collaboration

April 29, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

Ontario Tech’s Open Lab

Sara Stokes is the OER Lab Manager at Ontario Tech and along with Rebecca Maynard presented at Open Ed 2021 about “Co-Creating Opportunities for Openness.” Ontario Tech is one of the newest universities in Canada. Stokes spoke about the needs of students at Ontario Tech and their focus on STEM. The Open Education Lab was […]

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 […]

April 25, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Books, Constructivism, Course Design, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Website

Remixing (OER) with H2O

Jeremy Peters, Assistant Professor of Music Business at Wayne State University and co-founder of Quite Scientific Records, and Catherine Brobston from Outreach at Harvard Law School spoke about “Remixing and Expanding Access to Legal Education Resources” at Open Ed 2021. Brobston introduced H2O, “an open education platform focused on legal resources and built for cloning […]

April 24, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Metacognition, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Writing

Becoming Open Access Learners

Geoff Keston, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at Temple University, presented at Open Ed 2021 on “Helping Undergraduates Become Open Access Learners.” Keston started by explaining that open learning is a challenge because learners are often used to finding all the resources in one site. Keston emphasized that “open access learning” is challenging […]

April 15, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Discussions, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Why

A Peer-Reviewed Question Bank Created by Two Institutions

The Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Collaborative Test Bank Development: Multi-Institutional & Pandemic Style” had several speakers. , an Assistant Professor of Management Practice at Virginia Tech, worked with a team of undergraduate assistants. Candice Vander Weerdt is an Assistant College Lecturer at the College of Business at Cleveland State University. Mandi Goodsett is the […]

April 14, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Website

Open Education Austria

“Synergies between Open Education and Open Science: OER Development, Projects and Trends in Austria” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 presentation by Martin Ebner, Claudia Hackl, and Sandra Schon. They described the 8 ambitions of the European Union and their open science initiative. Schon spoke about embedding open science skills early on and […]

April 13, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Discussions, Guest Speakers, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks

A Resource to Guide Discussions about Openness and Equity

Dr. Kaitlyn Watson and Dr. Anna Rogrigues from Ontario Tech University presented on “Reading Guide OER for “Moon on the Crusted Snow”: A Collaborative Story” as part of Open Ed 2021. They began their presentation with a land acknowledgment that was personalized and connected to their roles and activities on the land. Rodrigues is an […]

April 11, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Website

An Open Course on H5P

Samantha Ahern recorded a 20-minute session for the Open Ed 2021 conference. As an Open practitioner, Ahern participated in the Mozilla Open Leaders program and became a mentor for OE4BW. Ahem has experimented with H5P and “produced some guidance.” Sushumna Rao is the founder of h5pcatalogue.in and an ed-tech trainer. Rao developed and implemented an […]

April 6, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Why

Open Education at Camosun College

Happy birthday, Amada! You turned seven! Today I also had the opportunity to speak to a group from Ireland as part of an Open Cafe! Tonight’s session from Open Ed 2021 was entitled “Building Capacity for Open Education at a Canadian Community College” and presented by Emily Schudel, an Instructional Designer at Camosun College. The […]

April 3, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Articles, Books, Constructivism, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Metacognition, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Why

Textual Analysis of Open Book by Pre-service Teachers

“A Textual Analysis of a Student-Created Open Licensing Book” was the title of a ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session by Pengtong Qu, Chaoran Wang, and Meina Zhu. I had watched another presentation by Qu and Wang about pre-service teachers yesterday and was curious about this session. Wang is at Colby College; Qu is at Indiana […]