DBER and SoTL

Perceptions of Open Pedagogy in Courses for Future Teachers

Tonight I watched another twenty-minute Open Ed 2021 session about K-12 teacher educators. The session entitled “Permeable Spaces for Complex Identities: Teacher Educators Advancing Open Pedagogy Practices” was presented by Staci Gilpin, an Assistant Professor of Educator, and Stephanie Rollog Yoon, Assistant Professor of Education. Both faculty are from The College of Saint Scholastica and […]
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Transformation of a Class through Open Pedagogy

Diana Daly and Cheryl Cuillier Casey presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Improving Learning Outcomes Through Open Pedagogy.” They met in 2020 through a Pressbooks project. Daly is an iSchool Assistant Professor and head of iVoices Lab. Casey is an Open Education Librarian. They both are at the University of Arizona. They shared their resources: […]
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Student Experience with Transition to Free Resources on a Campus

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Undergraduate Student Experience With A Campus-Wide Transition To Free Resources” and presented by Eric Werth, Katherine Williams, and Bang Huang from the University of Pikeville. I have watched sessions by Werth and Williams before, and I was curious about their initiative at the University of Pikeville. […]
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Open Project for Lifelong Learners

“Many Minds Make Strong Research” was the name of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. This twenty-minute recorded session was presented by Kathy Essmiller, an assistant professor and coordinator of OER at Oklahoma State University; Jamie Holmes, a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Tulsa Community College; Marla Lobley, a librarian at East Central […]
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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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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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Designing and Teaching MOOCs and Educational Research

“How to Improve Students Learning Outcomes in Online Courses and MOOCs” was the title of the session by Zsuzsa Köpösdi, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Debrecen in Hungary. Köpösdi is an instructor of an online course that can be taken by students at 22 Hungarian universities and beyond. The research questions addressed in […]
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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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International Community of Practice and Survey of Open Pedagogy

Rafael Angel Espinoza Pizarro presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Virtual Communities of Practice (CoP): Experiences for the Development of Open Educational Resources.” Espinoza is from Costa Rica and defined community of practice (CoP) as a “strategy for articulation and exchange between institutions and/or teachers, who decide to voluntarily associate and join efforts, experiences, and […]
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