Year: 2022

OER in the Public Sector

The OpenEd 2021 session “Developing an Open Educational Resource Repository for The Public Sector with an Inclusive Lens” by Ksenia Cheinman, Manager of Research at the Canada School of Public Service exposed me to OERs in government. I appreciate how Cheinman started with a brief discussion of the connections between land, stewardship, gifts, reciprocity, and […]
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International Community of Practice and Survey of Open Pedagogy

Rafael Angel Espinoza Pizarro presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Virtual Communities of Practice (CoP): Experiences for the Development of Open Educational Resources.” Espinoza is from Costa Rica and defined community of practice (CoP) as a “strategy for articulation and exchange between institutions and/or teachers, who decide to voluntarily associate and join efforts, experiences, and […]
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Unintentional Group Curation of Information in the Open?

We started the year with a snow day… at least for a couple of hours. It was a fun day for the kids at home, but the adults had difficulties getting work done. Tonight, I watched (since everyone else fell asleep before I even started!) the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Student Curation of Content and […]
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IMLS Investment in OER and Professional Development

James Neal, Senior Library Program Officer from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) began the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Federal Funding For OER: Spotlight On IMLS Grants.” I didn’t know about IMLS and learned from Neal’s introduction that it is a federal institute located in Washington, DC, and established in 1996. It is […]
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Perceptions of Low-cost and No-cost Course Designations

For the first day of the new year, we watched the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Schedule Designation and Enrollment Research” with Amy Hofer from Open Oregon Educational Resources, Shauna McNulty, faculty at Umpqua Community College, and Jennifer Lantrip, Health Sciences Student Success Librarian at Pacific University. Their slides were made available at: tinyurl.com/designationstudyopened21 Their team […]
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