Tonight I watched the 20minute Open Ed 2021 session entitled “OER as a Tool to Decenter Whiteness: A Queer Psychology Case Study” presented by Kat Klement from Bemidji State University. Klement’s goals for the session were to “identify OER sources that can decenter whiteness in your own disciplines” and “identify ways to center justice and […]
“Many Minds Make Strong Research” was the name of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. This twenty-minute recorded session was presented by Kathy Essmiller, an assistant professor and coordinator of OER at Oklahoma State University; Jamie Holmes, a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Tulsa Community College; Marla Lobley, a librarian at East Central […]
It didn’t snow as much as we thought it would, and we were able to go out after a week and a half. Tonight, the Open Ed 2021 session I watched was entitled “OERigin Stories: Women of Color in Open Education” presented by Ursula Pike, Associate Director of DigiTex. This ten-minute pre-recorded session had the […]
Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Equity Through OER: A Blueprint and Rubric” presented by Ann Fiddler, Open Education Library at the City University of New York, Reta Chaffee, Director of Educational Technology at Granite State College, and Robert Awkward, Assistant Commissioner for Academic Effectiveness at the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. Fiddler […]
We watched the Open Ed 2021 “Open Education Leadership Project Showcase.” This was a lightning talk about ten minutes long. Hailey Babb, Open Education Project Manager at SPARC, spoke about the 2021 cohort of the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program. This was the fourth year of the program and the first year of it as […]
What a day! Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Analysis of a Shifting Landscape: Course Materials and OER Before and During Covid” with Beth Martin, LuMarie Guth, and Glinda Rawls from Western Michigan University. Martin and Guth are librarians at WMU and conducted a study on the use of OER. One of their […]
Today I worked from home with Aurelio and had fun with the occasional interruption. Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session “The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN): Research Showcase, Collaboration & Consultation” with several panelists. Beck Pitt, a research fellow from The Open University introduced the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) and the network’s […]
Today I had the opportunity to be part of a panel with RLOE and RIOS for AACU 2021. It was a lot of fun! Tonight, the Open Ed 2021 session I watched was related to what was discussed during the panel. The title was “Pulling Together to Decolonize: Reflections on an Indigenous-led Open Resource Adaptation” […]
While the snow is quickly melting, it may freeze again tonight… and Wake County Public School System has canceled classes. I am no longer sure what day of the week it is with snow days and disruptions! Tonight, I watched another forty-minute Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Using Google Sites to Create Accessible and Mobile […]
What a fun snow day! Tonight we watched a session entitled “Emotional Histories: Exploring Social Change in a Gen Ed History Course Through Oral Histories” that was a 40-minute Open Ed 2021 with several presenters, including students. Elaine Kaye, an instructional designer from James Madison University, began by providing an overview. Kristen McCleary spoke about […]