OER Training Webinars

An Invitation to Open

Open Education Webinars

Shifting education practice to open can be a daunting notion. ISKME is here to help. Our team of OER design and implementation experts can help you craft a plan to find, organize, and create the OER content your organization needs to succeed.

We offer free webinars to help educators gain the skills necessary to shift to an open practice.

Utilizing OER for Remote Learning

Join members of the ISKME team for a webinar to hear how educators are finding and organizing resources to support their students as they transition to remote learning. We began by exploring the current landscape of remote learning, and showcase examples of how educators are curating and creating resources in their states, schools, and districts We discussed the challenges and opportunities that educators face in terms of sharing educational resources in a digital classroom, and the potential for open educational resources to remove barriers to access. Lastly, we discussed how educators are utilizing tools for collaboration to create communities of learners around specific content areas.

OER Curation

"Curation is a constant and ongoing collaboration between OER Commons, content providers, and users." - Chris Adcock

Explore best practices and tools for effective search, quality evaluation, organization, and sharing of resources. To understand how a district can curate OER, visit the Hawaii Math Common Core Group.

Presenters: ISKME's Training Specialist Andy Mink, ISKME'S Digital Librarian Chris Adcock, ISKME's OER Information Services Manager Michelle Brennan

Date: May 2016

OER Authoring & Remixing

"Don't be afraid to publish your first draft." - Sara Layton

Explore best practices and tools for effective design, adaptation, and publishing of high quality resources. Explore Sara Layton's resource, "Kitty Konundrum" here.

Presenters: ISKME's Assistant Director, Education Programs & Partnerships, Megan Simmons and ISKME's OER Services Project Manager Kate Katz, Mountain Heights Academy English Teacher Sara Layton

Date: August 2016

STEM Literacy & OER Commons

"We hope to help teachers shift from using traditional teacher-centered lessons to more student-center inquiry-based lessons." - Joanna Schimizzi

Discover how to utilize OER Commons to find STEM literacy resources, as well as how to use the tools for creating, finding, and aligning OER. Explore OER Commons' STEM Literacy Hub.

Presenters: ISKME's Senior Product Manager Mindy Boland, STEM Lead Joanna Schimizzi, ISKME's OER Information Services Manager Michelle Brennan

Date: March 2016

A Rubric for Guiding Open Educational Practice Webinar

"OER offer opportunities to expand our roles as collaborators, curators, instructional designers & leaders." - Megan Simmons

Discover our OER theory of action, and how educators are innovating with OER through the use of an evidence-based Open Educational Practice Rubric.

Presenters: ISKME's Assistant Director, Education Programs & Partnerships, Megan Simmons and ISKME's Director of Research Cynthia Jimes, STEM Lead Joanna Schimizzi

Date: March 2017

OER Remix Webinar

"One could argue that remix culture has been around as long as the idea of 'culture' itself." - Ben Murray

Discover how educators are leading OER remixing OER in their schools to meet local teaching and learning needs with digital content creation tools and instructional design supports.

Presenters: ISKME's Assistant Director, Education Programs & Partnerships, Megan Simmons and ISKME's Senior Product Manager Mindy Boland

Date: August 2017

OER Adoption Storytelling Series from State Leaders

Meet state leaders who are sharing their best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations for successful Open Educational Resource (OER) adoption.

Unleashing the Power of OER in Pennsylvania!

Over the past three years, all Pennsylvania Intermediate Units have collaborated to help Pennsylvania educators understand the value of Open Educational Resources (OER). This session will discuss the positive impact that OER has had on districts, citing specific examples from Pennsylvania, and will explore how districts have implemented their own OER initiative. We will share how we are currently supporting educators across the state during school closures, and how we are shifting our priorities for our future OER work.

Speakers: Rebecca Henderson, Distance Learning Coordinator, Westmoreland Intermediate Unit and Tracy Rains, Virtual Learning Specialist, Appalachia Intermediate Unit

Regina Gong

Manager of Technical Services and Systems & OER Project Manager, Lansing Community College (LCC), Michigan

Evan Abbey

Program Director at Area Education Agencies of Iowa Professional Development Learning

Ann Baum

Supervisor of Educational Technology at Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12 in Pennsylvania

Boyoung Chae

Policy Associate of eLearning and Open Education at the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC)

Erica Zimmer

Technology Integration Specialist at Rutland Central Supervisory Union in Vermont