Soaring with Open Educational Resources: Furthering the Role of Cooperative Development in OER

Soaring with Open Educational Resources: Furthering the Role of Cooperative Development in OER

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Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 10:00am to Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - 3:00pm

CARLI invites library staff, faculty, instructional designers, and administrators to attend the "Soaring with Open Educational Resources: Furthering the Role of Cooperative Development in OER Conference". The purpose of this two-day conference is to raise awareness of the ongoing work in Illinois around creating and adapting OER, specifically to showcase the Open Educational Resources (OER), textbooks and ancillary materials, created by CARLI members and to highlight consortial support for OER from across the country, including the U.S. Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot consortial grant recipients.

With this conference, CARLI wants to celebrate along with the Illinois SCOERs recipients and learn how it can continue to support its members in their open education efforts!

Location:

Chancellor Ballroom
I-Hotel and Conference Center, Chancellor Ballroom
1900 South First Street
Champaign, Illinois

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Registration

This conference is designed to be an in-person event. To register to attend in-person, please click on the "Register" tab above. The registration deadline is July 21. We are also providing a virtual streaming-only option for those who wish to attend online. To register to attend virtually, register here.

If you need to cancel your in-person registration, please email .

Agenda

Day 1 July 29, 2025

10:00 - 10:10 Welcome
State Representative Norma Hernandez, 77th District
10:10 - 10:30 CARLI's Commitment to OER
Dr. Sarah Zehr Gantz, Associate Vice President for Academic Initiatives & Policies, Office of the Executive Vice President/Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois
10:30 - 11:00 Session 1: Beyond Publication: How to Support OER Beyond the Initial Creation
Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Laurie Blandino, Jessica Kirschner, Michele Leigh
11:00 - 11:20 Session 2: From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Sharing Findings from the 2025 Illinois Open Education Summit
Lauren Kosrow, Dee Anna Phares, Dan Matthews
11:20 - 11:30 Session 3: ASPIRE to SOAR
Karen Vuckovic
11:30 - 11:40 Session 4: Leveraging Open Educational Resources to Expand Enrollment and Strengthen the Sleep Technology Workforce
Tracy Hall
11:40 - 12:00 Session 5: From Bench to Book: Creating Chemistry Lab Manuals as Open Educational Resources
Saadia Khan
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
12:30 - 1:00 Session 6: General Q&A Session - All Questions Answered!
Amy Hofer
1:00 - 1:20 Session 7: The Female Reproductive System and Women’s Health Through a Multidisciplinary Lens: An Innovative Open Educational Resource Integrating Anatomy, Pathology, Humanities, and 3D Technology.
Samar Hegazy, Wessam Ibrahim, Judith Thorn
1:20 - 1:40 Session 8: Sure, We Can Print That! Setting Up a 3D Print Shop to Support an OER Curriculum
Sean Murphy
1:45 - 2:30 Session 9: Beyond the Text: Using Data for Education, Advocacy, and Expansion
Jessica Kirschner, Amy Hofer, Rebel Cummings-Saul
2:30 - 2:45 BREAK
2:45 - 3:05 Session 10: Caregiving for the Human Condition: Why OER Development Supports Equity in Higher Education
Justin Leuba, Lonetta Oliver
3:05 - 3:25 Session 11: Accelerating Open Textbook Creation: A Faculty Writing Retreat Model for OER Development
Lauren Kosrow, Alyssa Pasquale
3:30 - 4:00 Session 12: LibreTexts
Delmar Larsen
4:00 - 6:00 SCOERs 3D Printer Pick-up Time, 1704 Interstate Dr., Champaign, Il 61822
 
6:00 - 8:00

Dinner at Riggs Beer Company, 1901 S. High Cross Road, Urbana.
Parking is free. All food and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided by CARLI. 

Day 2 July 30, 2025

8:00 - 9:00 BREAKFAST
9:00 - 9:05 Welcome
9:05 - 9:25 Session 13: Supporting OER Creation: The OER Academy at Heartland Community College
Rachelle Stivers, Matt Lathrop
9:25 - 10:00 Session 14: Lessening Financial Barriers and Increasing Engagement: A Human Nutrition OER with 3D Printing Activities
Erin Shanle, Jan Dowell, Tammy Kuhn-Schnell, Kim Alexander, John Freml, Carmen Allen, Brent Todd, Leslie Ross
10:00 - 10:20 Session 15: Collaborating to Provide Quality Open Access Instructional Materials at the Community College
Isabel Scarborough, Morgann Quilty
10:20 - 10:35 BREAK
10:35 - 10:55 Session 16: Towards a New Foundations in Media Arts
Robert Spahr, Jay Needham, Walter Metz
10:55 - 11:15 Session 17: Embracing OER for Photography Education: A Beginning Photography Student Text
Larissa Garcia, Jessica Labatte
11:15 - 11:35 Session 18: Introduction to Engineering Drawing and Design: OER at Illinois Institute of Technology
Sean Murphy, Stephanie Fletcher, Muhammad Khan
11:40 - 12:00 Session 19: OER at SIUE: Success with and Beyond SCOERS
Mark Poepsel, Joe Kohlburn
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 1:20 Session 20: What if Calculus was Accessible?
Peter Keep
1:20 - 1:40 Session 21: Promoting Success in Math
Rachelle Stivers, Matt Lathrop
1:45 - 2:45 Session 22: Beyond One-Time Grants: Building Sustainable OER Ecosystems that Actually Lasts
Rebel Cummings-Saul, Delmar Larsen, Vince Mussehl
2:45 - 3:00 Closing Remarks

Meals

CARLI will provide the following meals/snacks.

 

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Snack

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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

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The Illinois SCOERs Conference is partially supported by funding from the Illinois SCOERs grant, Open Textbooks Pilot grant, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the U.S. Department of Education.

Illinois SCOERs was developed under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. Contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.