I recently completed a micro-credential course through eCampusOntario, Online Teaching Fundamentals.

I completed the Certificate of Open and Online Learning (COOL) through the University of Windsor’s Office of Open Learning, which has provided me with an opportunity to embrace open practice in my teaching.

 Some of the outcomes of these courses include:

SoTL Research Plan

Collaboration Table

Personal Learning Network – Strategic Enrolment Management

Digital Literacies for Teaching

Finding My Way into the Open Learning Space

Creating a Video Resource

Embedded Video Interactions

I was fortunate to receive an OER ACE: Adopt, Create, Extend Open Educational Resources Grant through the University of Windsor Office of Open Learning.  The grant allowed me to lead a project, which has resulted in the publication of Leadership and Management in Learning Organizations with two colleagues, M.Ed. graduate student Carson Babich and Mark Lubrick from the University of Windsor Office of Open Learning.  I received a second OER ACE-Adopt, Create, Extend Open Educational Resources Grant through the University of Windsor Office of Open Learning to support the writing of an online textbook on the Theories of Individual and Collective Learning.  

 

Team writes book on learning leadership (University of Windsor Daily News, 28 May 2020)

In 2020-21, I served as project director for the SSHRC/University of Windsor-funded Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium, which resulted in 652 registrants and 103 authors attending from 43 countries.

I am currently completing the Humanizing Digital Learning Micro Program at the University of Windsor and supporting the development of the Online Toolkit for Teaching International Students in partnership with the Office of Open Learning.

While I am still new at open practice, I am looking to incorporate more of it into my teaching in the coming year.  I am currently engaged with modifying the delivery of my fall classes to ensure their online content enhances the learning of my students.