I saw a familiar acronym on the schedule of OpenEd 2021 sessions! Tonight we watched the session “Creating a Culture of Open with Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)” with several Open Education leaders! The moderator was Una Daly, Director CCCOER from Open Education Global. Panelists included Dr. Bob Awkward, Cynthia Orozco, Judith […]
What a fun day! We spent the day with the grandparents, and the kids opened presents. Tonight we went to bed late and watched a 25-minute OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Competing for Attention: Reaching Out to Faculty in a Time of COVID-19.” Andrew Kearns, a librarian at the University of South Carolina Upstate and USC […]
Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 session with Emily Frank and Teri Gallaway from LOUIS. The title of the session was “Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment.” LOUIS is a consortium of public and private college and university libraries in the state of Louisiana with 47 academic libraries! The LOUIS community works toward student success […]
I have posted one blog a day for 365 days in a row! It has been a lot of fun, and I enjoy learning about open education projects and teaching strategies. Tonight’s session was from Open Ed 2021 and entitled “Embracing Open for All: Initiatives in Support of Kw’seltktnéws” by Ken Monroe, Brenda Smith, Christine […]
Tonight we watched another longer Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Boundary Spanners: Bridging Gaps Between Higher Education and PK12” with Anita Walz and Julee Farley from Virginia Tech. I did not know about boundary spanners and boundary objects before this presentation, and that was one of the goals of this session. Farley discussed the history […]
Tonight we continued with Open Ed 2021 sessions and watched the twenty-minute recorded session entitled “Teaching Hard Histories for Racial Healing: The Lynching in Virginia Curriculum Project.” A multi-disciplinary team from James Madison University presented their work: Mary Beth Concienne, Ashley Jaffee, Alia Stone, Gianluca De Fazio, Kristen Mlodynia, Nicole Wilson, Liz Thompson, and Elaine […]
The United Nation’s SDGs have been frequently mentioned lately as I prepare for the BIT 295 Biotechnology & Sustainability course in the spring. Tonight, we watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Creating Faculty/Student Partnerships using the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) and Open Pedagogy” with Drs. Michael Mills and Shinita Hernandez as well as several […]
Tonight we ended the workweek by watching an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Beyond “Open”: Intersections with Accessibility, Cultural Responsiveness, and Broader Educational Goals.” Ethan Senack is the Chief of Staff of ISKME and Mindy Boland is the director of OER Services at ISKME. I did not know ISKME also runs OER Commons! Senack began […]
Tonight we watched another Open Ed 2021 keynote by Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University and author of a new book entitled “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.” The session was entitled “Open Education: Infrastructure for Common Good.” Fitzpatrick started by talking about […]
Project management has been a challenge. That’s why the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Pedagogy Project Management: A Roadmap for Inclusive, Collaborative, & Sustainable Projects” seemed like one I should watch! Presenters Christina Riehman-Murphy and Bryan McGeary from Penn State University explained their experiences with open pedagogy. McGeary talked about a Hispanic Linguistics student-authored […]