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To mark Open Education Week, Clint Lalonde (Director of Open Education, BCcampus) and Chloe McGinley (Acting Associate Dean & Director of The Learning Center, College of the Canyons) will discuss the opportunities and challenges of using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to create open educational resources (OER) and to support open education more generally. They will talk about the copyright implications and ethical considerations of using GenAI to assist the creation and adaptation of OER. 

This will be a hybrid event. Those interested can either join us in-person in The Science Building, Room 2810 or join via Zoom (register here). 

This event is supported by SISU Innovation Funding. 

Clint Lalonde has worked in the British Columbia post-secondary system for 30 years and is currently the Director of Open Education for BCcampus, a government-funded non-profit organization that provides teaching, learning, educational technology, and open education support to the 25 public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. A founding member of the BC Open EdTech Collaborative, Clint is also a past board member of the Apereo Foundation and is an Associate Faculty in the School of Education & Technology at Royal Roads University.

Chloe McGinley is an Online Education Coordinator and the acting Associate Dean and Director of The Learning Center at College of the Canyons (COC). A passionate advocate for innovation in online education, she champions creative and ethical approaches to integrating new technology such as generative AI, and equity-driven practices like Open Educational Resources, to promote student success, persistence, and completion. She also serves as a facilitator for COC’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Chloe has co-authored "Open Education with Generative AI," an original online course that explores the connections between Generative AI, OER and Open Pedagogy, and has developed a non-credit AI Literacy course for college students. Beyond her role at College of the Canyons, Chloe serves as a course facilitator for the California Virtual Campus/Online Education Initiative (CVC/OEI) Online Network of Educators (@ONE), and the California Community College Chancellor's Office Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Grant Program. 

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Open Educational Resources (OER) Working Group invites you to celebrate Open Education at NMU! 

This event recognizes the importance of OER in making higher education more affordable and equitable and acknowledges the work of our OER Faculty Learning Community. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success, Dr. Anne Dahlman, will give opening remarks, and the OER Faculty Learning Community members will discuss their projects. A reception will follow. 

This event is part of NMU's Open Education Week and is supported by SISU Innovation Funding.

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Faculty can easily design visual materials for Open Educational Resources (OER) using Adobe Express, including infographics, charts, and videos.

Join us for a presentation by Daric Christian, professor in the Department of Art and Design and Instructional Multimedia Consultant for the Center for Teaching and Learning.

This event is part of NMU's Open Education Week and is supported by SISU Innovation Funding.

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This workshop is designed for faculty, graduate students, and staff who want to know more about how copyright shapes teaching and research, and how open licensing, such as those provided by Creative Commons, can support the sharing of ideas and information.

Emera Bridger Wilson (Librarian) and Tom Gillespie (Senior Instructional Technologist) will introduce the benefits and limitations of all rights reserved copyright, how open licensing works with copyright, and will facilitate activities to teach participants how to select the correct Creative Common licenses for their teaching and research.

This will be a hybrid event. Those who would like to join us via Zoom can register here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
 

Library and Instructional Support

This workshop is designed for faculty, graduate students, and staff who want to know more about how copyright shapes teaching and research, and how open licenses, such as those provided by Creative Commons, can support the sharing of ideas and information. 

Emera Bridger Wilson (Librarian) and Tom Gillespie (Senior Instructional Technologist) will introduce the benefits and limitations of all rights reserved copyright, how open licensing works within copyright, and facilitate activities to teach participants how to select the correct Creative Commons licenses for their teaching and research.

This event is made possible through a SISU Innovation Funding.

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The NMU Open Education Resource (OER) Working Group is pleased to announce the second cohort of the OER Faculty Learning Community (FLC).

2024-2025 OER Faculty Working Group

The Faculty Learning Community represents a broad range of academic departments as part of a two-year pilot program to increase OER use across Northern’s campus and provide related professional development opportunities.

The 12 selected faculty members will be guided in adopting, adapting, and/or creating OER materials for their courses. This pilot program is funded through a SISU Innovation Funding grant.

According to Jennifer Donner, Director of the Olson Library,“This initiative not only reduces costs for our students but also fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation in teaching. By working together to create, adapt, and share high-quality OER materials, the NMU faculty are paving the way for a more accessible and inclusive learning environment. Utilizing OER is a crucial step towards creating a more dynamic academic community.”

The 12 members of the 2024-2025 OER Faculty Learning Community cohort, selected from a competitive application pool, are:

• Lexie Belles, Criminal Justice
• Sarah Carlson, Social Work
• Heng-Hsuan Chu, Biology
• Melissa Copenhaver, Nursing
• Matthew Kilgas, Exercise Science
• Mitchell Klett, Education
• Vikash Kumar, Social Work
• Dawn Lundin, Nursing
• Amy Orf, Languages, Literatures, and International Studies
• James VanOrman, Biology
• Kristen White, Education
• Jongeun You, Political Science

“The "Celebration of Open Education" event, held in March 2024, highlighted the work of the first OER Faculty Learning Community cohort and illustrated the positive impact that OER can have across a variety of disciplines and majors. OER resources not only provide significant (sometimes huge!) cost savings to students, they also allow faculty to curate learning materials that fit their specific courses in ways that commercial textbooks often don't.  I am excited that the Center for Teaching and Learning is part of NMU's OER initiative and am looking forward to seeing how the second FLC cohort continues to move NMU's OER adoption forward,” said Matt Smock, Director of NMU’s Center for Teaching and Learning.

NMU's OER Working Group is led by the Lydia M. Olson Library and the Center for Teaching and Learning, with faculty, staff and student representatives. If interested in serving in this group, please contact Emera Bridger Wilson (ebridger@nmu.edu).  

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Join us for a reception to celebrate open education at NMU. We will recognize members of our inaugural OER Faculty Learning Community, and discuss how open pedagogy can foster academic excellence at NMU while supporting our vision of greater equity and inclusion.

Food and beverages will be served. 

This event is generously supported by SISU Innovation Funding.