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Delgado Community College OER Symposium
Keynote Speaker
Nicole Finkbeiner is the Director of Institutional Relations for Rice University’s free textbook initiative, OpenStax, where she founded and runs the nationally-recognized Institutional Partner Program. She also coaches colleges and universities to effectively encourage faculty adoptions of Open Educational Resources (OER) to promote student success and faculty academic freedom. A graduate of Kellogg Community College, Western Michigan University, and Michigan State University, she worked in college relations for community colleges prior to joining OpenStax. When not promoting OER, Nicole fills her time working on civil rights issues, traveling, reading, staying healthy, and dragging her friends and family to random cultural events.
The Symposium Agenda
Delgado Community College
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
1:00pm Welcome
Dr. William Wainwright, Interim Chancellor, Delgado Community
College
1:10pm What is Open & How Do I Find It?
OER Licensing & Authoring Your Work
Nicole Shaw, Open Educational Resource (OER) Specialist, Fletcher
Technical Community College
2:00pm Keynote Speaker
OER Lessons Learned from Rice University’s OER Project
Nicole Finkbeiner, Director, Institutional Relations, Rice
University’s OpenStax
2:45 pm Break
3:00pm Creating open resource activities for a biology lab
Dr. Amanda Rosenzweig & Beverly Wiltz, Delgado Community College, Biology
3:30pm Adult Education – A Different Perspective about Creator & Open Content
Erin Landry & Evan Long, Delgado Community College, Adult
Education
4:00pm The Louisiana OER Commons
Teri Galloway, Associate Commissioner for LOUIS