innovation

PIVOT and Community Based Learning

“Tips for Developing and Maintaining CBL Partnerships in a Virtual Environment” was the session I watched by Jodie Parys from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. CBL is community-based learning, and the goals for this session were to learn strategies to modify face-to-face CBL partnerships into virtual and hybrid offerings and consider the needs of stakeholders. Parys […]
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Pinatas, Pressbooks, and History

Jim Ross-Nazzal is a Professor of History at Houston Community College – Eastside Campus and recorded a 25-minute session at Open Ed 2021. Their session was entitled “An OER Textbook: Design Thinking and Pinata Innovation.” What a cool title! Ross-Nazzal mentioned that the title came from a year-long institute they participated in. They described designing […]
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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: […]
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Innovation in Content Re-usability

Tonight I finished the week by starting (ha!) the OpenEd 2021 recordings. I had a lot of fun in our sessions! The first recorded session I watched was by Kenneth Feldt and entitled “Open is insufficient: How Innovative Re-use of Content Can Extend Institutional Reach.” Feldt is a managing partner of the Electric Book Company […]
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Innovation in OER and Cultural Paradigm Shifts

Dr. Rob Farrow from the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University spoke about OER innovation as part of day 2 of OERxDomains21. This is the second presentation I watch from the Open University and love what they are doing. Farrow asked: what does innovation look like in OER? Interestingly, Farrow mentioned that copyright […]
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