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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 […]

April 2, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Books, Constructivism, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Website, Why

Teaching Pre-service Teachers to Create OER

Today we did our first MS walk in several years. It was awesome to catch up with people we haven’t seen in years! The kids also had a lot of fun running around PNC Arena parking lots. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Using Open Pedagogy to Promote Pre-service Teachers’ Identity Development during […]

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 28, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Articles, Constructivism, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Teaching techniques, Website, Why

CUNY Teacher Education OER Hub

“Teacher Educators as OER Storytellers” was the title of the ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session. Niki Fayne is the Program Director at CUNY OER hub. Fayne described the support from Lehman College. Naliza Sadik, the Teaching and Learning Manager at Lehman College, CUNY described the hub for teaching and learning, housed in the CUNY OER […]

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 23, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why

Pressbooks Directory and Remixing OER

Amy Song is the Customer Success Manager at Pressbooks and presented on “Finding and Remixing OER: A Practical Introduction” at Open Ed 2021. The first step Song described was finding OER. They mentioned finding topics and features and coordinating with a librarian. Song listed several OER repositories such as OpenStax, Lumen Learning, Libre Texts, Open […]

March 21, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Articles, Books, Course Design, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Why

OER Textbook for Literature Courses

“A Tough Nut to Crack: Developing an OER Textbook for Literature Courses” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. The speakers included Sarah LeMire, the Coordinator of First-Year Programs at Texas A&M University Libraries, and Kathy Anders, the Graduate Studies Librarian also at Texas A&M University. Several faculty from the […]

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 17, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Why

OpenStax Astronomy and OER

“The OpenStax Astronomy Book: Reaching Half a Million Readers, Creating a Community of Adopters” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session presented by Andrew Fraknoi. The OpenStax Astronomy is a free textbook: http://openstax.org/details/astronomy OpenStax, Fraknoi mentioned, has the goal of creating free textbooks for college courses. Fraknoi was part of the project as […]

March 15, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Website

Sustaining an OER Initiative after Publication

“Congratulations! You’re Officially A Publisher. Now What?” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 session by Andrea Scott, OER Coordinator, and Jen Hughes, New Media, and Educational Initiatives Librarian. Both are at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). They shared their slides at: http://bit.ly/openedpub At SLCC, the OER Culture has grown for several years with […]