Course Design

Awareness of Open Pedagogy Practices

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Building Awareness of Open Pedagogical Practices to Advance the Cause of Openness On Your Campus” by Kristina M. De Voe from Temple University. De Voe is an English and Communication Librarian. De Voe also leads the open education group and manages the textbook affordability project. Citing […]
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Perceptions of OER in Saudi Arabia and Microinstruction

Friday! Tonight I watched the OpenEd 2021 session by Saia Almousa, a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds present on “A Study of Academics’ Perception of OERs at Saudi Arabian Higher Education Institutions.” Almousa presented the research context for OERs in Saudi Arabia. While there have been studies in Arabic countries, there is a […]
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Wikidata in the Classroom

Shani Evenstein is a lecturer and Ph.D. candidate involved with the Wikimedia Foundation. Evenstein described the Wikidata project that is “A database of structured, linked data multilingual and read by humans and machines open to all, under a free license.” Alexa and Siri have access to Wikidata to search for information. Evenstein’s doctoral research is […]
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OER Cycles in India and Japan

It was a fun day with the family! We needed some downtime, and Aurelio took another long nap! Tonight I watched a couple of Open Ed 2021 lightning talks. I started with the session entitled “Co-creation of OERs for Foreign Language Acquisition: A Case study on Goa, India” presented by Natasha Maria Gomes from Goa […]
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Students Reflect on the Cost of Access Codes and Leaders Structure Open Journals

The weekend was too short! We did several different things around the house and with the grandparents. Tonight, we watched a holiday movie, and I continued watching Open Ed 2021 sessions. The ten-minute session entitled “Financial and Academic Impact of Textbooks” with Helen Do from CoPIRG Students at CU Boulder. Helen Do explained what CoPIRG […]
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Pandemic OER Outreach and Open RN

I worked on several different items today and was very scattered, yet I was able to get some items on my list finished. Tonight we listened to a couple of Open Ed sessions. We started with the recorded talk “COVID Changed How We Do OER Outreach. Here’s What Our Institutional Initiatives Have Learned” which featured […]
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Offline OER Solutions!

We still have the momentum from the first cohort of RLOE and discussions of open! Tonight, I watched another Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Access For All With Offline OER Solutions” and presented by Amanda Coolidge, director of Open Education BC Campus, and Carolee Clyne, Open Education Advisor BC Campus. They shared the slides at: […]
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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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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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