Lisa Young

With thirty years of experience as faculty in higher education, Lisa C. Young, Ph.D. currently is the Faculty Administrator for Open Education and Innovation for the Maricopa Community Colleges in the Academic and Student Affairs department and is also a faculty member at Scottsdale Community College.

She provides leadership for the planning, implementation, and growth of open education efforts and academic innovations – including microcredentialing, artificial intelligence and academic technology digital transformation. The goal is to identify, sustain and grow instructional innovation at the institutional level especially as it relates to Open Educational Practices (OEP).

She is a founding member of the Maricopa Millions project which has saved students over $30 million in course materials costs. The Maricopa Millions project has shifted to Open Maricopa with a mission of facilitating widespread use of open, low-cost, quality materials to promote student success, textbook affordability, and increased access to a quality educational experience

Prior to this role, Lisa served as the Faculty Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Scottsdale Community College where she led efforts in eLearning, faculty development, open educational practices, and more.

Lisa served as program director and faculty meeting industry needs through the development and continuous updates of the water resources and occupational safety programs at GateWay Community College for fifteen years. In 1997, Young was one of the first two faculty members to teach online at the college.

The OEGlobal Board recognizes Lisa’s long, dedicated service and leadership for this organization. She has been an active member of Community College Consortium of OER (CCCOER) since 2013 having served on the board of CCCOER as well as Vice President of Professional Development and Co-President of CCCOER. Furthermore, Lisa’s contributions include being elected to the Board of Directors in 2021 and taking on the role of Vice President in 2023.

In the OEG Voices podcast conversation below, Lisa shares her experience of attending the OEGlobal 204 Conference in Slovena, her first international conference, as an awakening experience about OER that “changed the tapestry of my soul, it really did.” That set in motion much of what she has given to the world through her open education leadership at Maricopa, with CCCOER, and the entire OEGlobal organization.

OEGlobal Board Viewpoints – OE Global Voices

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In another new series of episodes going into 2024 we will be sharing the voices of the OEGlobal Board of Directors, who provide the key leadership and direction for our organization. In this episode you will hear conversations recorded at OEGlobal 2023 in Edmonton with Board Vice-President Lisa Young and Board Member Cathy Casserly.

We hear a bit about their conference experience but also their viewpoints into the open education issues and topics that provide their direction in their role on the Board of Directors, who held a working meeting the day after the conference.

OEGlobal Board Members and Staff at OEGlobal 2023, CC-BY OEGlobal

These podcasts are part of the current board’s commitment to engage with the OEGlobal community. We plan to feature a new board member in a series every other month starting in the new year. In addition, the Board is taking turns posting a viewpoint on a topic of interest in OEG Connect, a place where you can respond and speak to them.

This Episode

FYI: This section of show notes alone was generated by AI Actions in the Descript editor we use to produce OEG Voices.

The podcast episode by Open Education Global features conversations with board members Lisa Young and Cathy Casserly. Lisa discusses the current issues impacting open education, the potential role of AI in the OER movement, and her experience serving on the OE Global board. Cathy shares her insights on the developments in open education over the last two decades, the importance of collaboration across different sub-sectors in the open ecosystem, and the potential of AI in open education. Both emphasised the importance of remaining connected to the global community, despite the constraints presented by limited resources. The conversations were recorded at the OE Global Conference in Edmonton.

00:05 Introduction to the Podcast
01:01 Introducing the OE Global Board of Directors
01:58 Conversation with Lisa Young
02:25 Discussing the Impact of Open Education
04:31 The Role of AI in Open Education
05:29 Lisa’s Experience on the OE Global Board
07:06 Conversation with Cathy Casserly
07:58 The State of Open Education
10:15 The Future of OE Global
11:57 Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives in Conferences
12:59 Closing Remarks

Note: The conversation with Lisa Young was recorded outside the conference center near a busy street. Even with the AI enhanced editing in Descript, the sound is not the best. If you prefer the full recording with all ambient sound, see below!

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Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 61

I love having colleagues from around the world from so many continents and for them all to be able to share their viewpoints. It’s really continued to open up my mind and help me see the global issues that are occurring. As I’ve come to OE Global conferences over the years, I always have that moment where my mind just gets blown.
Lisa Young on being a board member

Lisa Young Board Profile (OEGlobal)
Maricopa County Community College District
Planned Communities: Building the Foundation for Successful Cross-Institution Open Collaborations (panel at OEGlobal 2023)
OEGlobal Strategic Plan
OEGlobal 2014 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Braided, Inspiring, and Networked
Lisa Young’s three words to describe OEGlobal 2023

Original audio recording with Lisa Young including much traffic noise and maybe a few dogs barking!

AI is changing the landscape of the world and education along with it. So I think in particular, with respect to openly licensed content, there’s a moment in time when we have to be proactive as a community to figure out exactly how we want to participate in the AI education space with the content that is openly licensed.
Because otherwise it will happen to us and we want to be proactive. So I think clarity on that is of utmost importance.
Cathy Casserly on the state of Open Education

Cathy Casserly Board Profile (OEGlobal)
Catherine M. Casserly, PH.D (web site)
Diamond Open Knowledge (Cable Green keynote at OEGlobal 2023)

Connection. Awesome and Introspective.
Cathy Casserly’s three words to describe OEGlobal 2023

Our open licensed music for this episode is a track called The View From The Window by Ian Sutherland licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Like most of our intro music, it is from the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist).

This was another episode we used Descript for transcribing and editing audio that has greatly enhanced our ability to produce show.We have been exploring some of the other AI features in Descript, but our posts remain human authored unless indicated otherwise.