Save the Dates! March 1-5 - Open Education Week virtual events at Virginia Tech (March 1, 3, & 5, 2021)

[Kayla McNabb]

Dear Colleagues, 

Open Education Week 2021 at Virginia Tech is March 1st - 5th! Open Education Week is an international, annual celebration and an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in open education and open education resources. 

Save the date for these free, virtual events hosted by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech: 

March 1st, 6pm - 8pm ET: “Connecting the Opens: A Panel Discussion for the Future Professoriate"

Join us for this panel to learn about the different "opens" in the field, including open access, open education, and open data from Library faculty, and to hear from faculty across campus on their experiences and insight with OER.  

Register here: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9A2uLiRoRlSiWpIWK-dNRQ 

March 3rd, 4pm - 5:30pm ET: Feature Presentation: "Moving STEM Documents Online: Sustainable Workflows for Accessible Content” with Dr. Volker Sorge (University of Birmingham (UK))

Dr. Sorge's presentation will include a general introduction to web accessibility and usability issues related to scientific online content, past and future. Focused on the implications of accessibility and requirements for barrier-free access to STEM teaching in a web environment, this talk will discuss relatively low-effort, high impact ways to overcome obstacles to inclusive STEM education online. Demos will include specific tools such as pandoc and TeX4ht which allow for bulk conversion of documents resulting in material that can be directly rendered and made accessible in any browser using MathJax.  
Register here: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CtekET_aRg-j1djOR2dqdw   

March 5th, 11am - 12:15pm ET: “Getting Started with OER” with Abbey Elder (Iowa State University), author of the OER Starter Kit

Ms. Elder will guide participants through the processes of finding, modifying, and creating open education resources (OER). Participants will leave the workshop with a set of practical tools and strategies for approaching their OER journey, as well as a better understanding of the support available in Virginia. 

An event of SCHEV-OVAC (State Council of Higher Education for Virginia - Open Virginia Advisory Committee)
Register here:  http://virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tRlHz-8RQgaxBEDDK6JP-A    

More information and links to recordings from past Virginia Tech open education events and symposia are available at https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/oeweek. 

Looking for more? A large number of open education week events, activities, and resources from around the world are available here: https://www.openeducationweek.org 

Warmly,
Virginia Tech's Open Education Week Planning Committee 

(Alex Kinnaman, Kayla McNabb, Rachel Miles, Jennifer Nardine, and Anita Walz)

Accessibility and access note: All events include live captioning and will be recorded, transcribed, and shared at https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/oeweek.

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Kayla B. McNabb, CPACC (She/Her/Hers)

Head, Instructional Content & Design

University Libraries | Virginia Tech

(540) 231-0975 | kmc...@vt.edu

Zoom Room: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/my/kmcnabb

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