OpenEd

March 14, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Course Design, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

Structure of a Multi-campus Course Material Fellowship Program

Today I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “All for One & One for All: Building a Multi-Campus Course Material Fellowship Program” presented by Sara Hare, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Bloomington campus of Indiana University, and Amy Minix. They launched in fall 2020 supported by a one-year grant supporting 13 students from two campuses. […]

March 13, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Why

Donors and OER

DeeAnn Ivie is the OER Coordinator at UT San Antonio and worked with Felipe Barrera the Director of Development at UTSA Libraries. They presented at Open Ed 2021 a 25-minute recorded session entitled “Keeping Donors Engaged: A Strategy for Demonstrating Impact through Storytelling.” Barrera’s job is focused on finding philanthropic opportunities, and Ivie works with […]

March 12, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Course Design, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Website

Creating an OER for the 1900s

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Creating Community While Building an Early College Humanities OER” with Paul Ricciardi, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, and Michelle Turnbull, adjunct at Kingsborough Community College. They told the story of how they created an Early College Humanities OER. Turnbull taught high […]

March 11, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Website, Wellbeing

OpenGLAM!

The session “OpenGLAM for OER: Digital Cultural Literacy & Engagement, from K-12 to Higher Ed & Beyond” from Open Ed 2021 had several presenters: Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Bethany Ellerbrook, Dovi Mae Patino-Liu, and Sharon Mizota. Graddy-Lovelace began by talking about OpenGLAM OER: galleries, libraries, archives, and museums and opening them. They are working with the MHC […]

March 10, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Information Literacy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Workshop

Connecting Research Grants and OER Pathways

I fell asleep so this is an early morning post that was supposed to be yesterday. I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “New Pathways to Open: OER Education, Advocacy, and Partnerships Through Research Grants” by Nina Exner and Jessica Kirschner from Virginia Commonwealth University. They are both librarians at VCU. Kirchner talked about the […]

March 9, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Community of Practice, Constructivism, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections

OAER and Open Communities of Practice

Alison Bonner, Elizabeth Nelson, and Larry Musolino from Penn State presented a 23-min recorded session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “Let’s Make Something For OUR Students: Value of Discipline-Specific Communities of Practice in OAER.” Bonner first described discipline-specific communities of practice and the advantages of communities for OER work. They defined communities of practice as […]

March 8, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, OpenEd, Reflections

Revisiting Libguides for Chemistry

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Providing Sustainable Open Educational Resource Material for Organic Chemistry Students” presented by Jeffrey M Mortimore, Nikki Cannon-Rech, Christine Whitlock, and Shainaz Landge. They are all from Georgia Southern University, and this is the second presentation I watch from this group. Landge mentioned they wanted to reduce […]

March 7, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Discussions, Learning Communities, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections

Case Studies of OER Implementation at Towson

“Access for All: Case Studies Investigating Open Education Resources” was a session presented by Lijun Jin, Maria Perpetua Liwanag, Patricia Westerman, Miriam DesHarnais, Aaron Dallman, and Amanda Jozkowski from Towson University as part of Open Ed 2021. They spoke about the Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson and the Library and how they help […]

March 6, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why

An Organic Chemistry Lab Lib Guide

What are no-cost solutions when it comes to lab-based education? In a way, I think instructors teaching lab courses have an opportunity to develop and share OER that is tailored to their student needs and campus facilities. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 ten-minute session entitled “No-Cost Solution for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory.” Christine […]

March 5, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Books, Constructivism, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why

Learning with MOM: MyOpenMath

Marta Kowalczyk and Kevin Mark from La Guardia Community College, City University of New York, presented at Open Ed 2021 a session entitled “MyOpenMath (MOM) Platform for General Chemistry homework assignments.” I did not know about the MyOpenMath platform. Kowalczyk and Mark teach chemistry with MOM. Kowalczyk described MOM as a “free, open-source, online course […]