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Webinar 4: November 4, 2021: Equity in Open Education

Canadian Panelists

Describing Open Education

OpenSphere Webinar 5: Nov 25, 2021

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Who is Ken Monroe ?

Senior Instructional Designer - Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning.

Chair, Open Education Working Group

Tired of working in basement, but not ready to go back to the office full-time.

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Ken Monroe - Resources

Creating connection in a self-paced course. Placing a pin on a map enables students to create an artefact that is left behind for others. In GEOG 2221 - Sense of Place. Also used in a variety of other courses.

Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning. This is an online program developed within our department that is delivered in the open.

UN Sustainable Development Goals - Open Pedagogy Fellowship. An opportunity for faculty to collaborate with others to create inter-disciplinary, reusable assignments that enable students to address a SDG in their community.

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Who is Helen DeWaard ?

Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Orillia, Ontario

  • critical digital and media literacy courses

ETS (Educational Technology Support), Faculty of Education, UBC

  • Learning designer

Scholarship

  • PhD Candidate, Joint PhD program with Lakehead, Brock, UWindsor
  • Masters of Educational Technology (MET) from UBC
  • Masters of Education (MEd) from the University of Toronto, OISE

Volunteering and Events

  • Virtually Connecting Co-Director
  • ISTE Inclusive Learning network,
  • Mozilla Open Leaders project
  • Open Education Fellow with eCampus Ontario
  • mentor with UNESCO Open Education for a Better World project

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Helen DeWaard - Resources

Open Teaching - Critical Digital Literacy

  • elective course for preservice teachers (EDUC 3516- Critical Digital Literacy)

Open Learning - Scholarship

Open Digital Identity / Persona - digital self portrait

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Who is Nicole Neutzling ?

  • E-Learning Specialist - Cummings School of Medicine, University of Calgary
  • Former learning developer for the Ignite School for elearning
  • K -12 Educator with an fascination for all things STEAM
  • Open Education Research Fellow 2020/2021
  • Go-Gn “Into the Open” Podcast co-developer and producer

When not found on a computer, I’m often somewhere in the alpine.

Image by flaticon.com

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Nicole Neutzling Resources

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Who is Randy LaBonte?

Canadian eLearning Network (CANeLearn)

  • Leader, advocate, passionate supporter, CEO
  • Researcher, communicator, organizer
  • Consultant following professional passions

About Me

  • Proud grandfather of 10 grandchildren ages 2-16
  • Instructor & fan, Vancouver Island University
  • Pam’s partner & fire-starter

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Randy LaBonte Resources

CANeLearn.net Publications:

Definitions for the multiple terms used to describe online learning: https://k12sotn.ca/papers/defining-e-learning-in-canada/

Individual jurisdiction data, State of the Nation website https://k12sotn.ca/data/

Pandemic pedagogy research site https://sites.google.com/view/canelearn-ert/

Upcoming Studies & CANeLearn Research

Remote Learning – How did we fare?

  • A study of selected jurisdictions across Canada during the pandemic;
  • Successful practices; and
  • Where gaps and challenges occurred.

Post-pandemic policy and practice – implications for online learning’s future

  • A publication analyzing pandemic policy and impacts.

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Who is Amanda Coolidge?

Director of Open Education at BCcampus

Reside on the unceded territory of the Sc’ianew First Nation, on the shores of Beecher Bay, Southern Vancouver Island.

Instructional Designer, Educational Technologist (MEd from U of C!) -->MRU, Kenya (tessa.net)

Fun fact: Amanda and her family live in their RV year round and travel Vancouver Island

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Amanda Coolidge Resources

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Who is Michael Canuel?

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Michael Canuel Resources

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Who is Marie Bartlett?

Marie works as an Instructional Designer in Open Learning, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, BC. Every day, Marie takes time to enjoy the colors of the big sky above the unceded land of the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc on which she lives.

Marie is an advocate for openness, and believes that every decision to use open resources or pursue open pedagogy makes a positive difference in students’ lives.

When designing courses, open educational resources and open textbooks are on the agenda to discuss with subject matter experts.

Is there a faculty member adapting or creating a resource or a textbook? Marie gets involved whenever possible.

Is there an opportunity for an open pedagogical activity within a course? Marie will help to build it in.

Dedicated to designing the best possible experiences for students, Marie participates in open communities of practice, and loves collaborating with educators to pursue goals in the open.

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Marie Bartlett Resources

https://curn.trubox.ca/ CURN (Canadian Undergraduate Research Network)

An Open Pedagogy project in which students share their undergraduate research experiences with their peers. The students choose the topics they want to communicate, and they also choose how this communication happens.

Students have been very creative in using their voice, through podcasts, videos, maps, written pieces, interactive online objects, and more. Through the creative process, students also learn or further skills like website building, or podcast and video production.

https://caissie.trubox.ca/ CAISSIE (Critical Analysis of Images Site; Seeing, Imaging, Examining)

Classroom based activity in visual arts in which students create and submit images, along with an analysis that links the images to a number of critical thinking categories covered in class.

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Who is Joel Templeman ?

  • Education Specialist - Tech Manitoba
  • Owner/CIO - Leadthrough.ca
  • Executive Director - Internet Society Manitoba Chapter
  • Graduate student - University of Calgary MEd program (2nd yr)

Joel has a background in education as a K-12 teacher with a focus of special needs supports. Joel also has a background in Information Technology and recently retired from the Canadian Armed Forces where he was a national IT Project Manager and leader of a Network Operations Centre team. Joel now works with local nonprofits in and around Winnipeg in areas of Digital Literacy and broadband connectivity. Joel is a believer in open source software and more recently open educational resources with a focus on changing the way formal and informal teaching and learning is done.

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Joel Templeman Resources

The New Normal School Conference (Sept 2021)

https://sites.google.com/view/thenewnormalschool/home This was an online professional development conference aimed at pre-service teachers from the Faculties of Education in the Province of Manitoba. It was designed specifically as an exemplar of utilizing digital tools effectively and integrating OER and OEP in an effective manner.

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Who is Alan Levine ?

Cog Dog Blog - Alan Levine barks about and plays with stuff here

On Twitter - @cogdog

  • Digs photography, guitars, #ds106, Wordpress, hiking, coding, the Who. Makes SPLOTs.

CogDog Podcast

Photography curation on Flickr

Image attribution: Alan Levine, I am not dreaming …,, Nov 15, 2021; Link: https://flic.kr/p/2mKtKdk

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Panel Additional Questions

OER: How is OER integrated as an essential element of your educational context or learning context? What are the benefits of using OER?

OEP: In your educational context(s) how has OEP influenced student learning?

Access: How has access been improved or influenced by the use of open educational practices?

Equity: When considering equitable learning contexts, how has OEP supported equity in your learning context (s)?

Future:

  • How could someone get started using open education in your learning context(s)?
  • What are potential areas of growth and exploration for open education in your context(s) and across Canada?

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