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What is Equity without Care?

I have been wanting to watch the OERxDomains21 session by Mia Zamora and Maha Bali for a couple of days now. The sixty-minute session was entitled “Building Appreciative Narratives of Equity and Care in the Open” and caught my attention when I first saw the conference schedule… but the timing didn’t work out to watch […]
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Modalities and Engagement

I have been thinking about openness and collaborative projects in Spanish lately. Another OERxDomains21 session about openness and collaborative spaces presented by Giovanna Carloni focused on “Digitally-enhanced collaborative international spaces for content and language learning” and provided some ideas of how other countries approached emergency remote learning. Carloni discussed how the course was structured and […]
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Gendered Experiences in STEM

Dr. Katie Hinde from Arizona State University presented as part of the SABER Diversity & Inclusion Speaker Series 2021 on Gendered Experiences. The presentation was entitled “Land of milk and “honey”: Confronting gendered experiences in field research” and focused on gendered issues in field research.  Hinde started by providing a scenario and polling the audience. Then […]
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Talking about Digital Equity

Dr. DeRionne Pollard, President of Montgomery College, delivered the keynote address at QM ConnectLX 2020. Pollard started by talking about the impact of Quality Matters (QM) and how education is “about the experience and dignity” and this resonated. Pollard talked about how much aid Montgomery College gave to students during the pandemic. The impact of […]
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Online Class Meetings

Stella Porto, Learning Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank talked last year (October 2020) about the history of online education during a Quality Matters session. Porto discussed how accessibility and technology limitations made online education mostly asynchronous. During the shift to emergency online teaching, instructors used synchronous class meetings to simulate the in-person meetings. However, Porto mentioned […]
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Microbes and Social Equity!

Dr. Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH presented the first talk in the microbes and equity series this spring paving the way for a summer symposium. Several friends recommended this talk, and I wanted to watch it this week. Redvers began by talking about their roots and indigenous community. Respect, relevance, and relatability were mentioned by Redvers […]
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Open Design for Equity and Innovation

I am tired today. It has been a long week. I wanted to end with something about open pedagogy and design. I have on my watch list several Quality Matters (QM) webinars. I am working on another QM course that started this week and enjoying it. I learn as much from the materials and activities […]
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Labor-based Contract Grading for Equity

Today I attended a talk that was rescheduled after an unfortunate Zoom bombing incident…  Asao B. Inoue discussed what labor-based grading contracts is. Inoue described labor-based grading contracts as: a set of social agreements with students in a course identifies how to determine the final course grade uses labor as the only measure for grades carefully articulated in a […]
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Modeling Learning

I receive the ACUE newsletter and often find interesting articles or links to talks. The email this week included a session entitled “Success for Every Student Through Effective Teaching” that is part of ACUE’s panel discussion from the California Community College Association for Occupational Education (CCCAOE) Conference. I watched it tonight after getting my first dose […]
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The Student Perspective of the Online Course Experience

Penny Ralston-Berg from PennState World Campus did a Quality Matters (QM) webinar on February 9, 2021 entitled “Student Perspective 2 0: Where Do We Go from Here?” that I watched tonight. Ralston-Berg started by comparing the institutional and student perspectives of success. This comparison was interesting because we just read an article about student success […]
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