It is always wonderful to reconnect with graduate school friends. Last year when I was at the Open Ed 2021 conference doing my session, I noticed a familiar name. Tonight, I watched their recorded session entitled “A Freely Hosted and Easily Maintained OER for an Undergraduate Agile Software Engineering Course” with Cengiz Gunay, an associate […]
We finished the first week of classes! Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Entering Mainstream Adoption: How TUDelft and UTwente Collaboratively Embrace OER Through Grasple” presented by Pim Bellinga, co-founder of Gasple, and Pim Stuurman, mathematics content expert at Grasple. They spoke about how TU Delft and University of Twente moved from […]
Ellie Svoboda, an education informationist from Strauss Health Sciences Library at the University of Colorado, and Teresa Connolly, an assistant professor from the University of Colorado Denver, presented at Open Ed 2021 about “Collecting Nursing OER on a Health Sciences Campus.” They shared their process of sharing OER on a health sciences campuses and creating […]
Continuing with international examples of OER and open education, tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Remote Education During The Pandemic: The Teachers’ Perspective – Quantitative European Study” presented by Maja Bogataj, Magda Biernat, Teresa Nobre, and Anahita Rezaei. This recorded session started with Rezaei, Open Education & Advocacy Specialist at Centrum Cyfrowe […]
Tomorrow is the first day of classes, and we spent most of the day preparing for courses. Tonight, I watched the ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session entitled “EduCoop – Online Course About Co-Creation Open Education Resources” and presented by Aleksandra Czetwertyńska, team leader of the Centrum Cyfowe. Czetwertyńska spoke about their project EduCoop that is […]
Tonight we ended the workweek by watching the ten minute OpenEd session “Traditional Textbooks v. OER: Comparing Academic Performance at a Hispanic Serving Institution” with Jacob Jenkins, AL$ Campus Coordinator and Associate Professor at CSU Channel Islands, Thomas Clobes, lecturer at CSU Channel Islands, and Hannah Haid and Rebecca Allen. This study compared two different […]
James Neal, Senior Library Program Officer from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) began the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Federal Funding For OER: Spotlight On IMLS Grants.” I didn’t know about IMLS and learned from Neal’s introduction that it is a federal institute located in Washington, DC, and established in 1996. It is […]
To end 2021, I watched the OpenEd 2021 session by Dan McGuire, Executive Director of SABIER (Stone Arch Bridge Initiative for Education), and Lisa Lucas Hurst, professor at Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU). The session was about OER in Concurrent Enrollment, similar to another session I watched last month I think. Lucas Hurst is an […]
Tonight we watched Lisa Campbell and Perry Collins, librarians at the University of Florida, present their recorded Open Ed 2021 session “Valentine Remix: Joy and Critical Making in OER.” Collins spoke about how students are involved in co-creation and even writing textbooks as part of courses. This is an opportunity to speak about copyright and […]
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 […]