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Direct Support to Campuses

admin-rohit — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:17:03 +0000

Clickfor a printable, 1-page synopsis of ϡȱ�� OnTrack.

Since March 2020, the Kirwan Center has been assessing the ϡȱ�� institutions’ needs in order to make a successful pivot to more effective online learning. That will be best accomplished by sharing resources, providing faculty/staff professional development, and increasing instructional design and technology capacity.

The following direct supports are being made available through ϡȱ�� OnTrack. To learn more about any of these components of the initiative, please email cai@usmd.edu.

“Ready-to-Adopt” Online Courses

ϡȱ�� OnTrack is helping ϡȱ�� institutions to accelerate their online transition strategy through the temporary adoption of UMGC courses for delivery to their students this fall. Host institutions will identify candidate courses and create a “friction free” process in which students register at the host institution, as usual. Actual placement of students into the UMGC courses, details on tuition reconciliation, assignment of credit, and the like, will be addressed through interinstitutional MOUs and implemented by back-office operations.

Adaptive Courseware for High-enrollment Courses

ϡȱ�� OnTrack is supporting efforts to transition high-enrollment courses (large lecture, multi-section) through the use of adaptive courseware, which promises to improve students’ and faculty experience by “flipping” the classroom, creating a more interactive platform for content delivery, and reserving time spent with faculty for facilitated application of learning through active, problem-based, online pedagogies. Our contract with partner Lumen Learning includes up-front training for incorporating the courseware and analytics dashboards into online pedagogy, support throughout the semester, and facilitated learning communities where faculty within disciplines across ϡȱ�� institutions can share and learn from each other.

Virtual Reality Technologies for Lab-based Courses

ϡȱ�� OnTrack is providing faculty training and inter-institutional coordination of resources to explore the use of virtual reality technologies by Labster for use in lab-based courses. Virtual reality technologies give students access to realistic lab experiences that will let them perform experiments and practice their skills. These tools promise to provide sufficiently high-fidelity simulations for learning lab techniques and inquiry skills, particularly for lower-level lab courses.

Instructional Design Support Services

ϡȱ�� OnTrack has contracted with iDesign to provide a pool of instructional design service hours that institutions can use as needed for individual faculty support and/or course development for those courses they choose to convert themselves. This will greatly expand institutional capacity to rapidly move courses online and give ϡȱ�� campuses a way to triage their current and future needs. Through this contract, ϡȱ�� institutions will also receive web-based resources for faculty on the fundamentals of online instructional design and pedagogy as well as online learning orientation materials for students.

Professional Development Workshops

ϡȱ�� OnTrack is pre-purchasing a pool of online teaching professional development workshops from Quality Matters on beginning to advanced topics, including designing for learner engagement, flipping the online course, setting expectations with students, active learning strategies, accessibility, and online assessment. The Kirwan Center will also be offering additional workshops on diversity and inclusion, accessibility, and rethinking assessments for academic integrity.

Areas of Focus:

ϡȱ�� OnTrack

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ϡȱ��OnTrackProgramOverview-06-22-20-v.2.1.pdf

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Announcing 2024 OER Grants

admin-annika — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:31:04 +0000

The ϡȱ�� Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2024 OER Grant Programs: 2024 Faculty OER Mini-Grants and 2024 Institutional OER Grants.

The M.O.S.T. Faculty OER Mini-Grant Program is designed to strategically support faculty efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students at ϡȱ��’s 2-year and 4-year higher education institutions through the incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice. The 2024 M.O.S.T. faculty mini-grants will provide recipients with unique opportunities to engage in communities of practice related to teaching with OER and the creation of OER in high-need areas. This year, 8 faculty grantees were selected from five 2- and 4-year ϡȱ�� public higher education institutions, with a potential impact on over 1,600 students in AY 2024-2025, and potential savings of over $37,500.

M.O.S.T. also awarded an Institutional OER Grant to Wor-Wic Community College to support strategic institutional efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students through more systemic incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice. This grant will support significant advances in OER adoption, scaling, and sustainability in support of student success institution-wide.

In addition to the fiscal awards, grantees will be provided with extensive professional development, technical support, and coaching to ensure that their projects successfully incorporate learning-centered pedagogies and continuous quality improvement.

Since launching in 2014, M.O.S.T. has supported 210 courses at 29 institutions across ϡȱ�� switched to OER, saving students $137 per course on average or approximately $22.9 million cumulatively, and serving nearly 160,000 students across ϡȱ��.

Learn more about our past grantees.

2024 Institutional OER Grant Recipient

Wor-Wic Community College

2023 Faculty OER Mini-Grant Recipients

Haitham Alkhateeb	University of Baltimore	MATH 111: College Algebra	Adopt/Adapt
Shauna Chapple	Stevenson University	NURS 434: Professional Seminar III	Adopt/Adapt
Derya Kulavuz-Onal	Salisbury University	ENGL 240: Introduction to the Study of Language	Adopt/Adapt
Negin Fouladi	University of ϡȱ��, College Park	HLSA 740: Healthcare Strategic Planning and Marketing	Create/Revise/Publish
Mary Méndez Bonnell	Prince George's Community College	TED 2090: Communication for Educators	Create/Revise/Publish
Christine Schull	University of ϡȱ��, College Park	FMSC 460: Violence in Families	Create/Revise/Publish
Amber Surmiller	University of ϡȱ�� Global Campus	United States History: 1865 to the Present	Create/Revise/Publish
Kolawole Ogunlana	Prince George's Community College	Programming Logic and Design	OLI STEM Courseware Grant

News Type:

ϡȱ�� News

Areas of Focus:

Open Educational Resources

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ϡȱ�� Receives Federal Grant to Examine the Role of Academic Libraries and Consortia in Increasing the Relevance of Open Educational Materials

admin-annika — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:50:35 +0000

The ϡȱ�� (ϡȱ��) has received a two-year planning grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal agency charged with advancing, supporting, and empowering America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development.

The ϡȱ�� grant, which will be led by the ϡȱ�� William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation and ϡȱ�� and Affiliated Institutions Library Consortium (ϡȱ��AI), will articulate the role of academic libraries and library consortia in increasing the relevance of open educational resources (OER) through OER localization, defined as the practices and partnerships necessary to increase the relevance of OER for differing student populations, student learning needs, faculty interests, and institutional and community contexts.

The ϡȱ�� grant of $149,877 comes under the IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries program, which supports projects of national impact that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance theory and practice with new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or alliances that will be widely used.

“Our goal is to develop a framework that can be used across academic library and consortial contexts to position these entities as leaders in and supporters of OER localization,” said Nancy O’Neill, Acting Director of the Kirwan Center and co-PI for the grant. “This work fits squarely within the NLG program mission, and we are delighted that we will have the opportunity to engage with library colleagues nationally and across ϡȱ�� in the process.”

Out of 118 NLG program proposals submitted this year, only 33 projects were funded, among them the ϡȱ�� planning grant.

In addition to advancing the field of OER from a narrow focus on cost savings toward a broader commitment to equity and student success, the ϡȱ�� project also intends to spur national dialogue about the roles that academic libraries and consortia can play in contributing to student success through the development and sustained support of relevant, constituency-oriented instructional materials and practices.

“Libraries and their consortia are playing very active roles in the proliferation and success of Open Educational Resources,” said Andrew K. Pace, Executive Director of the ϡȱ��AI Library Consortium and co-PI for the grant. “We’re excited to help frame the importance of localizing these efforts and to clarify the important role for libraries and consortia within the larger open education and open scholarship ecosystem.”

This grant project is the latest initiative to come under the umbrella of the ϡȱ�� Open Source Textbook Initiative (M.O.S.T.)., which supports long-term, statewide scaling and sustainability of open educational resources (OER) to increase access, affordability, and achievement for ϡȱ�� higher education students across community colleges and private and public four-year institutions. The ϡȱ�� Kirwan Center leads M.O.S.T. in partnership with the ϡȱ�� Association of Community Colleges, the ϡȱ�� Independent College and University Association, ϡȱ��Online, and most recently, ϡȱ��AI. Since 2014, M.O.S.T. has enabled faculty teaching 197 courses at 28 institutions across ϡȱ�� to switch to OER, resulting in more than $20.6 million in cumulative textbook cost savings for students.

Additional information about the ϡȱ�� William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation can be found here.
Additional information about ϡȱ�� and Affiliated Institutions Library Consortium can be found here.
Additional information on the ϡȱ�� Open Source Textbook Initiative can be found here.

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ϡȱ�� News

Areas of Focus:

Open Educational Resources

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Inaugural Cohort of Faculty from Five ϡȱ�� Institutions Named SOTL Fellows

admin-annika — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:00:00 +0000

The William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation at the ϡȱ�� (ϡȱ��) welcomes Dr. Kelly Elkins of Towson University as a Senior Fellow, to lead system support of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). This will include working with an inaugural cohort of faculty selected as 2023-24 Elkins SoTL Fellows from across five ϡȱ�� institutions.

SoTL focuses on systematic investigation of student learning, instruction, and teaching innovations. Findings from SoTL research studies can help inform educators as they decide which instructional methods to use with students and as they design courses, helping to improve student performance and contributing to the knowledge base related to effective educational practices.

“I’m delighted to welcome Kelly Elkins as our first-ever Senior Fellow,” said Nancy O’Neill, Acting Director, ϡȱ�� Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation. “And Kelly and I are both so inspired by this inaugural cohort of Elkins SoTL Fellows. Their work exemplifies evidence-based teaching by contributing to the evidence base of what works for student success.”

A forensic chemist, Dr. Elkins’ research includes advanced DNA sequencing methods and the detection and analysis of new psychoactive substances and counterfeit drugs. She has also published SoTL research on developing course-based undergraduate research (CURE) courses and methods for teaching professional ethics in forensic science. Additionally, she has served as a fellow with FACET (the Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson), consulting with Towson University faculty around presenting and publishing on teaching practice.

Throughout the coming academic year, Dr. Elkins will be meeting with the Elkins SoTL Fellows (named for former University of ϡȱ�� President Wilson H. Elkins, no relation) as their research progresses, and the cohort will meet formally twice to share emerging insights from the studies.

“I’m delighted to take on this leadership role and work with Nancy and the team at ϡȱ��,” Dr. Elkins said. “We are proud to support and highlight the excellent evidence-based teaching going on in our university system to improve student learning and engagement and advance SoTL in our fields.”

Last Spring, the Kirwan Center created the Elkins SoTL Fellowship Program to support and elevate faculty research on teaching practice. The inaugural cohort of Elkins SoTL Fellows will conduct research spanning areas such as faculty engagement with artificial intelligence, community-building in online courses, perceptions of belonging and other factors contributing to student retention, and more.

The 2023-24 Elkins SoTL Fellows are:

Charles Grattan Baldwin, associate professor of education, University of ϡȱ�� Eastern Shore

Billy Brocato, assistant professor of sociology, with co-principal investigator Victoria Wolf, instructional designer in the Center for Instructional Technology and Online Learning, University of ϡȱ�� Eastern Shore

Samuel Clevenger, assistant professor of kinesiology, Towson University

Amr Kadry, adjunct faculty in the Merrick School of Business, with co-principal investigators Jessica Stansbury, Director of Teaching and Learning Excellence, Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Technology (CELTT), University of Baltimore, and Sarah Lausch, Educational Development Specialist, Center for Teaching and Learning, Boise State University (formerly of CELTT)

LaShawn Nastvogel, assistant professor of kinesiology, University of ϡȱ�� Eastern Shore

Cory Stephens, assistant professor of nursing informatics, University of ϡȱ��, Baltimore

Courtney Thomas, clinical assistant professor of chemistry, Towson University

Beth Towle, assistant professor of English and associate director of the University Writing Center, Salisbury University

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ϡȱ�� News

Areas of Focus:

Leading Academic Change

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Announcing 2023 OER Grants

admin-annika — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:03:33 +0000

The ϡȱ�� Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2023 OER Grant Programs: 2023 Faculty OER Mini-Grants and 2023 Institutional OER Grants.

The M.O.S.T. Faculty OER Mini-Grant Program is designed to strategically support faculty efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students at ϡȱ��’s 2-year and 4-year higher education institutions through the incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice. The 2023 M.O.S.T. faculty mini-grants will provide recipients with unique opportunities to engage in communities of practice related to teaching with OER and the creation of OER in high-need areas. This year, 8 faculty grantees were selected from five 2- and 4-year ϡȱ�� public higher education institutions, with a potential impact on 1,000 students in AY 2023-2024, and potential savings of over $70,000.

M.O.S.T. also awarded Institutional OER Grants to Stevenson University and Towson University to support strategic institutional efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students through more systemic incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice. These grants will support significant advances in OER adoption, scaling, and sustainability in support of student success institution-wide.

Since launching in 2014, M.O.S.T. has supported 197 courses at 28 institutions across ϡȱ�� switched to OER, saving students $138 per course on average or approximately $20.6 million cumulatively, and serving nearly 120,000 students across ϡȱ��.

Learn more about our past grantees.

2023 Institutional OER Grant Recipients

Stevenson University
Towson University

2023 Faculty OER Mini-Grant Recipients

Gonzalo Baptista	Morgan State University	Spanish 102: Elementary Spanish	Create, Revise, and Publish
Joanna Bartow	St. Mary's College of ϡȱ��	Accelerated Elementary Spanish	Adopt/Adapt
Cristina Cardona	Community College of Baltimore County	ERSC/GEOG 141 and 142 Oceanography	Adopt/Adapt
Negin Fouladi	University of ϡȱ��, College Park	HLSA 601 Introduction to Health Systems	Create/Revise/Publish
Kamal Hennayake	Chesapeake College	Introduction to Statistics	Adopt/Adapt
Patsy McKenzie	Allegany College of ϡȱ��	Psychology 199- Thanatos (Death and Dying)	Create/Revise/Publish
Derek Richardson	University of ϡȱ��, College Park	ASTR120 (Introductory Astrophysics - Solar System)	Adopt/Adapt
Jill Vasbinder Morrison	University of ϡȱ�� Baltimore County	Dance History I: Cultural and Classical Forms	Create/Revise/Publish

Areas of Focus:

Open Educational Resources

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Creating a Systemwide IRB for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

admin-annika — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 13:20:03 +0000

INTRODUCTION

In Fall 2021, the Kirwan Center partnered with the Human Research Protection Program in the UMCP Division of Research to develop a Systemwide IRB protocol for ϡȱ�� faculty engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research projects that pose minimal risk to participants. The Kirwan Center oversees the standing SoTL IRB protocol that has been approved by UMCP’s Institutional Review Board.

We define SoTL as the systematic investigation of student learning, instruction, and/or teaching innovations and the dissemination of findings so as to contribute to a broader knowledge community. SoTL projects at their essence aim to improve student success by providing an evidence base to help inform course design and instructional decisions undertaken by faculty and programs.

With the protocol and appropriate institutional agreements in place, ϡȱ�� faculty can propose specific SoTL projects using a streamlined amendment form that will go to the UMCP IRB for expedited review. The process will allow faculty to complete a simple form and receive a timely turnaround on project proposals while freeing up precious time for local IRBs across the System. The process will also potentially streamline multi-site research projects within the System, as well.

Resources:

For more information, please email cai@usmd.edu

PROJECT PHASES

The project’s development phase culminated in the creation of a ϡȱ�� SoTL IRB protocol, which was approved by UMCP’s IRB in July 2022.

Moving into the pilot phase starting in Fall 2022, a subset of ϡȱ�� institutions will complete reliance agreements that state that the institutions will rely on UMCP’s IRB to approve specific projects that fall within the parameters of the ϡȱ�� SoTL IRB protocol. UMCP will maintain a record of all signed agreements. Each institution will retain a copy of their signed reliance agreement.

Post-pilot, the remaining ϡȱ�� institutions will be invited to complete reliance agreements to join the project. If most or all ϡȱ�� institutions complete reliance agreements, the ϡȱ�� SoTL IRB protocol will potentially streamline the process by which faculty can engage in multi-site SoTL research projects across the System, as well.

The Kirwan Center will provide updates on the overall project, including the number and scope of research studies housed under the protocol, at least annually to provosts and system IRB points of contact. The Center will work closely with the ϡȱ�� Council for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) to identify resources (e.g., templates, training modules) that can assist CATL members in supporting faculty embarking upon SoTL research, and the Center will also explore the creation of SoTL research fellowships and a Systemwide SoTL research symposium.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

For more information, contact Nancy O’Neill, Acting Director, ϡȱ�� Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, at cai@usmd.edu

ϡȱ�� Faculty interested in proposing a study under the umbrella protocol should consult the Systemwide IRB - Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) Resources on the UMCP Investigator Support and Resources page.

We have openly licensed the standing SoTL IRB protocol and amendment form developed for the project so that higher education systems and institutions outside of ϡȱ�� can adapt it for use in their local contexts. As it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, users are welcome to distribute, adapt, remix, and build upon the material in any medium or format if they provide attribution to the UMCP Division of Research and the ϡȱ�� Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Per the Creative Commons stipulations, users may provide this information in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses them or their use.

Areas of Focus:

Leading Academic Change

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projects

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Silver Linings: Lessons Learned from Teaching during the Pandemic

admin-annika — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:37:54 +0000

The ϡȱ�� Kirwan Center is pleased to announce the release of the publication, Silver Linings: Lessons Learned from Teaching during the Pandemic. The publication features faculty and administrator reflections on the challenges, triumphs, lessons learned, and new instructional approaches that came about as a result of teaching through, and since, the COVID-19 pandemic.

The essays in the volume began as presentations delivered in Fall 2021 at a convening of the same name, and together, they help paint a picture of teaching and learning efforts that are flexible, creative, empathetic toward students, and inclusive of students’ differing needs. The free, openly licensed publication is available as an e-pub at https://pressbooks.pub/silverlinings/ as well as in a pdf version.

Users are welcome to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format as long as they abide by the stipulations of the open license found on the copyright page of the publication.

Areas of Focus:

Leading Academic Change

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NFB-MDTAP Resource Guide for Accessible Classrooms

admin-annika — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:24:02 +0000

Resource Guide for Making an Accessible Classroom

This resource guide was created for ϡȱ�� institutions in support of the digital accessibility goals. For more information or resources, please contact the MDOD IT Access Initiative via email at: mdod.nva@maryland.gov or via their website mdod.maryland.gov.

The Center for Excellence in Nonvisual Access of the National Federation of the Blind is an excellent resource for learning more about nonvisual accessibility. They can be contacted at access@nfb.org.

Most laws and guidelines in place are built on the international standards, known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The explanation of these standards and the various versions and upcoming updates can be found on the WCAG 2 Overview page.

Document Accessibility

These resources should help consumers learn the requirements and techniques for making various electronic documents accessible for both Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF.

Video & Audio Accessibility

The first two links will give instructions as to what is needed for content to be considered accessible. 3PlayMedia has a free checklist available for ensuring new content meets these standards. The Audio Description Project has several links for learning how audio description is created and offered.

General Accessibility Questions

ϡȱ�� Department of Disabilities

MDOD has other resources listed for any questions regarding digital accessibility and offers monthly webinars on various digital accessibility topics. The ϡȱ�� Assistive Technology Program (MDTAP) is also a great resource for learning more about types of assistive technology and seeing demonstrations.

National Federation of the Blind

The National Federation of the Blind Center of Excellence in Nonvisual Accessibility hosts a variety of programs each month, called Accessibility Boutiques, which cover a wide array of topics from document and web accessibility basics to evaluation of educational technologies and other productivity software. You can learn more about them at www.nfb.org/cena. The Accessibility Switchboard provides a variety of resources and guides for learning about many areas of accessibility: www.accessibilityswitchboard.org.

Download a copy of this guide

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Digital Accessibility

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Supporting Digital Accessibility for Learning

admin-annika — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 04:00:00 +0000

The William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation has been collaborating with the National Federation of the Blind for several years to support digital accessibility efforts across the System. We are excited to announce that we are now collaborating to co-host an upcoming meeting to discuss how to build support for faculty around digital accessibility for learning on Thursday, September 29 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the National Federation of Blind’s offices in Baltimore.

Digital accessibility refers to the intentional design of electronic technologies and materials so that they are usable by all people, including people with disabilities. In the case of our increasingly technology-enhanced courses, digital accessibility means equal access to educational opportunity.

The purpose of this meeting, which is co-hosted by the National Federation of the Blind and the Kirwan Center, is to explore ways ϡȱ�� institutions—individually and collectively—might better support faculty and other educational staff as they work to ensure that the instructional technologies and digital materials they use in their courses are accessible to all learners.

How do we help faculty understand their role in and responsibility in digital accessibility for learning? What kind of support is available to them in the selection and/or creation of instructional materials? How do we create a “born accessible” culture within our academic programs? And how might we collaborate across ϡȱ�� institutions to share resources and best practices?

The agenda for the day will include a keynote by Dr. Jonathan Lazar, Professor, College of Information Studies, University of ϡȱ��, College Park. Dr. Lazar is involved in research and teaching related to human-computer interaction (HCI), with a focus on information and communication technology (ICT) accessibility for people with disabilities, user-centered design methods, assistive technologies, and law and public policy related to accessibility and HCI. Breakout sessions will address topics including building supports for faculty to evaluate and create curricular materials, facilitating culture change, laws/legal obligations and standards. Teams will have time to reflect on the day’s learnings and plan their next steps.

This event is by invitation only and all attendees must be part of a designated institutional team. Please use the Registration tab to register for the meeting.

Event Location:

National Federation of the Blind - 200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place, Baltimore, ϡȱ�� 21230

Event Cost:

Free

Start Date:

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Event Date (expanded):

September 29, 2022 | 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Event Type:

Face-to-Face

Event Year:

2022

Event Program:

Schedule at a Glance
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Registration and Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Keynote Address Strategies for Improving Digital Accessibility: Supporting Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Jonathan Lazar, Professor, College of Information Studies, University of ϡȱ��, College Park
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Institutional Team Planning
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Break and Transition
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.	Concurrent Sessions Building Institutional Awareness for Digital Accessibility through Campus Partnerships ADA IRL? NP! – Faculty’s Role in ADA Compliance in a Digital World Download Slides for this Presentation
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.	Lunch
12:15 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Break and Transition
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.	Concurrent Sessions Supporting Faculty around Digital Accessibility: Challenges, Strategies, and Aspirations Making an Accessible Classroom Download Slides for this Presentation Download the Handout for this Presentation
1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.	Break and Transition
1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.	Institutional Planning and Sharing
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Wrap Up and Next Steps

Event Program File:

Program - Digital Accessibility for Learning FINAL.pdf

Event Presenter:

Jonathan Lazar

Professor, College of Information Studies, University of ϡȱ��, College Park

Dr. Jonathan Lazar is a professor in the College of Information Studies (iSchool) at the University of ϡȱ��. Dr. Lazar joined the iSchool in 2019, after 19 years as a professor of computer and information sciences at Towson University, where he served as director of the information systems program for 14 years. Dr. Lazar has authored or edited 13 books, including Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (2nd edition, co-authored with Heidi Feng and Harry Hochheiser), Ensuring Digital Accessibility Through Process and Policy (co-authored with Dan Goldstein and Anne Taylor), Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology (co-edited with Michael Stein), Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations, and Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach. His 14th book, Accessible Technology and the Developing World, will be published by Oxford University Press in mid-2021. He has published over 150 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, edited books, and magazines, and has been granted two US patents for his work on accessible web-based security features for blind users. He frequently serves as an adviser to government agencies and regularly provides testimony at federal and state levels, and multiple US federal regulations cite his research publications. He has been on the executive Board of the Friends of the ϡȱ�� Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped since 2009, was co-chair of the Cambridge University Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) from 2012-2020, and has been on the program committee of the ACM Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS) most years since 2006. Dr. Lazar was the general chair of the ASSETS 2021 conference. Dr. Lazar is the director of the Trace Center and is a faculty member in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab.

Registration Form:

Registration: Supporting Digital Accessibility for Learning

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M.O.S.T. Announces 2022 OER Grants

admin-annika — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 04:00:00 +0000

The ϡȱ�� Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2022 OER Grant Programs: 2022 Faculty OER Mini-Grants and 2022 Institutional OER Grants.

The M.O.S.T. Faculty OER Mini-Grant Program is designed to strategically support faculty efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students at ϡȱ��’s 2-year and 4-year higher education institutions through the incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice. The 2022 M.O.S.T. faculty mini-grants will provide recipients with unique opportunities to engage in communities of practice related to teaching with OER and the creation of OER in high-need areas. This year, 5 faculty grantees were selected from five 2- and 4-year ϡȱ�� public higher education institutions, with a potential impact on 1,000 students in AY 2022-2023

M.O.S.T. also awarded an Institutional OER Grant to Salisbury University to support strategic institutional efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students through more systemic incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice. This grant will support significant advances in OER adoption, scaling, and sustainability in support of student success institution-wide.

Learn more about our past grantees.

2022 Institutional OER Grant Recipient

Salisbury University

2022 Faculty OER Mini-Grant Recipients

Grantee	Institution	Course	Grant Type
Elena Klimova	Bowie State University	Introduction to Math 225 Calculus I	Adopt/Adapt OER
Patience Ebuwei	Coppin State University	Orientation to Health Science	Adopt/Adapt OER
Glenn Gebler	Prince George's Community College	BIO 2010 General Microbiology	Create, Revise, & Publish OER
Bardia Yousefi	University of ϡȱ�� College Park at the Universities at Shady Grove	ENBC 321 Machine Learning for Data Analysis	Create, Revise, & Publish OER
Karen Clark	University of ϡȱ�� School of Nursing	Healthcare Systems and Informatics	Create, Revise, & Publish OER

Areas of Focus:

Open Educational Resources

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Direct Support to Campuses

“Ready-to-Adopt” Online Courses

Adaptive Courseware for High-enrollment Courses

Virtual Reality Technologies for Lab-based Courses

Instructional Design Support Services

Professional Development Workshops

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Announcing 2024 OER Grants

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ϡȱ������ Receives Federal Grant to Examine the Role of Academic Libraries and Consortia in Increasing the Relevance of Open Educational Materials

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Inaugural Cohort of Faculty from Five ϡȱ������ Institutions Named SOTL Fellows

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Announcing 2023 OER Grants

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Creating a Systemwide IRB for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

INTRODUCTION

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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NFB-MDTAP Resource Guide for Accessible Classrooms

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M.O.S.T. Announces 2022 OER Grants

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