The Buffalo State Pedagogical Institute is a week of professional collaboration that develops instructional skills and integrates campus resources. The 2024 Institute is scheduled for May 20–23.  Instructors and coordinators of Student Success, first-year, and general education courses, TRIO personnel, student services professionals, and administrators will benefit from the workshops and discussions. All sessions will be in Bacon 115.

This three-part (90-minute) workshop will discuss recent research in OER creation, discovery, and implementation. We will explore how open pedagogy influences student success and what challenges are included with adopting OER for a course.

The second part of this workshop will be a live demonstration of several searchable OER repositories and a few examples of OER texts adopted at Buffalo State. We will display software that is available through SUNY for courseware and OER creation/publishing and provide direction for locating reviews and information on vetting OER.

Finally, the workshop finale will feature a panel of Buffalo State faculty discussing their experiences with OER, including recipients of the SUNY OER Impact Grants from last year. OER can provide potential benefits to your pedagogy. It can also bring challenges. We will discuss all of these talking points and reveal some results of the Faculty Textbook & OER Trends Survey currently deployed at Buffalo State by E. H. Butler Library.

Presenter: Chris Hulsman, Reva Fish, Gehan Senthinathan, & Sourav Biswas