm: The Pleasures and Pitfalls ofOER: Reusing OER for Academic Writing Support at Athabasca University OER are touted as a cost-saving and easy way to provide students with high-quality, digital learning materials, and they can be. However, adapting an OER for reuse may require more time, money and expertise than you think. In this presentation, I will tell the story of adapting two OERs to support academic writing students in an online writing centre and a writing course. It’s a story of both unexpected problems and successes, and I hope to share lessons learned about organization, timelines, and budgets. I also hope to reflect on the next steps of our project. Presenters Linda McCloud-Bondoc has been the Coordinator of Athabasca University’s Write Site, an online writing centre in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, for the last 10 years. Before that, she taught in the writing centre and in the Faculty of Communications and Culture at University of Calgary. She holds a M.A. from the University of Calgary in Adult Education. She has authored numerous learning support materials for the Write Site, and has recently, co-authored an article in IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) on the management of an online writing
- 16. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 16 resource. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Distance Education at Athabasca University with a focus on the use of OER in online writing centres. In her spare time, she enjoys writing short fictionand has published several stories. Adien Dubbelboer was born and raised in the Netherlands. The first time she visited Alberta in 1975, she fell in love with the big blue prairie skies and the glorious mountain ranges, so when her Dutch university and the University of Alberta gave her the opportunity to go visit it again for a year to finish her Master's degree in English, she jumped at the opportunity. Now, twenty-five years later, her life and career are in Edmonton, with Athabasca University. 4-4:30 pm: Champion's toolkits by ABOER Wrap-up and baby steps This session will conclude the day. Participants will engage in activities that will help them apply, integrate and champion the use of open education in their institutions. Presenter: Krysta McNutt is a Strategy Consultant in the Faculty of Education and Program Manager for the Campus Alberta Open Educational Resources Initiative. Krysta is certifiedin project management and organizational change. She has a background in managing higher education projects related to organizational development and technology.
- 17. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 17 PRESENTERS Adien Dubbelboer was born and raised in the Netherlands. The first time she visited Alberta in 1975, she fell in love with the big blue prairie skies and the glorious mountain ranges, so when her Dutch university and the University of Alberta gave her the opportunity to go visit it again for a year to finish her Master's degree in English, she jumped at the opportunity. Now, twenty-five years later, her life and career are in Edmonton, with Athabasca University. Andrea Mix, Training & Development Systems Analyst, Educational Technology and Curriculum (ETC), Olds College, Olds AB. Along with facilitating the Instructor Skill Workshop Series and the Mentorship Program, Andrea also assist with competency profile and course development, and Moodle and Google technical support and training. She recently became a Google Certified Educator and Trainer. Erik Christiansen is an Assistant Professor Librarian at Mount Royal University. In addition to supporting various education and research initiatives, Erik has a long-standing interest in technology. Currently, his research interests include open education policies in Canada and mobile web usability for open access catalogues. Gordon Gilchrist, Director, Educational Technology & Curriculum (ETC), Olds College, Olds AB. Gordon leads in the pedagogically appropriate integration of educational technology and curriculum processes at Olds College. He also manages external curriculum development projects. Inba Kehoe is the Copyright Officer, Scholarly Communication and Research Repository Librarian at the University of Victoria in British Columba. Inba is also the manager of the university’s publishing program, which started in 2007. UVic currently publishes/hosts 31 academic journals created by undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty, as well as Centres and Institutes on campus. Similar to other university libraries, UVic also provides free journal hosting services to Associations and Societies who are looking for an online hosting solution. In 2010, Inba started a pilot program to publish faculty created academic books. The book publishing program is funded through faculty and other grants and made openly accessible on the web. UVic will also be publishing two open textbooks – one a K-12 Science textbook including Indigenous content.
- 18. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 18 Jennifer Rempel is the Information Literacy and Resource Access Librarian at Athabasca University Library. She holds a Master's in Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia. She took up her current position at AU Library in July 2015, after having worked at Selkirk College Library in Castlegar, BC; the Geoffrey R. Weller Library at the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC; and as Public Services Librarian at Nazarbayev University Library in Astana, Kazakhstan. Jördis Weilandt: My fascination for languages has been a driving force behind my own language learning and my teaching of German, English and Mandarin. Being a language learner and teacher, I often experience what it takes to stay engaged with a subject matter and to regulate one's own language learning progress. Here effective feedback and self- evaluation mechanisms come into play as crucial elements. Currently, I am working as an educational assistant for the Teaching Centre at the University of Lethbridge. I am also an affiliate teacher trainer of the Montréal/ New York Goethe-Institutes through which I get enjoy the exchange with other professionals in the field of modern language teaching/ education. I embrace an open culture in the sharing of expertise and resources. Krysta McNutt is a Strategy Consultant in the Faculty of Education and Program Manager for the Campus Alberta Open Educational Resources Initiative. Krysta is certifiedin project management and organizational change. She has a background in managing higher education projects related to organizational development and technology. Larissa Stone is a Marketing Specialist at Lyryx Learning. She focuses on sharing the Lyryx message to Instructors that will benefit from a sustainable OER model. Larissa believes that social interaction and online outlets will aid the conversation of awareness towards OER in order to advance the way students learn. She supports how Lyryx spreads their brand across Canada and the United States. Larissa has obtained a BFA, a marketing certificate and an array of business courses. She continues to advance her professional development through coaches, seminars and training. Leah Vanderjagt is the Digital Repository Services Coordinator at the University of Alberta, where she leads service operations for ERA: Education and Research Archive (https://era.library.ualberta.ca) and supports service management for ERA A+V (an audiovisual streaming service) and Dataverse (a data archiving service). Leah was also
- 19. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 19 the first manager of the U of A Libraries Open Journal Systems Hosting Service. Leah has been working with repositories for 9 years and is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communications. Linda McCloud-Bondoc has been the Coordinator of Athabasca University’s Write Site, an online writing centre in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, for the last 10 years. Before that, she taught in the writing centre and in the Faculty of Communications and Culture at University of Calgary. She holds a M.A. from the University of Calgary in Adult Education. She has authored numerous learning support materials for the Write Site, and has recently, co-authored an article in IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) on the management of an online writing resource. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Distance Education at Athabasca University with a focus on the use of OER in online writing centres. In her spare time, she enjoys writing short fictionand has published several stories. Michael McNally is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on intellectual property and its alternatives, user-generated content, broadband policy, and government information policy. He teaches courses on instructional practices in LIS and information polices. He is also a member of the Van Horne Institute’s Centre for Information & Communication. Rory McGreal is the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning/International Council for Open and Distance Education Chair in Open Educational Resources (OER); and Director of the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University. He is also co-Editor of IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning). He is the founder of the OER Knowledge Cloud, a repository of research articles on OER. Previous positions include Assoc. VP Research, Executive Director of TeleEducation NB, a Canadian province-wide eLearning network and Supervisor at Contact North/Contact Nord in Ontario. He is also the recipient of several national and international awards for open and distance learning. Stacey Layden, Desktop Publisher, Educational Technology and Curriculum (ETC), Olds College, Olds AB. Stacey collaborates with instructors and instructional designers to build and maintain print and online learning materials; as well, she provides technical support and training for Moodle. She also manages projects to ensure learning materials are copyright compliant.
- 20. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 20 Sarah Stocker, Contact North | Contact Nord’s Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) e- Channel Coordinator has worked with Contact North since 2007 to support online learning and LBS programming. Sarah first worked in LBS in the Niin Sakaan program with the Sault Ste. Marie Indian Friendship Centre following her family’s move from northern British Columbia where she had worked at Northern Lights College as the Fort Nelson Campus Literacy Project Coordinator and within the Adult Basic Education Program. Sarah holds a B. A. from the University of New Brunswick, Vancouver Community College’s Instructor Diploma with post-secondary specialization, and University of Victoria’s Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education. Sarah feels honored to work with organizations which support adult learners in LBS, and has been thrilled to help coordinate some of the native language resource developments that Contact North has posted on its http://e-channel.ca/ site. Stephanie Keyowski is the Managing Editor at Lyryx Learning. She holds a B.Sc. In Pure Mathematics in addition to a B.Ed. In Secondary Mathematics. Spending two years teaching Junior High Mathematics in Calgary, she quickly came to appreciate the benefits of open pedagogy and open educational resources in developing personalized education for students. In her current role she supports instructors and students through developing, customizing, and maintaining OER in mathematics, economics, and business math. Tamsyn Murnaghan is the Director of Client Services for Lyryx Learning. She holds a B.Mgt in General Management and a M.A. in Leadership. Working with Lyryx for the past nine years has permitted her to witness the uprising of open educational resources in higher education and garner an understanding of what is required to perpetuate this movement. She has also taught at the post-secondary level and recognizes the need for additional support when adopting OER. ZERO TEXTBOOK COST Earth sciences instructor Kevin is using an open textbook with his 22 students. Add a copy for the instructor. The cost of the traditional textbook was $200/copy. Use of open textbook for the Earth Sciences course has helped reduce the cost for education by $4,600. Using OER can reduce costs to students, which is beneficial to the College and the Maskwacis Community as a whole.
- 21. Register now at: 1-866-585-3925 or by email: [email protected] 21 BLOGS Read more at http://oeruse.blogspot.ca/ and http://openeducationinaction.blogspot.ca/ INDEX Academic Writing, 16 Adien Dubbelboer, 17 Andrea Mix, 9 Assistant Professor,16 Assistant Professor Librarian, 16 Athabasca University, 10, 14, 16 BLOGS, 22 book publishing program, 16 British Columba, 15 Champion's toolkits, 17 Contact North, 13 Copyright Officer, 15 Curriculum, 9 December 6,7 December 7,8, 14 Desktop Publisher, 9 Digital Repository Services Coordinator, 15 e-Channel, 12 Educational Technology, 9 Erik Christiansen, 16 Future of Education, 14 Gordon Gilchrist, 9 Inba Kehoe,15 Indigenous content, 16 Information Literacy, 10 Institutional Repositories, 15 instructional choices, 16 instructional design, 4, 9 Jördis Weilandt, 11 journal hosting services,16 K-12 Science textbook, 16 Krysta McNutt,17 language instruction, 10 Larissa Stone, 12 Leah Vanderjagt, 15 lessons learned, 9 Library Webinars and Tutorials, 10 Linda McCloud-Bondoc, 17 LMS, 11 Lyryx Learning, 12 Mathematics, 12 Michael McNally, 16 Mount Royal University, 16 Netherlands, 17 OER,1 OER Development, 9 Olds College, 9 Online Learning Program, 12 online writing centre,17 Ontario, 12 Open Education Advantage,6 Open Journal Systems Hosting Service, 15 open textbooks, 16 potential negative impacts, 16 Professional Communication OER, 9 Program Manager,17 Research Repository Librarian, 15 Resource Access Librarian,10 Rory McGreal, 14 Sarah Stocker, 13 Scholarly Communication, 15 School of Library and Information Studies, 16 Stacey Layden, 9 Stephanie Keyowski, 12 Strategy Consultant, 17 Sustainable Development Goals, 4 Sustainable Model, 12 Tamsyn Murnaghan, 12 theme, 1 Training & Development Systems Analyst, 9 UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning/International Council for Open and Distance Education, 14 University of Lethbridge, 10 University of Victoria, 15 university’s publishing program, 15 Write Site, 17 ZERO TEXTBOOK COST,21