This year I have tried to prioritize my efforts to become a more open scholar and to learn to use online tools for my research.  I have had only modest success to date.  Thanks to help from Tim and Kelly, I now have a website in the works: michelemoserdeegan.com, which is now open for public consumption but in need of …

My final project for this seminar will be the creation of an asset map of downtown Allentown using QGIS.  For the last two years I have taught students ArcGIS in order to complete a class assignment that requires them to analyze spatial inequalities in downtown Allentown.  For example, one group of students mapped the availability of fresh vs. fast food …

Several of the readings for our meeting this week have me thinking about how to make my classes more open.  Specifically, Adam Croom’s piece, sent in a link by Tim, suggests “open as a situated learning space,” which is a deeper concept that OER or open pedagogy.  But how do we create this learning space in light of DeRosa’s concerns …

The quickening pace of the use of digital media both inside and outside academia is forcing our institutions to forgo reliance solely on traditional assessment standards. I do not believe that we are in a position to deny or delay, any longer, the consideration of these contributions to our scholarly work. The longer we delay, the less we will contribute …

The readings for this week gave me an opportunity to reflect on the concept of an open culture and the realization that the technical realm may differ from the social, political and economic realms. Perhaps one of the challenges that we face when we attempt to create an open ecosystem is that the cultures/norms of these realms have different origins …