OER Boot Camp
Open Educational Resources Workshops at Buffalo State
What do you need to know and do to successfully incorporate OER into your curriculum?
Find out from experienced colleagues from Tompkins County Community College as they share their research and experiences with OER and the Kaleidoscope Project at TC3.
For more information about OER in general, visit this guide: library.buffalostate.edu/oer
OER Boot Camp
Friday, Oct 16, 2015, 10:30 AM
Buffalo State, Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States
Agenda
- 10:30 a.m. to noon
- Morning Informational Session
- Bulger N2A
- Noon to 1 p.m.
- Lunch
- 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- Afternoon Workshops
- Butler Library 318
Register here
Register for one or both sessions at bit.ly/1FAUUCs by Oct. 14.
Amber Gilewski
Amber Gilewski is an associate professor of psychology at Tompkins Cortland Community College.
Along with her co-presenter, Sophia Georgiakaki, she was involved as a faculty fellow with the Kaleidoscope Project. Amber was also a course author with the Carnegie Mellon Community College Open Learning Initiative for their Introduction to Psychology course. She has presented her experience and findings with faculty at numerous colleges and universities, administrators, the State of Nebraska, educational conferences, and at the American Psychological Association Convention.
Sophia Georgiakaki
Sophia Georgiakaki is a professor of mathematics and chair of developmental mathematics at Tompkins Cortland Community College.
She served as initial developer for Kaleidoscope's Intermediate Algebra in 2011, and her OER course is currently taught across all sections at TC3. She is in the process of transferring TC3's Beginning Algebra curriculum in OER, and, in cooperation with Lumen Learning, she is working on combining content for College Algebra & Trigonometry, Precalculus, and Introductory Statistics.
About the Kaleidoscope Project
The Kaleidoscope Project was an open education project that implemented general education courses across several institutions of higher learning, including two and four-year colleges and private colleges across the United States, that serve large populations of at-risk students with the intention of improving student success and decreasing academic withdrawals. (Read more here: lumenlearning.com/innovative-projects).
Presented in collaboration with Instructional Resources, E. H. Butler Library, and the Faculty Development Office. Contact Ginger Bidell (bidellgm@buffalostate.edu) or Leah Galka (galkalm@buffalostate.edu) with any questions.