Open Education Week, Day 2: Join us today at 3pm for a Publishing Panel event!
Let’s Talk Open Textbooks: Author Q&A
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Tuesday, March 8th, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Please join us for a Zoom virtual panel where authors will discuss their experiences with creating and using their own open textbooks. Panelists will include Patty Stoddard Dare, professor in the School of Social Work, Kelly Wrenhaven, professor in the History Department, April Yorke, CSU professor in the School of Health Sciences, and Abdullah Oguz, former lecturer in Information Systems and current Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business in Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Join us to discover the benefits of authoring your own open textbook!
ABOUT OUR PANELISTS
Dr. Abdullah Oguz has been working as an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business in Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Before CCSU, he worked as a visiting lecturer in Monte Ahuja College of Business at Cleveland State University for one and a half years. Dr. Oguz graduated from the Ph.D. program in Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 2020. His Ph.D. dissertation is "Workplace Cyberbullying in Global Virtual Teams". Before starting his Ph.D. program, he had worked at the Turkish Customs Administration for 12 years as a member of the Project Management Office. He planned and managed national and EU-funded projects with a view to enhancing the law enforcement capacity of the administration. He has been a Project Management Professional (PMP®) credential holder since 2014. Abdullah’s book, Project Management: Navigating the Complexity with a Systematic Approach, is the first book that MSL Academic Endeavors, the Michael Schwartz Library’s press, has undergone complete pre-publication peer review.
Dr. Patricia Stoddard Dare, MSW, PhD is a Professor in the School of Social Work, Director of Women's and Gender Studies, and the Co-Coordinator of CSU's Chemical Dependency Counseling Certificate Program. She has spent the last two years representing Cleveland State University on a Practitioner Education grant funded by SAMHSA and the Council on Social Work Education which brought together Social Work faculty from around the US to develop model social work curricular resources to teach substance use disorder counseling. Patty’s book, Introduction to Substance Use Disorders, is an excellent example of an open textbook that builds on the openly licensed work of others.
Dr. Kelly Wrenhaven is an Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of History and the Director of Classical Studies. She holds degrees from the University of St Andrews (Ph.D), the University of Cambridge (M.Phil.), and the University of British Columbia (BA, MA). Before coming to Cleveland State, she taught at St Andrews, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Victoria. Her research interests include ancient Greek slavery, the construction of civic and cultural identity through opposition, perceptions of the body, especially Greek ideas of beauty and ugliness and perceived differences between slave and free bodies, and perceptions of sexuality and prostitution. She has taught many aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and has published on a variety of topics. Her first book, Reconstructing the Slave (Bristol Classical Press), examines how the Greeks used literary, lexical, and artistic images of slaves to justify, naturalize, and perpetuate the institution of slavery in classical Greece. More recent publications include a comparative study of Greek comic slaves and blackface minstrels. Her current research examines the relationship between sexual obscenity and the “Other” (i.e. women, slaves, and barbarians) in Greek literature and art. Kelly has co-authored the book, Ancient World History to 1300 C.E., and authored the book, Greek Gods, Heroes, and Worship, allowing her to share her interesting experiences with co-authorship and the Pressbooks platform.
Dr. April M. Yorke, PhD, CCC-SLP has been an Assistant Professor in the Speech and Hearing Program, School of Health Sciences since 2016. Dr. Yorke teaches courses in Phonetics, Speech Sound Disorders, and Augmentative and Alternative Communication. April began her life's journey of working with individuals with severe disabilities in 1995-- working with this population in a variety of school, community, and medical settings through her undergraduate years. These phenomenal experiences lead April to Penn State University for her MS Program where she received highly specialized training as part of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication Training Grant from the US Dept. of Education. After receiving her MS, April served as a speech-language pathologist and augmentative communication / assistive technology specialist in the schools and at a post-acute brain injury rehab for 9 years. April then returned to Penn State University again for her PhD program and began a new journey as a researcher, creating the next generation interventions to improve literacy outcomes for individuals with complex communication needs. She couldn't be happier with her path. April’s book, Phonetics Workbook for Students of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been downloaded thousands of times, and provides a good example of the value of self-authored ancillary materials. April loves to create high-quality materials that are tailored to the needs of her class. And, as she would say it, "No student should have to choose between buying a book for my class and buying groceries."