“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 […]
Tonight I watched another session entitled “Scaling OER Efforts: Tapping Librarian Subject Specialist’ Expertise, Efficiency and Sustainability” by DeeAnn Ivie from UT San Antonio Libraries. UTSA is a “Hispanic-thriving institution” and has over 34,000 students. The institution has 165 degree programs and a breakdown of about 50/50 by gender. They primarily serve undergraduates, with a […]
“Congratulations! You’re Officially A Publisher. Now What?” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 session by Andrea Scott, OER Coordinator, and Jen Hughes, New Media, and Educational Initiatives Librarian. Both are at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). They shared their slides at: http://bit.ly/openedpub At SLCC, the OER Culture has grown for several years with […]
Today I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “All for One & One for All: Building a Multi-Campus Course Material Fellowship Program” presented by Sara Hare, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Bloomington campus of Indiana University, and Amy Minix. They launched in fall 2020 supported by a one-year grant supporting 13 students from two campuses. […]
DeeAnn Ivie is the OER Coordinator at UT San Antonio and worked with Felipe Barrera the Director of Development at UTSA Libraries. They presented at Open Ed 2021 a 25-minute recorded session entitled “Keeping Donors Engaged: A Strategy for Demonstrating Impact through Storytelling.” Barrera’s job is focused on finding philanthropic opportunities, and Ivie works with […]
Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Creating Community While Building an Early College Humanities OER” with Paul Ricciardi, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, and Michelle Turnbull, adjunct at Kingsborough Community College. They told the story of how they created an Early College Humanities OER. Turnbull taught high […]
Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Providing Sustainable Open Educational Resource Material for Organic Chemistry Students” presented by Jeffrey M Mortimore, Nikki Cannon-Rech, Christine Whitlock, and Shainaz Landge. They are all from Georgia Southern University, and this is the second presentation I watch from this group. Landge mentioned they wanted to reduce […]
“Access for All: Case Studies Investigating Open Education Resources” was a session presented by Lijun Jin, Maria Perpetua Liwanag, Patricia Westerman, Miriam DesHarnais, Aaron Dallman, and Amanda Jozkowski from Towson University as part of Open Ed 2021. They spoke about the Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson and the Library and how they help […]
What are no-cost solutions when it comes to lab-based education? In a way, I think instructors teaching lab courses have an opportunity to develop and share OER that is tailored to their student needs and campus facilities. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 ten-minute session entitled “No-Cost Solution for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory.” Christine […]
Marta Kowalczyk and Kevin Mark from La Guardia Community College, City University of New York, presented at Open Ed 2021 a session entitled “MyOpenMath (MOM) Platform for General Chemistry homework assignments.” I did not know about the MyOpenMath platform. Kowalczyk and Mark teach chemistry with MOM. Kowalczyk described MOM as a “free, open-source, online course […]