Online Learning

Open Academic Integrity

Tonight after a long day, we played the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Citation, Attribution, and Open Pedagogy: The Complexity of Academic Integrity in College Classrooms” presented by Monica Brown and Madison Hansen. They both started by describing their backgrounds and how citation and attribution are taught. Hansen talked about academic integrity best practices summarized […]
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OER for the Least Commonly Taught Languages?

What are less commonly taught languages? Open Ed 2021 hosted a panel moderated by Regina Gong entitled: “Supporting OER Creation in the Least Commonly Taught Languages.” The panelists included Ayman Mohamed, Shannon Quinn, Rajiv Ranjan, and Sadam Issa. All the panelists were from Michigan State University and OER Award Recipients. Gong described the OER program […]
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Enrollment and Openness

Stephen Downes, a Research Officer in the National Research Council of Canada, presented a session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “What Does It Mean To Enroll in a Course?” Downes began by mentioning a concern they have: how much information the Learning Management System wants when enrolling in a course. Downes asked: “why do they […]
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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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The European Network of Open Education Librarians

Today was the last day of classes. We tried to wrap up reflections and share what we have done. Tonight I wanted to learn what others have done with the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL) which is part of SPARC Europe’s. The session entitled “Open Education Academic Librarians at Work in Europe: Building […]
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World Librarians and Offline OER Sharing

Tonight we watched a panel session of Open Ed 2021 about the World Librarians program: worldLibrarians.org. The session was entitled “World Librarians: A System Providing Open Educational Resources to Offline Schools in Malawi & Kenya” and presented by Charlie Schweik, Carl Meyer, Wachira Warukira, and Sarah Hutton. Schweik is a professor at the University of […]
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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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Student OER Grants and Motivation for Sharing Materials

Today was a busy Saturday. We cleaned, organized, baked, and edited. We even did some QM homework! Tonight we started watching a couple of ten-minute Open Ed 2021 sessions. The first one was by Chaten Jessel entitled “Student Champion: Creating a $500k OER Initiative.” Jessel is an undergraduate fourth-year student from the University of Calgary. […]
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Automatic Textbook Billing and Zero-Cost Texts

What is automatic textbook billing? Winni Zhang from SPARC explained that automatic textbook billing is usually through the bookstore or publishers and charge students automatically for use of textbooks. The SPARC Inclusive Access Working Group helped create the contract library that this Open Ed 2021 session described “A Look at the Fine Print Behind Automatic […]
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