About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Tag Archives: copali
OER/Open Pedagogy outreach and advocacy
Before I was a librarian I worked in the printing/publishing industry. I left because it looked like the only jobs that would be left in the industry would be for salespeople, and sales is not what I want to do. … Continue reading
OP/CIL
In thinking about how open pedagogy relates to different theoretical frameworks, I picked critical information literacy because it’s something I want to know more about. In addition to reading the Critical Information Literacy article, I also looked over Putting Critical … Continue reading
OER & ILOs
At my institution, we have six institutional learning outcomes for general education: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Racial and Social Justice Critical Thinking Communication Scientific Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning Information Literacy each with 2-4 specifications, so it’s really 20 outcomes under 6 … Continue reading
OE, OP, & OEREP
Much was written on the subject of Open Education in the early 70s. This declined to a trickle by 1980 and has only started to pick up in the past decade. There are a variety of reasons for the drop … Continue reading
Open and shut
When we talk about open in terms of OER, we usually define it by the 5 Rs. That works well enough, but I think there are nuances of open that are worth considering. I tend to use a door metaphor, … Continue reading
Free-for-all
The word free came up in a couple links in this week’s COPALI module, and I’d like to think through it a little bit. One is in the Open educational resources competency framework OER from UNESCO: D1.3.1 Identify the “5 … Continue reading