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<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Looking for a webinar on OER topics during Open Ed Week but one from within your own Washington
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<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">The Open Education work group from the Library Leadership Council of Washington is starting
what we hope to be a series of webinars profiling promising projects, presentations, and even squirrel-y challenges from librarians doing OER work around the state of Washington. </span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Mark your calendars: We will have our first webinar during Open Education Week on<span> </span><b>Friday,
March 8 from 1-2 p.m.</b>Presentations will be in the form of 10-minute lightning talks, back-to-back, followed by a time for Q&A.</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">Greg Bem, Lake Washington Institute of Technology:</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">Greg
is one of two faculty librarians at Lake Washington Institute of Technology (LWTech), also serving as the Library Coordinator. He has supported the school’s OER Core Team since it was formed two years ago, and has been exploring open access and open education
since 2012. Along with Sue Wozniak, Greg is currently investigating the efficacy of open access databases (via the WACTCLC), as well as the integration of open pedagogy in three LWTech courses (via the 2019 Assessment in Action (AiA) grant).</span></span></li><li style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px">
<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">Rowena McKernan, Whatcom Community College:</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">Rowena
is an Open Educational Resources Specialist at Whatcom Community College. She is currently managing the campus’ Open Textbook Library which runs on Pressbooks and is investigating the use of open source technologies to support accessible information literacy
on campus.</span></span></li><li style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px">
<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">Boyoung Chae, SBCTC:</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> <span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">Boyoung is a Policy
Associate of eLearning and Open Education at the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC). Boyoung received her PhD in Instructional Technology from the University of Georgia and her MS in Instructional Systems from the Pennsylvania
State University. She led the development of several state-wide OER initiatives, such as </span><a href="http://opencourselibrary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">Open Course
Library</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white"> and </span><a href="http://www.openwa.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">Open Washington</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">. Recently,
with her SBCTC colleague Mark Jenkins, she co-authored an </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4eZdZMtpULyZC1NRHMzOEhRRzg/view?pli=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">OER
research report</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white"> awarded the Open Education Consortium’s Open Research Award for Open Education Excellence, and a </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); background-color: white"><a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002443/244365e.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">book
chapter</span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; background-color: white"> for UNESCO.</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"></span></li></ul>
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the meeting are below. I will send out a reminder with more information again as the time draws near, but please mark your calendars now!</span></p>
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OER work in WA</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black"></span></p>
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