02 Jun Leading Change: Sustaining Open Culture—A Workshop for HBCU Educators and Allies (July 2, 2025)
About the Workshop
This workshop introduces a structured method, guiding participants to aggregate allies, build bridges, create capabilities, develop demand, and enable ecosystems of openness. Participants will collaboratively engage with these strategies to outline institutional plans for embedding open education into their campus culture sustainably. At the conclusion of the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Explore a structured method for embedding openness institutionally.
- Identify actionable strategies for aggregating assets, building bridges, creating capabilities, developing demand, and enabling ecosystems within their contexts.
- Create an institutional action plan outline for sustainable open education as their tangible takeaway.
Participation at the live session is encouraged, but all registered attendees can also watch back live content asynchronously. Additionally, at the conclusion of the webinar, participants will gain access to a series of open learning modules built in D2L Brightspace.
About the Project
This workshop is one of a series of five free and open professional learning opportunities designed specifically for educators at HBCUs as well as their allies and colleagues. Through the support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as the leadership of Tennessee State University, MERLOT, and SkillsCommons, this grant-funded project brings the HBCU community a series of open playbooks and fully-online open courses on five key topics related to building an opened culture:
- The Foundations of Open Culture
- Open Culture and Course Design
- The Fundamentals of Open Remix
- Digital Literacies and Open Culture
- Leading Change: Strategies for Sustaining Open Culture
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