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:
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.
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. Paola will present her keynote, titled "Opening Knowledge: A Natural Approach," exploring the practice of lifelong learning and its impact on both students and teachers. She will also share tools to discuss the concept of openness, including the ENOEL Playing Cards and related gameplays.
Virginia Clinton-Lisell is 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. She holds a master's degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from New York University and a doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Virginia will present her keynote, titled "The Inaccessibility of Access Codes: Student Experiences with Online Homework Systems," sharing findings from a survey of almost a thousand college students about the costs of homework access codes and their impact on student finances, grades, and stress levels.
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.
Contact Librarian Charlene at cmartoni@gsu.edu.
Interested in sponsoring the symposium in any way? Contact Librarian Charlene at cmartoni@gsu.edu.
