Academic Development

February 20, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, DBER and SoTL, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Perceptions of Open Pedagogy in Courses for Future Teachers

Tonight I watched another twenty-minute Open Ed 2021 session about K-12 teacher educators. The session entitled “Permeable Spaces for Complex Identities: Teacher Educators Advancing Open Pedagogy Practices” was presented by Staci Gilpin, an Assistant Professor of Educator, and Stephanie Rollog Yoon, Assistant Professor of Education. Both faculty are from The College of Saint Scholastica and […]

February 17, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Why

Co-creating Ancillary Materials

It was a long and productive day! I ended by watching “OER Development: Working with a Collaborative Community to Create Ancillary Materials” from the Open Ed 2021 sessions. Alishia Huntoon was the presenter and shared the process of creating materials with their group. They defined OERs and the increasing number of new adoptions. OERs can […]

February 15, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Discussions, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

An Audit Framework for More Inclusive OER

Suzanne Wakim from Butte Community College has done so much for Open Educational Resources and RLOE. It was nice to recognize the name Rachel Arteaga and Mandeep Grewal in the Open Ed 2021 recorded session entitled “Strategies for Assessing and Adapting OER for Inclusion: A Case Study.” Rachel Arteaga is a Librarian at Butte College […]

February 13, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

The Contributions Matrix for OER and Open Pedagogy

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 presentation entitled “Building Capacity for Your OER Initiative: DOERS3” presented by Amanda Coolidge (Director, Open Education BC Campus), Kevin Corcoran (Executive Director, Digital Learning, Connecticut State Colleges & Universities), and Andrew Mckinney (OER Coordinator, CUNY). The Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) collaborative was launched in 2018 […]

February 12, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Discussions, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Why

An Escape Room about Open Textbooks!

Escape rooms are popular now! The session of Open Ed 2021 had a session entitled “Using An Escape Room To Educate Students About Open Textbooks” with Amy Shannon, Teresa Schultz, Tati Mesfin, Elena Azabakht from the Libraries at the University of Nevada Reno-Library. Shannon described what an escape room is and the escape room they […]

February 11, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Books, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Diversity, Information Literacy, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Podcasts, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why, Writing

Transformation of a Class through Open Pedagogy

Diana Daly and Cheryl Cuillier Casey presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Improving Learning Outcomes Through Open Pedagogy.” They met in 2020 through a Pressbooks project. Daly is an iSchool Assistant Professor and head of iVoices Lab. Casey is an Open Education Librarian. They both are at the University of Arizona. They shared their resources: […]

February 10, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Discussions, Information Literacy, Interprofessional Education, Metacognition, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

EDI Book Club

One session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “Book Club: Professional Development Tool to Advance Open Education, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” included a recorded session and live discussion. Ursula Pike, Associate Director at DigiTex, described how the CCCOER Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee included a book club. They asked participants how their institutions defined equity. Pike […]

February 9, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Why

Examples of Collective Creation of Resources

This Open Ed 2021 title caught my attention: “How To Involve Your Students In The Creation Of Open Resources For Their Own Use.” This 20-minute session was presented by Sarah Stokes, the OER Lab Manage, and Elita Partosoedarso, a professor, both at Ontario Tech University. Partosoedarso began by describing their stimulus for using OERs. In […]

February 8, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Community of Practice, Diversity, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections

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: […]

February 7, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections

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 […]