Guest Speakers

The Origins of CAST, UDL, and Texthelp

“A Special Take 20 with Texthelp Featuring David Rose & Martin McKay, Hosted by Joni Degner” was the title of the CAST UDL Symposium Session I watched tonight. Degner hosted this conversation with Rose and McKay. Joni Degner hosts a series “Take 20” with Texthelp. McKay spoke about his dad having a stroke and losing […]
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Professional Podcasts for Education

Rachel V. Smydra from Oakland University recorded a 45-minute session for the Lilly Conference online. The title of the session is “Using Podcasts to Facilitate Learning and Skill Application in Online Courses.” Smydra defined podcasts and mentioned that the medium has grown during the pandemic. However, I agree that it may be difficult to find […]
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Organizing and Closing Open Ed 2021

The Friday Open Ed 2021 plenary to close the conference was entitled “The Future of Open Ed.” Andrea Scott is the OER Coordinator at Salt Lake Community College and introduced the Strategic Planning Committee. Stephanie Pierce is the Head of the Physics Library at the University of Arkansas Libraries and started a Mentimeter poll. Pierce […]
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A Resource to Guide Discussions about Openness and Equity

Dr. Kaitlyn Watson and Dr. Anna Rogrigues from Ontario Tech University presented on “Reading Guide OER for “Moon on the Crusted Snow”: A Collaborative Story” as part of Open Ed 2021. They began their presentation with a land acknowledgment that was personalized and connected to their roles and activities on the land. Rodrigues is an […]
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A Collaborative Group to Create and Share Activities

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Psychology 101 Collaborative: Creating and Sharing Course Activities to Foster Student Success.” Lisa Young is the Faculty Director at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Scottsdale Community College, and Debbie Barker is an instructional designer at Maricopa Community Colleges. Alisa Beyer joined the presentation and […]
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Coffee Chats to Disseminate Open Education Across Canada

So many acronyms! I am learning about all the programs and groups promoting open education by watching the Open Ed 2021 sessions! Tonight, I watched the session entitled “Introducing the Open Education Cross-Canada Coffee Chat (OECCCC)” with Lise Brin, Ann Ludbrook, Kate Gibbings, Olga Perkovic, and Paula Parlette from libraries in Canada and all members […]
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Distance in Online Courses

The last parallel session of day 3 of ALT 2021 was entitled “Distance makes the heart grow fonder?” with speakers Tarek Zoubir and Gabriella Bishop. They are both at Imperial College in the Business School. At the EdTech lab, they develop software platforms and collaborate with other business schools. The presenters wanted to explore how […]
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Students as Partners

Students as partners. We mention the phrase often, and I think it has a variety of different ways of being implemented. Cliodhna O’Callaghan from the University College Cork, Ireland presented at ALT 2021 on the Teach Digi project. O’Callaghan is the project lead on this initiative for “shared learning and students as partners.” The Enhancing […]
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Community and Power-Sharing in Online Courses

This long weekend was full of gardening and playing outside… and cleaning! It was a lot of fun, though I am now exhausted. Tonight, we watched another session from the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference. The session was entitled “Continued connections: using community-and technology-rich education post-pandemic” with several presenters from Elon: Patti Burns, Senior Lecturer […]
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Mindful UNCW

I did not feel well today. I did an only synchronous Zoom class and several meetings, and at the end of the day… crashed. I had to close my eyes for a while. Now I pulled up the Lilly Online Conference 2021 talk entitled “Mindful UNCW: A Campus-Wide Initiative Promoting the Practice of Mindfulness” by […]
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