The SUNY OER Summit will be held virtually, via Zoom on October 11th, 2023 - October 12th, 2023.
Pre-Conference workshops will be held on the afternoon of October 10th, 2023 virtually via Zoom.
Wednesday October 11th, from 11:00am-1:00pm.
Shifting to Open Digital Public Goods
If we are going to solve the world's most pressing challenges (including climate change), the knowledge about those challenges must be open. This talk will explore digital public goods and what open knowledge structures and policies society might need to ensure the knowledge components necessary for education and science - both critical elements in solving global challenges - are open by default.
Tuesday, October 10th from 12:00pm -2:00pm
Domain of One's Own Unleashed: Empowering Educators to Innovate Using SUNY Create.
Presenters: Ed Beck, SUNY Oneonta. Ruth Carpenter, SUNY Binghamton.
Join us for an introduction to SUNY Create and use it to create open educational resources. Owning your own website is an opportunity to better understand the digital world. SUNY Create provides users with that opportunity and their own personal toolbox of open source tools to create and publish websites all from one place.
We will start by sharing some very successful projects that have been built using the infrastructure of SUNY Create. SUNY Create allows you to install multiple web applications, and we will share some projects that have been created by students in SUNY that have utilized applications such as WordPress, Pressbooks, Omeka S, Omeka Classic, or flat html based websites. Sites have been created for repositories, individuals, collaborative groups, and textbooks.
We will discuss SUNY Create broadly, but will spend a significant amount of time leading you through installing tools and getting started with managing sites using SUNY Create.
Tuesday, October 10th from 2:00pm -4:00pm
Better Courses and How to Build Them: Hands-on with OLI Torus
Presenter: Erin Czerwinski, Carnegie Mellon University
Open Educational Resources (OER) bring together openly licensed educational content with advanced analytics-based technology platforms, which lowers educational costs for students while improving learning outcomes. The SUNY OER Services partnership with Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI), provides high-quality, evidence-based courses at no cost to SUNY students and faculty. Now, OLI’s next-generation platform, Torus, will transform how we build, customize, and improve courses. Torus is adaptive courseware informed by learning science that is designed to improve student learning and course completion rates while significantly lowering costs. Central to Torus is a unique approach to designing courses, focused around learning models and iterative improvement. This approach allows for improved data-collection, a learner-centered pedagogy, and courses that improve over time. Join us for an introduction to OLI’s innovative approach to course design and development.