2025 Colorado OER Conference

2025 Colorado OER Conference

8:00am MDT

Registration, Breakfast & Networking UNC Campus Commons

9:00am MDT

Opening Remarks UNC Campus CommonsChealsye Bowley • Katie Brown • Provost Kirsten Fleming

9:20am MDT

OER Keynotes UNC Campus CommonsAlegría Ribadeneira • Mitch Cota • Nicholas Swails

10:00am MDT

10 minute break UNC Campus Commons

10:10am MDT

Creating a Z-degree for undergraduate nursing students: A collaborative project between Fort Lewis College and the University of Colorado College of Nursing Multipurpose Room - 1st FloorTyler Dunn • Teresa Connolly PhD, RN, ACNS-BC From Classroom to Cosmos: Collaborating to Build an Engaging Orbital Mechanics OER Room 2300 - 2nd FloorLynnane George • Evangelina Dudeck OER Career Readiness Toolkit Room 2201 - 2nd FloorChris Marston • Molly Jameson • Colleen Sonnentag Remarkable Organs: The Development of Open-Access Dry-Erase 3D Printed Models for Anatomy Education Room 2204 - 2nd FloorJamie Cronin What do I do now?!? Refocusing big project plans to balance a small award Room 2200 - 2nd FloorAnne O. Davidson

10:40am MDT

Break UNC Campus Commons

10:45am MDT

CCA’s Culturally Responsive OER Review Initiative Room 2200 - 2nd FloorAllyson Turner • Heather Lang • Robin Schofield • Mollee March Disrupting the Status Quo Room 2201 - 2nd FloorNicholas Swails Faculty Learning Communities at the University and Departmental Level: Lessons from OER Faculty trainings at MSU Denver Multipurpose Room - 1st FloorEmily Ragan • Jonathan Dyhr • Brian Healy Students as OER peer reviewers Room 2300 - 2nd FloorMedora Huseby VECTOR Project Update Room 2204 - 2nd FloorMacarena Lange • Margaret Brown-Sica

11:15am MDT

Break UNC Campus Commons

11:20am MDT

From Lecture Halls to Spaceships: Reimagining OER through Storytelling Room 2201 - 2nd FloorCarolyn McGary • Jennifer Whitton-Trujillo Raising the Bar: Explore High-Quality, Faculty-Crafted OER Lab Manuals Created by Aims Community College Science Faculty Room 2204 - 2nd FloorEmma Murray • DeAnna Laurel • Morgan Bland Rerouting: OpenOKState Undergraduate Student Outreach Room 2300 - 2nd FloorKathy Essmiller • Rebekah Cleary You’ve got an OER Textbook, now what?: Finding Supplemental Resources to Design for Accessibility, Flexibility, Relevance, and Rigor Room 2200 - 2nd FloorPhil Mayhoffer • Emily Romero Speed networking Multipurpose Room - 1st Floor

11:50am MDT

Lunch & Networking UNC Campus Commons

1:15pm MDT

2025 Colorado OER Awards UNC Campus Commons

1:35pm MDT

Break UNC Campus Commons

1:45pm MDT

Make OER for STEM Accessible using PreTeXt UNC Campus CommonsOscar Levin Open Educational Resources: A Workshop for Every Stage UNC Campus CommonsJoan Anderssen • Felicia Brown • Natalie Lascala Playful Inquiry: Remixing TTRPGs for OER Scholarship and Teaching UNC Campus CommonsMatthew Farber • William Merchant Principles and production of accessible course materials UNC Campus CommonsJoshua French

2:35pm MDT

Break UNC Campus Commons

2:45pm MDT

Faculty Designed Survey to Assess Perceptions and Knowledge of Teaching and Adopting OER Learning Materials Room 2200 - 2nd FloorJohn Mann Lightning Talks Multipurpose Room - 1st FloorChristopher Garris • Yassin Nacer • Abbie Ferris • Melinda Gurule • Chealsye Bowley OER & Equitable Access: The Importance and Impact of OER Materials within Textbook Affordability Programs Room 2201 - 2nd FloorMatthew Avena PubMed: An Unexpected Resource for OER Images Room 2204 - 2nd FloorEllie Svoboda • Teresa Connolly PhD, RN, ACNS-BC Using Canvas, Student Engagement, and Adaptable Content to Write an Argument Textbook Room 2300 - 2nd FloorJohn Rief

3:15pm MDT

Break UNC Campus Commons

3:25pm MDT

Aims’ Evolution – From Seed to Sustainability - A Success Story Multipurpose Room - 1st FloorCathy Glaser • Doug Strauss • Jim Hutchinson • Ty Cronkhite Empowering Student Voices: Building Effective OER Advocacy Groups on Campus UNC Campus CommonsCynthia Krutsinger • Rachel Meisner • Christine Gaccetta-Sharp

4:15pm MDT

Closing Remarks UNC Campus CommonsChealsye Bowley • Jonathan Dyhr

2025 Colorado OER Conference

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