Month: April 2022

The Electric Book

Tonight’s Open Ed 2021 session was the recording for “Open is Insufficient: How Innovative Re-Use of Content Can Extend Institutional Reach.” Kenneth Feldt is the managing partner at the Electric Book Company. This is the second or maybe third presentation with Feldt I watch. Feldt focused on the value of reusability for content providers and […]
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OER Wealth!

What a great title for an Open Ed 2021 session: “Textbook Poor But OER Rich!” Ron Stafford and Mark Knockemus from Northeastern Technical College recorded together this ten-minute session. Stafford is the Library Director and Knockemus is an instructor for English and religion. Knockemus spoke about using handouts to supplement an expensive textbook and realizing […]
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The OER Buffet

“A Plate for Every Student: A Buffet Style Approach to Course Development Using OER” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. The presenter was Jennifer Schneider, an Assistant Professor at Community College of Philadelphia. The goals stated by Schneider were to identify OER collections for use in course design, assess […]
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Open Education at Camosun College

Happy birthday, Amada! You turned seven! Today I also had the opportunity to speak to a group from Ireland as part of an Open Cafe! Tonight’s session from Open Ed 2021 was entitled “Building Capacity for Open Education at a Canadian Community College” and presented by Emily Schudel, an Instructional Designer at Camosun College. The […]
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Momentum in OER Service

“Maintaining Momentum: Targeted OER Advocacy Turned Sustainable OER Service” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. It was presented by Crystal Mills, Emily Carlisle-Johnston, and Courtney Waugh from the University of Western Ontario. They spoke about Library Course Readings that provide zero-cost course materials to students. They restrict content to […]
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VALUE Rubrics

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Engaging With the VALUE Rubrics: An OER Tool for Assessment of Student Learning.” This topic was particularly timely since today we talked about rubrics during our RIOS Learning Community! Jessica Chittum and Britt Spears from the Association of American Colleges and Universities presented this session. The VALUE […]
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Textual Analysis of Open Book by Pre-service Teachers

“A Textual Analysis of a Student-Created Open Licensing Book” was the title of a ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session by Pengtong Qu, Chaoran Wang, and Meina Zhu. I had watched another presentation by Qu and Wang about pre-service teachers yesterday and was curious about this session. Wang is at Colby College; Qu is at Indiana […]
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Teaching Pre-service Teachers to Create OER

Today we did our first MS walk in several years. It was awesome to catch up with people we haven’t seen in years! The kids also had a lot of fun running around PNC Arena parking lots. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Using Open Pedagogy to Promote Pre-service Teachers’ Identity Development during […]
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From Proposals to OER Fellowships at Touro

April 1, 2022, was full of funny events at work and home. I am glad to wind down and watch the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Sowing Seeds for Sustainability: How a Small Grant Helped a Library-Led OER Initiative Grow.” Sara Tabaei, Timothy Valente, and Kick Snyder from Touro College and University system presented. Tabaei […]
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