Steve Kaufman, Senior Instructional Designer & Strategic Initiatives Coordinator, presented at the QM Quality in Action Conference 2025. This was their second or follow up session titled “The AI Empowered Instructional Designer 2.0.” They shared resources at bit.ly/ai-empowered-id Kaufman asked participants about their feelings on AI and whether the their institutions have policies on AI […]
Dr. Sacha Johnson from Idaho State University presented at the Quality in Action Quality Matters (QM) conference in April a session entitled “Don’t just click next! Increase instructional interactivity instead.” Johnson is a Senior Instructional Designer. The session outcomes were to define instructional interactivity and identify ways to add instructional interactivity with direct connections to […]
Samantha Ahern recorded a 20-minute session for the Open Ed 2021 conference. As an Open practitioner, Ahern participated in the Mozilla Open Leaders program and became a mentor for OE4BW. Ahem has experimented with H5P and “produced some guidance.” Sushumna Rao is the founder of h5pcatalogue.in and an ed-tech trainer. Rao developed and implemented an […]
Happy birthday, Amada! You turned seven! Today I also had the opportunity to speak to a group from Ireland as part of an Open Cafe! Tonight’s session from Open Ed 2021 was entitled “Building Capacity for Open Education at a Canadian Community College” and presented by Emily Schudel, an Instructional Designer at Camosun College. The […]
“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, […]
This Open Ed 2021 title caught my attention: “How To Involve Your Students In The Creation Of Open Resources For Their Own Use.” This 20-minute session was presented by Sarah Stokes, the OER Lab Manage, and Elita Partosoedarso, a professor, both at Ontario Tech University. Partosoedarso began by describing their stimulus for using OERs. In […]
Tonight we watched an Open Ed 2021 session with Emily Frank and Teri Gallaway from LOUIS. The title of the session was “Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment.” LOUIS is a consortium of public and private college and university libraries in the state of Louisiana with 47 academic libraries! The LOUIS community works toward student success […]
What are less commonly taught languages? Open Ed 2021 hosted a panel moderated by Regina Gong entitled: “Supporting OER Creation in the Least Commonly Taught Languages.” The panelists included Ayman Mohamed, Shannon Quinn, Rajiv Ranjan, and Sadam Issa. All the panelists were from Michigan State University and OER Award Recipients. Gong described the OER program […]
Happy Friday! Tonight we watched an Open Ed session “An Open Textbook Journey: Building the ‘Consumer Behaviour Trilogy'” presented by Andrea Niosi from Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Canada. Niosi shared three stories (hence the trilogy in the title) that they have developed to highlight learner creation. The first OER that Niosi shared was the “Introduction […]
Today was the second day of the DELTA Summer Shorts series, and Claire and I presented on Panopto. It was a lot of fun. I was able to watch two sessions, and now want to go back and review the recordings of the ones I missed. Tonight, we watched a session from the 2021 Lilly […]