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May 13, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Metacognition, Online Learning, Reflections, Softwares

Engaging Participants with Padlet Boards about Student Engagement

Todd D. Zakrajsek from UNC-Chapel Hill and ITLC Lilly spoke about “Game Changing Teaching Tips” at the Lilly Conference Online. Zakrajsek spoke about how to engage students. The prompt was “what strategies do you use for student engagement?” Zakrajsek explained that he first lets people know that there will be breakout rooms to prepare them […]

May 1, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Community of Practice, Discussions, Diversity, Guest Speakers, Learning Communities, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Website, Wellbeing, Why

Organizing and Closing Open Ed 2021

The Friday Open Ed 2021 plenary to close the conference was entitled “The Future of Open Ed.” Andrea Scott is the OER Coordinator at Salt Lake Community College and introduced the Strategic Planning Committee. Stephanie Pierce is the Head of the Physics Library at the University of Arkansas Libraries and started a Mentimeter poll. Pierce […]

April 30, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Student groups, Why, Writing

‘A History of Economic Thought’ Open Book

Diane Zydlewski, Florencia Gabriele, and Meaghan Price presented at Open Ed 2021 on “History of Economic Thought Made Alive Through Artifacts – A Collaborative Book.” They are all at Emmanuel College. Florencia Gabriele is a lecturer and has used this assignment in which students analyze passages in books and contribute to a book. The course […]

April 23, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Course Design, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

An Affordable, Accessible, and Open BIO 132

Dorothy Salinas is an Assistant Professor at County College of Morris in New Jersey. They presented “Biology Course Development: Increasing Affordability and Accessibility for Non-Science Majors” at Open Ed 2021. Salinas spoke about common barriers students may face including academic/institutional (financial aid, advising, guidance, preparedness, learning obstacles) and non-academic (school/work/life balance, time management, childcare, location, […]

April 19, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Diversity, Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Why

UNESCO OER Recommendations and Europe

Paola Corti from SPARC Europe and Gema Santos-Hermosa from the University of Barcelona spoke about “The UNESCO OER Recommendation and Europe’s Academic Libraries” as part of Open Ed 2021. They reviewed survey responses from 233 participants, 1111 institutions, 28 countries… Most responses, Santos-Hermosa mentioned, were from Spain and comprehensive institutions. The pandemic also impacted policies […]

April 18, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Diversity, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Publishing, Reflections, Why

Engaging Students in OER Textbooks for Engineering

“Collaborative Open Textbook Development Through Student Engagement: An Innovative Approach to OER” was the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. Yang Wu is the Open Resource Librarian at Clemson. Mathew Boyer is a Research Associate Professor and Leah Wiitablake are in the Deparment of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson. Wu, […]

April 17, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why

Moodle and OpenStax

Krassi Lazarova presented at Open Ed 2021 on “OpenStax College Physics – tips and tricks for implementation with Moodle.” Lazarova is an Associate Professor of Physics at Centenary University. They have searched for Open Educational Resources (OER) at their institution. Lazarova shared statistics about OER use and savings. They also described the challenges of OER […]

April 14, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Website

Open Education Austria

“Synergies between Open Education and Open Science: OER Development, Projects and Trends in Austria” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 presentation by Martin Ebner, Claudia Hackl, and Sandra Schon. They described the 8 ambitions of the European Union and their open science initiative. Schon spoke about embedding open science skills early on and […]

April 11, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Website

An Open Course on H5P

Samantha Ahern recorded a 20-minute session for the Open Ed 2021 conference. As an Open practitioner, Ahern participated in the Mozilla Open Leaders program and became a mentor for OE4BW. Ahem has experimented with H5P and “produced some guidance.” Sushumna Rao is the founder of h5pcatalogue.in and an ed-tech trainer. Rao developed and implemented an […]

April 7, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, Books, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd

The U of Alberta OER Team

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Moving Forward on OER: Building a Culture of Open Through the Creation of a Cross Campus OER Team” presented by Michelle Brailey, Sarah Shaughnessy, and Lauren Stieglitz from the University of Alberta Library. They all have different roles and have come together to support open education […]