Discussions

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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What is Equity without Care?

I have been wanting to watch the OERxDomains21 session by Mia Zamora and Maha Bali for a couple of days now. The sixty-minute session was entitled “Building Appreciative Narratives of Equity and Care in the Open” and caught my attention when I first saw the conference schedule… but the timing didn’t work out to watch […]
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The Joy of Openness

The opening plenary session for the OERxDomains21 conference entitled “Joy and Care in Open Education in Times of Pandemic” began with a welcoming and described everything the conference did to promote virtual community. This is my first OERxDomains conference, and I loved how easy it was to log in, present, watch, and interact! The conference […]
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Taking Care of Ourselves and Listening to Student Voices

As part of Domains21, Lee Skallerup Bessette and Susannah McGowan presented on Taking Care and affective or emotional labor. Skallerup Bessette described the history of the term “emotional labor” and explained how even in academia there is a need to manage emotions. McGowan talked about how they looked into emotional labor as part of faculty […]
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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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Open Communities and Publications During the Pandemic

Another great session from day 1 of OERxDomains21 was entitled “Open Reading with Your Eyes Shut: Demystifying Foo-Foo the Snoo” presented by Mark Brown. The title was referring to Dr. Seuss, and Brown introduced the challenge of having so many open access journals and filtering resources for reliability! The National Institute for Digital Learning publishes […]
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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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Gendered Experiences in STEM

Dr. Katie Hinde from Arizona State University presented as part of the SABER Diversity & Inclusion Speaker Series 2021 on Gendered Experiences. The presentation was entitled “Land of milk and “honey”: Confronting gendered experiences in field research” and focused on gendered issues in field research.  Hinde started by providing a scenario and polling the audience. Then […]
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Talking about Digital Equity

Dr. DeRionne Pollard, President of Montgomery College, delivered the keynote address at QM ConnectLX 2020. Pollard started by talking about the impact of Quality Matters (QM) and how education is “about the experience and dignity” and this resonated. Pollard talked about how much aid Montgomery College gave to students during the pandemic. The impact of […]
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Prosocial Utility and Textbooks

Karen Hales facilitated a virtual journal club session as part of the LSE webinar series last October that caught my attention: “Promoting Science Interest with Prosocial Utility.” Jeanette Zambrano, a doctoral student in Urban Education Policy with a concentration in Educational Psychology at University of Southern California introduced goal-congruity theory. Zambrano talked about dropout in […]
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