**Instructor:** Robyn Hall, Scholarly Communications Librarian, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada **Contact:** hallr27 [AT] macewan [DOT] ca or Slack **Course Schedule** --------------- Before the first class: ----------------------- - Join the FSCI 2020 Slack Channel - Complete the Pre-Course Survey sent by email by end of day Sunday, August 2. - Introduce yourself in the Slack channel for this course. Let everyone know: - Where you're from, and where you work or go to school. - Optionally, briefly tell us about how you first learned about open access and academic publishing, either as a student or later in your career. ---------- Tuesday, August 4 ------------------ - Attend course introduction Zoom session. - Complete activities for Module 1: Tools & Technologies - Watch pre-recorded lecture (8 minutes) on Concepts (or review slides/transcript) ---------- Wednesday, August 5 ------------------- - Complete activities for Module 2: Case Studies ---------- Thursday, August 6 ------------------- - Begin working on Module 3 (Part I): Action Plans - Attend optional drop-in Zoom session (8AM PST) to ask questions about the action plan assignment and discuss your initial plan with the instructor and other participants. ---------- Friday, August 7 ---------------- - Finish your action plan by end of day Friday (PST) and enjoy the weekend! ---------- Monday, August 10 ---------------- - Complete Module 3 (Part II): Peer Feedback on Action Plans ---------- Tuesday, August 11 ------------------ - Attend wrap up Zoom session (8AM session or 5PM session). **Course Description:** ----------------------- Those who teach and work with students at both the undergraduate and graduate level can play an important role in shaping the future of scholarly communications. Drawing students’ attention to the various ways that research and scholarship can be shared openly online can provide valuable opportunities for them to disseminate their own work and engage with the work of others. It can also help them improve their academic writing, communication and copyright literacy skills. Exposing students to the socioeconomic processes that shape access to knowledge can additionally influence how the next generation of researchers approaches scholarly activity and where they choose to publish in their future careers. In the first half of this course, participants will explore and discuss a variety of assignment designs and initiatives from across disciplines that have engaged students in areas of scholarly communications, open pedagogy, and open science. They will also have an opportunity to try out, review and assess some free software tools and platforms that can facilitate these activities, including Open Journal Systems, Pressbooks, Hypothes.is, and the Wiki Education Dashboard. In the second half of the course, participants will draft their own assignment, initiative, workshop, or lesson plan that aims to give students experience with open practices and educate them on scholarly communication topics and issues. Both the instructor and other participants will provide constructive feedback on these plans. By the end of the course, participants will have constructed a comprehensive and actionable plan to involve students with open research practices that can benefit student learning, and contribute positively to the future of academic publishing and research dissemination.