“A Tough Nut to Crack: Developing an OER Textbook for Literature Courses” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. The speakers included Sarah LeMire, the Coordinator of First-Year Programs at Texas A&M University Libraries, and Kathy Anders, the Graduate Studies Librarian also at Texas A&M University. Several faculty from the […]
I was once on a curriculum mapping task group. I actually enjoy course mapping & alignment, and curriculum mapping seemed like a worthwhile endeavor. We struggled as a team. Years later, I now realize that I should have approached that task differently. The Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Utilizing Curriculum Mapping to Assess Campus OER […]
Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Psychology 101 Collaborative: Creating and Sharing Course Activities to Foster Student Success.” Lisa Young is the Faculty Director at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Scottsdale Community College, and Debbie Barker is an instructional designer at Maricopa Community Colleges. Alisa Beyer joined the presentation and […]
Winni Zhang is the Open Education Project Manager at SPARC along with Hailey Babb and Aishah Abdullah. Their goal was to speak about best practices with students in open education. The panelists all have experience in student government and leadership. Zhang spoke from the perspective of experiences with a large public institution. Collecting data was […]
“The OpenStax Astronomy Book: Reaching Half a Million Readers, Creating a Community of Adopters” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session presented by Andrew Fraknoi. The OpenStax Astronomy is a free textbook: http://openstax.org/details/astronomy OpenStax, Fraknoi mentioned, has the goal of creating free textbooks for college courses. Fraknoi was part of the project as […]
Tonight I watched another session entitled “Scaling OER Efforts: Tapping Librarian Subject Specialist’ Expertise, Efficiency and Sustainability” by DeeAnn Ivie from UT San Antonio Libraries. UTSA is a “Hispanic-thriving institution” and has over 34,000 students. The institution has 165 degree programs and a breakdown of about 50/50 by gender. They primarily serve undergraduates, with a […]
“Congratulations! You’re Officially A Publisher. Now What?” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 session by Andrea Scott, OER Coordinator, and Jen Hughes, New Media, and Educational Initiatives Librarian. Both are at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). They shared their slides at: http://bit.ly/openedpub At SLCC, the OER Culture has grown for several years with […]
Today I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “All for One & One for All: Building a Multi-Campus Course Material Fellowship Program” presented by Sara Hare, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Bloomington campus of Indiana University, and Amy Minix. They launched in fall 2020 supported by a one-year grant supporting 13 students from two campuses. […]
DeeAnn Ivie is the OER Coordinator at UT San Antonio and worked with Felipe Barrera the Director of Development at UTSA Libraries. They presented at Open Ed 2021 a 25-minute recorded session entitled “Keeping Donors Engaged: A Strategy for Demonstrating Impact through Storytelling.” Barrera’s job is focused on finding philanthropic opportunities, and Ivie works with […]
Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Creating Community While Building an Early College Humanities OER” with Paul Ricciardi, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, and Michelle Turnbull, adjunct at Kingsborough Community College. They told the story of how they created an Early College Humanities OER. Turnbull taught high […]