Open Educational Resources online seminar 2023

Klara is the Journals and E-Resources Librarian at the Royal College of Art. She has responsibility for managing and developing the RCA's online collection of journals and databases, as well as maintaining the current and archived print journal collections. She also contributes to the work of a number of committees across the library sector.

In this session Professor Dawne Irving-Bell talks about The National Teaching Repository: An Open Education Resource with Proven Reach and Impact across the Global Higher Education Community.
A searchable database the Repository designed to foster the collective production and sharing of open resources, with a shared goal to support the continual improvement of learning and teaching. Through shared open educational resources open-up access to educational opportunities, including networking and collaboration, irrespective of background or culture. Sharing teaching and learning materials, high-quality scholarly outputs alongside tried and tested research and evidence-based strategies ‘that work’.

Helen has worked at the University of Sheffield for 20 years and prior to that worked for a large public library authority. Working with a team of librarians, Helen ensures the Library supports the academic endeavour and strategic priorities of the faculties of Engineering and Science. In recent years Helen's interest in open scholarship, and in open educational resources (OER) particularly, has grown, driven largely by emerging commercial textbook models. She is a co-chair of the LIBER Working Group on Educational Resources and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Cara Williams has worked in the cultural education sector for over 15 years at some of the leading institutions in the UK, including Tate Modern, Southbank Centre and the V&A, where she is currently responsible for overseeing the development of learning programmes and resources for students and teachers.

In her time at the V&A, Cara has set up the museum's first designer-led workshop programme, established the V&A's national schools programme, DesignLab Nation, and redesigned the free online teachers' resources to support teaching and learning at the museum and in the classroom.

Helen has over 20 years’ experience working in training and staff development in the education sector. She is Senior e-Infrastructure Strategy Manager (Skills) at Jisc and has worked recently on the EOSC Synergy and EOSC Future projects, developing open educational resources for open science. She is Jisc’s lead on the Digital Research Community and a founding member of the Open Research Competencies Coalition. She is co-chair of the EOSC Upskilling Countries to engage in EOSC Taskforce and of the OpenAIRE Community of Practice of Training Co-ordinators.

Mark Hahnel is the CEO and founder of Figshare, which he created whilst completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community.

Andy Tattersall is an Information Specialist at the Division of Population Health (ScHARR) at The University of Sheffield. Andy writes, teaches and delivers talks and training about research communications (including podcasting, blogging, social media, video/animation, infographics), digital academia, open research, web and information science and altmetrics. In particular, their application for research, teaching, learning, knowledge exchange and collaboration. Andy has a mix of applied skills and theoretical knowledge and very much practises what he preaches.

Andy received a Senate Award from The University of Sheffield for his pioneering work on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in 2013 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Andy was named in Jisc’s Top 10 Social Media Superstars. He was a member of the Cilip Digital Technology Committee (MmIT) for 10 years (2 as Chair) and is a member of the UKSG Events and Education Committee. Andy co-wrote and edited a book on Altmetrics for Facet Publishing which is aimed at researchers and librarians.
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A librarian with a range of experience working in libraries from the small to the large across a variety of library sectors including Higher Education, the public sector and Further Education. Adam has worked extensively across libraries in Hampshire where he completed an MA in Information Studies with the support of Hampshire Libraries. After 13 years working in public libraries at the start of his career, concluding at Fareham Library, Adam has since worked at the University of Surrey Library and Highbury College, Portsmouth, before moving to his present role as Library Manager at Barton Peveril Sixth Form College in Eastleigh, Hampshire.

Katrine is the Scholarly Communications and Research Support Manager at the University of Essex (Library Services). Her areas of expertise include (responsible!) metrics, publishing, open access and more. In addition to creating the Open Access Escape Room, Kat is also one of the founding organisers of Newcomers (Network for Early Career Essex Researchers) – a network dedicated to developing research support for ECRs. In her spare time, Kat spends a lot of time with her puppy Evie and dreams about the wonderful mountains in her home country Norway.

Aisling is the Open Scholarship Librarian for Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) where she manages the institutional repository, Arrow; engages in outreach and promotion of Open Research; delivers training to academics, staff, students, and researchers on a variety of Open topics; is a member of the European University of Technology (EUt+) project. Aisling is a member of two LAI special interest groups (Library Publishing and Open Scholarship); the IOAP; EARMA; is a founding member of OSCAIL, among other groups. Aisling has a special interest in OER and Gamification, including delivering the Open Access Escape Room, Lego Serious Play and the new OER Escape Room.

ORCid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4272-3648

Sarah Coombs is Research Support Advisor for Saxion University of Applied Sciences and Open Science Advisor for the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (NAUAS). She is also finishing up her PhD with the Centre for Science and Technology at the Leiden University looking at how the impact of UAS research can be evaluated. She enjoys being creative in all kinds of ways including thinking of new ways to present Open Science and research support. While currently excelling at “all work and no play”, Sarah relaxes by baking for her family and begrudgingly running through the nearby forests.

A librarian with a range of experience working in libraries from the small to the large across a variety of library sectors including Higher Education, the public sector and Further Education. Adam has worked extensively across libraries in Hampshire where he completed an MA in Information Studies with the support of Hampshire Libraries. After 13 years working in public libraries at the start of his career, concluding at Fareham Library, Adam has since worked at the University of Surrey Library and Highbury College, Portsmouth, before moving to his present role as Library Manager at Barton Peveril Sixth Form College in Eastleigh, Hampshire.

Andy Tattersall is an Information Specialist at the Division of Population Health (ScHARR) at The University of Sheffield. Andy writes, teaches and delivers talks and training about research communications (including podcasting, blogging, social media, video/animation, infographics), digital academia, open research, web and information science and altmetrics. In particular, their application for research, teaching, learning, knowledge exchange and collaboration. Andy has a mix of applied skills and theoretical knowledge and very much practises what he preaches.

Andy received a Senate Award from The University of Sheffield for his pioneering work on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in 2013 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Andy was named in Jisc’s Top 10 Social Media Superstars. He was a member of the Cilip Digital Technology Committee (MmIT) for 10 years (2 as Chair) and is a member of the UKSG Events and Education Committee. Andy co-wrote and edited a book on Altmetrics for Facet Publishing which is aimed at researchers and librarians.
tweets @Andy_Tattersall

Sarah Coombs is Research Support Advisor for Saxion University of Applied Sciences and Open Science Advisor for the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (NAUAS). She is also finishing up her PhD with the Centre for Science and Technology at the Leiden University looking at how the impact of UAS research can be evaluated. She enjoys being creative in all kinds of ways including thinking of new ways to present Open Science and research support. While currently excelling at “all work and no play”, Sarah relaxes by baking for her family and begrudgingly running through the nearby forests.

Mark Hahnel is the CEO and founder of Figshare, which he created whilst completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community.

Katrine is the Scholarly Communications and Research Support Manager at the University of Essex (Library Services). Her areas of expertise include (responsible!) metrics, publishing, open access and more. In addition to creating the Open Access Escape Room, Kat is also one of the founding organisers of Newcomers (Network for Early Career Essex Researchers) – a network dedicated to developing research support for ECRs. In her spare time, Kat spends a lot of time with her puppy Evie and dreams about the wonderful mountains in her home country Norway.

Aisling is the Open Scholarship Librarian for Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) where she manages the institutional repository, Arrow; engages in outreach and promotion of Open Research; delivers training to academics, staff, students, and researchers on a variety of Open topics; is a member of the European University of Technology (EUt+) project. Aisling is a member of two LAI special interest groups (Library Publishing and Open Scholarship); the IOAP; EARMA; is a founding member of OSCAIL, among other groups. Aisling has a special interest in OER and Gamification, including delivering the Open Access Escape Room, Lego Serious Play and the new OER Escape Room.

ORCid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4272-3648

Joe Karaganis is the Director of Open Syllabus, a nonprofit curricular archive and analytics organization. He has also directed a number of large-scale inquiries into access to knowledge and learning materials in particular, including Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (MIT 2018).

Adam Harangozó works in projects focusing on open access and open knowledge, focusing mostly on Wikipedia. He is the Wikipedian in Residence at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) where he works on sharing health information with a wide audience through Wikipedia. Adam has previously worked in a similar role for a human rights archive in Hungary and organised Wikipedia events for vulnerable and underrepresented communities. Occasionally he also writes articles on cultural and political issues, his latest publication being ‘Passenger Pigeon Manifesto' focusing on the need of open access to cultural heritage.