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Campus-wide Surveys of OER Use

What a day! Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Analysis of a Shifting Landscape: Course Materials and OER Before and During Covid” with Beth Martin, LuMarie Guth, and Glinda Rawls from Western Michigan University. Martin and Guth are librarians at WMU and conducted a study on the use of OER. One of their […]
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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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Google Sites for Accessible and Mobile-Friendly OER

While the snow is quickly melting, it may freeze again tonight… and Wake County Public School System has canceled classes. I am no longer sure what day of the week it is with snow days and disruptions! Tonight, I watched another forty-minute Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Using Google Sites to Create Accessible and Mobile […]
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Surveying Students about OER Use and Preference

Tonight it snowed… and we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “An Analysis of the OER Feedback Survey from Students: Impact, Implications, and Lessons Learned.” Regina Gong and Jason Almerigi from Michigan State University (MSU) presented an overview of their study and results. Gong is the OER & Student Success Librarian… and I have […]
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Agile Software and OER

It is always wonderful to reconnect with graduate school friends. Last year when I was at the Open Ed 2021 conference doing my session, I noticed a familiar name. Tonight, I watched their recorded session entitled “A Freely Hosted and Easily Maintained OER for an Undergraduate Agile Software Engineering Course” with Cengiz Gunay, an associate […]
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EduCoop in Poland and Open Access Resources for Nursing Chemistry Courses

Tomorrow is the first day of classes, and we spent most of the day preparing for courses. Tonight, I watched the ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session entitled “EduCoop – Online Course About Co-Creation Open Education Resources” and presented by Aleksandra Czetwertyńska, team leader of the Centrum Cyfowe. Czetwertyńska spoke about their project EduCoop that is […]
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A Comparison of Two Sections of the Same Class

Tonight we ended the workweek by watching the ten minute OpenEd session “Traditional Textbooks v. OER: Comparing Academic Performance at a Hispanic Serving Institution” with Jacob Jenkins, AL$ Campus Coordinator and Associate Professor at CSU Channel Islands, Thomas Clobes, lecturer at CSU Channel Islands, and Hannah Haid and Rebecca Allen. This study compared two different […]
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The Challenges of Implementing Course Marking Legislation

To end a good day, we watched the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “The Impact of Zero-Cost Materials Designations: A State School’s Course Marking Legislation” presented by Adriana Poo and Christa Bailey, Senior Assistant Librarians at San Jose State University and Louis Tran, ALS Student Ambassador at San Jose State University. They spoke about affordable learning […]
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IMLS Investment in OER and Professional Development

James Neal, Senior Library Program Officer from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) began the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Federal Funding For OER: Spotlight On IMLS Grants.” I didn’t know about IMLS and learned from Neal’s introduction that it is a federal institute located in Washington, DC, and established in 1996. It is […]
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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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