Colleen Sanders

Colleen Sanders, MLS, M.Ed., is a librarian, instructional designer, faculty developer, and open education practitioner. She works at the intersection of people, information, technology, and learning. She has served as a faculty librarian at multiple institutions in Oregon and Washington. Currently, she supports faculty in academic and technical fields to combine information access with learner-centered design. Her goal is to engage adult learners through active learning that develops relevant, authentic, and transferable skills. She is a graduate of the Creative Commons Certificate program (opens in a new tab) and the Open Education Network’s Certificate in Open Pedagogy (opens in a new tab).  Her work advocating for OER policy amidst commercial textbook affordability programs earned her an OER Champion award (opens in a new tab) from Open Oregon Educational Resources. She has served on multiple large-scale OER publishing projects in Oregon and Washington, first as an OER Development Consultant on the Targeted Pathways Open Curriculum (opens in a new tab) project, then as an Instructional Designer, OER & Copyright Specialist, and Pressbooks Migration Lead for Washington’s Open ProfTech project (opens in a new tab). She hopes to empower library and information workers in all capacities to integrate diverse skillsets into their careers to serve critical informational practices.