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Starting with OER and Open Pedagogy

Continuing with OpenEdu 2021, I watched the session entitled “Getting Started with Open Education” presented by Cheryl Casey. The slides for the session were shared as well as the Online OER Toolkit. The benefits of open education were listed on a slide: cost savings, accessibility, day-one access, equity & social justice, inclusion, diversity, innovation, and […]
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A New Framework for Instructor Awareness and Improvement

Today, Amber Heidbrink was the presenter at the NIST FALCoN session entitled “Faculty Conceptions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Heidbrink started by asking us to think about what diversity means and post thoughts on a Jamboard. Then, we discussed why we should care about diversity in higher education. Their research team interviewed 30 full-time and part-time instructors from 2- and 4-year […]
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Distance in Online Courses

The last parallel session of day 3 of ALT 2021 was entitled “Distance makes the heart grow fonder?” with speakers Tarek Zoubir and Gabriella Bishop. They are both at Imperial College in the Business School. At the EdTech lab, they develop software platforms and collaborate with other business schools. The presenters wanted to explore how […]
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Promoting Independence and Access

Chris Smith from NC Virtual education was the October 20, 2021, Quality Matters (QM) Success Stories session. Smith shared their background and work. Prompting us to define accessibility in the chat, Smith mentioned that we often look at accessibility from the legal or accommodations perspectives. Chris had a slide with a title that stuck with me: promoting […]
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Support for Course Improvement

It was a rough long day, yet we were able to learn in lab and troubleshoot together. Tonight, we watched a session entitled “When support and quality assurance collide: A learning technologists’ journey to maintain staff wellbeing in a world full of data” by Laura Hollinshead from the University of Derby. Hollinshead worked with their […]
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Cameras Off? Cameras On?

We had an awesome OpenEd 2021 session despite a tough day. Tonight, we watched a recorded presentation from ALT 2021 entitled “Should we see students’ cameras when we teach online synchronous sessions?” presented by Catherine Bazela, Pete Mella, and Robert Spark. Mella began by asking the audience: “if we asked you to switch on your […]
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Identifying and Addressing Inequities in the Digital World

Tonight we watched an ALT 2021 conference session entitled “Addressing structural inequities in an expanding digital world” by Femi Nzegwu, Joanna Wild, and Fiona Khandoker. Wild talked about the Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA) program. Technology was used to enhance the workshops and provide virtual mentoring. Wild mentioned that since the […]
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Boats and Surveys of Student Online Learning Experiences

What a day! Great meetings and lots of running around! Tonight’s ALT 2021 session was presented by a team and entitled “We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm”: An exploration of the student experience of the shift to fully online teaching in response to the Covid19 Pandemic” […]
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Emergent Learning and Remixes

I am moving on to day 2 of the ALT 2021 annual conference! Tonight we watched a session with a title that caught my attention: “Lines of thought: the serendipitous emergence of collaborative learning” by Sarah Honeychurch and Wendy Taleo. This session was sponsored by Talis, and now I am curious what they do. Honeychurch […]
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Embedding Inclusive Practice into Online Teaching Guides

I have been thinking a lot about blended learning as part of the QM courses and preparing for BIT 295 in the spring. An ALT 2021 session that caught my attention tonight was entitled “Embedding Inclusive Practice for Blended and Distance Learning” presented by Mark Maher, Robin Clarke, Carmen Miles, and Stephen Walker. They have […]
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