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Sustaining an OER Initiative after Publication

“Congratulations! You’re Officially A Publisher. Now What?” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 session by Andrea Scott, OER Coordinator, and Jen Hughes, New Media, and Educational Initiatives Librarian. Both are at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). They shared their slides at: http://bit.ly/openedpub At SLCC, the OER Culture has grown for several years with […]
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Revisiting Libguides for Chemistry

Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Providing Sustainable Open Educational Resource Material for Organic Chemistry Students” presented by Jeffrey M Mortimore, Nikki Cannon-Rech, Christine Whitlock, and Shainaz Landge. They are all from Georgia Southern University, and this is the second presentation I watch from this group. Landge mentioned they wanted to reduce […]
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Case Studies of OER Implementation at Towson

“Access for All: Case Studies Investigating Open Education Resources” was a session presented by Lijun Jin, Maria Perpetua Liwanag, Patricia Westerman, Miriam DesHarnais, Aaron Dallman, and Amanda Jozkowski from Towson University as part of Open Ed 2021. They spoke about the Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson and the Library and how they help […]
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Learning with MOM: MyOpenMath

Marta Kowalczyk and Kevin Mark from La Guardia Community College, City University of New York, presented at Open Ed 2021 a session entitled “MyOpenMath (MOM) Platform for General Chemistry homework assignments.” I did not know about the MyOpenMath platform. Kowalczyk and Mark teach chemistry with MOM. Kowalczyk described MOM as a “free, open-source, online course […]
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Training that Considers Compatibility and Relative Advantage

Stephanie Robertson is an Information Literacy & Faculty Outreach Librarian as well as an Assistant Professor at BYU-Hawaii, and Emily Bradshaw has been teaching in the English department at BYUH for fifteen years. Together, they presented at Open Ed 2021 a ten-minute recorded session entitled “Faculty Adoption of OER through Compatibility and Relative Advantage Training.” […]
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Libraries Without Borders and the Wash and Learn Initiative

Azure Grimes presented a recorded Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Wash and Learn: Access to Education and Technology at Pop-Up Library Spaces.” Grimes is a Senior Program Manager with Libraries Without Borders. I didn’t know about this organization! Libraries Without Borders (LWB) is “an international non-profit that is committed to expanding access to information and […]
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A Three-day Workshop to Begin the OER Journey

Wendy Vélez-Torres is a Senior Instructional Technologist at Coppin State and recorded a ten-minute session for Open Ed 2021 entitled “Our Journey into Course Redesign with OERs.” Velez-Torres mentioned that Coppin State is located in downtown Baltimore, and the majority of students are first-generation students, according to Velez-Torrez. They designed a summer workshop/professional development opportunity […]
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Educational Videos as Pedagogy

Marie Nightbird and Kelly Allison presented the recorded Open Ed 2021 presentation “OER for a Practice Based Profession: Videos for Teaching Communication Skills in Social Work.” They are both from the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia and Assistant Teaching Professors. Nightbird defined OERs as “teaching, learning, and research resources that […]
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A Tool and Rubric for OER Accessibility Checks

Tiffany Tijerina is the Program Manager at Affordable Learning Georgia and recorded a lighting talk for Open Ed 2021 that I watched tonight. Tijerina presented “Evaluating OER Accessibility: Open, Digital, and Pedagogical” and described a tool they developed. The tool starts by focusing on open access: Can the resource be downloadable in a common format? […]
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Student Panel on OER Advocacy in Canada

We have had fantastic student panels as part of RLOE Cohort 2! I also had the opportunity to talk to NC State students this evening. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 recorded student panel entitled “Ask Student OER Champions: Advocacy and Allyship.” Several students from across Canada spoke about their work with OER. After […]
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