open educational resources

January 3, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

Unintentional Group Curation of Information in the Open?

We started the year with a snow day… at least for a couple of hours. It was a fun day for the kids at home, but the adults had difficulties getting work done. Tonight, I watched (since everyone else fell asleep before I even started!) the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Student Curation of Content and […]

January 2, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Books, Community of Practice, Constructivism, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website, Wellbeing

IMLS Investment in OER and Professional Development

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 […]

January 1, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, OpenEd, Reflections, Softwares, Why

Perceptions of Low-cost and No-cost Course Designations

For the first day of the new year, we watched the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Schedule Designation and Enrollment Research” with Amy Hofer from Open Oregon Educational Resources, Shauna McNulty, faculty at Umpqua Community College, and Jennifer Lantrip, Health Sciences Student Success Librarian at Pacific University. Their slides were made available at: tinyurl.com/designationstudyopened21 Their team […]

December 31, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Student groups, Transfer Students, Website, Workshop

Using OER and the LMS for Concurrent Enrollment Students

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 […]

December 29, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Discussions, Diversity, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Website, Why, Workshop

Learning about Copyright and the Public Domain with Cards

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 […]

December 28, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Community of Practice, Diversity, Information Literacy, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections

OER Initiatives in OK

The ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session we watched tonight was about statewide OER opportunities and partnerships in Oklahoma. The session was entitled “Celebrating Cultural Communities: Innovative Statewide Use of OER Through Collaborative Partnerships” and began with Brad Griffith, the director of Online Learning Initiatives at the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Educations, who spoke about […]

December 27, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Case Studies, Course Design, Diversity, Information Literacy, Mentoring, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why, Workshop

The Penguin Corps and Learning about Open Source Software

Open-source software can be so helpful but often challenging to learn. Tonight’s Open Ed 2021 session was about open source software and… The Penguin Corps. The title was “Open Source Belongs in School. Let’s Put It There!” with Stu Keroff from the Aspen Academy and several students from Penguin Corps. Keroff talked about using open […]

December 26, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, annotation, Books, Case Studies, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Website

Student Voices and Institutional Culture Change with CCCOER

I saw a familiar acronym on the schedule of OpenEd 2021 sessions! Tonight we watched the session “Creating a Culture of Open with Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)” with several Open Education leaders! The moderator was Una Daly, Director CCCOER from Open Education Global. Panelists included Dr. Bob Awkward, Cynthia Orozco, Judith […]

December 25, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Books, Constructivism, Course Design, Information Literacy, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Why

The USC Upstate OER Challenge

What a fun day! We spent the day with the grandparents, and the kids opened presents. Tonight we went to bed late and watched a 25-minute OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Competing for Attention: Reaching Out to Faculty in a Time of COVID-19.” Andrew Kearns, a librarian at the University of South Carolina Upstate and USC […]

December 24, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Community of Practice, Course Design, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Interprofessional Education, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, QM, Reflections, Softwares, Teaching techniques, Website, Why, Workshop

LOUIS and Dual Enrollment Courses

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 […]