Constructivism

Student OER Grants and Motivation for Sharing Materials

Today was a busy Saturday. We cleaned, organized, baked, and edited. We even did some QM homework! Tonight we started watching a couple of ten-minute Open Ed 2021 sessions. The first one was by Chaten Jessel entitled “Student Champion: Creating a $500k OER Initiative.” Jessel is an undergraduate fourth-year student from the University of Calgary. […]
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Dialogic Reading, Children Stories, and Recipes for OER-enabled Pedagogy

Today we worked together virtually on troubleshooting metagenomic analyses! It was fun… and we filled the forums with questions, snapshots, and code. Tonight, I watched another Open Ed 2021 short session (25 min) on “OER-Enabled Pedagogy: Student Examples of Renewable Assignments” with Kate Williamson and Todd LaMarr from American River College. Williamson is a librarian […]
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Creating OER Adoption Programs in Anchorage

We went to play with the grandparents and had a delicious lunch. The kids enjoyed making slime and playing with cardboard boxes. Tonight we watched another Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Developing a Robust Faculty OER Adoption Program Under Challenging Conditions” presented by D’Arcy Hutchings and Veronica Howard from the University of Alaska Anchorage. They […]
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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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A Panel for OER for Racial Equity and Justice

Tonight, I watched a recording from Open Ed 2021 entitled “Creating OER for Racial Equity and Social Justice through Inclusive Innovation.” The panelists included students and teachers. Jenny Bradbury from Digital Promise started with the why for this program: the need to help support teachers internationally in “building the capacity to effectively foster discussions and […]
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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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The NEBHI Community of Practice Experience

It was a long day, and we got data back from the sequencing run! I am tired… and happy. Tonight I watched another panel from the Open Ed 2021 conference entitled “Zoom In: A Faculty Panel on Creating Renewable Assignments Using Lambert’s Social Justice Framework.” Lindsey Gumb, Fellow in Open Education at the New England […]
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The Productive Open Education Group at Temple

The weekend went by quickly! Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Partnerships, Planning and Productivity: Forming and Sustaining an Open Education Working Group” by Kristina M. De Voe and Courtney Eger, both at Temple University. They both are at the University Libraries and have been SPARC fellows. With the aim of establishing […]
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Student Government Votes Yes on OER

I was able to watch a friend from graduate school present at the NIST FALCoN session this afternoon. Shana Kerr presented on metacognition, retrieval practice, and a study they did. Tonight, we watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Interest Convergence, Shared Goals: Student Government and Library Partnership in OER Initiatives” presented by Regina Gong, […]
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The OER Collaborative Effort in Western Maryland

What a day! I am still fighting with the Nanopore and computers while doing several other things and troubleshooting virtually as part of the metagenomics course. Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 panel about the STEM OERMaryland Fellowship. Fred Stemple and Doris Santamaria-Makang introduced the grant and program. The institutional grant includes several collaborations […]
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