Today we did our first MS walk in several years. It was awesome to catch up with people we haven’t seen in years! The kids also had a lot of fun running around PNC Arena parking lots. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Using Open Pedagogy to Promote Pre-service Teachers’ Identity Development during […]
April 1, 2022, was full of funny events at work and home. I am glad to wind down and watch the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Sowing Seeds for Sustainability: How a Small Grant Helped a Library-Led OER Initiative Grow.” Sara Tabaei, Timothy Valente, and Kick Snyder from Touro College and University system presented. Tabaei […]
Nicolas Simon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Eastern Connecticut State University and presented at Open Ed 2021 on “OER, Ownership, Authorship, and Power.” Simon talked about OER as a way to “free us” from inequality. According to Simon, ownership and power cause some problems, and OER releases us from some of these issues. […]
“Yes You Can: Providing Institutional Planned and Just-in-Time Support to Faculty” is the title of the session of Open Ed 2021 that I watched. Lisa Young from Scottsdale Community College and Mathew Bloom and Debbie Baker from Maricopa Community Colleges were the speakers. They are part of Open Maricopa initiative. This project includes professional development, […]
We had the opportunity to be part of OER Week at Kennesaw State University today. To end a long and good day, I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Affordability, Accessibility, and Pedagogy, oh my! Developing Novel Digital Assessment Policy” by Kristen Morgan from Morgan Academic Consulting. Morgan is in Canada, and this was […]
“Teacher Educators as OER Storytellers” was the title of the ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session. Niki Fayne is the Program Director at CUNY OER hub. Fayne described the support from Lehman College. Naliza Sadik, the Teaching and Learning Manager at Lehman College, CUNY described the hub for teaching and learning, housed in the CUNY OER […]
“Help us Conceptualize our Student-Facing Copyright Guide from an Emancipatory Framework?” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched today. Jessica O’Reilly is a doctoral candidate at Athabasca University and instructor and along with Marnie Seal, the Manager of the Library & Learning Commons at Cambrian College presented this ten-minute session. I […]
Nathaniel King and Tiffany Garrett from the Nevada State College Library presented “Pioneering New Forms of Support with OER Institutes” at Open Ed 2021. Garrett explained that Nevada State College was founded in 2002 and is rapidly growing. They are a Hispanic Serving Institution. Work overload was rated 5/7! The new Library was built in […]
Amy Song is the Customer Success Manager at Pressbooks and presented on “Finding and Remixing OER: A Practical Introduction” at Open Ed 2021. The first step Song described was finding OER. They mentioned finding topics and features and coordinating with a librarian. Song listed several OER repositories such as OpenStax, Lumen Learning, Libre Texts, Open […]
“Attaining and Retaining OER Course Marking Information: One Texas Institution’s Approach” was a short session by Art Brownlow, a Faculty Fellow and Professor of Music at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and Gabby Hernandez, an Open Education Librarian at the same institution. Brownlow is helping coordinate the OER initiative from the academic side, […]