Reflections

January 18, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Community of Practice, Constructivism, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Website, Why

The Dutch OER Initiative

Last night I watched the OERcamp session at Open Ed 2021. Tonight we watched “Supporting Professional Communities on OER: The Dutch Approach” presented by Lieke Rensink and Michel Jansen from SURF. Their recorded presentation featured both of them and a screen with animations and slides. Jansen mentioned that in the Netherlands OER is not as […]

January 17, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Discussions, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Why, Workshop

Sharing OERcamp Instructions

Each Open Ed 2021 session is different, and I find the variety really engaging! Tonight I watched the session entitled “OERcamp Webtalks and OERcamp SummOERschool: Two Best Practices Plus One Reuse Strategy” presented by Kristin Hirschmann and Jöran Muuß-Merholz. Hirschmann has been the project lead of OERcamp. Muuß-Merholz started with an overview of what are […]

January 16, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Information Literacy, Online Learning, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections

Nurturing Self-directed Learning (SDL)

It snowed… for a couple of hours and then rained. We spent most of the day cleaning and playing indoors. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “OER, Self-Directed Learning and Assessment: Educators’ Beliefs, Practices and Priorities in Africa” with Isabel Tarling, director of Limina, and Sandhya Gunness, a senior lecturer at the University […]

January 15, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

Considerations for Successful MOOCs and Engaging Courses

“What Makes a MOOC Successful?” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. Martina Babinská, a mathematics teacher and researcher at Comenius University in Bratislava, shared recommendations for large online courses that could apply to in-person courses too. A MOOC or massive open online course was defined by Babinská as “an […]

January 14, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website

Grasple and Two Universities

We finished the first week of classes! Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Entering Mainstream Adoption: How TUDelft and UTwente Collaboratively Embrace OER Through Grasple” presented by Pim Bellinga, co-founder of Gasple, and Pim Stuurman, mathematics content expert at Grasple. They spoke about how TU Delft and University of Twente moved from […]

January 13, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Website

Open Nursing Resources on MERLOT

Ellie Svoboda, an education informationist from Strauss Health Sciences Library at the University of Colorado, and Teresa Connolly, an assistant professor from the University of Colorado Denver, presented at Open Ed 2021 about “Collecting Nursing OER on a Health Sciences Campus.” They shared their process of sharing OER on a health sciences campuses and creating […]

January 12, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Case Studies, Community of Practice, Constructivism, Discussions, Information Literacy, Learning Communities, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Website, Why

The ENCORE+ Ecosystem

Dr. Robert Farrow from The Open University (UK) spoke at Open Ed 2021 about “Building the 21st Century OER Ecosystem.” ENCOURE+ (European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education, www.encoreproject.eu) is a “Knowledge Alliance project funded by the European Commission under Erasmus+” and focuses on impact and sharing innovative practices in different communities. Several partners […]

January 11, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why

A Survey-based Study of Teachers and OER in Europe

Continuing with international examples of OER and open education, tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Remote Education During The Pandemic: The Teachers’ Perspective – Quantitative European Study” presented by Maja Bogataj, Magda Biernat, Teresa Nobre, and Anahita Rezaei. This recorded session started with Rezaei, Open Education & Advocacy Specialist at Centrum Cyfrowe […]

January 10, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why

Open Education in Russian Universities

The Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Implementation of Open Educational Resources in the Universities of Russian Federation” reminded me of the EduCoop project in Poland. Tonight I watched Kseniia Nikitina and Sergey Kovalenko present. Nikitina is a doctoral student and described their research on OER and open in Russia. The Russian educational system has 252 […]

January 9, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Books, Community of Practice, Constructivism, Course Design, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Website, Why

EduCoop in Poland and Open Access Resources for Nursing Chemistry Courses

Tomorrow is the first day of classes, and we spent most of the day preparing for courses. Tonight, I watched the ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session entitled “EduCoop – Online Course About Co-Creation Open Education Resources” and presented by Aleksandra Czetwertyńska, team leader of the Centrum Cyfowe. Czetwertyńska spoke about their project EduCoop that is […]