Publishing

Dialogic Reading, Children Stories, and Recipes for OER-enabled Pedagogy

Today we worked together virtually on troubleshooting metagenomic analyses! It was fun… and we filled the forums with questions, snapshots, and code. Tonight, I watched another Open Ed 2021 short session (25 min) on “OER-Enabled Pedagogy: Student Examples of Renewable Assignments” with Kate Williamson and Todd LaMarr from American River College. Williamson is a librarian […]
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OER Awareness Trends and COVID-19

What are the trends in OER awareness and adoption in higher education? This is a question I wonder about. Tonight I watched an Open Ed 2021 session that addresses OER awareness: Julia Seaman the Director of Research at Bay View Analytics talked about “OER Awareness and Adoption Trends in US Higher Education through the COVID-19 […]
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The Wikipedia Assignment

The Wiki Education group has been fantastic. We worked with them last year to help a group of undergraduate students learn how to edit Wikipedia pages on Delftia acidovorans. Helaine Blumenthal is the Senior Program Manager at Wiki Education and has helped me set up courses and work with new editors. I was happy to […]
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Starting with OER and Open Pedagogy

Continuing with OpenEdu 2021, I watched the session entitled “Getting Started with Open Education” presented by Cheryl Casey. The slides for the session were shared as well as the Online OER Toolkit. The benefits of open education were listed on a slide: cost savings, accessibility, day-one access, equity & social justice, inclusion, diversity, innovation, and […]
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Building OER Capacity in the Midwest through Teams and Research

It was a good restful weekend. Tonight we watched another session from OpenEd 2021 entitled “Building OER Capacity in the Midwest: Supporting Grassroots Efforts and Statewide Collaboration” presented by Jenny Parks, Annika Many, Jennifer Zinth, and Katie Zaback. Parks described MHEC: Midwestern Higher Education Compact. They received a Hewlett Foundation grant with National Consortium for […]
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Innovation in Content Re-usability

Tonight I finished the week by starting (ha!) the OpenEd 2021 recordings. I had a lot of fun in our sessions! The first recorded session I watched was by Kenneth Feldt and entitled “Open is insufficient: How Innovative Re-use of Content Can Extend Institutional Reach.” Feldt is a managing partner of the Electric Book Company […]
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Emergent Learning and Remixes

I am moving on to day 2 of the ALT 2021 annual conference! Tonight we watched a session with a title that caught my attention: “Lines of thought: the serendipitous emergence of collaborative learning” by Sarah Honeychurch and Wendy Taleo. This session was sponsored by Talis, and now I am curious what they do. Honeychurch […]
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The Journal of Research in Learning Technology

Saturdays are always full of… emotions and cleaning! Tonight I watched another ALT 2021 session entitled “Getting published in ‘Research in in Learning Technology’: A Workshop with the editors” with speakers: Sarah Honeychurch, James Brunton, and Louise Drumm – all professors and editors. They are all editors for the journal Research in Learning Technology. Honeychurch […]
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Replicate, Learn, and Publish Openly

This weekend I worked with an undergraduate student on a research proposal for undergraduate funding in the fall. I also talked to a colleague on Friday about the difficulties of publishing undergraduate (mostly summer) research and continuation with different students. Replication and continuation are always a challenge. That’s why I thought tonight’s Lilly Conference online […]
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