Month: November 2021

OER Bootcamp: Games & Resources

I nIt was a busy day and I managed to attend a couple RLOE sessions! What a fantastic group! The students and facilitators were awesome. Tonight, I watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Organizing an OER Boot Camp for Faculty” presented by Claire Nickerson. The “OER Boot Camp” has been offered for three years […]
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The NEBHI Community of Practice Experience

It was a long day, and we got data back from the sequencing run! I am tired… and happy. Tonight I watched another panel from the Open Ed 2021 conference entitled “Zoom In: A Faculty Panel on Creating Renewable Assignments Using Lambert’s Social Justice Framework.” Lindsey Gumb, Fellow in Open Education at the New England […]
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OER Cooperation in Francophone African Countries?

Tonight I watched an OpenEd 2021 entitled ” OER Cooperation In Francophone African Countries: Key Success Factors For A Successful Strategy.” Torunn Gjelsvik from ICDE began by describing what ICDE is doing in the field of OER. Several universities and representatives from UNESCO are part of the working group for this project. In alignment with […]
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The Productive Open Education Group at Temple

The weekend went by quickly! Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Partnerships, Planning and Productivity: Forming and Sustaining an Open Education Working Group” by Kristina M. De Voe and Courtney Eger, both at Temple University. They both are at the University Libraries and have been SPARC fellows. With the aim of establishing […]
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Student Government Votes Yes on OER

I was able to watch a friend from graduate school present at the NIST FALCoN session this afternoon. Shana Kerr presented on metacognition, retrieval practice, and a study they did. Tonight, we watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Interest Convergence, Shared Goals: Student Government and Library Partnership in OER Initiatives” presented by Regina Gong, […]
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OER Faculty Learning Communities

Today we did two RLOE sessions about Open Pedagogy and student choice & voice. They were a lot of fun. The student panels were excellent! Tonight, we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “OERs & Faculty Learning Communities” with panelists Jenna Steigerwalt, Ella Smith-Justice, and James King. During the transition to remote online teaching […]
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A Systematic Review of Open Pedagogy

A long rough day with equipment smoking, computers not working, and lots of things going on. I ended the day by watching an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Pedagogy: A Systematic Review of Empirical Findings” presented by Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell, an associate professor from the University of North Dakota. Clinton-Lisell spoke about the Creative […]
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The OER Collaborative Effort in Western Maryland

What a day! I am still fighting with the Nanopore and computers while doing several other things and troubleshooting virtually as part of the metagenomics course. Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 panel about the STEM OERMaryland Fellowship. Fred Stemple and Doris Santamaria-Makang introduced the grant and program. The institutional grant includes several collaborations […]
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OER Awareness Trends and COVID-19

What are the trends in OER awareness and adoption in higher education? This is a question I wonder about. Tonight I watched an Open Ed 2021 session that addresses OER awareness: Julia Seaman the Director of Research at Bay View Analytics talked about “OER Awareness and Adoption Trends in US Higher Education through the COVID-19 […]
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