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November 28, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Diversity, Information Literacy, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Student groups, Teaching techniques, Why

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 […]

November 26, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, Information Literacy, Metacognition, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Why

OER Cycles in India and Japan

It was a fun day with the family! We needed some downtime, and Aurelio took another long nap! Tonight I watched a couple of Open Ed 2021 lightning talks. I started with the session entitled “Co-creation of OERs for Foreign Language Acquisition: A Case study on Goa, India” presented by Natasha Maria Gomes from Goa […]

November 18, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Books, Course Design, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

Pandemic OER Outreach and Open RN

I worked on several different items today and was very scattered, yet I was able to get some items on my list finished. Tonight we listened to a couple of Open Ed sessions. We started with the recorded talk “COVID Changed How We Do OER Outreach. Here’s What Our Institutional Initiatives Have Learned” which featured […]

November 17, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Information Literacy, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Why

Automatic Textbook Billing and Zero-Cost Texts

What is automatic textbook billing? Winni Zhang from SPARC explained that automatic textbook billing is usually through the bookstore or publishers and charge students automatically for use of textbooks. The SPARC Inclusive Access Working Group helped create the contract library that this Open Ed 2021 session described “A Look at the Fine Print Behind Automatic […]

November 15, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

Facilitating Leadership Development in OER Cohorts

Leadership has come up frequently in the last several weeks. Tonight I watched an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “From OER Learner to Leader: Creating a Professional Development Pathway for Emerging OER Champions” presented by Monica Brown and Apurva Ashok from the Rebus Foundation. I have been curious about the Rebus Foundation. Brown and Ashok […]

November 14, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Course Design, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why

Offline OER Solutions!

We still have the momentum from the first cohort of RLOE and discussions of open! Tonight, I watched another Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Access For All With Offline OER Solutions” and presented by Amanda Coolidge, director of Open Education BC Campus, and Carolee Clyne, Open Education Advisor BC Campus. They shared the slides at: […]

November 12, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Books, Constructivism, Course Design, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

Starting an OER Journey with the Syllabus

What a week! I’m tired. A lot happened and several items on my checklist were accomplished, though a couple continue to be pushed back! I did finish the QM Teaching Online Certificate, and we were able to get the epMotion 5075 BitBot liquid handler to run a DNA prep with food coloring and water. Tonight […]

November 9, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Community of Practice, Constructivism, Course Design, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

The NEBHI Community of Practice Experience

It was a long day, and we got data back from the sequencing run! I am tired… and happy. Tonight I watched another panel from the Open Ed 2021 conference entitled “Zoom In: A Faculty Panel on Creating Renewable Assignments Using Lambert’s Social Justice Framework.” Lindsey Gumb, Fellow in Open Education at the New England […]

October 29, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
DBER and SoTL, FALCoN, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

The Metacognitive Continuum

This afternoon, the NIST FALCoN session featured Julie Stanton. The talk was entitled “Using metacognition to help students adapt their learning in and out of the pandemic.”Julie Stanton asked the group: what is metacognition? Stanton defined metacognitions as the awareness and control of thinking for the purpose of learning. Students develop metacognitive knowledge by, for […]

October 28, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why

Student Perceptions of Open Pedagogy at Community Colleges

I truly enjoyed another session of RLOE today. It is such a fabulous group of participants! I am learning a lot from the facilitators too! Tonight, I watched the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Open Pedagogy: Overcoming the Public Versus Private Conundrum” that was pre-recorded and had presenters there for questions. Staci Gilpin, Julie Lazzara, and […]