Accessibility and UDL

Help the Boundary Spanners!

Tonight we watched another longer Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Boundary Spanners: Bridging Gaps Between Higher Education and PK12” with Anita Walz and Julee Farley from Virginia Tech. I did not know about boundary spanners and boundary objects before this presentation, and that was one of the goals of this session. Farley discussed the history […]
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Critical Digital Pedagogy and Open Sharing with a Project about Lynching

Tonight we continued with Open Ed 2021 sessions and watched the twenty-minute recorded session entitled “Teaching Hard Histories for Racial Healing: The Lynching in Virginia Curriculum Project.” A multi-disciplinary team from James Madison University presented their work: Mary Beth Concienne, Ashley Jaffee, Alia Stone, Gianluca De Fazio, Kristen Mlodynia, Nicole Wilson, Liz Thompson, and Elaine […]
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A Panel on Academic Integrity and OER

What a fun day in the lab! I am also excited I get to work with the Libraries again! Tonight, we watched the session entitled “OER and Academic Integrity: A Path Forward” with David Harris is the Editor in Chief of Open Stax, Maureen O’Brien from Western Governors University, and C. Edward Watson, associate vice […]
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ISKME Promotes Accessible Open

Tonight we ended the workweek by watching an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Beyond “Open”: Intersections with Accessibility, Cultural Responsiveness, and Broader Educational Goals.” Ethan Senack is the Chief of Staff of ISKME and Mindy Boland is the director of OER Services at ISKME. I did not know ISKME also runs OER Commons! Senack began […]
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Open and the Common Good

Tonight we watched another Open Ed 2021 keynote by Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University and author of a new book entitled “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.” The session was entitled “Open Education: Infrastructure for Common Good.” Fitzpatrick started by talking about […]
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Student Contributions to OCW

Yesterday’s Open Ed 2021 session left me thinking and rereading my post. Tonight we continued watching sessions. The one we watched was entitled “When Students Create OER: What We’ve Learned and What’s Next at MIT OpenCourseWare” with speakers Ashay Athalye, Sarah Hansen, Curt Newton, and Paige Dote from MIT Open Course Ware. Newton is the […]
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Black Feminism and Open Education

We finished the semester! I submitted grades and was able to get into the lab, extract genomic DNA from compost samples, and start a sequencing run after doing a session at OERcamp 2021! Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Education Through an Ethics of Care & Justice” presented by Kristin Lansdown, […]
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OER for the Least Commonly Taught Languages?

What are less commonly taught languages? Open Ed 2021 hosted a panel moderated by Regina Gong entitled: “Supporting OER Creation in the Least Commonly Taught Languages.” The panelists included Ayman Mohamed, Shannon Quinn, Rajiv Ranjan, and Sadam Issa. All the panelists were from Michigan State University and OER Award Recipients. Gong described the OER program […]
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Enrollment and Openness

Stephen Downes, a Research Officer in the National Research Council of Canada, presented a session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “What Does It Mean To Enroll in a Course?” Downes began by mentioning a concern they have: how much information the Learning Management System wants when enrolling in a course. Downes asked: “why do they […]
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Awareness of Open Pedagogy Practices

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Building Awareness of Open Pedagogical Practices to Advance the Cause of Openness On Your Campus” by Kristina M. De Voe from Temple University. De Voe is an English and Communication Librarian. De Voe also leads the open education group and manages the textbook affordability project. Citing […]
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