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ISKME Promotes Accessible Open

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 […]
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Open and the Common Good

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 […]
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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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Black Feminism and Open Education

We finished the semester! I submitted grades and was able to get into the lab, extract genomic DNA from compost samples, and start a sequencing run after doing a session at OERcamp 2021! Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Education Through an Ethics of Care & Justice” presented by Kristin Lansdown, […]
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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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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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Updating Metadata Vocabulary for Inclusion and Equity

Today we spent most of the day cleaning and doing chores… and some reorganizing of freezers in the lab due to a power outage! The Open Ed 2021 session we watched tonight was entitled “Creating an Inclusive Subject Vocabulary to Describe Humanities Resources” presented by Sarah Harris an Associate Librarian at the National Humanities Center. […]
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BranchEd to Teach the Teachers of Future Teachers

Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchEd) provides support for faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSI). Aubree Evans is the director of the BIRCH Professional Learning Center at Branch Ed and presented at Open Ed 2021. The session was entitled “Teaching the Teachers of Future Teachers to Design Inclusive Instructional OER.” In 2019 they conducted focus groups […]
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OpenSkill and Open Tools

Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 session by Ariel Anbar and colleagues about the Open Skill initiative. The session entitled “OpenSkill: Open Tools, Co-Development, and Workforce Readiness” described the OER barriers to adoption and the need for improving workforce training. Anbar is the PI for the Department of Education-funded program. Anbar shared a quote: […]
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