Open Pedagogy

Open and the Common Good

Tonight we watched another Open Ed 2021 keynote by Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University and author of a new book entitled “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.” The session was entitled “Open Education: Infrastructure for Common Good.” Fitzpatrick started by talking about […]
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Open Education and Closed Infrastructures

One of the keynotes of Open Ed 2021 was by Dr. Leslie Chan from the University of Toronto Scarborough and the director of the Knowledge Equity Lab. Chan’s session was entitled “When Open Education Collide with Closed Infrastructure…” and Chan began with a personal reflection of their frustration encountering barriers. The history of the University […]
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A Roadmap for Open Pedagogy Projects

Project management has been a challenge. That’s why the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Pedagogy Project Management: A Roadmap for Inclusive, Collaborative, & Sustainable Projects” seemed like one I should watch! Presenters Christina Riehman-Murphy and Bryan McGeary from Penn State University explained their experiences with open pedagogy. McGeary talked about a Hispanic Linguistics student-authored […]
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OER Studies in Brazil and Frameworks for Ethics of Care

I have now watched several Open Ed 2021 sessions about teaching languages using Open Educational Resources (OER). However, I have not learned what people are doing for teaching Portuguese. The session entitled “A Research Landscape on OER in Brazil: The Teaching of First and Foreign Languages” was presented by Terezinha Marcondes Diniz Biazi, a Ph.D. […]
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Student Contributions to OCW

Yesterday’s Open Ed 2021 session left me thinking and rereading my post. Tonight we continued watching sessions. The one we watched was entitled “When Students Create OER: What We’ve Learned and What’s Next at MIT OpenCourseWare” with speakers Ashay Athalye, Sarah Hansen, Curt Newton, and Paige Dote from MIT Open Course Ware. Newton is the […]
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Black Feminism and Open Education

We finished the semester! I submitted grades and was able to get into the lab, extract genomic DNA from compost samples, and start a sequencing run after doing a session at OERcamp 2021! Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Education Through an Ethics of Care & Justice” presented by Kristin Lansdown, […]
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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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CUNY Graduate Student Open Fellowship

Tonight I learned about the CUNY system by watching the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open by Design, but to What End? Designing the Open Pedagogy Fellowship,” presented by Jill Cirasella, Associate Librarian for Scholarly Communication, CUNY Graduate Center, and Elvis Bakaitis and Katelyn Angell. The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest […]
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The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations

The Open Ed 2021 panel entitled “Youth Involvement in Advocating for Open: Medical Students and Beyond” had several members of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations. Madalina Elena Mandache, Kevin Alvaro Handoko, and Hanseul Cho presented. Cho talked about a research exchange program conducted by medical students to promote open science. They drafted student-led […]
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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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