“Maintaining Momentum: Targeted OER Advocacy Turned Sustainable OER Service” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. It was presented by Crystal Mills, Emily Carlisle-Johnston, and Courtney Waugh from the University of Western Ontario. They spoke about Library Course Readings that provide zero-cost course materials to students. They restrict content to […]
“A Textual Analysis of a Student-Created Open Licensing Book” was the title of a ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session by Pengtong Qu, Chaoran Wang, and Meina Zhu. I had watched another presentation by Qu and Wang about pre-service teachers yesterday and was curious about this session. Wang is at Colby College; Qu is at Indiana […]
Today we did our first MS walk in several years. It was awesome to catch up with people we haven’t seen in years! The kids also had a lot of fun running around PNC Arena parking lots. Tonight, I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Using Open Pedagogy to Promote Pre-service Teachers’ Identity Development during […]
Nicolas Simon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Eastern Connecticut State University and presented at Open Ed 2021 on “OER, Ownership, Authorship, and Power.” Simon talked about OER as a way to “free us” from inequality. According to Simon, ownership and power cause some problems, and OER releases us from some of these issues. […]
“Yes You Can: Providing Institutional Planned and Just-in-Time Support to Faculty” is the title of the session of Open Ed 2021 that I watched. Lisa Young from Scottsdale Community College and Mathew Bloom and Debbie Baker from Maricopa Community Colleges were the speakers. They are part of Open Maricopa initiative. This project includes professional development, […]
“Teacher Educators as OER Storytellers” was the title of the ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session. Niki Fayne is the Program Director at CUNY OER hub. Fayne described the support from Lehman College. Naliza Sadik, the Teaching and Learning Manager at Lehman College, CUNY described the hub for teaching and learning, housed in the CUNY OER […]
Shayna Pekala, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Gonzaga University, presented the lightning talk “OER In-Reach: Introducing Your Library Colleagues to OER” at Open Ed 2021. They shared slides here. Pekala defined “in-reach” as “the process of bringing information to and building relationships with internal stakeholders.” I did now know about this! Their goal was to […]
Nico Diaz is an Academic Development and Recovery Advisor at Boise State University. In the 2021 Open Ed session entitled “Utilizing OER in Conjunction with Universal Design Principles to Support Students with Disabilities,” Diaz described their role on campus helping students make adjustments and how they use OER and UDL to support students with disabilities. […]
Nathaniel King and Tiffany Garrett from the Nevada State College Library presented “Pioneering New Forms of Support with OER Institutes” at Open Ed 2021. Garrett explained that Nevada State College was founded in 2002 and is rapidly growing. They are a Hispanic Serving Institution. Work overload was rated 5/7! The new Library was built in […]
Amy Song is the Customer Success Manager at Pressbooks and presented on “Finding and Remixing OER: A Practical Introduction” at Open Ed 2021. The first step Song described was finding OER. They mentioned finding topics and features and coordinating with a librarian. Song listed several OER repositories such as OpenStax, Lumen Learning, Libre Texts, Open […]