AZ Regional Conference Keynote Video_Final_01.18.23
Connection_Collaboration_Creativity_AZ Regional Conference Keynote
Keynote - Connection, Collaboration, and Creativity: An approach to synergistic efforts leading to greater impact
Overview
Archived session from the 2023 Arizona Regional OER Conference.
Session Title: Keynote - Connection, Collaboration, and Creativity: An approach to synergistic efforts leading to greater impact
This resource includes the session abstract, presenters, PPT, and recording.
Session Abstract, PPT, and Recording
Session Abstract
Educational attainment of people living in rural areas is markedly lower than urban areas in Arizona and the rest of the U.S. Eighty-three percent of Arizona geographically is classified as rural. Fifteen percent of people in rural Arizona live in poverty compared to 12% in urban Arizona and 11% in the U.S. Twenty-one percent of persons 25+ in rural Arizona have a bachelor’s degree or higher compared to 33% in both urban Arizona and in the U.S.
Through connection, collaboration, and creativity, the Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona initiative has created a collective of eight rural Arizona community colleges, leveraging resources to increase student cost savings, collaboration, and access and knowledge of OER and Open Pedagogy. Dr. Diane Ryan and Ms. Megan Crossfield will explore the importance of collaboration in the context of Open Education and share effective strategies used to impact the greater Arizona community and beyond. Always keeping in mind, together we achieve more.
Presenters
Megan Crossfield, Manager of Academic Initiatives & Special Projects, Yavapai College
Diane Ryan, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Yavapai College