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Starting an OER Journey with the Syllabus

What a week! I’m tired. A lot happened and several items on my checklist were accomplished, though a couple continue to be pushed back! I did finish the QM Teaching Online Certificate, and we were able to get the epMotion 5075 BitBot liquid handler to run a DNA prep with food coloring and water. Tonight […]
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OER Bootcamp: Games & Resources

I nIt was a busy day and I managed to attend a couple RLOE sessions! What a fantastic group! The students and facilitators were awesome. Tonight, I watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Organizing an OER Boot Camp for Faculty” presented by Claire Nickerson. The “OER Boot Camp” has been offered for three years […]
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OER and Zero-cost Textbooks in the Florida Virtual Campus

This evening we played with the neighborhood kids at our culdesac Halloween party! The Open Ed 2021 session we watched was entitled “Florida Virtual Campus Adding Textbook Cost Indicators to the State Online Course Catalog” and presented by several speakers. Rebel Cummings-Sauls began by explaining the Florida Virtual Campus initiative that provides support for students, […]
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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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After the Fire, We Embrace Discomfort

Today was a fun day: I met with students, worked on some items that we needed, and met with colleagues. Tonight we continued watching recorded sessions. Megan Knight, Associate Professor of Instruction in the Rhetoric Department from the University of Iowa, presented at the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference in June 2021. The presentation was […]
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Relationship-Rich Teaching and Learning

Peter Felten and Leo Lambert from Elon University gave a one-hour session about their book: creating relationship-rich teaching. Lambert began by talking about the new majority of students and how our teaching should evolve. They spoke about the adult learners, first-generation students, and students of color that are the emerging majority at many institutions. What […]
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Book Study and Small Inclusive Teaching

The session I watched tonight from the summer Elon Teaching and Learning Conference was entitled “Exploring Course Content and Equity through Book Study.” Lisa Buchanan and Heidi Hollingsworth are professors in the School of Education. They presented with Josie Brothers and Liliana Kelson, Elon undergraduates. The session objectives focused on inviting participants to select books […]
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Distractions from Elon T&L Conference

After finishing the Lilly Online Conference recorded sessions from May 2021, I went back to the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference. The plenary of the conference was Dr. James Lang who I admire and follow. I missed the keynote and several other sessions of the Elon conference so I wanted to watch as many as […]
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Motivation and OER Adoption

Katherine Williams, Rachel Messer, and Eric Werth from the University of Pikeville presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online on “Faculty Motivation and Concern During a Campus-wide Free Textbook Initiative.” Their objectives included identifying areas of faculty concern from transitions to free materials and what faculty found motivating and demotivating. They defined Open Educational Resources […]
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Selection of Multicultural Texts

Ann Martinelli and Roxanna Senyshyn from The Pennsylvania State University presented on “Learning to Support and Sustain Cultural (and linguistic) Diversity: Perspectives of Preservice Teachers.” They teach at the Abington College, a component of Penn State University and they are a “minority majority student community” located outside of Philadelphia. The elementary education program includes the […]
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