Learning Café
Calling All Heroes: Adventures with Open Educational Resources
Date Friday, Nov 25 Time – RoomTiergarten I/II/III
This Learning Café will engage with participants in different OER-themed, collaborative games to provide an opportunity to relax, network, and focus on the benefits of OERs. Presenters will discuss participants’ experiences with OERs, and what successes and/or challenges they have seen using OERs. Attendees will work in small groups and led in gaming experiences that will include role-playing and mini escape room experiences. Presenters will provide enjoyment and networking opportunities as well as emphasise (through the game goals and strategies) the benefits of OER.
Outcomes
- Define and identify benefits of open educational resources.
- Find freely available instructional materials.
- Name the major resources to support creation and adoption of open educational resources.
- Analyse various available resources to determine quality and usefulness.
Tyler Tait
Student, Kennesaw State University
Stephen Bartlett
Associate Director , Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America
An online educator for 14+ years and former Associate Director of the RCHSS Office of Digital Education at Kennesaw State University for 6+ years, Stephen Bartlett has been involved with the evolving world of e-learning for more than half his teaching career. In addition to the thousands of students who he has taught a variety of world history topics, he has also trained 500+ faculty in online pedagogy and presented at e-learning conferences in the United States and internationally.
Julie R. Newell
Hybrid Specialist, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America
Jeanne Law
Professor of English & Director of First-Year Writing Program, Kennesaw State University, United States of America
Jeanne Law is a Professor of English. Her research includes multimodal languaging and generative AI technologies for writers. She is co-author of The Writer’s Loop: A Guide to College Writing and a founding author for Multimodal Mondays blog series. She has authored chapters on information literacy in several edited collections. Her work is also regularly featured in public media, including The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has authored seven Coursera courses on gen-AI use, featuring her Rhetorical Prompt Engineering Framework. Jeanne is a mentor for AAC&U’s AI Pedagogy Institute and has chapters on gen-AI accepted by Computers & Composition and Routlege. She has presented for multiple audiences on the ethical use of gen-AI.
Brayden Milam
Programme Manager , Kennesaw State University, United States of America
Elly Sloman
Student Assistant for Accessibility, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Educati, United States of America
Elly Sloman is a Student Assistant in Kennesaw State University's Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences' Office of Digital Education. They help faculty with ensuring that their courses meet federal requirements for accessibility, and have helped with making resources accessible. They are majoring in English Education with a minor in Korean language and culture. They are excitedly anticipating learning more about digital education in order to apply it to their studies and then their own classrooms in the future.
Kaylee Polk
Lead Student Assistant, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America
Kaylee Polk is an undergraduate student at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, US. As lead student assistant with Radow College's Office of Digital Education, she assists faculty members in ensuring that their online course materials all accessible to all students.
Aiden Reichner
Student Assistant for Accessibility, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America
Aiden Reichner is an undergraduate at Kennesaw State University studying Environmental Science. They are a student assistant for the Office of Digital Education in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. As a student assistant, it is their job to help faculty improve the accessibility of online courses for all students.
Moderator
Tamara Powell
English Professor, Kennesaw State University
Dr. Tamara Powell is a professor of English at Kennesaw State University (KSU) in the Atlanta metro area in Georgia in the US. Her research interests include African American literature and open educational resources. She co-authored Open Technical Communication (https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/open-technical-communication), and it won the 2022 OE Global Award for Excellence in the Open Reuse/Remix/Adaptation category (https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2022/open-reuse-remix-adaptation/ope…).
Tamara began teaching online in 2001 and has been hooked on this exciting and versatile medium ever since. Every semester, she tries new techniques to increase student engagement and successful completion of classes.
She has won several honors and awards, including Best Paper Award for “Student Success Innovations vs. Faculty Workload Concerns: How to Find a Balance for Success” at The Thirteenth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning eLmL 2021 in Nice, France.