Faster and Further

Join a select group of OER leaders from across Illinois for a focused strategy session on expanding Open Educational Resource (OER) publishing. This event brings together faculty, librarians, instructional designers, academic leaders, and publishing professionals to explore how Southern Illinois University Press can support collaborative OER publishing efforts across the state. The goal is to develop a feasible plan to utilize the publishing expertise of SIU Press to help institutions and faculty move beyond OER adoption and into authorship.

Through short presentations, roundtable discussions, and working sessions, participants will:

• Discuss ways SIU Press could reduce barriers to authorship by acting as publisher and project manager to handle tasks such as copyediting; image selection, review, and permissions support; text design and typesetting; cover design; indexing; and more.
• Explore other value adds of publishing OERs with a University Press such as peer review management, potential faculty editorial board approval, marketing, P.O.D. sales, and the imprimatur of a University Press publication.
• Consider the implications on statewide OER capacity for publication when barriers are decreased and incentives are increased.
• Develop a potential workflow for OER publishing in collaboration with SIU Press;
• Conduct a needs assessment for submission procedures and begin to draft necessary guidelines, forms, cost calculators, and other materials.

Event Schedule

Travel & Lodging Support

To ensure broad statewide representation, funds are available to support travel and hotel accommodations for attendees. Reservations for hotel will be made by the conference organizer for attendees who are eligible for travel and hotel funds. Participants who prefer to pay for their own lodging should make reservations directly with the hotel.

*This event is made possible through funding from the Midwestern Higher Education Compact.

Lodging: Participant accommodations will be at Holiday Inn Express & Suites Edwardsville .

Registration

RSVP  https://forms.office.com/r/rXq9xjxxRS

Questions?

Contact:
• Mark Poepsel — mpoepse@siue.edu
• Amy Etcheson — aetcheson@siu.edu