Cal OER DRAFT Program (Subject to Change)

Wednesday, August 4 9:30 am – Friday , August 6 1:45 pm
All times are Pacific Standard Time

Wednesday, August 4

9:30 – 10:45
Opening General Session, Welcome and 1st Keynote

11:00 – 11:45
Breakout Session I

  • Student-Equity Centered Course Design
  • Where are the Holes? Determining OER Needs Across 115 Colleges
  • AggieOpen: Building a Self-Sustaining OER program at UC Davis
  • Creating interactive textbooks with XIMERA
  • Big Ideas in Cosmology: An Interactive Open-Access Curriculum for College Students

1:00 – 1:45
Breakout Session II

  • California Dreaming – Non-monetary Incentives to Encouraging Faculty Adoption of OER
  • UDL, SLO, OEP – the alphabet soup of good course design
  • Lightning Round A
    • Extending UTAUT toward acceptance of OERs in the context of higher education
    • OER – IN or OUT? Can Affordable Learning Solutions Contribute to Student Resilience and Success
  • Lightning Round B
    • New OER: Information Literacy for Any Discipline
    • OPoliSci.com
  • Lightning Round C
    • Incorporating student-generated OERS into organic chemistry labs
    • Journey of an OER Student Advocate

2:15 – 3:00
Breakout Session III

  • Teaching Open: Active Strategies for Bringing Students into Working Open Classic Presentation
  • OLI: An OER Learning Platform That Can Work for You
  • Leveraging OER to Explore the Impact of Student Engagement with In-Context Online Discussion
  • New OER Textbooks in Political Science
  • Pressbooks and LibreTexts: Juxtaposing Different Approaches for at-scale Creation, Curation, and Distribution of OER

3:30 – 4:15
Breakout Session IV

  • Equity from the Start – Accelerating Access to Materials that Students Need to Succeed
  • Saddleback College: Building Zero Textbook Cost Momentum Over 5 Years
  • Open Education Networks are Vital to the Sustainability of OER
  • Information and Communication Technology Literacy for Women in Sustainable Employment
  • Open for Antiracism: Using Open Education to Support Antiracist Teaching

Thursday, August 5

10:00 – 10:45
Breakout Session V

  • Open Pedagogy/Antiracist Pedagogy
  • Cultivating Your Village of OER Support
  • Creating a Sustainable Faculty-Oriented OER Process to Transition Classes to OER
  • Easy Pathways for Finding Free and Open Educational Resources with MERLOT
  • Put Yourself Into It! A Case Study of Personalizing OER for a Research Methods Course

11:15 – 12:00
Breakout Session VI

  • Making OER Discoverable in Alma/Primo
  • A Brief Overview of the US Department of Education investment in Open Education in California
  • A Process for Sustaining OER
  • Lightning Round A
    • OER/C-ID Global Climate Crisis: Sustainable Teaching-Learning Resources
    • Assessing the Impact of the Zero-Cost Course Materials (ZCCM) Grant
  • Lightning Round B
    • RedeSIGNING OER:  A closer look at digital media in OER development
    • Texas Learn OER

1:00 – 2:00
Keynote Session II

2:15 – 3:00
Breakout Session VII

  • Partnering Local to Create Statewide Impact : CalPIRG Students and Librarians Align to Motivate Action
  • Supporting Student Success through OER for Online Learning and Beyond
  • The Textbook Moves in: Bringing OER into Canvas
  • When Solutions Can’t Be Bought: The Role and Importance of OER in Bridging Resource Gaps
  • A People’s History of Structural Racism in Academia: From A(dministration of Justice) to Z(oology). A primer.

3:30 – 4:15
Breakout Session VIII

  • Student-Generated OERS Through Collaborative Instructional Design
  • OER For Career And Technical Education With Skillscommons:  More Than Course Conten
  • Creating a Culture of Open with the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)
  • OpenCommEd.org: “Opening” Communication Studies through faculty collaboration and support materials.

Friday, August 6

10:00 – 10:45
Breakout Session IX

  • Assessing OER Needs for High Enrollment Classes at institutions of higher learning.
  • Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism – Developing a Process for Improving OER
  • ADAPT and LibreStudio: Building the Textbook of the Future with Next Generation OER Homework System
  • Adopting OER Virtual Labs in Chemistry:   Why we did it and how it works
  • An OER Virtual Resource Library is VITaL

11:15 – 12:15
Keynote Session III


1:00 – 1:45
Breakout Session X – OER Showcase

  • The OER+ Model, A Pathway to Widespread OER Adoption
  • OER Dream Team: The People Behind Great OER Programs
  • Lightning Round A
    • OER is the gateway to inclusive classroom collaboration.
    • OER in the LMS for Concurrent Enrollment