How do I find OER? Do I need to covert my entire class to OER? Where do I start? This session will provide tips and tools for getting started with OER.
Presenter Bio:
With nearly 25 years of teaching in higher education, Lisa Young has encountered a number of instructional challenges that she has tackled by leveraging pedagogical and instructional practices and technologies. In 1997, she saw that retention in her water resources program was decreasing, she found that her student’s schedules were changing monthly because of the type of industry, so she offered courses for the program online. In the early 2000s she saw a need to have faculty share the wonderful resources they were creating and became involved in the reusable learning object movement, which has now evolved into open educational resources.
Serving Scottsdale Community College as the Faculty Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Lisa's focus is in provides faculty development, consultation and programming to support strategic objectives related to improving student success in online learning, supporting faculty use of open educational resources, improving the developmental education experience through critical literacies, enhancing learning through co-curricular activities and accessibility.
Currently Lisa serves on a committee for the Maricopa Community Colleges where she helps guide leadership in open educational resources. Lisa serves as co-chair for the Maricopa Millions Steering team, an OER district project where the goal is to save Maricopa Community College students $5 Million over 5 Years by radically decreasing student costs by offering low cost or no cost options for course materials. In just 3.5 years, the project has far surpassed this goal, saving students over $9 million.
Northern Virginia Community College
United States, Fairfax, VA
Contributed by: Heather Blicher
Language: English
