Open Textbooks/Open Educational Resources: Conferences and Opportunities

Hypothesis Partner Workshops

Hypothesis Partner Workshops | June, July

The workshops listed below are being hosted by the Hypothesis Customer Success Team, and are designed to help faculty and instructors learn more about using social annotation in their courses to make reading active, visible, and social.

Just getting started with Hypothesis? Come join our mini intro workshops below to learn how to add Hypothesis to readings in your learning management system (LMS).

Creating Hypothesis-enabled readings in Canvas June 1, 10am PT
Creating Hypothesis-enabled readings in Blackboard June 3, 10am PT
Creating Hypothesis-enabled readings in Moodle June 10, 10am PT
Creating Hypothesis-enabled readings in Sakai June 15, 10am PT

Want to make sure that you're taking full advantage of the features of Hypothesis? Join us in one of these mini sessions.

Using multimedia & tags in annotations June 29, 10am PT / July 20, 10am PT
Grading annotations in your LMS July 8, 10 am PT / July 22, 10am PT
Annotating with small groups in your LMS July 13, 10am PT / July 27, 10am PT
Using the annotation sidebar features July 15, 10am PT / July 29, 10am PT

Have questions about implementing Hypothesis? Want to collaborate and learn from other instructors using Hypothesis at their institutions? Pop in to Office Hours with our success team to ask questions and engage with peers about social annotation with Hypothesis.

Looking forward to seeing you in one of our summer sessions!

Becky & Eryn, Hypothesis Customer Success Team

Open Ed Southern Symposium | July 12-16, 2021

The Open Education Southern Symposium (OESS) planning committee is excited to announce that registration for OESS 2021 is now open! This year the Symposium will be held virtually on the Whova platform July 12 - 16, 2021 with programming being broken up over the course of the week rather than holding our normal full day and a half event.

OESS2020’s conference theme is “Open Connections: Regional and Local Community Building for Equity and Sustainability” and will feature keynote Anita Walz, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Virginia Tech. This conference provides an excellent opportunity for professionals and advocates, both new and experienced, engaged in open education to gather, learn, and share.

Registration Is Now Open!

Standard registration rate: $35

Student registration rate (limit 25): Free*

*This rate is made possible through the support and assistance of the Global Campus and is only available to undergraduate and graduate students. Please contact the Planning Committee at openedsouthsymposium@gmail.com for more information on how to register.

Registration is limited to 450 attendees.

If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Pierce, University of Arkansas (sjpierc@uark.edu) or the Open Education Southern Symposium Planning Committee at openedsouthsymposium@gmail.com.

Additional Information

Please visit the Open Education Southern Symposium website at https://openedss.uark.edu for more information on the conference.

We hope to see you in July!

Stephanie Pierce, Organizer and Planning Chair, University of Arkansas

Shaun Bennett, North Carolina State University

Will Cross, North Carolina State University

Alison Edwards, North Carolina State University

Kathy Essmiller, Oklahoma State University

Natalie Hill, University of New England

Lora Lennertz, University of Arkansas

Jocelyn Tipton, University of Mississippi

Mary Thompson Price, University of Arkansas

Elaine Thornton, University of Arkansas

Scott Wright, University of Arkansas

2021 Open Education Southern Symposium Planning Committee