Open Education Symposium
The University of Alberta, Centre for Teaching and Learning is celebrating Open Education Week (March 7 - 11, 2022) by hosting our second Open Education Symposium.
While the symposium sessions are oriented to post-secondary instructors, we invite everyone from the education community to participate—instructors, students, librarians, educational developers, instructional designers and more!
Open education encompasses a set of practices that make the process and products of education more transparent, understandable, and available to all people. Open education can mean using and sharing open content, resources, and educational practices that can be built on, modified, or re-used by others. It can also be about engaging students as creators of knowledge and connecting with communities and networks by sharing works in progress and building upon the work of others.
The word ‘open’ signals a broad, de-centralized constellation of practices that skirt the institutional structures and roles by which formal learning has been organized for generations. - Bonnie Stewart
Open educational practices, as defined by Paskevicius (2017), are teaching and learning practices where openness is enacted within all aspects of instructional practice; including the design of learning outcomes, the selection of teaching resources, and the planning of activities and assessment. OEP engage both faculty and students with the use and creation of OER, … and support participatory student-directed projects.
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.
While the symposium sessions are oriented to post secondary instructors, we invite everyone from the education community to participate. We anticipate seeing you (instructors, students, librarians, educational developers, instructional designers and more) there!
Our committee members from across the University of Alberta are looking forward to seeing you at the event! Please don’t hesitate to say hello if you see one of us in a session or reach out to connect outside of the Symposium.
- Larry Clark, Technical Director/Timms, Faculty of Arts
- Kathy Haddadkar, Vice President Academic, Graduate Students’ Association
- Cosette Lemelin, Assistant Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning
- Abner Monteiro, Vice President Academic, Students’ Union
- Brian Rempel, Associate Professor, Augustana
- Kent Rondeau, Associate Professor, Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management
- Nazlee Sharmin, Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
- Sarah Shaughnessy, Librarian, University of Alberta Library and Museums
- Wiley Stroberg, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering
- Kimberly Wardrop, eLearning Support Specialist, Faculty of Extension
- Joanne Weber, Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, Deaf Education; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education
- Chair: Krysta McNutt, Open Education Lead, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Explore the U of A’s Other Latest Open Education Initiatives:
Zero Textbook Cost Initiative
OER Publishing Service
Open Pedagogy Community of Practice
The Centre for Teaching and Learning deeply thanks the following individuals for their partnership and contributions to the 2022 Open Education Symposium:
Thompson Rivers University:
Verena Roberts, Instructional Designer, Open learning, Thompson Rivers University
Carolyn Ives, Coordinator, Learning and Faculty Development, Thompson Rivers University
Brenda Smith, Open Education Librarian, Thompson Rivers University
University of Calgary:
Alysia Wright, Education Development Consultant, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary
Christie Hurrell, Director, Lab NEXT, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary
Barbara Brown, Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
University of Alberta:
Sarah Shaughnessy, Librarian, University of Alberta
Schedule
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| Monday, March 7 | 11:00am - 11:30am MST | Opening | Opening Remarks Tommy Mayberry, CTL Executive Director (University of Alberta) |
| Elder's Prayer Elder Francis Whiskeyjack |
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| 11:30am - 12:00pm MST | Networking |
Open Ed Networking Networking sessions are an opportunity for participants to share ideas around current topics, ideas, and challenges in open education and realizing more open practices within post-secondary institutions. Come join, meet folks with a range of experiences and expertise in Open Education. Hope you are Open to coming! |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST | Open Pedagogy Lightning Talks |
Using OEP to Engage First Year Biology Students—Online! Annie Prud'homme-Genereux (Capilano University) Verena Roberts (Thompson Rivers University) Natasha Ramroop Singh (Thompson Rivers University) |
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| Lessons Learned on Our Test Drive: Iterative Development of Wordpress ePortfolios Jamie Drozda (Thompson Rivers University) Brenna Clarke Gray (Thompson Rivers University) |
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| Using Student Open Pedagogy Projects to Improve OER Design Yang Wu (Clemson University) |
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| 1:30pm - 2:00pm MST | Networking | Open Ed Networking Kathy Haddkar (University of Alberta) Networking sessions are an opportunity for participants to share ideas around current topics, ideas, and challenges in open education and realizing more open practices within post-secondary institutions. Come join, meet folks with a range of experiences and expertise in Open Education. Hope you are Open to coming! |
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| Tuesday, March 8 | 10:30am - 11:30am MST | Panel |
Middle of the Open Road This panel will explore the pedagogical advantages and disadvantages, ethics, and considerations in response to the question "how open should open pedagogies be"? |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST | Open Pedagogy Lightning Talks |
Open Pedagogy in the Trades Chad Flinn (Medicine Hat College) |
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| Open Anthropology: OERs, Open Pedagogy, and Accessibility in Anthropology Jan Newberry (University of Lethbridge) |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm MST | Panel |
Zero Textbook Cost Panel This panel will explore the variety of implementations of Zero Textbook Cost initiatives across Canada. Robel Ng’ong’a (Students’ Association President at Augustana Campus, University of Alberta), will facilitate the discussion with representatives from five Canadian universities and colleges. |
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| Wednesday, March 9 | 10:30am - 11:30am MST | Workshop |
Educational Technologies for Open Pedagogies 1 Tim Ribaric and Cal Murgu, Librarians at Brock University, will discuss ed-tech solutions for open pedagogy. Featuring examples from their own practice, Tim and Cal will first discuss how Github Pages, Hugo, a static site generator, and H5P, can be used to create interactive and modular learning without worrying about institutional infrastructure, financing, and red tape. Secondly, Tim and Cal will discuss how Google Collab, an interactive coding environment that runs in your browser, can be used to create accessible learning experiences for novice students or expert programmers. |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST | Open Pedagogy Lightning Talks |
Integrating an OER: A True Learning Adventure Jacqueline Lyndon (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) |
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| Creating a Computational-Science Platform at the University of Eswatini Peter Berg (University of Alberta) Harshil Vyas (University of Alberta) Joseph Menezes (University of Alberta) |
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| University of Calgary Digital Archives and Curriculum Project Laura Koltutsky (University of Calgary) Emilee Bews (University of Calgary) |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm MST | Panel |
The OEA Story: Leading the way in open educational publishing in Alberta Panel This panel discussion showcases the development of Open Education Alberta, a new OER publishing effort. Members from a broad range of institutions will talk about how OEA supports their institutional OER practices, and what they’ve learned while developing this type of initiative. |
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| Thursday, March 10 | 10:30am - 11:30am MST | Workshop |
Open Education and UDL Meet Course Design In this webinar/workshop, we will talk about how to design for openness and universal design for learning (UDL) in your courses. The audience for this session is primarily for those who are new to these topics and will include lots of concrete examples of how providing flexibility and choice can support the diverse learning needs of students. By designing for those differences, we can create educational experiences that are more useful, engaging, and accessible to all. |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST
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Open Pedagogy Lightning Talks |
Into the Open: Podcasting as a Medium for Open Networking, Co-designing, and Knowledge Building Nicole Neutzling (University of Calgary) |
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| DigitalNWT: Open Digital Literacy Education for and with Northern Communities Belinda Ongaro (University of Alberta) Deanna Taylor (University of Alberta) |
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| Creation of a Fully Open Course in Environmental Geology Steven Earle (Thompson Rivers University) Verena Roberts (Thompson Rivers University) |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm MST | Workshop |
Educational Technologies for Open Pedagogies 2 In this presentation, strategists from Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Teaching and Learning Commons will discuss how they harness various educational technologies to support open pedagogy. Join this session to:
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| Friday, March 11 | 10:30am - 11:30am MST | Workshop |
Evaluating Open Pedagogies & Quality This session will be a round table regarding evaluating Open Pedagogy and Quality. This discussion will attempt a definition of Open Pedagogy and discuss the complex issues of student agency, accessibility, roles, and the importance of standards in the implementation of an Open pedagogical model. After the discussion between the panelists, there will be space for comments, concerns and queries from others. |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST | Open Pedagogy Lightning Talks |
The Integration of Leadership, Art & Sustainability through Community Art; Open Curriculum Dawne Bringeland (Thompson Rivers University) |
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| Research on Open Pedagogy Practices and Student Engagement Elena Antoniadis (Red Deer Polytechnic) |
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| Open Licensing: An Infrastructural Element of OER Amanda Wakaruk (University of Alberta) |
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| #EdTechEthics - Pressbook Launch - Version 2 Barb Brown (University of Calgary) |
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| 1:30pm - 2:00pm MST | Networking | Open Ed Networking Sarah Shaughnessy (University of Alberta) Networking sessions are an opportunity for participants to share ideas around current topics, ideas, and challenges in open education and realizing more open practices within post-secondary institutions. Come join, meet folks with a range of experiences and expertise in Open Education. Hope you are Open to coming! |
Explore the U of A’s Other Latest Open Education Initiatives:
Zero Textbook Cost Initiative
OER Publishing Service
Open Pedagogy Community of Practice