2025 Colorado OER Conference: Full Schedule

10:10am MDT

What do I do now?!? Refocusing big project plans to balance a small award

Friday May 30, 2025 10:10am - 10:40am MDT

Learn about the process engaged for a CDHE-OER grant, when a proposal is awarded significantly less funding than needed for the original proposal, such as:

Changing Grant Scope
Refocusing Proposed Projects
Realigning Work with Awards

This presentation will share how a proposal for a large OER project to produce a multi-course text was refocused. Explore the process of making significant changes to realign the scope of work with a $10,000 award, instead of the $25,000 proposed to accomplish the full scope of the original project. The steps taken, useful resources, and project revision will be discussed.

Speakers

Anne O. Davidson

Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, University of Northern Colorado

Friday May 30, 2025 10:10am - 10:40am MDT
Room 2200 - 2nd Floor

Presentation, Sustainability

Audience Intermediate
Subject Sustainability

10:45am MDT

CCA’s Culturally Responsive OER Review Initiative

Friday May 30, 2025 10:45am - 11:15am MDT

Room 2200 - 2nd Floor

This presentation focuses of CCA's development and pilot of a process to review OER for cultural relevance. This team began by developing a handbook for culturally responsive OER review, focusing on representation, language, and accessibility of OER materials. After developing the handbook, we piloted the review process with departmental teams -- Philosophy, History, Translation & Interpretation, and Math. We identified OER in use, or under consideration, at CCA and created a process for faculty & instructors to review the materials with the guidance of the handbook.This presentation will cover the development of the handbook and review process, as well as lessons learned and data analyses from the pilot reviews. We will discuss the future of this process, particularly plans for involving students in future iterations. We will leave participants with resources from our process and worksheets for creating an action plan to review OER for cultural relevance at their institution.

Speakers

Allyson Turner

Digital Initiatives & OER Librarian, Community College of Aurora

Heather Lang

Director of Academic Professional Development, Community College of Aurora

Robin Schofield

Executive Director, Teaching & Learning Transformation Hub, Community College of Aurora

Mollee March

Director of Library & Educational Resources Department, Community College of Aurora

Friday May 30, 2025 10:45am - 11:15am MDT
Room 2200 - 2nd Floor

Presentation, Sustainability

Audience Beginner, Intermediate
Subject STEM, Sustainability

11:20am MDT

You’ve got an OER Textbook, now what?: Finding Supplemental Resources to Design for Accessibility, Flexibility, Relevance, and Rigor

Friday May 30, 2025 11:20am - 11:50am MDT

Room 2200 - 2nd Floor

The evolving landscape of blended learning in higher education is increasing driven by technology. Therefore, it is essential that educators are prepared to deliver organized and comprehensive course experiences within their Learning Management Systems (LMSs). Using an LMS, it is possible for one to either create an oasis of resources, or a big mess. In what follows, we will give you the tools to do the former. Participants will leave this session able to: identify gaps in textbook resources and decide what is needed to address them, search comprehensively for open source and/or free resources, and make proper attributions when one uses the intellectual property of others in one's OER course. The state of literature on this topic as well as future directions for open educational technological resources will be discussed.

Speakers

Phil Mayhoffer

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Northern Colorado

I love to explore how creativity, curiosity, and play interact throughout the process of learning. As a middle school teacher, I dove into design thinking and project-based learning to make my classroom a place to foster and support innovation in my students. Now, as a PhD student... Read More →

Emily Romero

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Northern Colorado

Friday May 30, 2025 11:20am - 11:50am MDT
Room 2200 - 2nd Floor

Presentation, Sustainability

Subject Sustainability

2:45pm MDT

Faculty Designed Survey to Assess Perceptions and Knowledge of Teaching and Adopting OER Learning Materials

Friday May 30, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm MDT

Room 2200 - 2nd Floor

What are faculty perceptions of teaching and learning materials? In this session, faculty will discuss the process of designing, co-creating, and administering a faculty survey which was distributed to faculty at ACC. This session will also highlight the results of the survey, drawing insights from ACC’s experience. Would open the floor for reaction and other experiences to be discussed.

Speakers

John Mann

Faculty, Business and Marketing , Arapahoe Community College

Friday May 30, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm MDT
Room 2200 - 2nd Floor

Presentation, Sustainability

Audience Intermediate
Subject Sustainability

2025 Colorado OER Conference