Accessibility and UDL

March 30, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why, Workshop

Open Maricopa

“Yes You Can: Providing Institutional Planned and Just-in-Time Support to Faculty” is the title of the session of Open Ed 2021 that I watched. Lisa Young from Scottsdale Community College and Mathew Bloom and Debbie Baker from Maricopa Community Colleges were the speakers. They are part of Open Maricopa initiative. This project includes professional development, […]

March 29, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why

Digital Assessment Tools

We had the opportunity to be part of OER Week at Kennesaw State University today. To end a long and good day, I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Affordability, Accessibility, and Pedagogy, oh my! Developing Novel Digital Assessment Policy” by Kristen Morgan from Morgan Academic Consulting. Morgan is in Canada, and this was […]

March 27, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why, Workshop

In-Reach for OER

Shayna Pekala, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Gonzaga University, presented the lightning talk “OER In-Reach: Introducing Your Library Colleagues to OER” at Open Ed 2021. They shared slides here. Pekala defined “in-reach” as “the process of bringing information to and building relationships with internal stakeholders.” I did now know about this! Their goal was to […]

March 26, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Discussions, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Student groups, Wellbeing, Why

A Guide to Copyright that Empowers Students to Make Decisions

“Help us Conceptualize our Student-Facing Copyright Guide from an Emancipatory Framework?” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched today. Jessica O’Reilly is a doctoral candidate at Athabasca University and instructor and along with Marnie Seal, the Manager of the Library & Learning Commons at Cambrian College presented this ten-minute session. I […]

March 25, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Diversity, Information Literacy, Metacognition, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Student groups, Teaching techniques, Wellbeing, Why

OER and UDL to Support All Learners

Nico Diaz is an Academic Development and Recovery Advisor at Boise State University. In the 2021 Open Ed session entitled “Utilizing OER in Conjunction with Universal Design Principles to Support Students with Disabilities,” Diaz described their role on campus helping students make adjustments and how they use OER and UDL to support students with disabilities. […]

March 23, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why

Pressbooks Directory and Remixing OER

Amy Song is the Customer Success Manager at Pressbooks and presented on “Finding and Remixing OER: A Practical Introduction” at Open Ed 2021. The first step Song described was finding OER. They mentioned finding topics and features and coordinating with a librarian. Song listed several OER repositories such as OpenStax, Lumen Learning, Libre Texts, Open […]

March 20, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Course Design, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections

Curriculum Mapping for OER?!

I was once on a curriculum mapping task group. I actually enjoy course mapping & alignment, and curriculum mapping seemed like a worthwhile endeavor. We struggled as a team. Years later, I now realize that I should have approached that task differently. The Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Utilizing Curriculum Mapping to Assess Campus OER […]

March 19, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Discussions, Guest Speakers, Learning Communities, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Workshop

A Collaborative Group to Create and Share Activities

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Psychology 101 Collaborative: Creating and Sharing Course Activities to Foster Student Success.” Lisa Young is the Faculty Director at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Scottsdale Community College, and Debbie Barker is an instructional designer at Maricopa Community Colleges. Alisa Beyer joined the presentation and […]

March 18, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Discussions, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

Student Leadership in Open Education

Winni Zhang is the Open Education Project Manager at SPARC along with Hailey Babb and Aishah Abdullah. Their goal was to speak about best practices with students in open education. The panelists all have experience in student government and leadership. Zhang spoke from the perspective of experiences with a large public institution. Collecting data was […]

March 17, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Why

OpenStax Astronomy and OER

“The OpenStax Astronomy Book: Reaching Half a Million Readers, Creating a Community of Adopters” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session presented by Andrew Fraknoi. The OpenStax Astronomy is a free textbook: http://openstax.org/details/astronomy OpenStax, Fraknoi mentioned, has the goal of creating free textbooks for college courses. Fraknoi was part of the project as […]