The Open for Student Success Symposium

Georgia State University Library is accepting proposals for our Open Education Week celebration, to take place via WebEx on Friday, March 7, 2025 from 9:30am-4:30pm ET. The call for proposals is now closed.

The missions of the Open for Student Success Symposium are to: (1) gather and celebrate innovators who are implementing and studying the use of affordable and open educational resources (OER) in higher education, and (2) produce an annual collection of openly accessible recordings and ancillary materials that advance the landscape of open and affordable education. 

The Open for Student Success Symposium's scope includes everything relating to:

• Global Open Education Week: oeglobal.org/activities/global
• Open Educational Resources: unesco.org/en/open-educational-resources
• No-Cost and Low-Cost Resources: affordablelearninggeorgia.org/resources/banner-attributes

This free online symposium will allow presenters to share wisdom with attendees who wish to learn more about open and affordable education. Faculty and staff are encouraged to invite student collaborators as co-presenters. We welcome proposals by ALL faculty and staff working at an institution of higher education.

GSU students, share your unique perspective! Submit proposals for 20-minute lightning talks on research or class projects that culminate in proposed or implemented strategies to address issues in open and affordable education. 

The symposium's theme this year is

Open Education: Fueling Equity in Learning

And we will have the honor of welcoming two keynote speakers:

Paola Corti, Open Education Community Manager at SPARC Europe and Project Manager for METID at Politecnico di Milano, will share how her work is breaking barriers in the Open Education Movement by harnessing an international network of librarians.

Virginia Clinton-Lisell, Associate Professor of Education, Health, and Behavior with the College of Education & Human Development at the University of North Dakota and Primary Researcher for the Open Education Research Fellowship, will also share findings of her research investigating perceptions of access codes and their impact on student success.

Recordings will be produced by Georgia State University Library as part of the Open for Student Success Symposium. Recordings, slides, and ancillaries will be uploaded to our YouTube channel and institutional repositories.

Presenters featured in each recording will retain creator ownership for the content of their work, which will be shared with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComerical-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

This means others are free to share and adapt the work under the following terms:

• Others must give appropriate credit to the presenter(s) and link to the original CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license terms.

• Others must indicate whether changes were made.

• Others may NOT use the material for commercial purposes.

• If others remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must also distribute the new version of the work under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license.

• 45-minute presentation or panel discussion (live), followed by a 15-minute Q&A 
• 20-minute lightning talk (live), followed by a 10-minute Q&A 
• 10-minute lightning talk or poster presentation (pre-recorded), recordings will be posted on the day of the symposium

• Adaptation or Authorship of OER
• Artificial Intelligence and OER
• Collaboration on OER Projects
• Copyright, Creative Commons and Open Licensing
• Courseware and OER
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Representation in OER
• Educational Affordability and OER
• Faculty Panels
• New Technology for OER
• Open Pedagogy Projects
• Research Conducted on OER
• Student Voices
• Successes & Challenges with OER
• User Design and OER
• Using OER in STEM