Affordable Learning PA Virtual Event:
During this Affordable Learning PA event panelists will share their thoughts and experiences around motivations, successes, challenges, and outcomes with OERs. Audience questions will be welcomed during this one-hour session. If you are considering using OER in your pedagogy, please join us for this event.
Panelists:Paige Beal is a media/marketing professional and Associate Professor at the Rowland School of Business Point Park University in Sports, Arts and Entertainment Management (SAEM). She researched and adopted two OER texts for the last several years including OpenStax Introduction to Business for six sections of Intro to SAEM and Lumen Learning Principles of Marketing for SAEM Marketing and Promotions.Sara Davis is an instructional designer in the department of Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State University. She supports faculty engagement efforts related to Open and Affordable Educational Resources at Penn State.Elisabetta Fasella is an Associate Professor and Madhu Mahalingam is a Professor at the University of the Sciences. They have been working as a team in developing the pedagogy for General Chemistry and the necessary course materials to support that pedagogy. They adopted the OpenStax, Chemistry 2e, for General Chemistry in Fall 2019 for all sections of the two semester General Chemistry sequence at USciences.Jacob Moore is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Penn State Mont Alto. Over the past decade or so, Jacob has worked to develop an open resource for engineering statics and dynamics courses. He has used this resource in his engineering statics class since 2014 and in his engineering dynamics course since 2020. He additionally supports a small number of other instructors using his resource in their classrooms.Michelle Yarwood received her doctorate in experimental psychology with a focus in social psychology from Texas Tech University in 2013. Currently, Michelle is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology at Penn State University - University Park. Michelle authored an original OER textbook using Pressbooks for her Psychology of Human Emotion course while participating in the Affordable Course Transformation (ACT) Program at Penn State.
