OpenEd

An Escape Room about Open Textbooks!

Escape rooms are popular now! The session of Open Ed 2021 had a session entitled “Using An Escape Room To Educate Students About Open Textbooks” with Amy Shannon, Teresa Schultz, Tati Mesfin, Elena Azabakht from the Libraries at the University of Nevada Reno-Library. Shannon described what an escape room is and the escape room they […]
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Transformation of a Class through Open Pedagogy

Diana Daly and Cheryl Cuillier Casey presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Improving Learning Outcomes Through Open Pedagogy.” They met in 2020 through a Pressbooks project. Daly is an iSchool Assistant Professor and head of iVoices Lab. Casey is an Open Education Librarian. They both are at the University of Arizona. They shared their resources: […]
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Examples of Collective Creation of Resources

This Open Ed 2021 title caught my attention: “How To Involve Your Students In The Creation Of Open Resources For Their Own Use.” This 20-minute session was presented by Sarah Stokes, the OER Lab Manage, and Elita Partosoedarso, a professor, both at Ontario Tech University. Partosoedarso began by describing their stimulus for using OERs. In […]
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The Compact of OER Regional Groups

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Scaling Regional OER and Equity: National Consortium of Open Educational Resources (NCOER)” with several panelists. Tanya Spilovoy, Jenny Parks, Liliana Diaz Solodukhin, Lindsey Gumb, and Charlotte Dailey participated in the discussion. I didn’t realize there were regional compacts with the WICHE, MHEC, NEBHE, and SREB groups: […]
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A Panel about Open Education in Canada

I have learned so much from presentations about Open Education from people in Canada and Canadian RLOE collaborators. The Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Education Across Canada” included several panelists: Amanda Coolidge, Danielle Dubien, Heather Ross, Cynthia Holt, Urooj Nizami, Verena Roberts, and Alex Enkerli. Amanda Coolidge was the moderator. Urooj is amazing and […]
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A Code to Practice Fair Use?!

Will Cross does so much for our campus and presents all over! Tonight I watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “From Code to Practice: Lessons Learned from Making OER with the Code of Best Practice in Fair Use” with Will Cross, Meredith Jacob, Peter Jaszi, and Prue Adler. Jacob, Jaszi, and Adler are from […]
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Evaluation of OER-enabled Pedagogy and the Instructor Experience

I have watched Eric Werth and Katherine Williams from the University of Pikeville speak about the Open Pedagogy initiatives at their institution. Their session entitled “Evolution of Teaching Practice Through Experience with OER-Enabled Pedagogy” was a longer (~40 minutes, live) presentation at Open Ed 2021. Werth and Williams are involved in professional development at their […]
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Created Connected Communities

Amanda Marquez, a Professional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Jennifer Epley Sanders, an Associate Professor of Political Science also at TAMU presented at Open Ed 2021. The session was entitled “Creating Connected Communities and Histories through Open Pedagogy and OER” and was full of murals painted by local artists. Marquez is a […]
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A Sprint to Brainstorm Open Assignments

Alyssa Hamer, an Open Education Faculty Associate at Capilano University, and Darcye Lovsin, an Instruction and Reference Librarian at the Justice Institute of British Columbia. presented at Open Ed 2021 a 25-minute recorded session. Their session was entitled ” Sprinting to Student Empowerment: The Case for a Student-Centered Open Assignment Sprint.” Capilano University is in […]
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A Podcast Series on O.L.

The Open Ed 2021 ten-minute session entitled “Check the O.L. Liner Notes from Groundbreaking Online Learning was presented by Anne–Marie Scott, Deputy Provost, from Athabascau University in Canada, and Terry Greene, Senior eLearning Designer, at Trent University. The title was Greene’s brainchild: O.L. for online learning and hip hop music influences. Greene spoke about similarities […]
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