Accessibility and UDL

Francophone and CommonLit OER

OER at a bilingual university seems very challenging. That’s why I was intrigued by the lighting talk from Open Ed 2021 entitled “Challenges and Opportunities of OER at a Bilingual Canadian University” presented by Michelle Brown and Melanie Brunet from the University of Ottawa, a bilingual Canadian university. They mentioned that the University of Ottawa […]
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World Librarians and Offline OER Sharing

Tonight we watched a panel session of Open Ed 2021 about the World Librarians program: worldLibrarians.org. The session was entitled “World Librarians: A System Providing Open Educational Resources to Offline Schools in Malawi & Kenya” and presented by Charlie Schweik, Carl Meyer, Wachira Warukira, and Sarah Hutton. Schweik is a professor at the University of […]
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Updating Metadata Vocabulary for Inclusion and Equity

Today we spent most of the day cleaning and doing chores… and some reorganizing of freezers in the lab due to a power outage! The Open Ed 2021 session we watched tonight was entitled “Creating an Inclusive Subject Vocabulary to Describe Humanities Resources” presented by Sarah Harris an Associate Librarian at the National Humanities Center. […]
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OpenSkill and Open Tools

Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 session by Ariel Anbar and colleagues about the Open Skill initiative. The session entitled “OpenSkill: Open Tools, Co-Development, and Workforce Readiness” described the OER barriers to adoption and the need for improving workforce training. Anbar is the PI for the Department of Education-funded program. Anbar shared a quote: […]
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Textbook Affordability through Student Digital Storytelling Campaigns

Today was a rainy Monday with lots of computer work. Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Beyond the #Campaign: Capturing the Realities of Textbook Affordability Through Digital Storytelling” and presented by Adriana Poo, Christa Bailey, and Louis Tran from San Jose State University. They acknowledged the Muwekma tribes. Since 2018, their OER […]
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Students Reflect on the Cost of Access Codes and Leaders Structure Open Journals

The weekend was too short! We did several different things around the house and with the grandparents. Tonight, we watched a holiday movie, and I continued watching Open Ed 2021 sessions. The ten-minute session entitled “Financial and Academic Impact of Textbooks” with Helen Do from CoPIRG Students at CU Boulder. Helen Do explained what CoPIRG […]
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Student OER Grants and Motivation for Sharing Materials

Today was a busy Saturday. We cleaned, organized, baked, and edited. We even did some QM homework! Tonight we started watching a couple of ten-minute Open Ed 2021 sessions. The first one was by Chaten Jessel entitled “Student Champion: Creating a $500k OER Initiative.” Jessel is an undergraduate fourth-year student from the University of Calgary. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Facilitating Leadership Development in OER Cohorts

Leadership has come up frequently in the last several weeks. Tonight I watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “From OER Learner to Leader: Creating a Professional Development Pathway for Emerging OER Champions” presented by Monica Brown and Apurva Ashok from the Rebus Foundation. I have been curious about the Rebus Foundation. Brown and Ashok […]
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