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Empowering and Honoring Decision

“Power and Empowerment: Honoring By Decision and Design” was the title of the CAST UDL session by Andratesha Fritzgerald. The session used Peardeck and started with a question: “If you could be on a reality TV show, which one would you choose and why?” Slides were shared at: https://bit.ly/fritz72722 Fritzgerald is the author of a […]
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Ownership, Authorship, and Power

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. […]
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What is Equity without Care?

I have been wanting to watch the OERxDomains21 session by Mia Zamora and Maha Bali for a couple of days now. The sixty-minute session was entitled “Building Appreciative Narratives of Equity and Care in the Open” and caught my attention when I first saw the conference schedule… but the timing didn’t work out to watch […]
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