Many aspects of OER advocacy are exciting and flashy, making it easy to build initial interest. But how do you maintain that energy over the long-haul, both as an individual practitioner and as a campus community? Establishing a dedicated OER Program is key. This session will look at the power and flexibility of program-level support, and how it is the ideal way to align affordable learning initiatives within your specific campus needs and constraints. Programs allow practitioners to act laterally, vertically, and even diagonally to ensure the most students gain the most benefits from OER. Alexis Clifton (Senior Instructional Support Specialist, SUNY Geneseo) will share her perspectives as an educator, course designer, open publisher, and OER program architect to enable participants to best transition their current efforts into long-term, sustainable campus habits.

Open pedagogy can be an exciting way to reinvent the learning experience; however, making the shift can seem daunting initially. In this session we will discuss a resource that we developed to help faculty plan and sustain successful open pedagogy projects. The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap is an openly licensed, step-by-step, module-based, discipline-agnostic project management guide for instructors to think through the process of scoping, implementing, sustaining, and sharing their open pedagogy projects regardless of size or scope. The four modules of The Roadmap guide faculty through the 5 Ss of open pedagogy projects: Scope, Support, Students, Sharing, and Sustaining.

Bryan McGeary, Pennsylvania State University
Christina Riehman-Murphy, Pennsylvania State University

Are you interested in getting more involved with the ALPA community? This panel discussion will give an introduction to the ALPA Working Groups, along with updates on their current and upcoming projects and volunteer opportunities.

Alison Bradley, Director, Strategic Initiatives, PALCI
Linda Hauck, Villanova University, Co-chair of Education & Training Working Group
Dana Mastroianni, Chatham University, Chair of Assessment and Data Working Group

A common challenge with with textbook affordability initiatives is the simple act of determining which faculty have abandoned their traditional commercial textbook for either an open textbook or some other zero-cost learning material alternative. This session describes a project by the institutional textbook task force to conduct a faculty audit on OER use and then create a publicly accessible inventory to share where faculty across the institution are using OER and other textbook affordability approaches in their courses. The presenters will cover the audit process and the development of the online inventory.

Steven Bell, Temple University
Annie Johnson , Temple University

This presentation will discuss the benefits, drawbacks, and practicalities of creating small, discipline-specific communities of practice (COP) for faculty interested in open and affordable educational resources (OAER).

We will give practical advice for how librarians and other campus OAER advocates could form a discipline-specific OAER COP and how to use a member-led model to explore community needs and develop appropriate projects. We will also discuss how using a disciplinary lens can help instructors learn about OAER within the practical context of their own courses, and how managing a COP can help librarians and OAER advocates learn more about their communities.

OER adoption has seen a boon recently, supported by student-centered textbook adoption practices created by the global pandemic. With all the hype for ‘back to normal’ and ‘moving beyond’, the slight increase in OER adoption is a moment to capitalize on student-centered approaches to textbook adoption practices. However, adoption conversations need to move beyond OER adoption, OER writing, and Open Pedagogy, to center the learning design possible through OER adoption. This presentation will explore how to start with learning design, then move through OER adoption as a new, necessary discussion about OER adoption.

A. Nicole Pfannenstiel, Millersville University
Michele Santamaria, Millersville University

In this session, the presenter will discuss the intersections between open pedagogy and critical information literacy. The presenter will also discuss the role(s) librarians can play in promoting open pedagogical practices in their existing information literacy initiatives. Finally, the presenter will share question strategies for initiating conversations with faculty about open pedagogical practices in their open education outreach.

Kristina M. De Voe,Temple University

Open pedagogy aims to transform students from consumers of educational content into its creators. To build good instructional material, it’s important to understand the needs and styles of learners. With a focus on the psychology of learning, this interactive workshop will explore how open pedagogy can help educators to better understand students’ learning needs and help students better understand themselves as learners. We’ll start with ideas from the open access textbook STEM Writing: Mindsets, Tools, and Techniques (forthcoming, North Broad Press, CC BY-NC 4.0) and then collectively find more ways to develop students into open access learners.

Earlier this year, PA GOAL began offering grants to create open and affordable learning projects at a diverse range of institutions across Pennsylvania, through funding provided by the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER). Three recipients of Cycle One OER Development Grants and two recipients of Course Development Grants talk about their personal journeys toward affordability. They will answer prepared questions and questions from attendees. Topics will cover their motivation towards open and affordable, experience with their projects thus far, challenges they’ve encountered, planned assessment, and suggestions for what campuses can do to support exploration of open and affordable alternatives.

Sara Parme, PA GOAL
Kim Armstrong (OER), Professor of Spanish & Linguistics, Franklin & Marshall College
Kimberly Auger (OER), Communication Librarian, Millersville University
Jessica Ghilani (Course), Associate Professor of Communication, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Laura Richardson (OER), Assistant Professor of Speech-Language Pathology, Lebanon Valley College
Alecea Standlee (Course), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Gettysburg College

Tired of worrying if you can use something in the classroom under fair use? Join us for a discussion of Creative Commons licenses, which permit you to use content in the classroom beyond what you normally can do under fair use. Learn what Creative Commons licenses are, how to use them, and how to find CC-licensed content. Appropriate for both teaching faculty and the librarians who work with them.

Kathryn Yelinek, Bloomsburg University of PA
Jamey Harris, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania