Open Educational Resources
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Productive Failure: MathJax and Pressbooks
As an OER specialist and accessibility advocate, I feel double pressure that when we create openly licensed materials, we have to hold ourselves towards the highest standards of accessibility. That’s not easy when we are talking about STEM, but it’s a responsibility I don’t take lightly. Online, when you have accessible math displayed in a…
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Creating a Community Archive for Domain of One’s Own
Reclaim Hosting has recently hired an Instructional Technologist from one of their Domain of One’s Own Schools. It’s been interesting to watch how an outside organization and frequent collaborator like Reclaim Hosting responds to new ideas and new energy. It will be really interesting to see if the perspective of being a campus lead for…
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Do you have a design process for OER creation?
Last year, Jennifer Jensen and I presented at Stony Brook Open Access Symposium. We recognize that SUNY Oneonta has done a lot of successful OER Creation, and though the largest driver of OER Adoption on our campus is high enrollment, general education courses that have existing OER. However, the deep collaboration that OER creation requires…
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Building Collaboration Spaces to Build and Share Interactives
I have been following projects coming out of Canada for years to build and share H5P activities. For those that don’t know, H5P is a program or plugin for multiple web-building products that allow website creators to create interactives. H5P stands for HTML 5 Packet, and this is significant in that H5P is a great…
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OpenEd20: SUNY Global Commons: Creating an International Experience in the Time of COVID-19
The SUNY Global Commons was a direct response to the COVID-19 shutdowns during the Spring Semester and Summer of 2020. Across SUNY, many students had planned to travel abroad for the Spring Semester. SUNY OER Services, SUNY Online, and the SUNY Office of Global Affairs collaborated to create this open learning experience. My part in…
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OpenEd 2020: Campus Innovation, System Support, and External Partners
Building a Sustainable Spanish Project As a portion of its 2018-2019 funding model to drive the adoption of open educational resources (OER) in SUNY’s general education, large-enrollment courses, SUNY OER Services solicited applications from SUNY campuses and faculty interested in authoring and creating OER. These applications targeted creating OER in content areas where OER was…
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Why Moodle should be the next great OER Tool
In the State University of New York, a large spotlight has been shone on the potential of Open Educational Resources (OER). Open resources can be a variety of things, from a textbook, to lecture materials, to an adaptive learning system that your students can use. SUNY is a loose federation of 64 community colleges, four-year…
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Robert Hoople: SUNY Oneonta Faculty Member using OER from Carnegie Mellon OLI
Open Educational Resources (OER) Robert Hoople is an adjunct instructor for various Psychology courses offered at SUNY Oneonta. Robert has been innovating with his teaching style through the incorporation of Open Educational Resources or OER into his classes. He has always been a tech-savvy individual and he began his teaching career as an instructor for online…
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Tips for creating with WordPress
1. Get to know the new block editor WordPress went through it’s largest change in years with the creation of Gutenberg Block Editor. With blocks, you can create your website one chunk at a time. Some themes are showing how they constructed their demos, breaking down their sites block by block. The Morden theme by…
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What can the OER movement learn from Open Source Software?
For the second year in a row, there was passionate debate at the SUNY OER Champions day over the role of a for-profit company serving as SUNY’s partner. Last year, in response to the debate, I published a piece called “Selling Open: The Conundrum of for-profit companies in the OER Space.” In that piece I tried…
