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OER in the Public Sector

The OpenEd 2021 session “Developing an Open Educational Resource Repository for The Public Sector with an Inclusive Lens” by Ksenia Cheinman, Manager of Research at the Canada School of Public Service exposed me to OERs in government. I appreciate how Cheinman started with a brief discussion of the connections between land, stewardship, gifts, reciprocity, and […]
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The USC Upstate OER Challenge

What a fun day! We spent the day with the grandparents, and the kids opened presents. Tonight we went to bed late and watched a 25-minute OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Competing for Attention: Reaching Out to Faculty in a Time of COVID-19.” Andrew Kearns, a librarian at the University of South Carolina Upstate and USC […]
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LOUIS and Dual Enrollment Courses

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 […]
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Help the Boundary Spanners!

Tonight we watched another longer Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Boundary Spanners: Bridging Gaps Between Higher Education and PK12” with Anita Walz and Julee Farley from Virginia Tech. I did not know about boundary spanners and boundary objects before this presentation, and that was one of the goals of this session. Farley discussed the history […]
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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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Open Academic Integrity

Tonight after a long day, we played the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Citation, Attribution, and Open Pedagogy: The Complexity of Academic Integrity in College Classrooms” presented by Monica Brown and Madison Hansen. They both started by describing their backgrounds and how citation and attribution are taught. Hansen talked about academic integrity best practices summarized […]
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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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OER Studies in Nigeria and K-12 Classrooms

Tonight we watched a pair of ten-minute Open Ed 2021 talks. The first one was entitled “Building and Sustaining a Culture of Open Education: Strategies and Advocacy in Nigeria” and presented by Adenekan Fauziyah Nihinlolawa. They described the education status of Nigeria and the promise of Open Education. The study they described examined the strategies […]
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