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The Human Experience and Open Education

I love watching the YouTube videos Mike Wesch creates! Wesch creates engaging stories and opportunities for students to experience learning. Therefore, when I saw Tom Woodward and Mike Wesch listed as presenters for a day 2 OERxDomains21 session, I knew I had to watch it! I have watched Wesch talk about the ANTH101 course they […]
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Staff Wellbeing and CompelU

Jennifer Linsdell spoke about supporting mental wellbeing in education using creativity as part of the day 2 OERxDomains21 conference. Lindsell has a background in Art Education and Art Therapy to support resilience and deep interest in supporting staff to help students. Linsdell reviewed historical data, conducted action research, and used existing resources. As part of […]
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Innovation in OER and Cultural Paradigm Shifts

Dr. Rob Farrow from the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University spoke about OER innovation as part of day 2 of OERxDomains21. This is the second presentation I watch from the Open University and love what they are doing. Farrow asked: what does innovation look like in OER? Interestingly, Farrow mentioned that copyright […]
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nQuire and Jelastic?

Tonight’s OERxDomains21 session was by Nashwa Ismail and Christothea Herodotou and focused on online citizen science. This is timely since yesterday we were trying to figure out an appropriate way of mentioning in text citizen science and emphasizing that it is for all, not only citizens! This session was entitled “How can facilitation by experts […]
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Diversity in OERs

Today I had the opportunity to watch to Cynthia Brame and Bryan Dewsbury speak about inclusive teaching. It seemed appropriate to continue and end the day with a session from day 2 of OERxDomains21. Sarah Lambert and Habiba Fadel presented on “Open to Diversity: Inclusive Design Insights from the Australian OER Textbook Project.” They did […]
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Good Teaching is Inclusive Teaching

Bryan Dewsbury and Cynthia Brame were on Online with LSE on May 7th, 2021. Brame began by talking about the LSE Inclusive Teaching guide and instructor checklist. These are wonderful! There are five guides: group work, inclusive teaching, peer instruction, modeling, and metacognition. Dewsbury mentioned that the Inclusive Teaching guide is longer than others and draws heavily from the […]
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Learning about Digital Literacy and Wikipedia

I am moving on to Day 2 of OERxDomains2 sessions. Jane Secker and colleagues Hasan Munir, Ahmed El-Shareif, and Kanan Barot from City University presented about “The Impact of Teaching Digital Literacies and Open Practices” through accredited modules. Secker mentioned that they have run the module three times as well as a similar module taught […]
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Laura Gibbs: “The Queen of Asynchrony”

Dr. Laura Gibbs was the keynote speaker for OERxDomains21 Day 1. Gibbs displayed a series of slides of student blogs and randomized (the 200+ slides) and began telling a story! Gibbs also talked about students telling stories with GoogleSites and mashups. Students tell stories outside of the learning management system (LMS)! Gibbs talked about “how […]
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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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Rhetoric and Websites for Community

Jim Luke reflected during OERxDomains21 on April 21 about the word choices we use and the metaphors in higher education. The session entitled “Reflecting on Market vs. Commons Rhetoric: Care and the Professor’s Dilemma” reviewed metaphors Luke collected after asking what metaphors we use in higher education on Twitter. People responded with pathways/guided pathways, workforce […]
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