Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | November 28, 2023

As a precursor to Salisbury University hosting the Maryland OER SUmmit: Cultivating Agency through Open Educational Resources on Friday, December 1, 2023, we’d like to provide two SU resources to give you a brief primer on the main themes of the event: 

• ID&D’s open pedagogy article 
• SU Libraries open educational resources article and OER LibGuide   

 Briefly, open pedagogy is both:  

1. the open sharing of teaching practices where you invite your students to be part of the teaching process to give them greater agency over their education, and  
2. using openly licensed materials to support the teaching and learning process.   

Openly licensed materials are known as open educational resources (OER).  OER is recognizable by your ability to retain, revise, remix, reuse, and redistribute the learning material under various Creative Commons Licenses.  These materials are free for you and your students to use, modify, and make them your own.   

On December 1, SU will be hosting universities and presenters from across the state of Maryland to share their research and experiences using open pedagogy, OERs, Artificial Intelligence (AI), H5P authoring tool, accessibility, engagement, and many other teaching practices.  A few highlighted sessions include (see full schedule):  

• Keynote: The Heart of Open Education: Rethinking the Place of Pedagogy - Robin DeRosa, Director of Learning & Libraries, Plymouth State University
  
• An open-source robotics and AI kit to co-create hardware and software engineering skills and explore ethical implications of its use for diverse communities (Participatory Workshop) - Mohammad Samarah, Professor of Practice, Information Systems and Software Engineering, Melissa Morris, Faculty Member, Software Engineering, and Kerrie Kephart, Associate Director for Pedagogical Innovation, Research and Assessment, all from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  
• Wiki How? Wiki Wow! - Jennifer Nyland,Associate Professor, Biological Sciences and Faculty Director, Henson Honors Program in Science & Mathematics, Salisbury University
  
• Innovating First-Year Com335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Utilizing a Collaborative Process to Create Open Access Books - Becky Anthony, School of Social Work, Salisbury University, Jayleen Galarza Patterson, Department of Social Work and Gerontology, Shippensburg University, and  Alithia Zamantakis, Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for SGM Health & Wellbeing, Northwestern University
   
• Student-Crafted Speech Resources: Building a Legacy for Future Public Speakers - Melanie Morris, Lecturer and Course Director, Olivia Kuehner, Student, Brent Bradford, Student, and Alexa Blackman, Student, all from the Department of Communication Studies, Towson University
  
• Open Pedagogy in Action: Insights from SU's Inaugural Fellows Cohort - Panelists:  Dr. Charles Wight, Professor, Chemistry; Dr. Jessica Kennett-Clark, Assistant Provost, CAFÉ, Associate Professor, Biology; Dr. Yuki Okubo, Associate Professor, Psychology; Dr. Jennifer Cox, Associate Professor, Communications; and Dr. Brandye Nobiling, Professor, Program Director, School of Health Sciences 

 Additional related resources: 

• Renowned Expert on OER and Keynote Speaker, Robin DeRosa 
• The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development from UN Grant Recipients Montgomery College (presenters) 
• Open Pedagogy the OER Starter Kit 
• The Open Education Network 

Designing Inclusive & Accessible OER Courses: A focus on Equity, Diversity, & Universal Design for Learning Webinar

The Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) recently hosted a webinar (available for viewing) that explored the powerful combination of Open Education Resources (OER) and inclusive pedagogical practices, with an emphasis on promoting equity, embracing diversity, and implementing Universal Design for Learning.

Video Tip: End-of-Semester Gradebook Tips  

When preparing your gradebook for the end of the semester, please review the End-of-Semester Top 5 Gradebook Tips video for information about:   

1. Ensuring your assignments are in the correct assignment groups  
2. Enabling student What-If Score option or hiding gradebook totals  
3. Addressing missed student assignments  
4. Performing final grade override  
5. Exporting grades  

Please contact your department's instructional designer if you have any questions or need any assistance preparing your gradebook for finalizing grades!  

Soaring with Online Learning - Winter 2024

Instructional Design and Delivery is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of Soaring with Online Learning (Soaring) to be held January 1- February 9, 2024. Soaring is a faculty development program to prepare Salisbury University faculty to design, develop and deliver courses in an online (online and no scheduled meetings), remote (online and synchronous meetings) or hybrid (combination of in-person and online/remote meetings) environment through the learning management system MyClasses @ SU. The winter 2024 cohort focuses on faculty designing online, remote or hybrid courses for summer or fall 2024 sessions.    

Program details and the Soaring application can be accessed from the Soaring with Online Learning webpage. The application deadline is Friday, December 1, 2023.

Call for Proposals: SU Teaching and Learning Conference

Mark your calendars for Friday, February 16, 2024 as SU hosts ourannual Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
 
The annual SU TLC brings together teacher-scholars across campus to share and discuss teaching innovations and best practices. A call for proposals is currently open for 20-minute sessions, 40-minute sessions, panel discussions (up to 4 presenters) or poster presentations on a variety of themes related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Promoting student wellness and sense of belonging
• Inclusive pedagogy (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)
• Culturally responsive and anti-racist pedagogy
• General Education
• Innovative teaching strategies
• Best-practices for online and hybrid learning 

The deadline to submit your session proposal is Tuesday, December 12, 2023.

Call for Faculty Spring Travel Grants 

The Faculty Development Committee (FDC) is calling for applications for Travel Grants, in support of faculty travel to be completed between January 1-May 31, 2024. 

Deadline for Application: 11:59 p.m. on Friday, December 15, 2023. No applications will be accepted after this deadline. The amount of each grant is $400. A faculty member may receive only one grant per academic year. More specifically, if a faculty member receives a grant during the June 1 through December 31 funding cycle, they will not be eligible to receive another award during the January 1 through May 31 funding cycle. 

Should you choose to apply for a grant, please go to the FDC Travel Grant website at  https://webapps.salisbury.edu/ftga/ and submit your application online. The Call for Applications for Faculty Development Travel Grants is available on this website. Please read the call carefully. 

 
Your login and password for the website are your SU login and password. After you have submitted your application, please verify your submission by making sure that: 

• The website should indicate your application number; AND
• Your current application information is identified as accepted or is being processed when you check the status of your application on the FDC Travel Grant website.

Questions? Please contact Meghan East at mseast@salisbury.edu.