Books

Remixing (OER) with H2O

Jeremy Peters, Assistant Professor of Music Business at Wayne State University and co-founder of Quite Scientific Records, and Catherine Brobston from Outreach at Harvard Law School spoke about “Remixing and Expanding Access to Legal Education Resources” at Open Ed 2021. Brobston introduced H2O, “an open education platform focused on legal resources and built for cloning […]
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Becoming Open Access Learners

Geoff Keston, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at Temple University, presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Helping Undergraduates Become Open Access Learners.” Keston started by explaining that open learning is a challenge because learners are often used to finding all the resources in one site. Keston emphasized that “open access learning” is challenging […]
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An Affordable, Accessible, and Open BIO 132

Dorothy Salinas is an Assistant Professor at County College of Morris in New Jersey. They presented “Biology Course Development: Increasing Affordability and Accessibility for Non-Science Majors” at Open Ed 2021. Salinas spoke about common barriers students may face including academic/institutional (financial aid, advising, guidance, preparedness, learning obstacles) and non-academic (school/work/life balance, time management, childcare, location, […]
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Open Pedagogy in Nigeria

Adenike D. Omoike, Senior Librarian at the Kenneth Dike Library at the University of Ibadan presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Open Pedagogy and Practices for Sustainable Education in Nigeria.” They defined pedagogy as the processes and practices of classroom instruction that is aimed at communicating the contents of courses and subjects to students citing […]
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Engaging Students in OER Textbooks for Engineering

“Collaborative Open Textbook Development Through Student Engagement: An Innovative Approach to OER” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. Yang Wu is the Open Resource Librarian at Clemson. Mathew Boyer is a Research Associate Professor and Leah Wiitablake are in the Deparment of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson. Wu, […]
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Moodle and OpenStax

Krassi Lazarova presented at Open Ed 2021 on “OpenStax College Physics – tips and tricks for implementation with Moodle.” Lazarova is an Associate Professor of Physics at Centenary University. They have searched for Open Educational Resources (OER) at their institution. Lazarova shared statistics about OER use and savings. They also described the challenges of OER […]
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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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OER Wealth!

What a great title for an Open Ed 2021 session: “Textbook Poor But OER Rich!” Ron Stafford and Mark Knockemus from Northeastern Technical College recorded together this ten-minute session. Stafford is the Library Director and Knockemus is an instructor for English and religion. Knockemus spoke about using handouts to supplement an expensive textbook and realizing […]
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Open Education at Camosun College

Happy birthday, Amada! You turned seven! Today I also had the opportunity to speak to a group from Ireland as part of an Open Cafe! Tonight’s session from Open Ed 2021 was entitled “Building Capacity for Open Education at a Canadian Community College” and presented by Emily Schudel, an Instructional Designer at Camosun College. The […]
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