NU’s Open Education Week’s events are part of the Open Nebraska initiative, which aims to amplify the usage of free and reduced cost digital course materials and expand the transparency of participating courses and programs across the NU System. As of the Spring 2022 semester, these efforts have saved students across the NU System over $9 million.

On Thursday, March 10, 2022 starting at 12:00 p.m., there will be Faculty Speed Sessions lasting 10 minutes each with the final time dedicated to questions. The presentations are as follows:

Session one: Pressbooks- Brian Moore, Ph. D. Professor of Music Education & Music Technology, and Sabine Zempleni, M.S. Assistant Professor of Practice Nutrition and Health Sciences
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Session two: Converting a Program to OER- Allan Donsig, Ph. D. Professor and Vice Chair Mathematics, Nathan Wakefield, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Practice Mathematics and Guy Trainin, Ph. D. Professor Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Session three: Adopting an OER Textbook- Carolyn Brown Kramer, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Practice Psychology
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Session four: Skyepack- Kim Carlson, Ph. D. Biology Department and Tyler Trame, Skyepack representative
University of Nebraska at Kearney

Session five: Creating OER Video- Congrui (Grace) Jin, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Session six: Q&A