Workshop

April 26, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Course Design, Information Literacy, Integrative Thinking, Interprofessional Education, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why, Workshop

Perspectives from Working on a Collaborative Interdisciplinary OER Project

Laura Clark Hunt, faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi, and Janet Koposko, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Braham Baldwin Agricultural College, presented at Open Ed 2021 about “A Case Study in Information Literacy: OER Interdisciplinary Project on Research as Inquiry.” The title of their presentation was “Discipline Specific Information Literacy.” This was a grant […]

March 30, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why, Workshop

Open Maricopa

“Yes You Can: Providing Institutional Planned and Just-in-Time Support to Faculty” is the title of the session of Open Ed 2021 that I watched. Lisa Young from Scottsdale Community College and Mathew Bloom and Debbie Baker from Maricopa Community Colleges were the speakers. They are part of Open Maricopa initiative. This project includes professional development, […]

March 27, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why, Workshop

In-Reach for OER

Shayna Pekala, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Gonzaga University, presented the lightning talk “OER In-Reach: Introducing Your Library Colleagues to OER” at Open Ed 2021. They shared slides here. Pekala defined “in-reach” as “the process of bringing information to and building relationships with internal stakeholders.” I did now know about this! Their goal was to […]

March 19, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Discussions, Guest Speakers, Learning Communities, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Workshop

A Collaborative Group to Create and Share Activities

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Psychology 101 Collaborative: Creating and Sharing Course Activities to Foster Student Success.” Lisa Young is the Faculty Director at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Scottsdale Community College, and Debbie Barker is an instructional designer at Maricopa Community Colleges. Alisa Beyer joined the presentation and […]

March 16, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Books, Constructivism, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why, Workshop

Expanding a Successful OER Program

Tonight I watched another session entitled “Scaling OER Efforts: Tapping Librarian Subject Specialist’ Expertise, Efficiency and Sustainability” by DeeAnn Ivie from UT San Antonio Libraries. UTSA is a “Hispanic-thriving institution” and has over 34,000 students. The institution has 165 degree programs and a breakdown of about 50/50 by gender. They primarily serve undergraduates, with a […]

March 10, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Information Literacy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Workshop

Connecting Research Grants and OER Pathways

I fell asleep so this is an early morning post that was supposed to be yesterday. I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “New Pathways to Open: OER Education, Advocacy, and Partnerships Through Research Grants” by Nina Exner and Jessica Kirschner from Virginia Commonwealth University. They are both librarians at VCU. Kirchner talked about the […]

March 1, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Why, Workshop

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.” […]

February 3, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Diversity, Information Literacy, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Student groups, Website, Why, Workshop

A Sprint to Brainstorm Open Assignments

Alyssa Hamer, an Open Education Faculty Associate at Capilano University, and Darcye Lovsin, an Instruction and Reference Librarian at the Justice Institute of British Columbia. presented at Open Ed 2021 a 25-minute recorded session. Their session was entitled ” Sprinting to Student Empowerment: The Case for a Student-Centered Open Assignment Sprint.” Capilano University is in […]

January 17, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Discussions, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Why, Workshop

Sharing OERcamp Instructions

Each Open Ed 2021 session is different, and I find the variety really engaging! Tonight I watched the session entitled “OERcamp Webtalks and OERcamp SummOERschool: Two Best Practices Plus One Reuse Strategy” presented by Kristin Hirschmann and Jöran Muuß-Merholz. Hirschmann has been the project lead of OERcamp. Muuß-Merholz started with an overview of what are […]

December 31, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Student groups, Transfer Students, Website, Workshop

Using OER and the LMS for Concurrent Enrollment Students

To end 2021, I watched the OpenEd 2021 session by Dan McGuire, Executive Director of SABIER (Stone Arch Bridge Initiative for Education), and Lisa Lucas Hurst, professor at Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU). The session was about OER in Concurrent Enrollment, similar to another session I watched last month I think. Lucas Hurst is an […]