WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.480 [Alex Kinnaman] All right we'll officially get started. Thank you all for 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:14.240 speaking out and attending the Open Education Symposium 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:18.000 lightning round and expo. These speakers will have 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.080 90 seconds to pitch their topic and then folks can kind of wander around to learn 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:26.000 a little bit more. So I'm just going to pass it off. 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:30.080 I will start my timer. If you go over time, you'll hear a very obnoxious duck sound. 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:33.039 So we should be good. 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:41.520 Alright so my name is Lisa Becksford. I'm the manager of the Odyssey learning 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.480 object repository. Odyssey is an open repository of 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:47.920 learning objects created and maintained by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:49.920 It was launched about two and a half 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.000 years ago and it currently has 47 videos, 12 handouts, and six 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.600 interactive tutorials, with more in production right now. 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.800 The content in Odyssey covers a wide range of topics included in library 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:03.680 instruction, such as poster development, data ethics, 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:06.640 and research proposals, as well as citations and citation 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:10.560 management, database searching and more. One of our motivations in developing 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:14.320 Odyssey is what we saw as a lack of high quality openly licensed 00:01:14.320 --> 00:01:18.080 library instruction resources. All items in Odyssey have a CC BY 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:21.040 license giving others the right both to use an item as-is 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:25.200 and to modify it with attribution. In fact if someone wants to modify an item 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.320 to fit their context we will gladly send them the source files and anything 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:31.840 else they need to make the update. Without clear licensing it can be really 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:35.360 difficult to know whether something can be reused or if it's original creators 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:37.759 would be open to the idea of modification. 00:01:37.759 --> 00:01:40.960 We've chosen this license as a way to make our content available as broadly as 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:43.280 possible and we see this repository as helping to 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.399 fulfill Virginia Tech's land-grant mission on a global scale 00:01:46.399 --> 00:01:50.079 by making high-quality library learning resources available to all. 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:53.119 We hope that it's a resource that can be used by librarians as well as other 00:01:53.119 --> 00:01:57.040 teachers to help students develop the research skills they need to succeed. 00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:59.360 Thank you. 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:10.160 My name is Kirsten Dean and I, like Lisa, work in teaching learning 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:15.360 engagement in the Libraries and I'm also here to pitch a repository. 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:20.000 So the Open Textbook Library is one of the top sources for 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.280 free, openly licensed, and well-curated textbooks, and 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:27.280 unlike a broader OER repository like Odyssey, which includes 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.640 multiple types of learning objects, the Open Textbook Library 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:35.040 as indicated in the name focuses solely on textbooks. So there is an advantage 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:38.640 there that you know exactly the type of source 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:41.280 you're going to find when you go to the open textbook library. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:46.720 It also includes reviews from faculty members who have adopted or at least 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:50.640 considered adopting the textbooks, so there are some sort of peer review 00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:54.080 resources that are right there on the page. 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:58.080 And the library is run by the Open Textbook Network which started in 2012 at the 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.239 University of Minnesota, since then has grown to 120 member institutions. 00:03:02.239 --> 00:03:04.800 Virginia Tech is one of those members 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:09.840 and so as part of the network that community curates the 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:13.200 Open Textbook Library as well as providing resources and 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:18.640 training for open textbook authors, advocates, etc. So my last pitch other 00:03:18.640 --> 00:03:20.959 than come talk to me and explore the library 00:03:20.959 --> 00:03:23.599 is that if you're interested in reviewing 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:27.840 a textbook from that library, learning more, Anita and I will be running a 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.799 workshop on April 3rd so I have flyers for that and 00:03:30.799 --> 00:03:33.280 you can earn two hundred dollars for reviewing 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:36.720 a textbook in the library. 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.159 Well there are three of us here, I'm Mike Napier 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.599 from the College of Veterinary Medicine and I'm the instigator 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:57.519 of the virtual animal project. So the goal of the project is to 00:03:57.519 --> 00:04:01.360 bridge the gap in virtual reality between two-dimensional drawings 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:06.720 and textbooks and live animals and cadavers for teaching veterinary 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:12.000 anatomy, and also to replace 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:16.880 what are currently for-purchase items that the students can use. 00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:21.120 So right now we're goal our goal is to create detailed anatomical 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.160 representations of our three major domestic species, 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:28.000 the dog, cow, and the horse. We're most of the way through the dog, part 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.720 of the way through the cow, and just starting on the horse. 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.560 Those are all freely available and downloadable for anyone with an 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.600 HTC Vive set through the University Libraries 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:43.919 and soon to be expanding into both of the Oculus products as well. 00:04:43.919 --> 00:04:47.520 And the goals in the future actually starting to develop a 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:51.360 content of, or a our a community of content creators 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:54.400 and we have it out being piloted in several veterinary schools around the 00:04:54.400 --> 00:04:58.240 country as well as usage for 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.160 other agricultural or anatomical teaching. We have it in Blacksburg middle 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:11.840 school right now. 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:15.600 My name is Joe Forte. One of my favorite things in the world is a portmanteau. 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.919 That's when you combine two words or parts 00:05:17.919 --> 00:05:21.759 of two words to make a brand new third word. What's so great 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:26.560 about that is that you take something that is, combine it with 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.320 something that is, and end up with something that had 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:36.639 not previously been but as it turns out can be and what's so 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:40.160 and what's so great about that and what I like so much about that is that it 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:45.520 confirms for me the belief that human society is the architect of its 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:49.680 own reality, right? This is borne out by history repeatedly 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:52.800 um the historical record repeatedly including within 00:05:52.800 --> 00:06:00.400 recent media trends uh that despite a uh tenacious 00:06:00.400 --> 00:06:03.600 sort of support for a model of mass distribution 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:08.479 of a centrally created content and centrally controlled content have seen 00:06:08.479 --> 00:06:12.000 in recent years the rise of an increasingly social 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:18.800 and decentralized media landscape and potentially nothing illustrates this 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:22.720 better than my favorite portmanteau, podcasting, which is 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:29.120 broadcasting to the iPod, right. So this is the thing with which 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.080 people have chosen to mediate their communication. This is the thing we want 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:34.000 to communicate. Let's bring our thing to this thing 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:38.720 let's broadcast to the ipod podcasting right and all that stuff in the middle 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:42.720 between our thing and this thing that makes the podcasting possible 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:49.680 um that's the internet and to which everyone has uh 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:54.400 access as uh content creators and content 00:06:54.400 --> 00:06:59.039 i'm sorry as content creators and as content consumers so 00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:02.560 everybody democracy writ large right not quite that simple so you might really 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.360 understand about the tenacity of mass media 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:08.800 um but even still wanted to have to speak to the potential for 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:13.360 podcasts uh to support the goals of open education it seemed so selfish 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:17.680 and evidently obvious that I felt it would be difficult to fill these 90 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.919 seconds yet here I am over time so if you want to 00:07:21.919 --> 00:07:25.400 learn more about the way which Virginia Tech Publishing is 00:07:25.400 --> 00:07:29.039 conceptualizing the way in which podcasting 00:07:29.039 --> 00:07:32.319 can be a vehicle for scholarly publication and communication within an 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.039 open arena and on the new digital libraries 00:07:35.039 --> 00:07:45.840 platform come and talk to me about it. 00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:51.039 All right, hi I'm sarah Mease from Virginia Tech Publishing and I'm talking 00:07:51.039 --> 00:07:55.599 about collaborative publishing platforms. So they provide a means to organize 00:07:55.599 --> 00:07:57.840 teamwork, whether your team members are across 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:02.000 the room, across campus, or across the globe. A shared online work environment 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:06.479 provides structures, tools, and workflows to produce polished publications. 00:08:06.479 --> 00:08:10.080 We provide access to - University Libraries provides access to two 00:08:10.080 --> 00:08:14.240 different publishing platforms, Overleaf and Pressbooks. 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.520 Both of these platforms provide a collaborative online work environment 00:08:17.520 --> 00:08:21.280 that can accommodate multiple users and version control. 00:08:21.280 --> 00:08:24.800 Both platforms provide an editing interface and multiple templates for 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:29.599 formatting publications. So the most common use for Overleaf is 00:08:29.599 --> 00:08:33.440 collaborating on papers that can be submitted to journal publication. 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.959 Overleaf is good for formatting math and provides automatic submission for journals. 00:08:36.959 --> 00:08:40.800 Overleaf outputs to PDF only but it is 00:08:40.800 --> 00:08:45.680 available for anyone with a VT email address to use. Accounts can be set 00:08:45.680 --> 00:08:51.040 up just by visiting their website. And then the second collaborative 00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:54.560 publishing platform is Pressbooks. So that's more commonly used for like book 00:08:54.560 --> 00:08:58.720 length works like open textbooks and edited volumes. 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.519 Pressbooks provides the ability to create interactive quizzes that are 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:04.640 great for classes or to use as practice questions, 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:08.080 and it provides different roles for authors, administrators, and editors. 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.040 So like we use this a lot with like student workers they can go and edit 00:09:11.040 --> 00:09:13.839 something and then authors can go in and work on it and you 00:09:13.839 --> 00:09:19.519 can also have like administrators so users can output as a PDF or EPUB 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:23.440 and templates can provide formatting for web and print editions. 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:26.240 And that's what we use for a lot of our student book projects, so you can come 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.040 back and talk to me and then Robert will be here shortly and we'll 00:09:29.040 --> 00:09:37.839 talk to you about collaborative publishing platforms. 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:45.040 Okay hi good afternoon my name is Anita Walz. I'm the assistant director 00:09:45.040 --> 00:09:48.000 for open education and scholarly communication librarian 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.080 here at the University Libraries and I'm talking to you about 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:56.560 Creative Commons. Creative Commons licenses specifically 00:09:56.560 --> 00:10:00.240 were created in 2001 by a group of frustrated 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:04.079 copyright attorneys who wanted to make it very clear to 00:10:04.079 --> 00:10:08.480 copyright owners what they needed to do to have other 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.200 people allowed to do their use their work. 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:15.279 Creative Commons licenses are a layer 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:19.120 that one puts on top of copyrighted work that 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.720 you of which you own the copyright. 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:27.120 They allow the owner to communicate that the work 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:29.680 is moving from some, from all rights 00:10:29.680 --> 00:10:33.120 reserved to some rights reserved. They allow the owner 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:36.800 to retain ownership, to retain copyright of the use 00:10:36.800 --> 00:10:40.240 of the work while allowing certain freely 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:45.440 available uses. These uses can include the right to copy, the right to revise, 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:52.720 the right to remix. They can also include 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:57.760 the indication that something is in the public domain or donated to the public domain. 00:10:57.760 --> 00:11:02.240 So there are six different 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:06.399 markers within the Creative Commons suite 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:11.920 at this point. They're inspired by the free software 00:11:11.920 --> 00:11:17.839 movement so the 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:21.760 the quacking is nice 00:11:22.959 --> 00:11:26.959 They're inspired by the free software movement and are intended to be used 00:11:26.959 --> 00:11:34.079 on works that are not software but that would typically fall under a copyright. 00:11:34.079 --> 00:11:37.519 And they power most of the open educational resources so 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:43.519 if you are looking at any open textbook look for a Creative Commons license or 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:47.440 something like it, and that's what will tell you whether or 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:57.760 not it is truly an open textbook. Thank you. 00:11:57.760 --> 00:12:02.240 All right, a round of applause for our speakers please. 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.519 That is it for the lightning talks, now is just the expo, you can wander 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:10.959 around, check in with folks and see what 00:12:10.959 --> 00:12:19.279 they've got going on at their stations. Thank you.