Hello all, I’m looking for some recommendations on recorded sessions (preferable on the shorter end of the spectrum, but that’s merely a secondary preference) specifically on working with the same class over multiple semesters (but of course, different students each time) to use a “scaffolding” approach of building a textbook or Open assignments. I know I’ve caught a couple on my own, I Just cannot remember who/what year. But I’m interested in a variety of subjects- science and arts- that particularly show how working with students can help keep instructors interested as well as the students, and shows how it keeps textbooks relevant. I definitely remember someone discussing this with regards to a cybersecurity textbook and having students write up papers about viruses that were added each semester, and I just cannot remember who did that one… I owe whoever it was a thank-you and apology for their excellent presentation and my lapse in memory…
@peskorm in addition to posting here, I recommend posting to the CCCOER Community Google Group/Listserv. A lot of good info shared there! Community Email – CCCOER
Hi Robin,
I hope there is some collective memory of sessions like that, I am not finding anything in my tired brain. I have at least what us likely not helpful a search on previous Open Education Week events on open pedagogy
These are typically what you hear about from practitioners over time and I might guess is included in the Open Pedagogy Notebook created by @actualham and @rjhangiani though that looks last update in 2020 along with its creedit to @greeneterry for his Patchbook https://openfacultypatchbook.org/
I’d lean towards more current info in the Open Education Network’s portal for Open Pedagogy.
The cybersecurity one has a faint echo of familiarity, but my brain’s not location anything specific, closes I found was a SUNY Project on an Open Cyber Arena Virtual Lab.
Sorry, I cannot think of anything specific, I hope someone else here might be able to chime in.
Also, in case you missed it, we had a query from a librarian interested in OER at public libraries. Your name spring to mind.
The Open Pedagogy Notebook was closed when the OEN started the Open Pedagogy Portal. I spoke with Tanya Grosz who coordinates the portal and it’s on her list to revive that project over the next year! But there are a lot of good examples in there of stuff like this!
I actually finally found one of the sessions I was thinking of after extensively searching through my notes on Google Drive- it was from OEGweek 2022. If you are curious, the link is included on slide 11 of my presentation I’ll be giving on Wednesday (my last one at Reynolds Community College):
…edit: fixed link to be visible to all.
And I will definitely check out the public library discussion- it’s surprising how there are just huge gaps in knowledge/awareness of OERs in unexpected places; I would have thought public libraries would be on top of the movement, since they are frequently go-to sources for homeschooling. But that’s just another opportunity to spread the word! ![]()
Thanks Robin, I think the presentation might need a share with everyone set, but am curious to find it.
Congrats (I hope) on what’s next for you, please let us know.
I’m glad you caught that with the link- I just fixed it. End-of-day brain strikes again! ![]()
No worries, that’s like me every day
That is a brilliant presentation, I admit as a fan being drawn in by the opening Stephen Jay Gould quote.
And great to see the recording of a. 2022 Open Education Week presentation by David Ghidiu is still available (and the presentation itself).
I love him! That quote is tied as one of my favorites with this portion from Dwight Eisenhower’s A Chance for Peace (which although wonderful, doesn’t quite hit at the heart of the equity portion of OERs, so somewhat sadly I decided not to shoe-horn into the presentation…also it’s admittedly a bit long):
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”