Our workshop is affiliated with the University of South Alabama Conference on Teaching and Learning (CoTL) and includes a mix of CoTL activities (CoTL), workshop activities open to all CoTL participants (workshop), and activities solely for invited workshop participants (workshop-only), as indicated below.
All workshop participants (in-person and virtual) are encouraged to join the conversation on the #iuse-open-workshop-2024 channel of the PROSE Consortium Discord server: https://discord.gg/GQC2QANQUB
6:00pm-8:00pm: Social event for in-person workshop participants at Jerusalem Café
8:00am-9:00am: Breakfast / President's Welcome (CoTL)
9:00am-10:00am: Keynote Presentation (CoTL)
10:10am-11:00am: IUSE Open Workshop Welcome Icebreaker (workshop-only)
11:15am-11:35am: Presentation by [Not] Just Math: Mathematics Lessons with a Cause (workshop)
11:40am-12:00noon: Presentation by GeT: A Pencil (workshop)
12:00noon-1:20pm: Lunch / Networking / Posters (CoTL)
1:30pm-1:50pm: Presentation by DoenetML Interactive Activities (workshop)
1:55pm-2:15pm: Presentation by Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (workshop)
2:35pm-2:55pm: Presentation by Algebra, Trigonometry & Calculus in View: Expanded Modeling & Graphing Techniques for Today's Student (workshop)
3:00pm-3:20pm: Presentation by Taking CalcPlot3D to the Next Dimension: Creating 3D-Printed Learning Materials (workshop)
3:45pm-4:45pm: Reflection and Discussion (workshop-only)
8:00am-8:45am: Breakfast (CoTL)
9:00am-9:50am: Github for Collaborative Education: It's Actually Pretty Easy by Oscar Levin (workshop)
Git and Github have a reputation for being powerful yet too technically daunting for the average instructor to use. But recent improvements to Github render this reputation obsolete: it is now possible to use these tools with colleagues and students using nothing more than a web browser, without needing to remember any text commands. In this session we will explore the advantages gained by using Git and Github for educational projects, see just how easy this work has become, and discuss strategies to onboard new faculty and students.
10:10am-11:00am: Conducting and Enabling Research in Open Educational Platforms by Zihan Wu (workshop)
The dissemination of open-source educational resources is an essential step toward achieving an accessible and equitable future in STEM education. With a focus on educational research and open educational platforms, this talk is aimed at participants who are interested in conducting educational research in open platforms, as well as tool developers and designers who want to make their platforms more research-friendly.
This talk will give an overview of the educational research process, starting from identifying research questions, designing different types of research studies, collecting and analyzing data, to common tips for conducting research in open platforms. It will also provide suggestions and some examples for tool developers to consider when they are making their platform more open, flexible, and easy-to-operate for researchers. Finally, the talk will provide example research projects that were conducted through an open platform (Runestone Academy).
11:05am-11:55am: The PROSE Consortium for Open Education in STEM by Steven Clontz (workshop)
The PROSE Consortium brings together an ecosystem of several open-source products and communities serving STEM education research and practice in North America, joined by their common mission: to equip STEM teachers with open-source content, tools and strategies that provide engaging, accessible, and effective learning experiences for their students.
This talk will briefly introduce the four products (PreTeXt, Doenet, WeBWorK, and Runestone) served by this ecosystem, the rationale for sustaining an open-source ecosystem around these products, and our plans for the future.
12:00noon-12:45pm: Lunch (CoTL)
12:45pm-1:45pm: Presentation Decisions & Working Group Formation (workshop-only)
1:45pm-4:45pm: Working Groups (workshop-only)
(breakfast on your own)
9:00am-11:45am: Presentations
11:45am-1:15pm: Lunch
1:15pm-4:00pm: Working Groups
4:00pm-4:30pm: Final Reflection and Next Steps
We will be using the AIM model for organizing several working groups during the workshop, allowing us to be agile in supporting participants needs as they engage in workshop activities. Likewise, we will determine the topics for our workshop-only trainings and presentations scheduled for Thursday morning on Wednesday afternoon.