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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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OER-enabled Pedagogy

Eric Werth and Katherine Williams from the University of Pikeville recorded a 2021 Lilly Conference online session entitled “Empowering Student Voice: Using Open Pedagogy to Motivate First-Year Students.” They are both in the Office of Professional Development. This topic is appropriate today because as part of the BIT SURE program, we discussed open pedagogy and […]
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Replicate, Learn, and Publish Openly

This weekend I worked with an undergraduate student on a research proposal for undergraduate funding in the fall. I also talked to a colleague on Friday about the difficulties of publishing undergraduate (mostly summer) research and continuation with different students. Replication and continuation are always a challenge. That’s why I thought tonight’s Lilly Conference online […]
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Educational Technology for Digital Organization and Scholarship

I have been intrigued by note-taking in the classroom for almost a decade now. My first proposal for an educational study when I came to NC State was using Livescribe pens to capture student concept maps and share them to evaluate and compare to other digital tools such as Lucidchart. We have been using electronic […]
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Open and Closed!

I still can’t figure out Twitter… I have two accounts and end up using the @delftia one instead of my personal one. Chris Aldrich talked about “A Twitter of Our Own” as OERxDomains21 Day 2. Aldrich started by talking about why be on Twitter if there are “healthier” alternatives? I don’t use Twitter much because […]
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nQuire and Jelastic?

Tonight’s OERxDomains21 session was by Nashwa Ismail and Christothea Herodotou and focused on online citizen science. This is timely since yesterday we were trying to figure out an appropriate way of mentioning in text citizen science and emphasizing that it is for all, not only citizens! This session was entitled “How can facilitation by experts […]
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Creating, Sharing, and Using OERs

Melissa Jakubec from Thompson Rivers University in Canada presented about building an OER repository of learning activities during a twenty-minute session at OERxDomains21. Jakubec started with another thoughtful land acknowledgement that included discussion of their personal experience living on these lands. Jakubec wanted to design a repository of educational resources that was searchable, accessible, and […]
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Data Analytics and Open Practices at the Institutional Level

I continue watching OERxDomains21 sessions this week. Tonight, I started by watching a session by Nicole Allen “Open Education, Data Analytics, and the Future of Knowledge Infrastructure” that addressed open education and surveillance analytics. Allen gave a talk without slides and started by explaining the new market for data analytics. Several examples of mergers and […]
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OERs in Spanish-speaking Countries

Another OERxDomains21 session that caught my attention is entitled “Links between Open Education and DEI – Findings from a Latin American Study” presented by Carina Bossu and Viviane Vladimirschi. This project was funded by the Open University an Hewlett Foundation. They interviewed 12 key stakeholders from Latin America, coded and analyzed the data using NVivo, […]
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Self-mapped Learning Pathways

Today the OERxDomains Conference started! Will, David, Erin, and I presented on the Open Incubator and Citizen Science! It was a lot of fun! The conference system is fantastic too! I also talked about how citizen science is not limited to citizens and the wonderful work the Delftia group of undergraduate researchers did editing Wikipedia! […]
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