Workshop Announcement Template

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OER Workshop at *Institution Name*

Location & time details

A SUNY OER course provides students a cost effective alternative to traditional textbooks. The majority of materials in this section resides in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits repurposing by others.

We in SUNY have a strong history of openness and instructional innovation, including the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) to provide measurable impact on student success.

This year invites a large scale-up of OER thanks to the Excelsior Scholarship, which includes in its 2017-18 funding “$8 million to provide open educational resources, including e-books, to students at SUNY and CUNY colleges to help defray the prohibitive cost of textbooks.”

This workshop invites faculty, librarians, instructional designers, administrators, and other campus stakeholders to explore the possibilities of Open Educational Resources more deeply.

  • Interact with faculty and librarians across SUNY who have first-hand experience with OER
  • Understand the distinctions between traditional and Creative Commons copyright.
  • Discover OER materials in your subject area.
  • Apply OER content to help meet your course outcomes.

All skill and comfort levels with both OER and campus technology are welcome.

Agenda

8:30am Arrival and coffee
9:00am Keynote Name and/or location
10:00am Break
10:15am Open Licensing Overview Name and/or location
11:00am Faculty Panel Names and/or location
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Discipline-specific Breakout Sessions

  • English, Communication, Arts, & Humanities
  • Social Sciences
  • Math
  • Science & Technology
  • All Disciplines
 Names and/or locations
3:45pm Concluding Remarks Name and/or location