Using Open Educational Resources (OER): A Faculty Panel Online
Join Sprague Library and the Office for Faculty Excellence for this first installment of our series on OER and Open Pedagogy. According to SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), OER are "teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use." Creative Commons licenses are often used to grant permission for re-use and adaptation. OER can serve many different purposes, including reducing course costs for students, providing more relevant resources for your course, and filling in gaps in representation. Despite these benefits, getting started with OER can seem daunting at first. In this panel, faculty will discuss their journey to using OER and the ways it has increased student engagement and success.
Faculty panelists:
Emily Douglas, Social Work and Child Advocacy
Liz Martin, Writing Studies
David Trubatch, Math
Courtney Crimmins, World Languages
Image: Markus Büsges (leomaria design) für Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Date:
- Wednesday, April 26, 2023
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Instructors Researchers
Courtney Glore Crimmins is a Faculty Developer in the Office for Faculty Excellence and serves as OFE's Adjunct Liaison. She is also an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, where she teaches German. Her approach to teaching is based in collaborative, project-based learning. In both the face-to-face and online courses she teaches, students work together in small learning groups, explore authentic digital resources, and use technology to learn the language. Courtney has a Ph.D. in Germanic Language and Literature from the University of Michigan.
David Trubatch is an Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics and Statistics.
Elizabeth Martin is the Assistant Director of First-Year Writing in the Writing Studies Department at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She received her M.F.A. in Creative and Professional Writing from William Paterson University. Her journalism has appeared in Parsippany Life, Neighbor News, and The Suburban Trends. Her creative writing has been published by Neworld Review, Hot Metal Bridge, and Menacing Hedge, among others. She is the recipient of two New Jersey Press Association awards. Currently, she is at work on a collection of essays.
Emily Douglas is a professor and chair of the Department of Social Work & Child Advocacy. Her research focuses on the program and policy implications of issues that address child and family well-being, largely in the areas of family violence: fatal child maltreatment, under-represented victims of partner violence and help-seeking, children’s exposure to partner violence, corporal punishment, family disruption, and the connection between research and policy. Dr. Douglas is the author of 60+ peer-reviewed publications, 4 books, and she presents annually at domestic and international conferences.
Justin is a Research and Reference Librarian, Research and Reference Services. He is the library liaison to the Art & Design, Exercise Science & Physical Education, Nutrition & Food Studies, Teaching & Learning, and Writing Studies departments, and also specializes in topics related to Open education and affordability.
Catherine Keohane is Associate Director for Teaching and Learning for the Office for Faculty Excellence. Catherine has a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University. She has designed and taught upper- and lower-division literature, humanities, and composition courses, and has experience teaching in multiple modalities. She has presented on student engagement at MLA, and has begun to develop open-educational resources that work to mitigate financial barriers to students’ success while also serving students' sense of belongingness.