This community discussion will focus on designing assignments that allow students to demonstrate mastery of course content by contributing to the creation or curation of open educational resources (OER). Open pedagogy is a high-impact practice that empowers students by providing them an opportunity to engage in information creation through the use of renewable assignments. Three guest speakers will join us to talk about how they’ve adopted open educational practices in their courses.  

This session is open to anyone in the UTA community, and an RSVP is not required. However, please note that attendees must join the Open Educational Resources channel in Microsoft Teams to view and use the chat function during the sessions. 

Guests 

 Dr. Judy Orton Grissett is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Experiential Learning at Georgia Southwestern State University. She has been engaged with open educational resources since 2014 and has been using open pedagogy since about 2017. The projects she will be discussing include student-generated websites, test-banks, and other supplemental materials to accommodate open resources. She will focus on the benefits and challenges of developing, implementing, and measuring the student outcomes for each project. 

Peace Ossom-Williamson is a medical librarian and health educator and is the director of Research Data Services at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Her research falls in the intersection of scholarly communication, data literacy, and public health. Peace also teaches Public Health Informatics online as a part of both the in-person and advanced online undergraduate public health programs at UTA, and she has used various open pedagogy assignments in her classes. 

 Bonnie J. (B.J.) Robinson is Director of the University of North Georgia Press (UNG Press) and Professor of English at the University of North Georgia. She served on the editorial boards of Turn-of-the-Century Women, The Walter Pater Newsletter, and The William Morris Newsletter. And she has won several publishing grants, including a National Endowment for the Humanities digital start up grant on digital publishing in the Humanities. Through its partnership with Affordable Learning Georgia, UNG Press has published twenty peer reviewed Open Textbooks and has eleven more currently in production. 

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