Opening Up Education: Textbooks, Resources, Courseware, and More
Register now for this NISO Virtual Conference
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 19, 11:00am – 5:00pm.
The 21st-century educational environment
demands a certain amount of rethinking and redesign of classroom support for
learning—textbooks, information resources, and interactive courseware. An
emphasis on cost-containment and accessibility suggests that education will
become more open. This virtual conference will address the complexities of
delivering instructional tools and digital resources in the increasingly open
educational ecosystem. What is a textbook? Can it be engineered into an online
learning environment, with content, study aids, and quizzes delivered as
appropriate to create a personalized student experience? What is the long-term
role of open course ware, as created by the
likes of MIT or Yale? What does a growing interest in open educational
resources (OER) suggest for the various stakeholders? What types of technological
support may be necessary?
Preliminary Agenda with Confirmed Speaker Participants
11:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive
Director, NISO
11:10 a.m. - 11:45 a.m
Opening Keynote: Current Status of OER in Higher Education
Confirmed Speaker: Mary Lou Forward, Executive Director, Open Education Consortium
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Lessons & Learnings from the Gates Foundation’s Investments in Open
Education within U.S. Higher Education
Confirmed Speaker: Rahim Rajan, Senior Program Officer, Gates
Foundation
12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Creating and Assessing OER Materials
Confirmed Speaker: Julie Lang, OER
Coordinator, Teaching and Learning with Technology, Penn State University
12:45pm -1:45pm Lunch
1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Delivering Open Access Monographs
Confirmed Speaker: Rupert Gatti, Founder and Co-Director, Open
Book Publishers
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Delivering Open Courseware
Confirmed Speaker: Dr. David Wiley, Founder and Chief Academic
Officer, Lumen Learning
2:45 p.m.- 3:15 p.m.
Open Textbook and Online Learning Materials
Speaker TBA
3:15pm – 3:30pm Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cooperative Initiatives
Confirmed Speaker: Ashley Miller, Educational
Technologist, Ohio State University
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Challenges and Barriers to be Addressed
Confirmed Speaker: Melissa Russell, Director of
Content Strategy and Mike Matousek, Director
of Content Initiatives, Cengage Learning
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4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Roundtable
Discussion
Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
NISO Virtual Conferences draw upon the expertise of information industry professionals working in a variety of settings, each supplying to the discussion a different perspective on the complexities of the modern information environment. Our 11am start time and two additional breaks provided during the course of the six-hour event allow registrants to listen to and benefit from a professionally-developed agenda while still being within call of daily workplace responsibilities.
About Registration: Purchase of a single registration entitles you to gather an unlimited number of staff from your organization/institution in a class- or conference room setting to view the event on the day of the live broadcast. It also includes access to an archived recording of the event to allow those with conflicting obligations to still benefit from the day’s content.
For details on registration costs and additional information provided by our speakers, please see the NISO event page.
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