Past Webinars
Past Webinars
Recordings of past webinars, plus related SREB resources on these education topics
There’s A New Tool in Town – ZUNI Learning Tree
OER Summer Webinar Series
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ZUNI Learning Tree, a pre-K-8 online learning platform, empowers student engagement and student-led learning opportunities, and builds a love of learning in the home!
Financial and Community Incentives for OER Adoption
OER Summer Webinar Series
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Cost savings for students, increased access to education, customization and collaboration are a few reasons why open educational resources should be adopted more broadly.
Self-Advocacy in Academia
SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program Webinar Series
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Doctoral students and early career faculty may feel intimidated when meeting with professors or colleagues and should be prepared to advocate for themselves. This webinar was an interactive discussion featuring tips to prepare for challenging conversations and building confidence to overcome the anxiety.
HBCUs and MSIs Unite to Drive Student and Institutional Success
SREB HBCU-MSI Consortium
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Discover the power of collaboration through the SREB HBCU-MSI Consortium. Learn course-sharing best practices and strategies to increase student and institutional success.
Priorities for Raising College Student Success in the South
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College student success is central to both the professional workforce and the prosperity of individuals today and tomorrow. Join members of SREB’s Student Success Advisory Council as they discuss strategies with the best potential to impact individual and collective postsecondary success.
A Blueprint to Solve Teacher Shortages
The Overlooked Workforce
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How can we recruit and retain enough great teachers to serve all of our students? This webinar covered how several Southern states are working to enact their own comprehensive blueprints to elevate the teaching profession and reinforce the pipeline of qualified teachers.
The Overlooked Workforce
An Examination of Educator Shortages in the South
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Shortages in the teacher and faculty workforces are putting our economy and society at risk. This webinar examined the most recent data collected by SREB on P-20 educator shortages across the South. Speakers discussed why shortages have worsened, how several states are using data to address them, and presented:
The HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions Community Portal
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The HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions Community Portal at Tennessee State University provides HBCUs free access to tools, technologies services to build affordable course materials and learn from colleagues. Learn about this program and find ideas for collaboration around your own open educational resource efforts.
OpenStax: 10 years of Publishing and the Future of OER
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OpenStax has grown to serve more than 6.5 million students annually and save students over $1.7 billion. This webinar shared reflections on a decade of open educational resources and explored opportunities for the future. Learn how OER can improve student success.
National Geographic Webinars
Literacy, Science, Social Studies, Project-Based Learning
Tap into students’ natural curiosity about the world around them by creating meaningful learning experiences that challenge students to see, explore, experience and improve their worlds.
Addressing Teacher Shortages
To Sustain Education, the Workforce and Economy
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This panel explored how P-12 teachers are essential to not only student learning but also postsecondary education and the workforce – and how teacher shortages can threaten state economies in the long run.
Open Licensing with Creative Commons
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An overview of Creative Commons licensing, plus:
- How to apply a Creative Commons license to your own work
- What it means to use others’ openly licensed works
- Q&A
Starting a Grant-Funded Community or Campus-Based Initiative
SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program Webinar Series
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In this webinar, SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program alumna and Bob Belle Service Grant recipients Drs. Myrtede Alfred, Karin Block-Cora and Cheryl Swanier shared their expertise on several topics, including steps to conceptualizing an initiative, organizing an initiative from an existing practice, how to leverage funding and build relationships with similar programs, and the connection between service and the tenure-track.
The Real Story on Teacher Shortages — and Possible Solutions
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What do we know about teacher shortages nationally and in specific locations and academic subjects? How are state leaders taking action on this issue in new and more comprehensive ways?
In this webinar, FutureEd at Georgetown University, EducationCounsel and SREB led a discussion on teacher shortages across the nation and how states can take steps to address the problem more effectively.
OER in Dual Enrollment
Leveraging Open Educational Resources to Expand Equitable Access
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Join SREB and the Midwestern Higher Education Compact to learn the findings and recommendations of this forthcoming report.
Open educational resources, or OER, are free, openly licensed, high-quality classroom materials. Expanding their use in dual enrollment courses can help more students afford and succeed in college courses while they are still in high school.
Drive Lasting Change With Your CLNA
Use SREB’s Career Pathway Reviews to Meet Perkins Requirements
Perkins V comprehensive local needs assessments are more than just an event — they’re a powerful tool regional and district CTE leaders can use to build pipelines to careers and establish a strong foundation for their continuous improvement efforts.
Making a Case for Student Success
Open Educational Resources in Dual Enrollment and CTE
September 22, 2021
11 am Eastern
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This session explored solutions to integrate open educational resources in dual enrollment and career and technical education that lead to student success in both K12 and higher education.
This session is part of SREB’s Open Educational Resources in Dual Enrollment webinar series.
The Cost of OER and Return on Investment
Open Educational Resources in Dual Enrollment
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This session was held to help decision-makers on all levels — state, higher education institutions and K12 schools and districts — better understand the perceived costs of open educational resources, cost-savings, and the return on investments.
This session is part of SREB’s Open Educational Resources in Dual Enrollment webinar series.
The webinar session covered the following topics:
Equitable Access and College Affordability
Open Education Resources in Dual Enrollment
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This webinar explored how the use of open educational resources in dual enrollment can open pathways to postsecondary education for minority and low-income students. The session covered increasing equitable access to postsecondary education and making college more affordable, along with learning solutions.
This session is part of SREB’s Open Educational Resources in Dual Enrollment webinar series.
Drive Lasting Change With Your CLNA
Perkins V comprehensive local needs assessment
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Perkins V comprehensive local needs assessments are more than just an event — they’re a powerful tool career and technical education leaders can use to build pipelines to careers and establish a strong foundation for their continuous improvement efforts.