OEGlobal 2024

Shannon Smith is Student Success Librarian at the University of Wyoming. She began working in the realm of open education in 2017 and was a 2020-2021 SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow. Her work engages the role of students and how they are key to a future where open education is more fully embraced. She wants to build and hold space for student voices both as the primary audience for open education and also as co-creators of OER beyond their classroom experiences. Shannon believes in the impact of building inclusive communities and considers this integral to successful work in open education. Her research interests include best practices and ethics for emerging library services, collaborative learning, and multimodal information behavior.