Month: February 2022

The Compact of OER Regional Groups

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Scaling Regional OER and Equity: National Consortium of Open Educational Resources (NCOER)” with several panelists. Tanya Spilovoy, Jenny Parks, Liliana Diaz Solodukhin, Lindsey Gumb, and Charlotte Dailey participated in the discussion. I didn’t realize there were regional compacts with the WICHE, MHEC, NEBHE, and SREB groups: […]
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A Panel about Open Education in Canada

I have learned so much from presentations about Open Education from people in Canada and Canadian RLOE collaborators. The Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Education Across Canada” included several panelists: Amanda Coolidge, Danielle Dubien, Heather Ross, Cynthia Holt, Urooj Nizami, Verena Roberts, and Alex Enkerli. Amanda Coolidge was the moderator. Urooj is amazing and […]
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A Code to Practice Fair Use?!

Will Cross does so much for our campus and presents all over! Tonight I watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “From Code to Practice: Lessons Learned from Making OER with the Code of Best Practice in Fair Use” with Will Cross, Meredith Jacob, Peter Jaszi, and Prue Adler. Jacob, Jaszi, and Adler are from […]
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Evaluation of OER-enabled Pedagogy and the Instructor Experience

I have watched Eric Werth and Katherine Williams from the University of Pikeville speak about the Open Pedagogy initiatives at their institution. Their session entitled “Evolution of Teaching Practice Through Experience with OER-Enabled Pedagogy” was a longer (~40 minutes, live) presentation at Open Ed 2021. Werth and Williams are involved in professional development at their […]
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Created Connected Communities

Amanda Marquez, a Professional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Jennifer Epley Sanders, an Associate Professor of Political Science also at TAMU presented at Open Ed 2021. The session was entitled “Creating Connected Communities and Histories through Open Pedagogy and OER” and was full of murals painted by local artists. Marquez is a […]
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A Sprint to Brainstorm Open Assignments

Alyssa Hamer, an Open Education Faculty Associate at Capilano University, and Darcye Lovsin, an Instruction and Reference Librarian at the Justice Institute of British Columbia. presented at Open Ed 2021 a 25-minute recorded session. Their session was entitled ” Sprinting to Student Empowerment: The Case for a Student-Centered Open Assignment Sprint.” Capilano University is in […]
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A Podcast Series on O.L.

The Open Ed 2021 ten-minute session entitled “Check the O.L. Liner Notes from Groundbreaking Online Learning was presented by Anne–Marie Scott, Deputy Provost, from Athabascau University in Canada, and Terry Greene, Senior eLearning Designer, at Trent University. The title was Greene’s brainchild: O.L. for online learning and hip hop music influences. Greene spoke about similarities […]
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Student Experience with Transition to Free Resources on a Campus

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Undergraduate Student Experience With A Campus-Wide Transition To Free Resources” and presented by Eric Werth, Katherine Williams, and Bang Huang from the University of Pikeville. I have watched sessions by Werth and Williams before, and I was curious about their initiative at the University of Pikeville. […]
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