Arms Wide Open: Building an Inclusive Open Education Week at a Southeastern University
Channel: Affordable Learning @ Cleveland State University
Date: 2022-05-23

Chelsee Dickson
Scholarly Communications Librarian and Librarian Assistant Professor of Library Science
Kennesaw State University Library System

As the scholarly communications librarian at Kennesaw State University (KSU), an R2 institution located in Georgia, one of my main responsibilities is the facilitation of national events like Open Education Week. Last year at KSU’s inaugural Open Education Week 2021, I hosted five virtual presentations which attracted 208 registrations and 112 attendees from across the nation. This year, my planning committee and I scaled our programming up and featured eight individual workshops and sessions on a myriad of open education topics. My goal was to create a schedule of diverse topics which would include different viewpoints and aspects of open education and open educational resources. In doing so, I created a slate of programming that was inclusive to a wide range of viewers. My lightening talk will discuss the overall planning process and issues of DEI in Open Education Week programming.