From Syllabi to Textbooks - Accessibility in OER
Apply as a team by May 1st to participate
From Syllabi to Textbooks - Accessibility in Open Educational Resources for Institutions of Higher Education
A series of 3 no-cost intensives designed to build capacity in IHE teams
ISKME and CAST’s National AEM Center invite teams of faculty to learn how to use accessible Open Educational Resources (OER) to make learning more equitable and bust the barriers to learning that millions of learners experience every day.
The Accessible OER Academy series is provided at no-cost to faculty at Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) and will introduce cohorts to how openly licensed resources are key levers for both adapting existing resources to increase digital accessibility and designing resources that are accessible for learners with disabilities from the start. Participants will also gain an understanding of how accessibility relates to Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
We invite educators from the same Institution to form a cohort. Throughout the six-week series, cohorts will receive access to a curated set of high quality resources to review and adapt for use in their own settings. Institution cohorts that complete all six sessions will be invited to present at a national summit alongside CAST and ISKME. Each individual participant of the Academy will receive a certificate of completion. Each team will submit one application.
We encourage cohorts of 3-5 faculty to represent a diversity of lived experiences, classroom expertise, and current educational roles. Consider building your team with representatives from full-time faculty, part-time faculty, disability services, ed tech, assistive technology, library media, and administration. Your team will produce resources that can be used with and to benefit all learners, so consider building a team that can collaborate for instructional purposes. The cohort will explore modifying a variety of resources - with a focus on syllabi and entire textbooks.
The series will consist of three 90-minute webinars with three 90-minute implementation sessions between each. All sessions will be at 1:00pm ET/10:00am PT.
101 - Collaborative Questioning and UDL - on May 4th and Implementation Session May 11th
201 - Adapting and Creating Accessible OER on May 18th and Implementation Session May 25th
301 - Curating and Evaluating OER for Accessibility on June 1st and Implementation Session on June 8th
Apply as a team by May 1st. If you have any questions, please contact Joanna Schimizzi (joanna@iskme.org) or Alison Driscoll (adriscoll@cast.org).
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Apply for Certificate in Open Educational Practices Program
Exciting opportunity for faculty in Open Education Practices
The Open Education Network is accepting applications for faculty and librarian partners to receive a certification for open educational practices (OEP). Applicants should be higher education faculty who have a lesson, unit, or other educational experience that they wish to transform through the use of open educational practices and teach in the spring of 2023 and practicing librarians ideally from the same institution as the faculty. The Certificate in OEP offers formal training in open educational practices grounded in the principles of social justice, a community of peers, and expert instructors in order to transform learning to be more accessible and inclusive. Librarians and faculty who successfully complete the full program will receive a Certificate in Open Educational Practices from the Open Education Network.
About the Certificate in Open Educational Practices
The Certificate in OEP is a professional development program that will create actionable pathways for faculty and librarians to implement open education for the transformation of learning.
Faculty and librarian partners will complete a nine-week long, asynchronous course in the fall about the range of open educational practices with modules on the hallmarks of open educational resources, copyright, and Creative Commons licensing, the hallmarks of open educational practices, the benefits and limitations of OEP, accessibility, and student empowerment and agency. Together, the faculty and librarian pairs will create an Action Plan to be implemented in the spring that seeks to transform learning through the power of open education.
In addition, the cohort will benefit from close engagement with program faculty -- open education leaders who have gained expertise through experience, professional development, and participation in various national initiatives. The integrated components of the certification program include online content, instructor-led cohorts, and action plan support and assessment.
In order to assure personalized attention to participants throughout the program, the cohort will be limited to 15 teams or 30 participants total.
*Note: To apply you will have to create an account. Once you log in, you will be redirected to a home page where you can find the application called "Open Education Network's Certificate in Open Educational Practices."
Important Dates
Application deadline: August 5, 2022, 11:59 pm Central
Notification: by August 26, 2022, 11:59 pm Central
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About the Open Education Network
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Open Education Network (OEN) is an alliance of hundreds of institutions working together to advance open education, locally and nationally. We believe in the power of open education to transform higher education. The leadership, actions, and results of our network members drive this transformation, and OEN connects these efforts to pool expertise and promote best practices.
