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Teaching with the Open Learning Initiative (OLI)

Dr. Robert Hoople from SUNY-Oneonta presented a ten-minute recorded session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “Open Learning Initiative: An Open OER Learning Platform That Can Work For You.” Hoople has taught for over eleven years psychology and… many different LMSs! Wow. Hoople has written chapters of a psychology textbook. Hoople spoke about requesting access to […]
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The Stitched (OER)

Sewing and OER? That was the name of the Open Ed 2021 session that we watched tonight. Presented by Heather Clark, faculty at the Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and Catherine Hay, this ten-minute session shared several resources. They teach fashion and talked about their project “stitched.” The presentation used a nice […]
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Training that Considers Compatibility and Relative Advantage

Stephanie Robertson is an Information Literacy & Faculty Outreach Librarian as well as an Assistant Professor at BYU-Hawaii, and Emily Bradshaw has been teaching in the English department at BYUH for fifteen years. Together, they presented at Open Ed 2021 a ten-minute recorded session entitled “Faculty Adoption of OER through Compatibility and Relative Advantage Training.” […]
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The Recipe for Developing Sustainable OER

Developing an OER textbook is difficult. I am not sure how it can be done without dedicated protected time! Tonight, I watched a session from Open Ed 2021 entitled “Development and Sustainability of an OER Textbook” by Ann Diker, Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Diker’s original plan was to find an OER to […]
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A Three-day Workshop to Begin the OER Journey

Wendy Vélez-Torres is a Senior Instructional Technologist at Coppin State and recorded a ten-minute session for Open Ed 2021 entitled “Our Journey into Course Redesign with OERs.” Velez-Torres mentioned that Coppin State is located in downtown Baltimore, and the majority of students are first-generation students, according to Velez-Torrez. They designed a summer workshop/professional development opportunity […]
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Educational Videos as Pedagogy

Marie Nightbird and Kelly Allison presented the recorded Open Ed 2021 presentation “OER for a Practice Based Profession: Videos for Teaching Communication Skills in Social Work.” They are both from the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia and Assistant Teaching Professors. Nightbird defined OERs as “teaching, learning, and research resources that […]
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Business Case Studies for Lehman College Students and Beyond

Martha Lerski, a Business Librarian and Assistant Professor at Lehman College, and Alexander Nunez Torres, an assistant professor also at Lehman College, presented a recorded session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “Developing Small Business Case Studies to Serve a Minority-Serving College, Its Community and Beyond.” Lerski spoke about Lehman’s mission as a liberal arts college […]
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Student Panel on OER Advocacy in Canada

We have had fantastic student panels as part of RLOE Cohort 2! I also had the opportunity to talk to NC State students this evening. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 recorded student panel entitled “Ask Student OER Champions: Advocacy and Allyship.” Several students from across Canada spoke about their work with OER. After […]
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Perceptions of Open Pedagogy in Courses for Future Teachers

Tonight I watched another twenty-minute Open Ed 2021 session about K-12 teacher educators. The session entitled “Permeable Spaces for Complex Identities: Teacher Educators Advancing Open Pedagogy Practices” was presented by Staci Gilpin, an Assistant Professor of Educator, and Stephanie Rollog Yoon, Assistant Professor of Education. Both faculty are from The College of Saint Scholastica and […]
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OER for Teacher Training in MN

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 recorded session entitled “Opening Opportunities for Teacher Education: A Project Funded by the U.S. Department of Education” and presented by Tim Anderson, System Director for Student Success Technologies at Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Stephen Kelly (Innovation Program Director at Minnesota State), and Kim Lynch (Senior System Director […]
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