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Tracking OER Awareness and Adoption in US K-12 and Higher Education – Results from our 2022-23 National Survey
Presenters: Julia Seaman, Research Director, and Jeff Seaman, Director, Bay View Analytics
This presentation will share the latest results from our national survey tracking the awareness of open educational resources (OER) in US K-12 and higher education classrooms. Since 2009, Bay View Analytics has been tracking the growing awareness and adoption of OER through annual surveys of teachers, faculty, and administrators. These surveys identify and track multiple factors that impact OER awareness and adoption, including the rise of digital curricula, professional development assessment, and competition from inclusive access solutions.
In this session: You will learn how OER trends vary by grade level, course discipline, and school demographics.
Checkout Telehealth @ Your Local Library
Presenters: Janet Major, Associate Director for Innovation & Digital Health, ATP/SWTRC, and Malavika Muralidharan, E-rate Administrator, Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records
Our future for delivering healthcare and improving access will need to include investing in technology and telecommunications connectivity in public places. Public places where we can have private conversations about our health, whether at our local library, school, or visiting a mobile unit connected to the internet. Technology + Connectivity can connect everyone in our communities to healthcare for clinical and educational applications, and our libraries have become partners in telehealth.
In this session: We will feature a panel to explore several state programs and modalities currently being used to provide access to healthcare in our trusted public places for people who often need it most. Investing in and managing technology and devices for those who do not have them is critical to increasing access to healthcare and eliminating the digital divide. We will explore several interesting programs from across the United States while sharing best practice protocols that will include everything from delivering telehealth services to our schools, in our libraries as well as the use of mobile units that provide not only technology and telecommunications connectivity but also deliver space and the ability to connect to our communities ‘anywhere.’
Representation Beyond Assimilation: Using Collaborative Technology to Empower Student Storytellers
Presenters: Marcia Sharp, Associate Professor and Kelly Jo Fulkerson Dikuua, Instructional Consultant, UTHSC
Whose voices, perspectives, and ideas are represented in your classroom? Have you taken a bird’s eye view of your course content, teaching methods, or curriculum design? Storytelling has been shown as an effective teaching strategy in promoting inclusion and belonging. It has become particularly important to healthcare fields to capture patient narratives beyond numbers and outputs. These patient narratives can help practitioners understand the symptoms at hand and the bigger picture of a patient’s life. Despite the importance of understanding narratives, many curricula still need to prepare students to engage with these stories. Advances in collaborative educational technology allow students to share their stories.
In this session: We will share how a health science center is moving students and faculty beyond assimilation to representation through the power of video storytelling.