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 mission of the Open for Student Success Symposium is to gather innovators who are implementing and studying the use of open educational resources (OER) in higher education, to produce an annual collection of OER recordings and ancillary materials that advance the landscape of open 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

The symposium's theme this year is Open Education: Fueling Equity in Learning.

FACULTY + STAFF: We welcome proposals by ALL faculty and staff working with Open Educational Resources (OER) at an institution of higher education. This free online symposium will allow presenters to share their experience and wisdom with attendees who wish to learn more about OER. Faculty and staff may invite student collaborators as co-presenters.

STUDENTS: We welcome proposals for 20-minute lightning talks by GSU students who have completed research or class projects that culminate in proposed or implemented strategies. Other submissions will also be considered.

Proposals will be due by October 25, 2024. Decisions will be sent by November 15, 2024.

SUBMIT HERE: https://forms.office.com/r/nEd04rq5S0

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.

• 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