April 2021 – Carlos C. Goller

April 30, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Learning Communities, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Transfer Students, Website

Community Commons in a Box?

At first, I looked over this OERxDomains21 session… then I read the description and was intrigued. Entitled “OpenLab – Open Infrastructure in Action at CUNY” Charlie Edwards, Jody Rosen and Christopher Stein described a virtual space for community building. Rosen described how the project began with a Department of Education grant to support their institution […]

April 29, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, Delftia, Discussions, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

Data Analytics and Open Practices at the Institutional Level

I continue watching OERxDomains21 sessions this week. Tonight, I started by watching a session by Nicole Allen “Open Education, Data Analytics, and the Future of Knowledge Infrastructure” that addressed open education and surveillance analytics. Allen gave a talk without slides and started by explaining the new market for data analytics. Several examples of mergers and […]

April 28, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Discussions, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

What is Equity without Care?

I have been wanting to watch the OERxDomains21 session by Mia Zamora and Maha Bali for a couple of days now. The sixty-minute session was entitled “Building Appreciative Narratives of Equity and Care in the Open” and caught my attention when I first saw the conference schedule… but the timing didn’t work out to watch […]

April 27, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Discussions, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Wellbeing

The Joy of Openness

The opening plenary session for the OERxDomains21 conference entitled “Joy and Care in Open Education in Times of Pandemic” began with a welcoming and described everything the conference did to promote virtual community. This is my first OERxDomains conference, and I loved how easy it was to log in, present, watch, and interact! The conference […]

April 26, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Wellbeing, Why

Modalities and Engagement

I have been thinking about openness and collaborative projects in Spanish lately. Another OERxDomains21 session about openness and collaborative spaces presented by Giovanna Carloni focused on “Digitally-enhanced collaborative international spaces for content and language learning” and provided some ideas of how other countries approached emergency remote learning. Carloni discussed how the course was structured and […]

April 25, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Discussions, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

Taking Care of Ourselves and Listening to Student Voices

As part of Domains21, Lee Skallerup Bessette and Susannah McGowan presented on Taking Care and affective or emotional labor. Skallerup Bessette described the history of the term “emotional labor” and explained how even in academia there is a need to manage emotions. McGowan talked about how they looked into emotional labor as part of faculty […]

April 24, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Delftia, Discussions, Diversity, Interprofessional Education, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

OERs in Spanish-speaking Countries

Another OERxDomains21 session that caught my attention is entitled “Links between Open Education and DEI – Findings from a Latin American Study” presented by Carina Bossu and Viviane Vladimirschi. This project was funded by the Open University an Hewlett Foundation. They interviewed 12 key stakeholders from Latin America, coded and analyzed the data using NVivo, […]

April 23, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Community of Practice, Course Design, Discussions, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

Open Communities and Publications During the Pandemic

Another great session from day 1 of OERxDomains21 was entitled “Open Reading with Your Eyes Shut: Demystifying Foo-Foo the Snoo” presented by Mark Brown. The title was referring to Dr. Seuss, and Brown introduced the challenge of having so many open access journals and filtering resources for reliability! The National Institute for Digital Learning publishes […]

April 22, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Interprofessional Education, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

Agile Open Online Education

Tonight I watched another OERxDomains21 session entitled “Pathways to Learning: Open Collaboration to Support the Online Pivot” that included a long list of collaborators and numerous open collaboration examples. Rob Farrow described a project called Pathways to Learning that was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund program. Farrow and colleagues rapidly created a pair […]

April 21, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Delftia, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Undergraduate Research, Why

Self-mapped Learning Pathways

Today the OERxDomains Conference started! Will, David, Erin, and I presented on the Open Incubator and Citizen Science! It was a lot of fun! The conference system is fantastic too! I also talked about how citizen science is not limited to citizens and the wonderful work the Delftia group of undergraduate researchers did editing Wikipedia! […]

Month: April 2021