Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 recorded session entitled “Opening Opportunities for Teacher Education: A Project Funded by the U.S. Department of Education” and presented by Tim Anderson, System Director for Student Success Technologies at Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Stephen Kelly (Innovation Program Director at Minnesota State), and Kim Lynch (Senior System Director […]
Jacob Jenkins, Associate Professor at CSU Channel Islands, and Thomas Clobes presented at Open Ed 2021 a 20-minute session entitled “OER for Social Justice: Perceptions of OER Among Historically Underserved College Students.” Jenkins shared data on the rise of textbook costs since 1975. Even more striking were the student quotes from their campus that they […]
Escape rooms are popular now! The session of Open Ed 2021 had a session entitled “Using An Escape Room To Educate Students About Open Textbooks” with Amy Shannon, Teresa Schultz, Tati Mesfin, Elena Azabakht from the Libraries at the University of Nevada Reno-Library. Shannon described what an escape room is and the escape room they […]
One session at Open Ed 2021 entitled “Book Club: Professional Development Tool to Advance Open Education, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” included a recorded session and live discussion. Ursula Pike, Associate Director at DigiTex, described how the CCCOER Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee included a book club. They asked participants how their institutions defined equity. Pike […]
I have learned so much from presentations about Open Education from people in Canada and Canadian RLOE collaborators. The Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Education Across Canada” included several panelists: Amanda Coolidge, Danielle Dubien, Heather Ross, Cynthia Holt, Urooj Nizami, Verena Roberts, and Alex Enkerli. Amanda Coolidge was the moderator. Urooj is amazing and […]
I have watched Eric Werth and Katherine Williams from the University of Pikeville speak about the Open Pedagogy initiatives at their institution. Their session entitled “Evolution of Teaching Practice Through Experience with OER-Enabled Pedagogy” was a longer (~40 minutes, live) presentation at Open Ed 2021. Werth and Williams are involved in professional development at their […]
Amanda Marquez, a Professional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Jennifer Epley Sanders, an Associate Professor of Political Science also at TAMU presented at Open Ed 2021. The session was entitled “Creating Connected Communities and Histories through Open Pedagogy and OER” and was full of murals painted by local artists. Marquez is a […]
The Open Ed 2021 ten-minute session entitled “Check the O.L. Liner Notes from Groundbreaking Online Learning was presented by Anne–Marie Scott, Deputy Provost, from Athabascau University in Canada, and Terry Greene, Senior eLearning Designer, at Trent University. The title was Greene’s brainchild: O.L. for online learning and hip hop music influences. Greene spoke about similarities […]
Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Undergraduate Student Experience With A Campus-Wide Transition To Free Resources” and presented by Eric Werth, Katherine Williams, and Bang Huang from the University of Pikeville. I have watched sessions by Werth and Williams before, and I was curious about their initiative at the University of Pikeville. […]
“Many Minds Make Strong Research” was the name of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. This twenty-minute recorded session was presented by Kathy Essmiller, an assistant professor and coordinator of OER at Oklahoma State University; Jamie Holmes, a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Tulsa Community College; Marla Lobley, a librarian at East Central […]











