Publishing

Beyond the Text… and Instructor/Student Resources!

Tonight, I watched a 2021 Lilly Conference Online asynchronous session by Dr. Silvia Bartolic from the University of British Columbia. The session was entitled “Promoting Digital and Visual Literacy Through Multimodal Projects” and began with the numerous reasons why instructors should use multimodal assessments. The challenge, as mentioned by Bartolic, is how to design multimodal […]
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Educational Technology for Digital Organization and Scholarship

I have been intrigued by note-taking in the classroom for almost a decade now. My first proposal for an educational study when I came to NC State was using Livescribe pens to capture student concept maps and share them to evaluate and compare to other digital tools such as Lucidchart. We have been using electronic […]
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Open and Closed!

I still can’t figure out Twitter… I have two accounts and end up using the @delftia one instead of my personal one. Chris Aldrich talked about “A Twitter of Our Own” as OERxDomains21 Day 2. Aldrich started by talking about why be on Twitter if there are “healthier” alternatives? I don’t use Twitter much because […]
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Open Textbooks and Care

Melissa Jakubec and John Belshaw presented on “The Case of the Accidental Open Textbook” as part of day 2 of the OERxDomains21 conference. I was intrigued by the title yesterday. How can I make an accidental open textbook? Belshaw teaches indigenous history and talked about the balance of a “settler” teaching indigenous histories and not […]
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Care in the GO-GN Network and Monetization for Open Creators

Martin Weller, Rob Farrow, Beck Pitt and Paco Iniesto presented about “Care and Community in the GO-GN Network” as part of day 2 of the OERxDomains21 conference. Before this conference, I did not know about GO-GN, and I have watched several sessions about it. GO-GN also supports doctoral students doing open practice. Weller talked about […]
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Stories of Teaching, Learning, and Enjoying Life in the Open

Alan Levine and Tannis Morgan talked about the OpenETC during day 2 of the OERxDomains21. Open EdTech Cooperative is described as “free range ed tech” and providing a cooperative structure to educational technology, as described by Morgan. The program has been active for about five years. During this session, Levine and Morgan let instructors share […]
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Learning about Digital Literacy and Wikipedia

I am moving on to Day 2 of OERxDomains2 sessions. Jane Secker and colleagues Hasan Munir, Ahmed El-Shareif, and Kanan Barot from City University presented about “The Impact of Teaching Digital Literacies and Open Practices” through accredited modules. Secker mentioned that they have run the module three times as well as a similar module taught […]
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Creating, Sharing, and Using OERs

Melissa Jakubec from Thompson Rivers University in Canada presented about building an OER repository of learning activities during a twenty-minute session at OERxDomains21. Jakubec started with another thoughtful land acknowledgement that included discussion of their personal experience living on these lands. Jakubec wanted to design a repository of educational resources that was searchable, accessible, and […]
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SoTL and DBER Research Dissemination

This being I listened to Emily Faulconer’s asynchronous workshop about Getting Published. Faulconer is from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and gave a fun and motivational presentation on the writing and submission process. I was intrigued by the information presented about title choices and downloads and citations. While titles with semicolons may have more downloads, apparently […]
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