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Virtual

Start Date

29-2-2024 4:00 PM

End Date

29-2-2024 4:50 PM

Description

Join us for an interactive workshop that explores the synergies between libraries and Open Educational Resources (OER). This session will highlight libraries’ role in OER; explore how textbook affordability partners and libraries can exchange ideas, strategies, and best practices; provide a five-fold approach to open education in libraries; and include an active discussion about new technologies to streamline OER adoption, adaptation, authorship.

Speakers

Lily Dubach, Textbook Affordability Librarian at the University of Central Florida, collaborates across campus to promote and transition course content to affordable options such as open educational resources and library-sources eBooks, In conjunction with statewide and national affordability initiatives, she provide library leadership on projects supporting student success. Lily is also the subject librarian for the School of Communication Sciences & Disorders. Her research interests include leveraging technology, such as artificial intelligence tools, for discovering or enhancing open educational resources, as well as analyzing student outcomes and and perceptions of open or library-sources material course adoptions. Lily is the 2024 recipient of the Excellent in Librarianship Award which recognizes outstanding contributions and support given to the university's faculty and students.

Sarah Norris is Scholarly Communication Librarian at the UCF Libraries. In this role, she leads the Libraries' Scholarly Communication and open access efforts, with an emphasis on scholarly publishing and copyright training and education. Her research interests include the expanded use of OERs in the classroom and open data, and utilizing technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to support research, teaching, and learning. In 2023, she was awarded a UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA) for outstanding research and scholarly activity that advances the body of knowledge in a particular field.

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Feb 29th, 4:00 PM Feb 29th, 4:50 PM

OER for Libraries and Textbook Affordability Partners

Virtual

Join us for an interactive workshop that explores the synergies between libraries and Open Educational Resources (OER). This session will highlight libraries’ role in OER; explore how textbook affordability partners and libraries can exchange ideas, strategies, and best practices; provide a five-fold approach to open education in libraries; and include an active discussion about new technologies to streamline OER adoption, adaptation, authorship.