VIVA: 2024 OACC Forum
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VIVA: 2024 OACC Forum
Empowering Faculty and Students through Open
November 15, 2024
Reynolds Community College, Parham Road Campus
Register at https://vivalib.libcal.com/calendar/events/oacc-forum-2024.
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Agenda will be posted as it becomes finalized
In this keynote, Shawna Brandle will explore open education through the lenses of power, permission, pedagogy, and possibilities. She’ll guide us through some of the ways open educational practices can help us empower ourselves, our colleagues, and our students as learners and teachers. The session will be interactive, balancing the very philosophical with the extremely practical, so everyone leaves with actionable ideas for how open can help them expand possibilities and build power in their specific institutional context.
Shawna M. Brandle is a proud member of the City University of New York, the largest urban public university in the US. She is a Professor of Political Science and the Open Education Coordinator at Kingsborough Community College, a member of the faculty of the Digital Humanities program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and holds a PhD in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research areas include human rights, media coverage of human rights and refugee issues, and Open Educational Practices in higher education. In Fall 2021, Dr. Brandle was a Fulbright Scholar at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, where she explored the use of open educational practices in the political science classroom. She is the author of Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK: The Violations Will Not Be Televised (Routledge 2015); her current book project is co-authored with Dr. Janet Reilly. She spends her spare time making art with her family.
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Conference organized and coordinated by the VIVA Open and Affordable Community Forum Planning Committee.