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Catherine E. (Cathy) Saunders

College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Instructional Professor of English/Composition
Fairfax, VA
Catherine E. (Cathy) Saunders teaches advanced composition and literature in face to face, hybrid, and online formats. She is especially interested in Linguistic Justice and in using Open Educational Resources (OER) as a way to promote recognition of curricular materials as scholarly and creative work, to encourage collaboration among instructors, and to trace the evolution of assignments and exercises as they are used and adapted by different instructors.
Wednesday, November 2
 

8:30am EDT

Keynote: Gardner Campbell Grand Ballroom

9:15am EDT

Open Pedagogy Showcase Grand Ballroom

10:00am EDT

Break TBA

10:30am EDT

Secrets to Success as a Faculty OER Champion B13Linda Williams

10:55am EDT

Anatomy of a System-Wide Open Education Initiative B17Karen Cangialosi • Dan Carchidi • Reta Chaffee • Jenny Darrow • Robin DeRosa • Scott Robison • Terri Winters

1:15pm EDT

Breaking Tradition: A Faculty-Developed Open Writing Resource at VCU B13Bonnie Boaz • Ryan Cales • Meriah Crawford • Jessica Gordon • Jake Khoury • Andrew Marx • Hillary Miller • Amber Pearson

2:15pm EDT

Pay or Pay It Forward: Navigating the Licenses in Credentialing and Credit Partnerships B18Jeff Davidson • Nathan Thompson

2:40pm EDT

The Advantages of Creation and Sharing: OER in Higher Education B18Stevie Rocco • Ann Taylor

3:15pm EDT

Crowdsourcing Open Assessment Items B13Benjamin Mackley

3:40pm EDT

Open Practice as a Tool for Educational Change B16Quill West
 
Thursday, November 3
 

9:00am EDT

Critical Instructional Design and Open Education B13Amy Collier • Sean Michael Morris • Amy Slay

9:25am EDT

Advocating for open: The instructional design experience B13Irwin DeVries • Michelle Harrison

9:50am EDT

It's Not About the Books: Let's talk about Open Pedagogy B16Christie Fierro

10:15am EDT

Break TBA

10:45am EDT

Floating in a Sea of Data: Why Higher Ed Needs #SoNAR B16Kate Bowles • Amy Collier • Dave Cormier • Kristen Eshleman • Professor George Siemens • Bonnie Stewart

11:35am EDT

Scaling up OER Publishing with a Networked Approach B18Allison Brown • Mark McBride • Laura Murray • Kate Pitcher

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Grand Ballroom

1:15pm EDT

A Synthesis of OER Efficacy and Perceptions Research: 2015-2016 B11Lane Fischer • John Hilton III • David Wiley

1:40pm EDT

Exploring the Remix Hypothesis B11Colin Madland

2:15pm EDT

Open Education in Virginia's Higher Education Institutions: an environmental scan B18Beverly Covington • Claudia Holland • Wm. Preston James
 
Friday, November 4
 

8:30am EDT

Keynote: Sara Goldrick-Rab Grand Ballroom

9:15am EDT

Keynote: TJ Bliss Grand Ballroom

10:00am EDT

Break TBA

10:30am EDT

Big Data, Little Data: A story behind the numbers B11Maha Al-Freih • Katie Bradford • Whitney Kilgore

10:55am EDT

'All the words of wisdom sound the same' - open research in a closed world B11David Kernohan

11:30am EDT

The Open Research Agenda B14Rob Farrow • Beck Pitt • Martin Weller

1:15pm EDT

Course Redesign Pilot for OER Implementation at George Mason University: A University-Wide Effort B18Claudia Holland • Janette Muir • Linda Sheridan • Darlene Smucny • John Warren

1:40pm EDT

College Affordability, Social Justice and the Case for an Ethic of Openness B11Wm. Preston James

2:40pm EDT

Open Pedagogies: Levels of Learning, Support, and Community B16Lee Skallerup Bessette • Zach Whalen

3:15pm EDT

In the MOOD: Building the Creative Commons Certification B13Alan Levine • Paul Stacey