Open Ed Week March 7-11 Schedule of Events

March 3, 2022 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

Open Education Week is an annual event for sharing and learning about OER (open educational resources) and open education achievements. NOVA’s Office of Faculty Professional Development and CETL will be sponsoring daily events from March 7 through March 11 to promote and support OER and open pedagogy.

Monday, March 7, 2022
11 a.m. until 12 p.m.
OER Publishing with NOVA Pressbooks

Speaker: John McLeod, Pressbooks Account Manager for NOVA

NOVA now has a Pressbooks Account that faculty can use to adopt, adapt, and create openly licensed textbooks and instructional materials for their courses.  Join us as John McLeod, Account Manager at Pressbooks kicks off Open Ed Week at NOVA with a demonstration of Pressbooks.

John will demonstrate how to use the Pressbooks Directory to search, discover content, and showcase how you can contribute to the OER ecosystem without writing a book from scratch. John will speak more broadly about the Pressbooks platform, its authoring and editing capabilities, how Pressbooks books can be connected to a learning management system, and how Pressbooks can be used on an institutional level to facilitate adoption, creation, and adaption of OER and courseware.

Tuesday, March 8, 2022
3 p.m. until 4 p.m.
Hypothes.is Annotation Demonstration

Speakers:

  • Chris Kervina, Associate Professor of English at NOVA
  • Eryn Barker, Senior Customer Success Manager at Hypothesis

Join Eryn and Chris as they discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothes.is can help to improve your students’ reading and writing skills. By engaging in social annotation-powered readings, students become active participants in their learning while practicing their writing and articulating their thoughts and experiences.

After Eryn demonstrates how Hypothesis works, Chris will share her personal experience of using Hypothes.is in the class and the improvements she has seen in her specific teaching and learning objectives.

Participants can expect to come away from this session with a clear idea about how they can start incorporating collaborative annotation into their courses to help improve student success.

SCHEV-OVAC Open Education Week Event

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
SCHEV Open Virginia Course Tour

Link to Join: ** Please note, you must pre-register for this event. It is not a NOVA-specific event. It is a statewide Open Education Event.

Sponsored by the State Council for Higher Education Open Virginia Advisory Committee (SCHEV OVAC)

This event provides four virtual tours of courses utilizing Open Education Resources (OER) and/or Open Pedagogy. These course tours are designed to move beyond the basics of OER to show how OER are being implemented in actual courses by colleagues in Virginia, in a variety of educational contexts. A summary of the Virginia Course Materials Survey and information on VIVA Open Grants available for OER will also be presented.

Course tours, presentations and speakers:

  • Virginia Course Materials Survey: Liz Thompson, Open Education Librarian, James Madison University Libraries
  • World Geography: Dr. Caitie Finlayson, University of Mary Washington
  • Pre-Clinical Medicine: Dr. Renée LeClair and Dr. Andrew Binks, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
  • Communicating Across Cultures: Dr. Robert Godwin-Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Principles of Public Speaking: Dr. Danielle Leek, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
  • VIVA Open Grants: Dr. Stephanie Westcott, Open and Sustainable Learning Coordinator, VIVA

Date: Thursday, March 10, 2022
3 p.m. until 4 p.m.
Open For Inclusive Excellence: Using Open Educational Resources and Open Pedagogy to Support Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning at NOVA

Speakers:

  • Kim Grewe, PhD, NOVA Online
  • Caryn Sever, associate director, NOVA Online

Join Kim Grewe and Caryn Sever as they talk about the new faculty professional development online facilitated asynchronous workshop they are designing and developing for NOVA faculty. Called Open for Inclusive Excellence, the workshop will focus on using OER and Open Pedagogy to create culturally responsive course materials and learning spaces for NOVA students. Come learn more about OER, Open Pedagogy, and how these approaches support Inclusive Excellence. Come learn about this professional development opportunity designed specifically with you, your NOVA students, and Inclusive Excellence in mind.

Friday, March 11, 2022
11 a.m. until 12 p.m.
Understanding OER: NOVA Faculty share their experiences using OER in their teaching and course design at NOVA

Faculty Panel:

  • Gillian Backus, associate professor of Science, LO
  • Heather Jeddy, associate professor of English, LO
  • Elizabeth Harlan, associate professor of English, AN
  • Dr. Kim Grewe (Moderator), instructional designer, NOL

Come hear NOVA colleagues share their recent experiences adopting, adapting, and creating OER. Join the conversation about the various ways colleagues have used OER, what they are doing now, and what’s next with OER, Open Pedagogy, and Open Education at NOVA. Please bring your OER questions and OER experiences to share.

Zoom Links will be shared via email and daily next week!

Submitted by:
W. Preston Davis, Director of Academic Affairs, WDavis@nvcc.edu