Month: May 2021

Reflecting on Teaching and My Mentors

A couple of weeks ago, I had the fantastic opportunity to talk to Dr. Barbi Honeycutt and be on the Lecture Breakers podcast. I consider Dr. Honeycutt as one of teaching mentors: when I first came to NC State in 2012, Barbi had a series of workshops to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars become […]
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Copyright and Cooperativism

Copyright makes me nervous. I struggle with copyright and fair use for images used for graphical abstracts that students create. Will Cross, Meredith Jacob, Peter Jaszi and Prue Adler presented at OERxDomains21 about harmonizing national copyright exceptions. I know Will Cross and have benefitted tremendously from his expertise in OER and copyright. I wanted to […]
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#Openteach and the ACE Framework

I continue watching OERxDomains21 sessions and loving them! They provide happiness and lots of ideas. Tonight, I started by watching Orna Farrell , James Brunton, Eamon Costello, Caitriona Ni She, Matthew Waters, Cliona Olohan, Aleksandra Shornikova and Aodan Farrelly present about “Open Course, Open Textbook, OpenTeach” and how this team developed this project. Orna Farrell […]
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Rhetoric and Websites for Community

Jim Luke reflected during OERxDomains21 on April 21 about the word choices we use and the metaphors in higher education. The session entitled “Reflecting on Market vs. Commons Rhetoric: Care and the Professor’s Dilemma” reviewed metaphors Luke collected after asking what metaphors we use in higher education on Twitter. People responded with pathways/guided pathways, workforce […]
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Creating, Sharing, and Using OERs

Melissa Jakubec from Thompson Rivers University in Canada presented about building an OER repository of learning activities during a twenty-minute session at OERxDomains21. Jakubec started with another thoughtful land acknowledgement that included discussion of their personal experience living on these lands. Jakubec wanted to design a repository of educational resources that was searchable, accessible, and […]
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