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Data Analytics and Open Practices at the Institutional Level

I continue watching OERxDomains21 sessions this week. Tonight, I started by watching a session by Nicole Allen “Open Education, Data Analytics, and the Future of Knowledge Infrastructure” that addressed open education and surveillance analytics. Allen gave a talk without slides and started by explaining the new market for data analytics. Several examples of mergers and […]
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What is Equity without Care?

I have been wanting to watch the OERxDomains21 session by Mia Zamora and Maha Bali for a couple of days now. The sixty-minute session was entitled “Building Appreciative Narratives of Equity and Care in the Open” and caught my attention when I first saw the conference schedule… but the timing didn’t work out to watch […]
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Modalities and Engagement

I have been thinking about openness and collaborative projects in Spanish lately. Another OERxDomains21 session about openness and collaborative spaces presented by Giovanna Carloni focused on “Digitally-enhanced collaborative international spaces for content and language learning” and provided some ideas of how other countries approached emergency remote learning. Carloni discussed how the course was structured and […]
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OERs in Spanish-speaking Countries

Another OERxDomains21 session that caught my attention is entitled “Links between Open Education and DEI – Findings from a Latin American Study” presented by Carina Bossu and Viviane Vladimirschi. This project was funded by the Open University an Hewlett Foundation. They interviewed 12 key stakeholders from Latin America, coded and analyzed the data using NVivo, […]
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Open Communities and Publications During the Pandemic

Another great session from day 1 of OERxDomains21 was entitled “Open Reading with Your Eyes Shut: Demystifying Foo-Foo the Snoo” presented by Mark Brown. The title was referring to Dr. Seuss, and Brown introduced the challenge of having so many open access journals and filtering resources for reliability! The National Institute for Digital Learning publishes […]
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Agile Open Online Education

Tonight I watched another OERxDomains21 session entitled “Pathways to Learning: Open Collaboration to Support the Online Pivot” that included a long list of collaborators and numerous open collaboration examples. Rob Farrow described a project called Pathways to Learning that was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund program. Farrow and colleagues rapidly created a pair […]
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Self-mapped Learning Pathways

Today the OERxDomains Conference started! Will, David, Erin, and I presented on the Open Incubator and Citizen Science! It was a lot of fun! The conference system is fantastic too! I also talked about how citizen science is not limited to citizens and the wonderful work the Delftia group of undergraduate researchers did editing Wikipedia! […]
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Reviewing and Improving

Penny Ralston-Berg (PennState) and Bethany Simunich (Director of Research & Innovation, QM) presented last October about the Quality Matters (QM) rubric. The session entitled “QM Balloon Animals: Twisting the Rubric to Meet Your Needs” and relates to the workshop I did this morning in which we did self-reviews. Simunich explained that the QM Rubric can […]
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Unmet Standards and Accessibility Secrets

Thomas J. Tobin revealed “Seven Secrets for Standard Eight: Accessibility Review When You’re Not an Accessibility Expert” as part of a Quality Matters (QM) session on October 26, 2020. I was able to watch Tobin in person as part of the keynote for our Teaching and Learning Symposium last year. Tobin is fantastic, knowledgeable, and […]
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Transparent Assignment Design

Dr. Zakaria Jouaibi, Senior Instructional Designer at North Carolina Central University, was on another Quality Matters (QM) webinar that I watched. I’m also taking a QM course with Jouaibi this week and have been hearing about the TILT (Transparency in Learning and Teaching) assignment framework on a couple of podcasts. That’s why this video caught […]
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