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Gratitude for Community Care

As we near the end of a semester and say farewell to the end of an era of Office Hours, we’d like to express our sincere gratitude to all of you in the open education community. From Textbook Success Program cohorts to the thousands of attendees and speakers at Office Hours, partners, and countless others who have engaged with us to advance education, we say thank you!

Now more than ever, we are reminded about the importance of community care and how inextricable it is from our areas of work: education, publishing, academia, and open. Read on for a few of our favourite November highlights: 

  • Learn more about one of our inspiring TSP facilitators - Kaitlin Schilling
  • TSP Facilitator Bryan McGeary wins Open Education Award for Excellence
  • Curtain Call: Office Hours with OEN & Rebus 
  • Catch up on #OEROfficeHours sessions
  • TSP Facilitator Stacy Katz publishes special issue on open education and social justice
  • Exciting calls for proposals to keep on your radar

TSP Spotlight

This section highlights projects currently enrolled in the Textbook Success Program. Want to be part of the Textbook Success Program? Our cohorts run three times a year. Sign up for a consultation.

Facilitator Spotlight: Kaitlin SchillingBlack and white headshot of Kaitlin. She has long dark hair and light coloured eyes and is smiling at the camera with their head tilted.

Join us in welcoming one of our newest TSP alum facilitators: Kaitlin Schilling. Kaitlin is the Associate Program Manager at Rebus Community and one of the authors of The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (so far). Prior to completing their graduate certificate in public administration from Humber College, Kaitlin studied psychology at the University of Windsor. She has previous experience in community-based program delivery in areas such as student services, career development, and most recently open education. A graduate of the Textbook Success Program and collaborator on Pulling Together: Manitoba Foundations Guide (Brandon Edition) with the Manitoba Foundations Group, Kaitlin is committed to equitable storytelling.
 

Facilitator News

Congratulations to TSP alum facilitator Bryan McGeary for winning The Open Pedagogy Award by Open Education Global! The Open Pedagogy Award, part of The Open Education Awards for Excellence, is awarded for an “innovative open teaching practice that incorporates openness in several levels of the learning processes.” The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap, co-created by Bryan McGeary and Christina Riehman-Murphy at Penn State, is a roadmap developed to “guide faculty through the process of planning, implementing, sustaining, and sharing their own pedagogy projects.” Congratulations, Bryan and Christina!

Congratulations to TSP alum facilitator Stacy Katz on her recent publications in the latest Journal for Multicultural Education! Co-edited with Jennifer Van Allen, this Special Issue features a lot of great papers that will make for excellent end of year reading. Save a copy, and share it in your network! 

#OEROfficeHours Updates

Curtain Call: Office Hours with OEN & Rebus

This month we had our final Office Hours session co-hosted by the Rebus Community and Open Education Network. We reflected on the past five years of informal conversations we’ve had with one another around issues in open education. We also looked ahead to the future and offered ways to stay connected. Please consider filling out our Reflections Survey to tell us what you liked, what you didn’t, and what programming you want to see down the road!

"Office Hours has been a productive and rewarding five-year partnership with the Rebus Community,” said Karen Lauritsen, OEN’s Publishing Director. “I’ve learned so much from Office Hours guests and attendees, and I’m thankful for our time together as a community.”

If you’ve missed a session or two, fear not! Most sessions were recorded and are available on YouTube, so you can go back time and time again to watch them. You can also find Office Hours audio and chat transcripts, along with our final reflections, posted on the Open Education Network Blog and on the Rebus Community Blog.

Thank you for sharing your time, resources, and vulnerability with us over the past 5 years!

Office Hours: Reflections on Community


#OEROfficeHours concluded this month with Reflections on Community. Didn’t get a chance to join the finalé? Check out the recording or read the transcript. Many thanks to all of you who joined us to reflect on community, share your hopes for the future of open education, and say "see you later" to one another!

Calls for Participation

This section features calls for participation from projects with a topic in our Contributor Marketplace. If you would like to see your call in our newsletter, follow these steps to amplify your requests for contributors.
Heather Douglas, Project Coordinator for the Alliance for Equity in Education at Clastop Community College in Oregon, is looking for a diverse group of contributors for an OER designed for a teacher preparation program. If this sounds like you, please reach out to Heather via the Rebus Community forum.
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