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My Go-to Sites for Open Access & OER Info

Posted onMarch 8, 20152 Comments

I was going through my bookmarks related to Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access, deleting some and organizing others into groups, and it occurred to me that maybe other folks would like to take a look at this annotated list of reference sites that I keep at hand to help me when I have to make presentations on these topics. This is not an exhaustive list of links, but just the ones that I am finding I return to the most often for basic background info on all things open. Read More …

Beyond the Buck: An Expanded Vision for Open Access

Posted onJanuary 9, 2015Leave a comment

Here is the presentation that I gave at the University System of New Hampshire’s 2015 Open Educational Resources Unconference on January 9th. It’s a basic intro to some of the ways that we can broaden our thinking about open access, using OER as a springboard to rethink pedagogy and academic publishing.

Student-Centered in an Open World

Posted onNovember 29, 2014Leave a comment

At my university, we use the phrase “student-centered” all the time. Sometimes it’s in non-controversial ways (mostly we all agree that collaborative classrooms are student-centered, that internships and experiential learning opportunities are student-centered, that thinking of how policies will impact actual students is student-centered). Other times, we don’t seem to have consensus about what it Read More …

What Does Campaign Finance Have to Do With Open Access to Education?

Posted onNovember 19, 2014Leave a comment

Just left Lawrence Lessig‘s keynote talk “Walking While Chewing Gum” here at OpenEd14. It was inspiring, and I found myself reevaluating my goals as an academic in much the same way as I did after hearing Cable Green speak at my home university recently. Both Lessig and Green are Creative Commons guys, leaders in the Read More …

Practical Examples for Plymouth State University

Posted onAugust 29, 2014Leave a comment

Here are some practical ideas to go with the more theoretical vision I laid out in my 2014 talk at Plymouth State University, “Rethinking Student Engagement.” How can we reintegrate knowledge so that the historically constructed boundaries between fields can be made porous? Develop cooperative templated majors that partner multiple departments together, which students could Read More …

Rethinking “Student Engagement”

Posted onAugust 28, 2014September 5, 2015Leave a comment

Faculty Day 2014, Plymouth State University Robin DeRosa If I have a guiding principle in my own pedagogy and scholarship, it’s probably related to the idea that the question on the table usually masks conflicting and more compelling questions underneath. I always value it when a student undermines one of my well-intentioned assignments because she’s Read More …