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2024/2025 Open Education Speaker Series
Title: Why Open Education will become Generative AI Education
Presenter: Dr. David Wiley, Founder and Chief Academic Officer, Lumen Learning
Abstract: For over 25 years, the primary goal of the open education movement has been increasing access to educational opportunity. And from the beginning of the movement the primary tactic for accomplishing this goal has been creating and sharing OER. However, using generative AI is a demonstrably more powerful and effective way to increase access to educational opportunity. Consequently, if we are to remain true to our overall goal, we must begin shifting our focus from OER to generative AI.
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Title: Fall 2024 (Open Access Week): What are the Paths to Sustainable and Universal Open Access?
Presenter: Dr. John Willinsky, Founder of the Public Knowledge Project
Abstract: After working on various strategies for facilitating open access to research and scholarship over the last 26 years, Dr. Willinsky thinks it worthwhile to pause at this point to clarify the rationale and goals for open access. He will also consider why, after open access proved so valuable in fighting the pandemic, we are moving so slowly and expensively, in his estimation, toward making open access the standard for the circulation of research. And, finally, he will invite listeners to this talk to consider joining him in attempting to speed up the achievement of this widely shared goal through a variety of strategies.
The Public Knowledge Project: https://pkp.sfu.ca/
Open Journal Systems (OJS): https://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs/
Copyright’s Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law’s Ability to Promote the Progress of Science (open access): https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5507/Copyright-s-Broken-PromiseHow-to-Restore-the-Law-s
Subscribe to Open (S2O): https://subscribetoopencommunity.org/
Open Access Diamond Journals Study: https://scienceeurope.org/our-resources/oa-diamond-journals-study/
Contact John: https://pkp.sfu.ca/john-willinsky/ or directly by email willinsk@stanford.edu
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Title: Science Education for a Just and Sustainable World: Integrating Open Education and Open Science
Presenter: Dr. Karen Cangialosi, Director of Every Learner Everywhere
Abstract: Science education, like scientific practice, is primarily focused on competitiveness, where “superstars” are rewarded, and students who are not “good enough” get “weeded out.” But as global social and environmental problems grow ever more intractable, we need future generations of scientists to work from a different framework, one that is based on authentic, equitable collaboration and focused on the collective global good. The purpose of this session is to explore the powerful opportunities that intersections of Open Education, critically evaluated Open Science, and other calls for science education reform can bring to the transformation of science pedagogy so that it can not only be more effective for students to learn science, but can support a new generation of scientists that can advance us towards a more equitable, sustainable, benevolent and creative future. Open pedagogy can also be a vehicle for students to learn about the ways in which open science might exacerbate current systemic inequities and direct their scientific knowledge towards efforts that serve local, regional and global communities.
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Title: Kitchen Tips and Tricks: Cooking and Spicing Up OERs with H5P Online
Presenter: Alan Levine, Director of Innovation and Community Engagement at Open Education Global (https://oeglobal.org)
Abstract: Using the metaphor of cooking, Open Educational Resources (OER) can be thought of as fine meals, but how can you make them maybe even better? Come for a tasting from the H5P Kitchen project (https://kitchen.opened.ca/), a tool for adding interactive practice activities to your OERs, ideally to reinforce learning through hands on activities. H5P is not tied to a single platform, what you produce is web-standard content that can be exported, shared, and remixed for use elsewhere including Pressbooks and learning management systems. You will discover how to find examples of H5P used in your discipline to give you ideas for what is possible, see some clever recipes created by other educators, and learn from a few tips and techniques that you do not find in the usual listing of tools.
Link to resources: https://kitchen.opened.ca/
Title: Cyborgs and Centaurs: Ethical AI Integration in Writing Instruction
Presenter: Dr. Liza Long, Associate Professor of English, College of Western Idaho.
Abstract: There’s no question that generative AI has impacted student writing. What if we moved beyond conversations about plagiarism and started to think about how generative AI could transform students’ writing process in ethical ways? In his book Co-Intelligence, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick describes cyborgs as people who integrate AI into every part of their workflow and centaurs as people who only use AI for certain tasks. In this presentation, you’ll learn more about how to integrate generative AI tools in writing instruction using the Open Education Resource Cyborgs and Centaurs, a first-year writing textbook that aims to provide students with prompts and examples of AI integration as they explore their personal writing process. You’ll learn how to promote AI literacy in students and teach them to evaluate and use these tools in responsible ways to augment, not replace, their own work. This approach helps students develop critical thinking skills while leveraging AI as a writing tool. (Note: I acknowledge the use of Claude.ai to review and provide suggestions on my original title and abstract. Claude liked this version).
Title (Open Education Week): Shifting to Community Owned and Operated Open Knowledge
Presenter: Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons.
Abstract: If we are going to solve the world’s most pressing challenges (e.g., climate change), the knowledge about those challenges must be open. This talk will explore what open knowledge structures society might need to ensure the knowledge components necessary for education and science – both critical elements in solving global challenges – are open by default. Open Education and Open Science both require significant, stable public funding. Both education and science are public goods and the production, reuse and revisions of education and science resources should be publicly funded and openly licensed to ensure educational opportunities for all. What might “Community Owned and Operated Open Education” look like? What are the barriers and the opportunities? What if funding currently spent on expensive commercial educational resources were redirected to support the creation, stewardship and sharing of effective OER in every discipline, in every grade level in multiple languages? What if we redirected existing public funding to create a sustained shared open learning infrastructure for the public good?
Book Launches:
Fall 2024 (Open Access Week) Book Launch: Canadian Settler Colonialism: Reliving the Past, Opening New Paths
Presenters: Dr. Emily Grafton, Dr. Jérôme Melançon, Ibukun-Oluwa Fasunhan, and SherJan Maybanting
Abstract: The editors explore this open access electronic book Canadian Settler Colonialism: Reliving the Past, Opening New Paths, published by University of Regina OEP Program.
This book offers an eclectic yet unified collection of essays in the study of settler colonialism which extend across the disciplines of Indigenous studies, political science, sociology, philosophy, and literature. The book includes consideration on topics such as history, criminal justice, slavery, immigration, identity, and social movements. The editorial team and contributors to the volume will present the reason for and the contents of the book. To mark Open Access week, they will explain the decisions and the process that led to the resulting book.
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Title: eBook Launch: Cree Dictionary of Mathematical Terms with Visual Examples and Sound by Arzu Sardarli & Ida Swan
Presenters: Dr. Arzu Sardarli, Ida Swan, Ting Zhou, & Kelly Daniels
Abstract: In this new edition, the authors of the Cree Dictionary of Mathematical Terms with Visual Examples and Sound have added exciting interactive elements to the book.
Title: eBook Launch: Financial Empowerment: Personal Finance for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People, (2nd ed.)
Presenter: Dr. Bettina Schneider
Abstract: Just in time for Financial Literacy Month, this new edition of the ebook, Financial Empowerment: Personal Finance for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People, (2nd. ed.) by Dr. Bettina Schneider is launched.
Title: eBook Launch: Listening as a Shared and Social Practice
Presenters: Co-editors Lindsey french and Kate Joranson along with contributor Fereshteh Toosi present in conversation with Open Education & Publishing Program Manager Shuana Niessen.
Abstract: An understanding of listening as deeply relational frames the materials gathered in the publication, which grew out of a Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies (GLASS) conference held in October 2022 with the University of Saskatoon and the University of Regina. Responding to a turn in sound studies that centers the role of listening, Listening as a Shared and Social Practice considers the co-constitutive nature of listening through a collection of essays and activities that prompt us to notice and listen more deeply.