An annual celebration, Open Education Week (OE Week) is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide.
Started in 2012 by the Open Education Global as a collaborative, community-built open forum, Open Education Week seeks to raise awareness and highlight open education efforts worldwide. OE Week provides practitioners, educators, and students an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of open educational practices and be inspired by the wonderful work being developed by the community around the world.
For 2021, CCCOER is holding a mix of synchronous and asynchronous events with a different theme for each day.
This page will also become the archive for these events, so if you miss something check this page afterward.
Schedule:
- Monday – OER Basics: Lowering the Cost Barrier
- Tuesday – Regional Leadership of Open Education(RLOE) Phase 2
- Wednesday – Unleashing the Power of Massachusetts Students to Increase OER Awareness
- Thursday – Open Pedagogy & Equity
- Friday – OER Leadership: CCCOER and Global Perspectives
Monday, March 1 – OER Basics: Lowering the Cost Barrier
Are you new to open education and open educational resources (OER) and not sure where to start? To start off OE Week 2021, we will be joined by a librarian who will go over what OER is, as well as the basics of attributions and accessibility based on her lib guide OER & Opening Copyright: What, Why and How.
Speakers:
- Val Magno, Library Services, Research & LibraryWeb at Fox Valley Technical College Library Resources
- Sue Tashjian, CCCOER Co-President, Coordinator of Instructional Technology and Online Learning, Northern Essex Community College
Handout: OER Basics: Lowering the Cost Barrier by Val Magno CC0
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Tuesday, March 2 – Regional Leadership of Open Education(RLOE) Phase 2
Launched in fall 2019, the Regional Leadership for Open Education (RLOE) initiative was motivated by CCCOER leaders’ growing need to collaborate across institutional and state boundaries to find solutions for issues impacting OER adoption at diverse, large multi-institution systems. RLOE aims to inform and grow leadership at postsecondary institutions, library consortia, and government agencies to improve and scale open education as a systemic reform to reduce equity gaps and improve student success The program will take the policy, stewardship, professionalism, and sustainability outputs from RLOE initiative work done over 2019-20 and develop them into an RLOE Network program targeted to leaders of open education initiatives at postsecondary institutions. Recently, Open Education Global (OE Global) and the Community College Consortium for Open Education Resources (CCCOER) were awarded a 2-year grant by ECMC Foundation to fund the RLOE Network project.
We invite you to come hear and provide feedback on the next phase of the Regional Leaders of Open Education. Learn how you and your colleagues can join with open educators across state and regional boundaries in focusing and scaling your open education strategic plans.
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Wednesday, March 3 – Unleashing the Power of Massachusetts Students to Increase OER Awareness
The Massachusetts Student Advisory Council (SAC) to the Board of Higher Education implements strategies and advocates for the rights, needs, interests, and welfare of all students enrolled in public higher education within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As a deliberative and recommending body to the Board of Higher Education, it is the purpose and duty of the Student Advisory Council to maintain a forum for expressing student views and interests while fostering academic freedom, responsibility, and excellence.
Join us for this student panel of four students prominent in state-wide advocacy through the Student Advisory Council to learn more about how students from all over Massachusetts are increasing OER awareness at their respective campuses and at the state level. They will speak on their latest “Ten Days Of OER” campaign, as a public awareness campaign and a stepping stone for the student leaders who come after them.
Facilitator: Sue Tashjian, CCCOER Co-President, Massachusetts OER Advisory Council Co-chair, Coordinator of Instructional Technology and Online Learning, Northern Essex Community College
Student Panelists:
- Jorgo Gushi, Chair of the SAC, Quinsigamond Community College
- Niki Nguyen, Vice-Chair of the SAC and head of the OER Subcommittee, Bunker Hill Community College
- Cody Nathanson, Co-head of the OER Social Media Subcommittee, Mt. Wachusett Community College
- Andrew Raisbeck, Head of the OER Public Information Subcommittee, Middlesex Community College
Moderator: Dr. Robert Awkward, Statewide OER Coordinator, Assistant Commissioner for Academic Effectiveness, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education
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Thursday, March 4 – Open Pedagogy & Equity
For this asynchronous event, members of CCCOER’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) subcommittee will share materials, including presentations from recent open education conferences and other EDI resources. Participate in the discussion on OE Global’s discussion board https://connect.oeglobal.org/c/oeweek or other social media to share your favorite resources on Open Pedagogy and EDI.
Share Resources
Lori-Beth Larsen, English and Reading Faculty, OER Lead at Central Lakes College, and member of CCCOER’s EDI subcommittee has shared a great list of EDI resources on OEG Connect to get the conversation started. Add your favorite open pedagogy or equity resources to this thread on OEG Connect, or on Twitter using #EquityandOpen #OEWeek
Join the Discussion
EDI and OER Learning Community Reads on OEG Connect
Quill West, OER Project Manager at Pierce Community College District, has been leading the CCCOER EDI Learning Community. They have monthly informal meetings about issues in EDI. People from the community raise topics, issues, and/or ideas from their personal and professional practice and we have discussions on the topics raised. Our goal is to support one another in building practices that center EDI in openness.
For Open Ed Week (March 1-5) we would like to have an asynchronous group discussion about “Diversity, Equity And Inclusion In Open Research And Education” by Tara Robertson (estimated read time 10 minutes). The EDI Learning Community selected this chapter from Open At the Margins, an openly licensed collection of writings that seeks to highlight and listen to people who have been historically marginalized in the creation and practice of open education.
Please join us in our conversation on OEG Connect!
Friday, March 5 – OER Leadership: CCCOER and Global Perspectives
We will end the week with another asynchronous event, celebrating leaders in OER. CCCOER Executive Council Members will curate examples of OER Leadership including within CCCOER. Participate in the discussion on OE Global’s discussion board https://connect.oeglobal.org/c/oeweek or other social media using #OERleaders
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