Greetings! Registration is now open for the Illinois Open Education Summit.
Illinois Open Education Summit - Building an Open Future: Supporting and Expanding Open Education Across Illinois
Description
The Illinois Open Education Summit seeks to bring together people who want to create a shared vision for Open Education in Illinois and develop or expand their Open Education programs and initiatives. Whether you are from a small institution or a large university, are beginning your open educational resources journey or already have an established program, the Open Education Summit invites librarians, faculty, academic leadership, instructional designers, and distance education staff to join together with partners across the state to build foundational knowledge and fashion a vision for the future of Open Education in Illinois. We are encouraging institutions to put together a team of up to 3 Open Education champions (both aspiring and active) to bring their diverse perspectives to the event.
Highlights of this day will include
Keynote presentation discussing the state of Open Education in Illinois and in the midwest more broadly
Roundtable discussions on Open Education at large, Open Educational Resources, and Open Pedagogy and learner-centered practice
Networking opportunities to connect Open Education practitioners
Contribute to a conversation around building a statewide vision for Open Education in Illinois
Participant insights will be collected throughout the day to document the current Illinois OER landscape and collective visions for the future of OER in Illinois
Date and Location
April 7, 2025
9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Illinois State University Alumni Center, Room 118
1101 N. Main Street, Normal 61761
Parking
The ISU Alumni Center offers free parking to attendees in the lot adjacent to the Alumni Center. There are 6 ADA compliant parking spaces located outside the Alumni Center.
Registration
Please register to attend!
Institutions are encouraged to bring a team of up to 3 OER champions to ensure a broad perspective of Open Education in the day’s discussions. Institutions should select a primary contact to complete the registration form and receive any questions regarding registrations. The primary contact will provide basic contact information (names and emails) for their team of attendees. After registration closes on February 7th, all attendees will receive an individual form to fill out to identify personal information relating to their attendance at the summit.
Attendance is free. Lunch will be provided.
Questions
For accessibility inquiries, please contact Jayna Leipart Guttilla <gjleipa@ilstu.edu>, 309-438-2754.
For registration questions, please contact CARLI Support <support@carli.illinois.edu>.
For general inquiries about the summit, please contact Dee Anna Phares <dphares@niu.edu>
Event Sponsors and Support
Midwestern Higher Education Compact, Illinois Community College Board, Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, College of DuPage, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Lincoln Land Community College, Moraine Valley Community College, Northern Illinois University
Summit Agenda
Morning Session: 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
9:30 - 10:00 Registration Check-in, Networking, and Refreshments
10:00 - 10:10 Opening remarks
Dr. Dallas Long, Dean of Milner Library, Illinois State University
10:10 - 10:50 Plenary Session: The State of the State - Open Education in Illinois
Presenters:
Michele Leigh, PhD, Open Illinois Senior Coordinator, The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois
Jeff Newell, Deputy Director for Strategic Initiatives, Illinois Community College Board
Dee Anna Phares, Social Sciences and Humanities Librarian, Northern Illinois University
Chris Sweet, Information Literacy and Scholarly Communications Librarian, Illinois Wesleyan University
Description: Open education efforts in the state are growing, and this session will provide an overview of the expanding open landscape in Illinois and across the Midwest. Reviewing work to date in areas such as training, surveys, summits, and funding, the panelists will also discuss available resources for developing and sharing open education materials, such as the OER Commons Hub: Open Illinois. The session will conclude with an aspirational look at well-developed open education programs in other states.
10:50 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:50 Morning Breakout 1: The Open Education Maturity Model: A Tool for Strategic Planning
Teams will be asked to engage with the Open Education Maturity Model, a flexible framework designed to assist institutions in reflecting on and planning for their open education initiatives. Together, teams will assess their current stage, set goals, and plan for future growth with an eye toward aligning efforts with other institutions across the state.
Lunch: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Light Networking/Table Discussions
Afternoon Session: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
1:00 - 1:40 Afternoon Breakout 1: Role Networking
Attendees will split into groups by their role as it relates to Open Education to participate in facilitated discussions about aspects of Open Education relevant to their work, ask questions of each other, and share ideas about what the future looks like in their particular work.
1:45 - 2:25 Afternoon Breakout 2: Starting Out or Stepping Up
During this roundtable session, attendees will be invited to share and seek out advice on advocating for, creating, cultivating, and maintaining open education initiatives on their campuses and collaborating with peers across the state.
2:30 - 3:10 Afternoon Breakout 3: Statewide Capacity Building for OER
Our final breakout session will culminate in vision planning for what a state-wide coordinated OER effort could look like in Illinois. Teams will contribute to a conversation about possible statewide goals, what resources are needed at the state level, and who needs to be a part of these conversations moving forward.
3:15 - 3:45 Team Shareback
Teams will take a brief moment to share back things they have identified as important to the future of open education in Illinois and at their institutions. Shareback information will be collected to help build a shared vision for building statewide capacity in the coming years.
3:45 - 4:00 Closing Remarks
Suggested OER Introductory Resources
To help ensure attendees can participate in the day’s discussions with foundational knowledge, we encourage those new or unfamiliar with Open Educational Resources, or Open Education more broadly, to attend one of the following CARLI workshops:
CARLI OER for Faculty Series, Workshop 1: Supporting Academic Success: Open Educational Resources and Equitable Course Materials
This first workshop of the two-part OER for Faculty Series will identify:
what are open educational resources (OER).
benefits and motivations for using OER
how to find and evaluate OER
how to integrate OER into your class
After attending, CARLI-member teaching faculty will be invited to write a brief review of an open textbook in the Open Textbook Library.
This workshop will be offered twice. Both workshops contain the same content. Please register at the link below if you would like to attend.
February 7, 2025, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
February 20, 2025, 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
CARLI OER for Faculty Series, Workshop 2: Open Pedagogy Workshop
In this second webinar of the two-part OER for Faculty Series, the CARLI OER Committee invites teaching faculty to an online workshop on open pedagogy.
When you use open pedagogy in your classroom, you are inviting students to be part of the teaching process, participating in the co-creation of knowledge. In this workshop, you will learn the definition and context of Open Pedagogy, view innovative examples being applied in a variety of subjects and formats, and work with other attendees to create an assignment that you can use in your own class.
Please register at the link below if you would like to attend.