Month: March 2022

OpenGLAM!

The session “OpenGLAM for OER: Digital Cultural Literacy & Engagement, from K-12 to Higher Ed & Beyond” from Open Ed 2021 had several presenters: Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Bethany Ellerbrook, Dovi Mae Patino-Liu, and Sharon Mizota. Graddy-Lovelace began by talking about OpenGLAM OER: galleries, libraries, archives, and museums and opening them. They are working with the MHC […]
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Connecting Research Grants and OER Pathways

I fell asleep so this is an early morning post that was supposed to be yesterday. I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “New Pathways to Open: OER Education, Advocacy, and Partnerships Through Research Grants” by Nina Exner and Jessica Kirschner from Virginia Commonwealth University. They are both librarians at VCU. Kirchner talked about the […]
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OAER and Open Communities of Practice

Alison Bonner, Elizabeth Nelson, and Larry Musolino from Penn State presented a 23-min recorded session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “Let’s Make Something For OUR Students: Value of Discipline-Specific Communities of Practice in OAER.” Bonner first described discipline-specific communities of practice and the advantages of communities for OER work. They defined communities of practice as […]
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Revisiting Libguides for Chemistry

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Providing Sustainable Open Educational Resource Material for Organic Chemistry Students” presented by Jeffrey M Mortimore, Nikki Cannon-Rech, Christine Whitlock, and Shainaz Landge. They are all from Georgia Southern University, and this is the second presentation I watch from this group. Landge mentioned they wanted to reduce […]
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Case Studies of OER Implementation at Towson

“Access for All: Case Studies Investigating Open Education Resources” was a session presented by Lijun Jin, Maria Perpetua Liwanag, Patricia Westerman, Miriam DesHarnais, Aaron Dallman, and Amanda Jozkowski from Towson University as part of Open Ed 2021. They spoke about the Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson and the Library and how they help […]
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An Organic Chemistry Lab Lib Guide

What are no-cost solutions when it comes to lab-based education? In a way, I think instructors teaching lab courses have an opportunity to develop and share OER that is tailored to their student needs and campus facilities. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 ten-minute session entitled “No-Cost Solution for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory.” Christine […]
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Learning with MOM: MyOpenMath

Marta Kowalczyk and Kevin Mark from La Guardia Community College, City University of New York, presented at Open Ed 2021 a session entitled “MyOpenMath (MOM) Platform for General Chemistry homework assignments.” I did not know about the MyOpenMath platform. Kowalczyk and Mark teach chemistry with MOM. Kowalczyk described MOM as a “free, open-source, online course […]
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IFMSA Open Science Efforts

Kevin Alvaro Handoko is the 2021-2022 IFMSA SCORE Director and spoke about “Fostering a Culture of Open Education: A Medical Student-Led Strategy” at Open Ed 2021. The International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA) has over 100 members and works on policy documents. One policy document that was adopted in 2020 was the Open Science […]
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Teaching with the Open Learning Initiative (OLI)

Dr. Robert Hoople from SUNY-Oneonta presented a ten-minute recorded session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “Open Learning Initiative: An Open OER Learning Platform That Can Work For You.” Hoople has taught for over eleven years psychology and… many different LMSs! Wow. Hoople has written chapters of a psychology textbook. Hoople spoke about requesting access to […]
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The Stitched (OER)

Sewing and OER? That was the name of the Open Ed 2021 session that we watched tonight. Presented by Heather Clark, faculty at the Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and Catherine Hay, this ten-minute session shared several resources. They teach fashion and talked about their project “stitched.” The presentation used a nice […]
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