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#Openteach and the ACE Framework

I continue watching OERxDomains21 sessions and loving them! They provide happiness and lots of ideas. Tonight, I started by watching Orna Farrell , James Brunton, Eamon Costello, Caitriona Ni She, Matthew Waters, Cliona Olohan, Aleksandra Shornikova and Aodan Farrelly present about “Open Course, Open Textbook, OpenTeach” and how this team developed this project. Orna Farrell […]
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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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Community Commons in a Box?

At first, I looked over this OERxDomains21 session… then I read the description and was intrigued. Entitled “OpenLab – Open Infrastructure in Action at CUNY” Charlie Edwards, Jody Rosen and Christopher Stein described a virtual space for community building. Rosen described how the project began with a Department of Education grant to support their institution […]
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Digital Accessibility Tips and NC Virtual

Tonight I watched another Quality Matters (QM) webinar presented by Chris Smith and entitled “Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes: The True Impact of Digital Accessibility” that was recorded last year. Chris Smith is an instructional designer with NC Virtual. I am trying to learn as much as I can and practice accessibility in the course […]
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Motivated Student Groups Unite!

The STEM Journal Club had an event this evening, and I had the opportunity to participate. Once again, I watched in awe how students came together to create professional development opportunities and share knowledge. I spoke about my career trajectory and tried to emphasize the energy and motivation that come from student-driven projects! The STEM […]
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Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Remote Teaching

Today I watched another asynchronous session. Lisa Chang, Silvia Bartolic, and Hailey Craig presented o the use of Multiliteracies Pedagogy as a framework to support remote teaching at the Lilly Conference online. This short presentation by Chang made me think. They started with survey data from both faculty and students after the transition to remote […]
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