Strategies for Pitching Openness
Ian Sullivan, Center for Open Science
How can we move beyond talking about the theoretical benefits and make open practices attractive and compelling to individuals in their day to day work? This talk looks at practical and proactive reasons for people to adopt open practices in a world where most things are *not* open and will include some of the main themes developed in discussion at the recent Berlin OpenCon.
The Benefits of Sharing: How Instilling Openness as a Core Value Changes Academic Practices -- For the Better
Anita Walz, Virginia Tech
The presentation will feature many different examples of "what changed," how, and why. Also covered in the talk: 1) What do I mean by open, 2) Benefits of open, 3) Requirements/costs of open, and 4) What's the alternative?
DIY Culture and Building In-Person and Digital Communities through Artistic Collaboration
Pamela Lawton and Cosima Storz, Virginia Commonwealth University
This talk is a show and tell of an open education project conducted at Virginia Commonwealth University: DIY Culture and Building In-Person and Digital Communities through Artistic Collaboration. We will discuss zine making as a form of collaborative community building in library spaces. We'll do some show and tell and then engage participants in making a book form.
Using ORCID to Increase Research Visibility
Eric Olson, ORCID
ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier, is an organization, an identifier for researchers, a set of protocols for systems in scholarly communication to exchange data, and a global community open research effort. ORCID's mission is to provide open source tools that increase the visibility and discoverability of not only the researcher her or himself, but also all of the contributions that are crucial to a career in scholarship. This talk will quickly describe current high-profile projects and upcoming features.
Using Library Support to Create Open Scholarship
Beth Bernhardt, UNC Greensboro
Two years ago, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Libraries began offering Digital Partners grants. UNCG faculty can apply for these grants through a competitive annual application process. The successful applicants receive up to $22,500 worth of Library IT resources and expertise to create their digital projects. Once built, the Libraries then commit to maintaining the digital scholarship and making it broadly available for the long term. This presentation will discuss the Digital Partners grant process, and the lessons learned during its first year of operation.
Open Educational Resources at a Mid-Sized Institution
Kate Silton, North Carolina A&T State University
The paradox of a mid-sized university: we need OERs as much as anyone, but we have limited resources to support our faculty in using and creating them. At North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a mid-sized doctoral research intensive university with a STEM focus, we are starting to increase faculty awareness and engagement with OERs. While many excellent models for OER programs exist, many are from larger institutions with more resources. We are currently in the early stages of providing grants to faculty who are willing to redesign their courses around OERs. This talk will focus on how we are building our OER program at North Carolina A&T and how we are scaling it to be manageable for our institution.
Implementing OERX
Jason Dean Henderson, Oklahoma State University
This talk will discuss the implementation of OERX, a custom installation of the open source content management system MODX, in the creation of Oklahoma State University's ePress platform. The talk will include why the platform was needed, how it was designed, how our goals were achieved, and how in the near future, Oklahoma State University is planning to disseminate this system for free to other interested institutions.
Faculty Response to the Zx23 Project
Braddlee, NOVA - Annandale
This talk will present the highlights of 2017 survey of community college faculty who participated in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Zx23 project, a one-year grant to support the VCCS’s goal of scaling zero textbook cost degrees to all 23 VCCS colleges. The survey results include faculty attitudes and opinions regarding the academic library’s role in supporting open educational resource adoption.
Open Learning ‘18
Sue Erickson, Virginia Wesleyan College, and Gardner Campbell, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Open Learning ’18” is somewhere between a course of study and an informal conversation; the experience emphasizes collegial, interactive, networked learning and sharing. In Open Learning ’18, we’ll explore all the “opens,” as well as the larger ideas that can connect them. Each week will feature both synchronous and asynchronous activities, with participants in Virginia, across the US, and around the world working together as co-learners.
Discussing Data Reuse
Nina Exner, Virginia Commonwealth University
This talk will give an overview of why and how data is reused. It will introduce some of the language of data with a focus on reusability, in order to help librarians and researchers better discuss the creation and use of open data. Finally it will touch on some common pitfalls in data reuse from the data repositor's perspective and the data reuser's perspective.
Safecast and the Value of Crowdsourced Data Collection
Jason Meade, Virginia Commonwealth University
This talk will discuss the potential value of involving the general public in crowdsourcing scientific data using the organization Safecast as an example. Safecast was organized in response to the Fukushima disaster and public fears that the radiation concerns were being hidden by experts and government.
