One session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “Book Club: Professional Development Tool to Advance Open Education, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” included a recorded session and live discussion. Ursula Pike, Associate Director at DigiTex, described how the CCCOER Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee included a book club. They asked participants how their institutions defined equity. Pike […]
Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Scaling Regional OER and Equity: National Consortium of Open Educational Resources (NCOER)” with several panelists. Tanya Spilovoy, Jenny Parks, Liliana Diaz Solodukhin, Lindsey Gumb, and Charlotte Dailey participated in the discussion. I didn’t realize there were regional compacts with the WICHE, MHEC, NEBHE, and SREB groups: […]
I have learned so much from presentations about Open Education from people in Canada and Canadian RLOE collaborators. The Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Education Across Canada” included several panelists: Amanda Coolidge, Danielle Dubien, Heather Ross, Cynthia Holt, Urooj Nizami, Verena Roberts, and Alex Enkerli. Amanda Coolidge was the moderator. Urooj is amazing and […]
Amanda Marquez, a Professional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Jennifer Epley Sanders, an Associate Professor of Political Science also at TAMU presented at Open Ed 2021. The session was entitled “Creating Connected Communities and Histories through Open Pedagogy and OER” and was full of murals painted by local artists. Marquez is a […]
The Open Ed 2021 ten-minute session entitled “Check the O.L. Liner Notes from Groundbreaking Online Learning was presented by Anne–Marie Scott, Deputy Provost, from Athabascau University in Canada, and Terry Greene, Senior eLearning Designer, at Trent University. The title was Greene’s brainchild: O.L. for online learning and hip hop music influences. Greene spoke about similarities […]
Tonight I watched the 20minute Open Ed 2021 session entitled “OER as a Tool to Decenter Whiteness: A Queer Psychology Case Study” presented by Kat Klement from Bemidji State University. Klement’s goals for the session were to “identify OER sources that can decenter whiteness in your own disciplines” and “identify ways to center justice and […]
“Many Minds Make Strong Research” was the name of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. This twenty-minute recorded session was presented by Kathy Essmiller, an assistant professor and coordinator of OER at Oklahoma State University; Jamie Holmes, a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Tulsa Community College; Marla Lobley, a librarian at East Central […]
It didn’t snow as much as we thought it would, and we were able to go out after a week and a half. Tonight, the Open Ed 2021 session I watched was entitled “OERigin Stories: Women of Color in Open Education” presented by Ursula Pike, Associate Director of DigiTex. This ten-minute pre-recorded session had the […]
We watched the Open Ed 2021 “Open Education Leadership Project Showcase.” This was a lightning talk about ten minutes long. Hailey Babb, Open Education Project Manager at SPARC, spoke about the 2021 cohort of the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program. This was the fourth year of the program and the first year of it as […]
Today I worked from home with Aurelio and had fun with the occasional interruption. Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session “The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN): Research Showcase, Collaboration & Consultation” with several panelists. Beck Pitt, a research fellow from The Open University introduced the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) and the network’s […]