Academic Development

December 3, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

Perceptions of OER in Saudi Arabia and Microinstruction

Friday! Tonight I watched the OpenEd 2021 session by Saia Almousa, a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds present on “A Study of Academics’ Perception of OERs at Saudi Arabian Higher Education Institutions.” Almousa presented the research context for OERs in Saudi Arabia. While there have been studies in Arabic countries, there is a […]

November 30, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Community of Practice, Constructivism, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Teaching techniques, Website

OER Studies in Nigeria and K-12 Classrooms

Tonight we watched a pair of ten-minute Open Ed 2021 talks. The first one was entitled “Building and Sustaining a Culture of Open Education: Strategies and Advocacy in Nigeria” and presented by Adenekan Fauziyah Nihinlolawa. They described the education status of Nigeria and the promise of Open Education. The study they described examined the strategies […]

November 29, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Community of Practice, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections

The European Network of Open Education Librarians

Today was the last day of classes. We tried to wrap up reflections and share what we have done. Tonight I wanted to learn what others have done with the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL) which is part of SPARC Europe’s. The session entitled “Open Education Academic Librarians at Work in Europe: Building […]

November 26, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, Information Literacy, Metacognition, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Why

OER Cycles in India and Japan

It was a fun day with the family! We needed some downtime, and Aurelio took another long nap! Tonight I watched a couple of Open Ed 2021 lightning talks. I started with the session entitled “Co-creation of OERs for Foreign Language Acquisition: A Case study on Goa, India” presented by Natasha Maria Gomes from Goa […]

November 24, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Books, Constructivism, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections

BranchEd to Teach the Teachers of Future Teachers

Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchEd) provides support for faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSI). Aubree Evans is the director of the BIRCH Professional Learning Center at Branch Ed and presented at Open Ed 2021. The session was entitled “Teaching the Teachers of Future Teachers to Design Inclusive Instructional OER.” In 2019 they conducted focus groups […]

November 19, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Why

The K-12 Voices of Open

How does K-12 Voices of Open lead K-12 OER efforts? Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 panel entitled “Advancing K-12 OER Through A Collaborative Model” with several panelists: Amee Evans Godwin from ISKME, B. Jean Weller from Virginia Department of Education, Cynthia Curry from CAST, Rebecca Henderson from Westmoreland Intermediate Unit, PA, and Yvette […]

November 18, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Books, Course Design, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

Pandemic OER Outreach and Open RN

I worked on several different items today and was very scattered, yet I was able to get some items on my list finished. Tonight we listened to a couple of Open Ed sessions. We started with the recorded talk “COVID Changed How We Do OER Outreach. Here’s What Our Institutional Initiatives Have Learned” which featured […]

November 16, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Books, Constructivism, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Why

Dialogic Reading, Children Stories, and Recipes for OER-enabled Pedagogy

Today we worked together virtually on troubleshooting metagenomic analyses! It was fun… and we filled the forums with questions, snapshots, and code. Tonight, I watched another Open Ed 2021 short session (25 min) on “OER-Enabled Pedagogy: Student Examples of Renewable Assignments” with Kate Williamson and Todd LaMarr from American River College. Williamson is a librarian […]

November 5, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why

Student Government Votes Yes on OER

I was able to watch a friend from graduate school present at the NIST FALCoN session this afternoon. Shana Kerr presented on metacognition, retrieval practice, and a study they did. Tonight, we watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Interest Convergence, Shared Goals: Student Government and Library Partnership in OER Initiatives” presented by Regina Gong, […]

November 4, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Community of Practice, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Learning Communities, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Wellbeing, Why

OER Faculty Learning Communities

Today we did two RLOE sessions about Open Pedagogy and student choice & voice. They were a lot of fun. The student panels were excellent! Tonight, we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “OERs & Faculty Learning Communities” with panelists Jenna Steigerwalt, Ella Smith-Justice, and James King. During the transition to remote online teaching […]