Wellbeing

March 26, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Discussions, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Student groups, Wellbeing, Why

A Guide to Copyright that Empowers Students to Make Decisions

“Help us Conceptualize our Student-Facing Copyright Guide from an Emancipatory Framework?” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched today. Jessica O’Reilly is a doctoral candidate at Athabasca University and instructor and along with Marnie Seal, the Manager of the Library & Learning Commons at Cambrian College presented this ten-minute session. I […]

March 25, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Diversity, Information Literacy, Metacognition, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Student groups, Teaching techniques, Wellbeing, Why

OER and UDL to Support All Learners

Nico Diaz is an Academic Development and Recovery Advisor at Boise State University. In the 2021 Open Ed session entitled “Utilizing OER in Conjunction with Universal Design Principles to Support Students with Disabilities,” Diaz described their role on campus helping students make adjustments and how they use OER and UDL to support students with disabilities. […]

March 11, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Website, Wellbeing

OpenGLAM!

The session “OpenGLAM for OER: Digital Cultural Literacy & Engagement, from K-12 to Higher Ed & Beyond” from Open Ed 2021 had several presenters: Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Bethany Ellerbrook, Dovi Mae Patino-Liu, and Sharon Mizota. Graddy-Lovelace began by talking about OpenGLAM OER: galleries, libraries, archives, and museums and opening them. They are working with the MHC […]

February 18, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections, Student groups, Website, Wellbeing, Why

Justice, Satisfaction, and an OER Survey

Jacob Jenkins, Associate Professor at CSU Channel Islands, and Thomas Clobes presented at Open Ed 2021 a 20-minute session entitled “OER for Social Justice: Perceptions of OER Among Historically Underserved College Students.” Jenkins shared data on the rise of textbook costs since 1975. Even more striking were the student quotes from their campus that they […]

February 16, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Wellbeing, Why

Tips for Creating Accessible OER

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 short session by Tenley Sablatzky entitled “How to Create Engaging Open Educational Resources without Sacrificing Accessibility.” Sablatzky is a Medical Librarian at Prairie View A&M University. They defined the term accessibility and introduced universal design: “to create a resource that can be accessed, understood, and used to the […]

February 4, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Learning Communities, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Wellbeing, Why

Created Connected Communities

Amanda Marquez, a Professional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Jennifer Epley Sanders, an Associate Professor of Political Science also at TAMU presented at Open Ed 2021. The session was entitled “Creating Connected Communities and Histories through Open Pedagogy and OER” and was full of murals painted by local artists. Marquez is a […]

January 2, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Books, Community of Practice, Constructivism, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Wellbeing

IMLS Investment in OER and Professional Development

James Neal, Senior Library Program Officer from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) began the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Federal Funding For OER: Spotlight On IMLS Grants.” I didn’t know about IMLS and learned from Neal’s introduction that it is a federal institute located in Washington, DC, and established in 1996. It is […]

December 10, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections, Student groups, Wellbeing, Why

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, […]

November 18, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Books, Course Design, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

Pandemic OER Outreach and Open RN

I worked on several different items today and was very scattered, yet I was able to get some items on my list finished. Tonight we listened to a couple of Open Ed sessions. We started with the recorded talk “COVID Changed How We Do OER Outreach. Here’s What Our Institutional Initiatives Have Learned” which featured […]

November 6, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

Using Open Education to Support Antiracist Teaching

I am fortunate to have found a great group of people as part of RLOE. That is why when I saw Una Daly and Kim Grewe on the list of speakers for this session of the Open Ed 2021 conference I knew I had to watch it. Along with Joy Shoemate and James Glapa-Grossklag, they […]