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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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Campus-wide Surveys of OER Use

What a day! Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Analysis of a Shifting Landscape: Course Materials and OER Before and During Covid” with Beth Martin, LuMarie Guth, and Glinda Rawls from Western Michigan University. Martin and Guth are librarians at WMU and conducted a study on the use of OER. One of their […]
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Global OER Graduate Network Showcase

Today I worked from home with Aurelio and had fun with the occasional interruption. Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session “The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN): Research Showcase, Collaboration & Consultation” with several panelists. Beck Pitt, a research fellow from The Open University introduced the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) and the network’s […]
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Google Sites for Accessible and Mobile-Friendly OER

While the snow is quickly melting, it may freeze again tonight… and Wake County Public School System has canceled classes. I am no longer sure what day of the week it is with snow days and disruptions! Tonight, I watched another forty-minute Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Using Google Sites to Create Accessible and Mobile […]
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Capturing Oral Histories in an Open Digital Hub

What a fun snow day! Tonight we watched a session entitled “Emotional Histories: Exploring Social Change in a Gen Ed History Course Through Oral Histories” that was a 40-minute Open Ed 2021 with several presenters, including students. Elaine Kaye, an instructional designer from James Madison University, began by providing an overview. Kristen McCleary spoke about […]
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Agile Software and OER

It is always wonderful to reconnect with graduate school friends. Last year when I was at the Open Ed 2021 conference doing my session, I noticed a familiar name. Tonight, I watched their recorded session entitled “A Freely Hosted and Easily Maintained OER for an Undergraduate Agile Software Engineering Course” with Cengiz Gunay, an associate […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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International Community of Practice and Survey of Open Pedagogy

Rafael Angel Espinoza Pizarro presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Virtual Communities of Practice (CoP): Experiences for the Development of Open Educational Resources.” Espinoza is from Costa Rica and defined community of practice (CoP) as a “strategy for articulation and exchange between institutions and/or teachers, who decide to voluntarily associate and join efforts, experiences, and […]
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Perceptions of Low-cost and No-cost Course Designations

For the first day of the new year, we watched the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Schedule Designation and Enrollment Research” with Amy Hofer from Open Oregon Educational Resources, Shauna McNulty, faculty at Umpqua Community College, and Jennifer Lantrip, Health Sciences Student Success Librarian at Pacific University. Their slides were made available at: tinyurl.com/designationstudyopened21 Their team […]
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