OER/Open Pedagogy Course

Open Courses logo with byline of, "recognizing professional development."

I was up at 4:45 this morning to attend a 5 am meeting for a class I am starting with a whole bunch of educators from Ireland 🙂 A couple of weeks ago I came across a comment about the class on Mastodon and figured I should take a look….

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Where is Your Network?

I was talking with Sarita last week and she was asking me to update a site I had made for her capstone course in 2018. The site is simple. It has information about Google sites, Weebly, and WordPress, essentially it is for some help for her capstone students eportfolios. She…

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Time for a Cool Change

A screenshot of a Google Hangout with a teacher and students talking with guest speakers.

Nine years we have been evolving. Where will we go next? I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Well, like the last year. Some of the more factual elements of our work have prompted this and some related challenges around my work in general. Maybe I am just…

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OER is Finally HIP

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: A New High-Impact Practice

Well, according to the AACU OER is finally HIP. How cool. The report released earlier this year has all the same arguments we have been making for years, so it is good to see some high-level validation. In the forward, the report notes, “What began as an effort to reduce…

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Some Open, Some Not So Open

Todd standing by the Jimi Hendrix Memorial in Renton, Washington.

On March 30th, my birthday, I presented at the Washington State Canvas Conference. It was the second time I had presented at the event on my birthday. How weird is that? Spending my birthday with the great people in the world of education. #2017wacc pic.twitter.com/LJVpQ3r0nV — Todd Conaway (@Todd_Conaway) March…

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A New Lending Library

We are excited to share some books. Literally! Our learning community purchased some books for our faculty to share. Several are by Claire Major, an educator and author we spend some time with last month. The books are here in the Digital Learning office space in LBA – 204 and…

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A Pressbooks Story with Robin DeRosa

Zoom window with Learning Commmunity participants and Robin DeRosa.

In January, the Teaching & Learning on the Open Web learning community had the opportunity to spend an hour with Robin DeRosa, the Director of the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative at Plymouth State University.  Robin shared the story of her “Open Education Anthology of Earlier American Literature” Pressbook, an…

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