@feb20-cohort thanks to all who joined our check-in last week! I’d love to hear from anyone who couldn’t make it, so if you have an update that you’d like to share with the cohort, please post it here.
Some important notes from our discussion:
- This was our last session this year. We’ll continue in 2021 with our penultimate check-in on January 6th at 9:00am ET. I’d imagine it might be easier to meet before you all get caught up in the start of semester rush, but if anyone has a conflict with this date, please me know.
- November was a big month for open education conferences, and there were a few presentations by cohort members that I want to highlight:
- Supplement Your Foreign Language Class with OER
- Designing a Modular Statewide Open Education Resource for College Writing
- Opening a Space and Place for #WOCinOER: Stories, Experiences, and Narratives
- Building Sustainable and Scalable OER Initiatives Through Faculty, Librarian, and Student Partnerships that Encourage Open Pedagogy
- For those of you who are planning to turn to your projects during your break, please make sure to build in time for some self-care! This way, you can come back refreshed and reenergized in the new year.
Chat Transcript and Resources
As usual, I’ve saved our chat transcript which you can review. Here’s a roundup of resources shared:
- Office Hours: Writing Math and Science Textbooks (5 November 2020, 2pm ET/11 am PT)
- Formatting workflow handout
- Open Education Conference (recordings available soon)
- Open Education Global Conference
- Introduction to the Series: Logic (see the “How the Books were Produced” section)
- Appendices in Blueprint for Success
- Last Laugh Film
- Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
- Generative covers
- Open Pedagogy Approaches and their author series
- Center for Media & Social Impact: Best Practices in Fair Use
Lastly, I wanted to note that I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the different updates you had prepared: from student feedback as you are using your books in the classroom, questions about interoperability of content, to the types of assignments that students are creating with your rubrics, it was fantastic. I’m very pleased at how far we’ve come as a group, and how your individual projects are progressing, despite the challenges faced this year. I look forward to continuing the journey in the new year, where we have a few sessions left. Happy holidays, and wish you all a happy new year!
