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Improving through Choice and UDL

“Using Choice as an Active Teaching and Learning Technique” is the title of the Lilly Conference online session I watched tonight. Tiffany Wigington is an Associate Professor at Tarleton State University along with Misty Smith, both in the Department of Social Work. Their objectives were to explore the use of choice in their curriculum. They […]
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Redesigning Courses for Reading Comprehension

Tonight I watched the Lilly Conference online session “The Effectiveness of Metacognitive Reading Strategies in the College Classroom” by Jiyoung Kim from Fayetteville State University and Trela Anderson from the National Defense University. They assessed metacognitive reading strategies in the courses they teach. The data is from the reading across the curriculum program at Fayetteville […]
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Feedback with a Mote!?

Professor Sharon Lauricella from Ontario Tech University presented at Open Ed 2021 a session entitled ” Mote for Personalized Voice Notes: Connection, Feedback, and Accessibility via Edtech.” Mote is an educational technology tool. Lauricella is a professor in communication and digital media studies. I didn’t know what Mote was! It is a tool that allows […]
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The Electric Book

Tonight’s Open Ed 2021 session was the recording for “Open is Insufficient: How Innovative Re-Use of Content Can Extend Institutional Reach.” Kenneth Feldt is the managing partner at the Electric Book Company. This is the second or maybe third presentation with Feldt I watch. Feldt focused on the value of reusability for content providers and […]
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Global OER Graduate Network Showcase

Today I worked from home with Aurelio and had fun with the occasional interruption. Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session “The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN): Research Showcase, Collaboration & Consultation” with several panelists. Beck Pitt, a research fellow from The Open University introduced the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) and the network’s […]
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Student Voices and Institutional Culture Change with CCCOER

I saw a familiar acronym on the schedule of OpenEd 2021 sessions! Tonight we watched the session “Creating a Culture of Open with Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)” with several Open Education leaders! The moderator was Una Daly, Director CCCOER from Open Education Global. Panelists included Dr. Bob Awkward, Cynthia Orozco, Judith […]
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The Inspiring OER Trilogy

Happy Friday! Tonight we watched an Open Ed session “An Open Textbook Journey: Building the ‘Consumer Behaviour Trilogy'” presented by Andrea Niosi from Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Canada. Niosi shared three stories (hence the trilogy in the title) that they have developed to highlight learner creation. The first OER that Niosi shared was the “Introduction […]
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Educational Technology for Digital Organization and Scholarship

I have been intrigued by note-taking in the classroom for almost a decade now. My first proposal for an educational study when I came to NC State was using Livescribe pens to capture student concept maps and share them to evaluate and compare to other digital tools such as Lucidchart. We have been using electronic […]
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Open and Closed!

I still can’t figure out Twitter… I have two accounts and end up using the @delftia one instead of my personal one. Chris Aldrich talked about “A Twitter of Our Own” as OERxDomains21 Day 2. Aldrich started by talking about why be on Twitter if there are “healthier” alternatives? I don’t use Twitter much because […]
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