Melbourne Workshop

Participate in two interactive workshops focused on open educational resources advocacy and learning experience design.

Key Information

When

Tuesday 13 September 2022
10am to 3:15pm local time (registrations open at 9.30am)

Where

Deakin University, Deakin Downtown
Level 12, Tower 2
727 Collins Street, Melbourne

Directions

To make your way to Deakin Downtown, located in Tower 2:

Enter Collins Square via the Collins Street entrance underneath the yellow geometric sculpture
Make your way across the lobby floor towards the escalators on the right-hand side
Ascend the escalators and turn left, following signage to the elevators
Select Level 12 on the touch screen and wait to be allocated an elevator letter and then make your way to the corresponding elevator door
Upon arrival to level 12, turn right and proceed through the glass sliding doors where you will find our reception desk.

Learn more about accessing Deakin Downtown.

Catering

Tea and coffee on arrival
Lunch provided

Sponsor

Program

Planning for Open Educational Resources Advocacy

As open education initiatives continue to gain traction in Australian higher education, the work of advocates has become critical to translate small pockets of good practice into strategically focused, evidence-based activities. This workshop is for staff involved in formal or informal open education advocacy at any level, and especially for those only beginning advocacy work - be it one on one advocacy, or advocacy to groups. It introduces an advocacy planning process, with an emphasis on localising action. Participants will have the opportunity to begin planning, and will have access to a curated collection of supporting open resources after the workshop.

Jennifer Hurley

Jennifer Hurley leads the Open Publishing Team at RMIT, coordinating the creation of open textbooks by RMIT authors. She advocates the benefits of open pedagogy to teachers and is a member of the project team developing an Open Scholarship policy at RMIT. Jennifer is also a member of the cross-institutional team that curates the Open Educational Practice SIG Digest, and the CAUL Enabling a Modern Curriculum OER Advocacy Project team.

Steven Chang

Steven Chang is the Coordinator, Open Education and Scholarship at La Trobe University. He is passionate about equity in higher education and coordinates the La Trobe eBureau, a Library as OER Publisher platform that empowers communities to create equitable learning resources. Steven is the Co-Convenor of the Open Educational Practices ASCILITE special interest group, and is a member of the CAUL Enabling a Modern Curriculum OER Advocacy Project team. Steven’s background has spanned diverse areas including open repository advocacy, open data, medical librarianship, and research data management. He is the former chief editor of Health Inform. You can find Steven’s articles and presentations via his Figshare profile.

Angie Williamson

Angie is the Program Coordinator (Open Education) at Deakin University Library. Since 2021, Angie has been coordinating the Open Educational Resources Grants Program at Deakin, supporting project teams and advancing the discussion of Open Education at the university. Angie promotes the use of Open Educational Resources and Open Educational practices and participates in the wider community through the ASCILITE Open Educational Practice -Special Interest Group and the CAUL Enabling the Modern Curriculum OER Advocacy Project team.

Learning Experience Design: Revisiting the Educational Role of Academic Librarians

Strategic and careful design of student learning experiences have been a crucial part of curriculum development in the higher education sector for several years. Within this setting, teaching and learning staff have paid the most attention to the way tasks, services and resources are designed to ensure an engaging, rigorous and accessible learning experience for students.

Given librarians’ important role in shaping student learning, they, too, have a share in learning experience design. Librarians, intentionally and proactively, can shape the learning journey of undergraduate students in information literacy classes, HDR students in research support sessions, or academics in one-on-one research consults. Librarians can also adopt principles of learning design to create a range of learning resources including online modules, videos and guides, not only for library users, but also for their peers within mentoring program and staff induction settings.

Many of you already use learning experience design principles in your day-to-day functions. During this workshop, we will refresh your understanding of these principles and help you to build on your current practice. We aim to sharpen and refine your existing knowledge and skills with techniques for pedagogically sound ways to design more meaningful, engaging and user-centred learning experiences. We will provide you with a practical toolkit that outlines the learning design process from the beginning, through development, design and implementation phases, to evaluation. We will discuss ways to re-investigate your assumptions about what users need and what works for library patrons in the current learning environments. During the workshop, you will also get the opportunity to build a basic learning experience relevant to your area of practice.

Dr Ellie Abdi

Dr Ellie Abdi is an information professional, a digital learning designer, an educator, and an applied researcher. Ellie comes from a combined library and digital learning and teaching background, where she has taught a range of library and information science (LIS) subjects in dual mode programs, and has led the design, delivery and quality assurance of a range of online courses and micro-credential courses. Prior to joining La Trobe, Ellie was a Lead, Digital Pedagogy and Curriculum at the University of Southern Queensland. Before that, from 2018 to 2019, she served as a Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence at the University of the Pacific, California, following 5 years of teaching, research and research supervision as a lecturer in QUT’s School of Information Systems, where she also completed her doctoral studies in Information Technology. Ellie currently co-chairs the ALIA Research Advisory Committee and is a member (and former convenor) of the IFLA LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group. She has also previously served as the secretary for ASIS&T Asia-Pacific Chapter.

Beth Price

Beth Price is a Learning Librarian at La Trobe University Library and a sessional teacher at Swinburne University teaching into the Diploma of Library and Information Services program. She has worked extensively in the library industry for over 20 years, predominately providing services and support to students and academics in academic libraries but has also worked in public, State, and special libraries throughout her career. She is a lifelong learner and is enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Learning Design through the University of Technology Sydney. From her experience, she understands the importance of libraries and the support that they can provide to both academics and students, the necessity to engage students in learning materials and teaching in an online environment, and the challenges students face navigating their way around each university, library and learning management system. Bringing together her learning design skills obtained from her teaching and her library expertise, Beth hopes to create more meaningful learning experiences for students and colleagues within the tertiary education sector.

Jane Humphreys

Jane Humphreys is a Senior Learning Librarian at La Trobe University in Melbourne, specialising in educational resources for International Students. She has a strong background in information literacy instruction, online teaching, and developing digital training resources. In the past, she has worked at Charles Sturt University Library and Queensland University of Technology. Prior to becoming a librarian, she worked in web content and site development, with a strong focus in user experience design, information architecture and writing for the web. Jane’s qualifications include a Master of Information Technology (Information and Library Studies) from Queensland University of Technology, and a Master of Arts (Writing, Editing & Publishing) from the University of Queensland.