OpenEd 2020: Campus Innovation, System Support, and External Partners

Conference Presentations, Open Educational Resources / By / March 7, 2021
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

Moodle, Open Educational Resources, Open Source, Wordpress / By / January 13, 2022
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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Leaving AWS Cloud for Reclaim Hosting

Domain of One's Own, Open Source, SUNYCreate, Wordpress / By / April 9, 2021
For the last 3-4 years, I have been maintaining several developmental servers on the Amazon Cloud. I don’t even remember what my first server was, whether it was a Moodle, a WordPress Blog, or Pressbooks. It’s sometimes interesting that one of the most formative experiences of my career may have been a job that I …

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What it’s like to influence the world’s leading open source LMS

Accessibility, Moodle, Open Source / By / March 7, 2021
I was interviewed by a fellow Moodle Users Association member for a feature on Moodle.com/news. I have followed to Moodle Project closely since the beginning of my education career. In fact, my first full time job in a high school was in a classroom where we had a netbook for each student. We used Moodle …

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Accessible Math: MathML, LaTeX, & Handwritten Math

Accessibility, Conference Presentations, Math Accessibility / By / November 30, 2020
For SUNY Accessibility Week, I participated by hosting a webinar on Accessible Math. I learned a lot about what makes math accessible working with the SUNY OER initiative. Often, I would be asked to convert books from format to format, and do it in a way that we did that promoted accessibility. It made me …

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Robert Hoople: SUNY Oneonta Faculty Member using OER from Carnegie Mellon OLI

Open Educational Resources / By / November 5, 2020
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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What can the OER movement learn from Open Source Software?

Open Educational Resources, Open Source / By / February 3, 2019
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 …

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Thoughts on Mass Media, Rembrandt, and Open Pedagogy.

Open Pedagogy / By / November 19, 2018
Last month I had the opportunity to visit Denver, Colorado for the Educause Conference. While I was in Denver, I visited an interesting exhibition in the Denver Art Musuem. Called “Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker,” the exhibition showcased 100 prints Rembrandt created between 1625 and 1665. While known for his paintings, Rembrandt wanted to appeal to …

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Getting the Rights Back: The First Step for Reproductive Physiology of Mammals

Copyright, Open Educational Resources / By / August 23, 2018
Keith Schillo wrote Reproductive Physiology of Mammals: From Farm to Field and Beyond, working with Publisher Del Mar Thomson. With the acquisition and recent changes at Cengage Learning, Schillo’s book was discontinued from print, a fact that he didn’t even realize until he went to order the book for his Fall 2018 class. Keith and …

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