Open Educational Resources and Practices for Impactful Learning Design

In this session, we will explore how learning designers can integrate Open Educational Resources and Practices (OER/OEP) in ways that enhance engagement, foster authentic learning and drive meaningful impact. Through lightning talks by learning design professionals in higher education, we’ll examine some real-world strategies for embedding OER and OEP and empower participants with practical tools for implementing them.

Presenters

Tannis Morgan, Vancouver Community College

Tannis Morgan, PhD, is Associate Vice President, Academic Innovation, at Vancouver Community College (VCC) in Vancouver, Canada. At VCC, Tannis plans and advances teaching, learning, and research innovation and leads initiatives on online learning, alternate delivery, universal design, and open educational resources. Over her career, Tannis has been responsible for developing e-learning strategies and leading open education projects. She is one of the founding members of the OpenETC, a community of educators, technologists, and designers sharing their expertise to foster open ed tech infrastructure for the British Columbia post-secondary sector. 

Mais Fatayer, University of Technology Sydney

Mais is the Learner Experience Design Manager at the University of Technology Sydney. She has been working in higher education since 2008 in a variety of settings as a lecturer, subject coordinator, researcher, and learning designer. Her research interests focus on the use of technologies in learning and teaching, including Open Educational Practices (OEP), learning design, and design-based research.

Verena Roberts, Thompson Rovers University and University of Calgary 

Dr Verena Roberts is a passionate online and blended K-12 and Higher Education educator, open learning designer and consultant who completed her EdD in Learning Sciences with a focus on K-12 Open Educational Practices with the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. She is currently an Instructional Designer with Thompson Rovers University (Open Learning) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University of Calgary. She is a 2018-2019 OER Research fellow and 2018 Global Open Graduate Network (hashtag#GO-GN) member who lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.