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A Roadmap for Open Pedagogy Projects

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 […]
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OER Studies in Brazil and Frameworks for Ethics of Care

I have now watched several Open Ed 2021 sessions about teaching languages using Open Educational Resources (OER). However, I have not learned what people are doing for teaching Portuguese. The session entitled “A Research Landscape on OER in Brazil: The Teaching of First and Foreign Languages” was presented by Terezinha Marcondes Diniz Biazi, a Ph.D. […]
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Student Contributions to OCW

Yesterday’s Open Ed 2021 session left me thinking and rereading my post. Tonight we continued watching sessions. The one we watched was entitled “When Students Create OER: What We’ve Learned and What’s Next at MIT OpenCourseWare” with speakers Ashay Athalye, Sarah Hansen, Curt Newton, and Paige Dote from MIT Open Course Ware. Newton is the […]
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CUNY Graduate Student Open Fellowship

Tonight I learned about the CUNY system by watching the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open by Design, but to What End? Designing the Open Pedagogy Fellowship,” presented by Jill Cirasella, Associate Librarian for Scholarly Communication, CUNY Graduate Center, and Elvis Bakaitis and Katelyn Angell. The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest […]
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Enrollment and Openness

Stephen Downes, a Research Officer in the National Research Council of Canada, presented a session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “What Does It Mean To Enroll in a Course?” Downes began by mentioning a concern they have: how much information the Learning Management System wants when enrolling in a course. Downes asked: “why do they […]
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Awareness of Open Pedagogy Practices

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Building Awareness of Open Pedagogical Practices to Advance the Cause of Openness On Your Campus” by Kristina M. De Voe from Temple University. De Voe is an English and Communication Librarian. De Voe also leads the open education group and manages the textbook affordability project. Citing […]
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Perceptions of OER in Saudi Arabia and Microinstruction

Friday! Tonight I watched the OpenEd 2021 session by Saia Almousa, a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds present on “A Study of Academics’ Perception of OERs at Saudi Arabian Higher Education Institutions.” Almousa presented the research context for OERs in Saudi Arabia. While there have been studies in Arabic countries, there is a […]
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Wikidata in the Classroom

Shani Evenstein is a lecturer and Ph.D. candidate involved with the Wikimedia Foundation. Evenstein described the Wikidata project that is “A database of structured, linked data multilingual and read by humans and machines open to all, under a free license.” Alexa and Siri have access to Wikidata to search for information. Evenstein’s doctoral research is […]
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Francophone and CommonLit OER

OER at a bilingual university seems very challenging. That’s why I was intrigued by the lighting talk from Open Ed 2021 entitled “Challenges and Opportunities of OER at a Bilingual Canadian University” presented by Michelle Brown and Melanie Brunet from the University of Ottawa, a bilingual Canadian university. They mentioned that the University of Ottawa […]
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World Librarians and Offline OER Sharing

Tonight we watched a panel session of Open Ed 2021 about the World Librarians program: worldLibrarians.org. The session was entitled “World Librarians: A System Providing Open Educational Resources to Offline Schools in Malawi & Kenya” and presented by Charlie Schweik, Carl Meyer, Wachira Warukira, and Sarah Hutton. Schweik is a professor at the University of […]
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