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Critical Digital Pedagogy and Open Sharing with a Project about Lynching

Tonight we continued with Open Ed 2021 sessions and watched the twenty-minute recorded session entitled “Teaching Hard Histories for Racial Healing: The Lynching in Virginia Curriculum Project.” A multi-disciplinary team from James Madison University presented their work: Mary Beth Concienne, Ashley Jaffee, Alia Stone, Gianluca De Fazio, Kristen Mlodynia, Nicole Wilson, Liz Thompson, and Elaine […]
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A Panel on Academic Integrity and OER

What a fun day in the lab! I am also excited I get to work with the Libraries again! Tonight, we watched the session entitled “OER and Academic Integrity: A Path Forward” with David Harris is the Editor in Chief of Open Stax, Maureen O’Brien from Western Governors University, and C. Edward Watson, associate vice […]
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Open and the Common Good

Tonight we watched another Open Ed 2021 keynote by Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University and author of a new book entitled “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.” The session was entitled “Open Education: Infrastructure for Common Good.” Fitzpatrick started by talking about […]
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Student Contributions to OCW

Yesterday’s Open Ed 2021 session left me thinking and rereading my post. Tonight we continued watching sessions. The one we watched was entitled “When Students Create OER: What We’ve Learned and What’s Next at MIT OpenCourseWare” with speakers Ashay Athalye, Sarah Hansen, Curt Newton, and Paige Dote from MIT Open Course Ware. Newton is the […]
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Black Feminism and Open Education

We finished the semester! I submitted grades and was able to get into the lab, extract genomic DNA from compost samples, and start a sequencing run after doing a session at OERcamp 2021! Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Education Through an Ethics of Care & Justice” presented by Kristin Lansdown, […]
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Open Academic Integrity

Tonight after a long day, we played the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Citation, Attribution, and Open Pedagogy: The Complexity of Academic Integrity in College Classrooms” presented by Monica Brown and Madison Hansen. They both started by describing their backgrounds and how citation and attribution are taught. Hansen talked about academic integrity best practices summarized […]
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CUNY Graduate Student Open Fellowship

Tonight I learned about the CUNY system by watching the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open by Design, but to What End? Designing the Open Pedagogy Fellowship,” presented by Jill Cirasella, Associate Librarian for Scholarly Communication, CUNY Graduate Center, and Elvis Bakaitis and Katelyn Angell. The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest […]
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The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations

The Open Ed 2021 panel entitled “Youth Involvement in Advocating for Open: Medical Students and Beyond” had several members of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations. Madalina Elena Mandache, Kevin Alvaro Handoko, and Hanseul Cho presented. Cho talked about a research exchange program conducted by medical students to promote open science. They drafted student-led […]
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Wikidata in the Classroom

Shani Evenstein is a lecturer and Ph.D. candidate involved with the Wikimedia Foundation. Evenstein described the Wikidata project that is “A database of structured, linked data multilingual and read by humans and machines open to all, under a free license.” Alexa and Siri have access to Wikidata to search for information. Evenstein’s doctoral research is […]
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World Librarians and Offline OER Sharing

Tonight we watched a panel session of Open Ed 2021 about the World Librarians program: worldLibrarians.org. The session was entitled “World Librarians: A System Providing Open Educational Resources to Offline Schools in Malawi & Kenya” and presented by Charlie Schweik, Carl Meyer, Wachira Warukira, and Sarah Hutton. Schweik is a professor at the University of […]
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