NERCOMP EVENT
Publishing Open Course Curricula: What It Is All About and Why It Matters
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What began as a faculty-led response at MIT to the emerging eLearning industry in 2002, has grown into a world-wide movement with hundreds of universities sharing course curricula on open websites and an approach to sharing course curricula which is being encouraged by the White House. At this meeting you will learn how the opencourseware movement got started, how it has evolved since, why it has world-wide appeal, and why the current administration is supporting this movement. You will also discover best practices for third party content, licensing considerations, how to publish courses with rich media, why faculty are contributing as well as the challenges and benefits of publishing open course curricula from experienced experts. The meeting will close with an opportunity to join one of several moderated round tables discussions focusing on key topic raised during the presentations.
We encourage attendees to bring use their laptops or cellphones to Twitter at this SIG using this hashtag "#NCSIG09".
Workshop Organizer/Host: Eileen McMahon of the University of Massachusetts - Boston and Robbin Smith of Tufts University
Date/Time:
Thursday, October 22, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Four Points Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
1125 Boston Providence Turnpike
Norwood, MA
Special instructions:
Your fee includes unlimited am and pm break service and lunch.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $125
Non-Members: $250
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am – 9:15am Welcome and Introduction
Speakers:
Eileen McMahon, Senior Instructional Designer, University of Massachusetts – Boston
Robbin Smith, OCW Editor/Curricular Content Specialist, Tufts University
9:15am – 9:45am OCW 101: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Terri Bays, Special Projects Manager, OpenCourseWare Consortium
An introduction to Opencourseware including how it began, it's global impact on education, where it is heading, and why it matters.
9:45am – 10:30am The Art of Publishing Courses with Rich and Downloadable Media
Speaker: Kate James, Production Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Course archives published on MIT OpenCourseWare web site are chock full of media – video streams, downloadable simulations, audio files, lecture captures, downloadable software applications and more. A production team from MIT’s OCW will share their secrets and strategies for publishing courses containing rich media.
10:30am – 10:45am Break
10:45am – 11:45am Riding the Waves of Change: Why Faculty are Publishing Open Courses
Moderator: Kate James, Production Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panelists:
Gretchen Kaufman, DVM, Assistant Professor, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Gilbert Strang, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty will share their motivations, as well as the challenges and benefits of publishing the curricula materials to open Web sites.
11:45am – 12:45pm Lunch
12:45pm – 1:45pm Access and Control: The Creative Commons License and Managing Third Party Content
Moderator: Robbin Smith, OCW Editor/Curricular Content Specialist, Tufts University
Panelists:
Jane Park, ccLearn Communications Coordinator, Creative Commons
Lindsey Weeramuni, IP Supervisor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Retaining the rights to intellectual property is usually the first concern raised by faculty and institutions considering participating in the free culture movement. The next concern is addressing third party content. This session will introduce the Creative Commons license and discuss strategies that are being employed for use of third party content.
1:45pm – 2:15pm Stories From the Field: Lessons Learned
Moderator: Eileen McMahon, Senior Instructional Designer, University of Massachusetts – Boston
Panelists:
Robbin Smith, OCW Editor/Curricular Content Specialist, Tufts University
Terri Bays, Special Projects Manager, OpenCourseWare Consortium
Kate James, Production Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lindsey Weeramuni, IP Supervisor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A moderated panel of experienced publishers of Open Course Curricula will share the impact that the opencourseware has had on their institutions as well as the challenges and opportunities.
2:15pm – 2:30pm Group Activity
Attendees will identify the key Take Aways from the SIG meeting and suggest possible future SIG meetings on this topic.
2:30pm – 2:45pm Moderated Roundtables with Various Topics
Licensing:
Moderator: Jane Park, ccLearn Communications Coordinator, Creative Commons
Creative Commons:
Moderator: Lindsey Weeramuni, IP Supervisor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rich Media:
Moderator: Kate James, Production Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Making the Pitch:
Moderator: Terri Bays, Special Projects Manager, OpenCourseWare Consortium
2:45 - 3:00pm Evaluations and Closing Comments
Speaker:
Eileen McMahon
Eileen McMahon, Ed. M. is a Senior Instructional Designer at UMass Boston. She works closely with faculty to integrate technology into curriculums, and create strong pedagogically sound applications of technology. Her areas of interests include: innovative pedagogies, open educational resources, free culture, and mind/brain research.
Speaker:
Terri Bays
Terri Bays joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium staff as Special projects manager in 2007, after directing the OpenCourseWare project at the University of Notre Dame since 2006. From September 2008 to July 2009, Terri stepped in as Interim Executive Director of the Consortium. Terri now divides her time between the Consortium and Yale Divinity School, where she is a student.
Before OpenCourseWare came to Notre Dame, Terri served as an Associate Director in Notre Dame's London Undergraduate Program and a concurrent Assistant Professor in English. Her teaching is in the area of medieval literature.
Terri holds a PhD in English literature from UCLA (2000) and a BA in English from Northwestern University (1989).
Speaker:
Robbin Smith
Robbin Smith is the Editor/Curricular Content Specialist for the Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) project and have been with the project since its inception in 2005. The project, based in the Tufts University School of Medicine Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase (TUSK) office, provides open access to primary teaching materials (text/images/media) of more than 45 designated Tufts courses from all three campuses, many from the health sciences schools. Robbin sees the Tufts OCW project through from beginning to end: acting as liaison with faculty for the entire process; managing all production aspects; implementing OCW protocols; determining and resolving all Intellectual Property issues; and creating newsletters and statistics reports. Previously, Robbin worked as a librarian in large public libraries in diverse, distinctive communities and a in a large private law firm library.
Speaker:
Kate James
Kate James joined MIT OpenCourseWare as the team began their final ascent to the original goal of the project: the publication of the 1800th course. Two years later the site has more than 1,920 courses and there are no signs of slowing. Between publishing courses, Kate and the production team produce more than 300 hours of lecture content, keep about one million visitors a month happy with a functional site, and generally support the wide variety of projects tackled by OCW each year.
Prior to MIT, Kate held web communications positions at Textron, Brown University, Smith College, and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her MA (UMass Amherst) and BA (Illinois State University) are both in fiction writing.
Speaker:
Lindsey Weeramuni
Lindsey Weeramuni is the intellectual property supervisor of MIT's OpenCourseWare, MIT’s initiative to publish the basic teaching materials for virtually all of its courses available openly and freely over the Internet. Weeramuni also consults with members of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. She came to MIT in 2002 from an internet academic course pack publisher. Prior to this, Weeramuni worked in Subsidiary Rights and Licensed Publishing in the trade and licensing divisions of Disney Publishing Worldwide in New York. She received her B.A. from Fordham University and holds certificates from New York University’s Publishing program in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Speaker:
Gilbert Strang
Gilbert Strang was an undergraduate at MIT and a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. His Ph.D. was from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a
Professor of Mathematics at MIT and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. Professor Strang has published eight textbooks.
He was the President of SIAM during 1999 and 2000, and Chair of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics. He received the von Neumann Medal of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and the Henrici Prize for applied analysis. The first Su Buchin Prize from the
International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Haimo Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, were awarded for his contributions to teaching around the world. His home page is math.mit.edu/~gs/ and his video lectures on linear algebra and on computational science and engineering are on ocw.mit.edu (mathematics/18.06 and 18.085).
Speaker:
Jane Park
Jane Park is the Communications Coordinator for ccLearn, the education program of Creative Commons that is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources. She works to strengthen the division's online communications, so that they uphold ccLearn's mission to minimize the legal, technical, and social barriers to the sharing and reuse of educational materials around the world. A graduate of UC Berkeley in Philosophy and Creative Writing, Jane has also worked as a high school youth coordinator with the AmeriCorps and the YMCA, and also with the National Writing Project assisting in site development, event planning, and finance. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker:
Gretchen Kaufman
Dr. Gretchen Kaufman is an Assistant Professor of Veterinary Medicine in the Department of Environmental and Population Health and the Director of the Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine. She graduated from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1986 and completed a residency in zoological medicine at the University of California at Davis in 1989. She has been at Tufts since 1989, working in the Tufts Exotic Animal Medicine Service and the Tufts Wildlife Clinic.
Dr. Kaufman conducts international veterinary medical research and service projects in Nepal. She is working with the Nepal veterinary community, the veterinary school at the Institute for Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS) and various animal welfare institutions to promote dog sterilization and vaccination in an effort to gain control over rabies in this country. In 2004, she was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to develop a wildlife course at the IAAS. She is also working with faculty and students at both Tufts and the IAAS (Nepal) on various wildlife medicine research projects. Currently she is collaborating with IAAS, the Nepal government, the World Wildlife Fund, and Elephant Care International to investigate tuberculosis disease dynamics between humans, domestic animals and wildlife.
Dr. Kaufman focuses much of her time on wildlife and conservation medicine curriculum development in the veterinary program. As the chair for the Education Directorate at Tufts Institute of the Environment she also assists in coordinating environmental educational initiatives at the university level. Most recently, Dr. Kaufman is leading an effort to create a professional masters degree program in conservation medicine at Tufts, the first of its kind in the US. She has a strong interest in interdisciplinary environmental education, global health, and international development.
Related Media Files:
http://64.3.162.168/media/KJames_NERCOMP_Oct09.pdf
http://64.3.162.168/media/OCWPastPresentFuture.pdf
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Sheraton Norwood, the conference location.
To make reservations contact the Sheraton Norwood at 781-769-7900 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block".
The room block for October 22, will be released on September 30, 2009. Standard queen rooms are available for $130 per night.
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