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Keep on Teaching at NC State

Tonight’s Lilly Conference online 2022 session was from our NC State DELTA, Libraries, OIT, and OFE team! Entitled “Instructional Considerations for Academic Continuity: Mid- and Post-COVID-19,” Diane Chapman, Maria Gallardo-Williams, Stacy Gant, Jonathan Holloway, and David Woodbury from NC State University presented on efforts to improve instructional practices on our campus. They are, as Chapman […]
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The Immersive Reality Classroom Learning Experience

“Traveling to Inexperienced Realms: Immersive Reality for Classroom Learning” is the title of the Lilly Conference session I watched tonight. Amy Kuntz, an Instructional Designer at Penn State, along with Eileen Grodziak, another instructional designer at Penn State, worked with Kate Morgan, the Director of Virtual Education at Penn State Lehigh Valley. They defined Immersive […]
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Unclenching and Reenergizing Teaching

Heidi Echols and Mary Estrada from NC State University spoke about “The Courage to Unclench: Thriving in ANY Classroom. Estrada is a Language Professor and Echols is an instructional designer. Estrada spoke about the Pratfall Effect: “the tendency for interpersonal appeal is to increase after someone makes a mistake.” Estrada explained that “we are credible… […]
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Organizing and Closing Open Ed 2021

The Friday Open Ed 2021 plenary to close the conference was entitled “The Future of Open Ed.” Andrea Scott is the OER Coordinator at Salt Lake Community College and introduced the Strategic Planning Committee. Stephanie Pierce is the Head of the Physics Library at the University of Arkansas Libraries and started a Mentimeter poll. Pierce […]
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Pinatas, Pressbooks, and History

Jim Ross-Nazzal is a Professor of History at Houston Community College – Eastside Campus and recorded a 25-minute session at Open Ed 2021. Their session was entitled “An OER Textbook: Design Thinking and Pinata Innovation.” What a cool title! Ross-Nazzal mentioned that the title came from a year-long institute they participated in. They described designing […]
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Remixing (OER) with H2O

Jeremy Peters, Assistant Professor of Music Business at Wayne State University and co-founder of Quite Scientific Records, and Catherine Brobston from Outreach at Harvard Law School spoke about “Remixing and Expanding Access to Legal Education Resources” at Open Ed 2021. Brobston introduced H2O, “an open education platform focused on legal resources and built for cloning […]
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Becoming Open Access Learners

Geoff Keston, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at Temple University, presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Helping Undergraduates Become Open Access Learners.” Keston started by explaining that open learning is a challenge because learners are often used to finding all the resources in one site. Keston emphasized that “open access learning” is challenging […]
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A Remixed Book Turns into an Open Playlist

I met Jay Fulgencio as part of the first cohort of RLOE last year. I was curious to learn more about Fulgencio’s OER work, and today I watched the recorded Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Applying OER Content to Create a YouTube Mini-Course Playlist.” Fulgencio has been an instructor for more than a decade and […]
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Open Pedagogy in Nigeria

Adenike D. Omoike, Senior Librarian at the Kenneth Dike Library at the University of Ibadan presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Open Pedagogy and Practices for Sustainable Education in Nigeria.” They defined pedagogy as the processes and practices of classroom instruction that is aimed at communicating the contents of courses and subjects to students citing […]
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Moodle and OpenStax

Krassi Lazarova presented at Open Ed 2021 on “OpenStax College Physics – tips and tricks for implementation with Moodle.” Lazarova is an Associate Professor of Physics at Centenary University. They have searched for Open Educational Resources (OER) at their institution. Lazarova shared statistics about OER use and savings. They also described the challenges of OER […]
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