by Ursula Pike, Associate Director, DigiTex In August 2020, I joined SPARC’s Open Education Leadership Program. The year-long program provided me the opportunity to gain an in-depth knowledge of Open Educational Resources and interact with many of the leaders of the Open Education Movement.* I was also required to develop an Open Educational Resource as … Continue reading Creating My First OER
by Ursula Pike, Associate Director, DigiTex On March 11 and 12, DigiTex joined with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Digital Library to co-organize Open Texas 2021. The University of Houston-Downtown, Houston Community College, and the Houston Area OER Consortium hosted the event. The conference was free and open to anyone interested in … Continue reading Open Texas 2021 Reflections
by Ursula Pike, Associate Director, DigiTex In May, four educators at DigiTex member institutions shared the ways they were coping with the first months of the pandemic. The resulting blog post, “Meeting Change And Challenge With Compassion And Resilience,” highlighted the need to support faculty at our higher education institutions in the face of the … Continue reading Surviving the Pandemic: Resiliency in the Face of Continued Uncertainty
by Ursula Pike, Associate Director, DigiTex; System Lead, Texas Quality Matters Consortium "Rest Stop Map" by QuesterMark is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 I love road trips. The thought of piling up my car with snacks, downloading hours worth of my favorite podcasts, and settling in for hours of sitting behind the wheel is enough … Continue reading Designing Online Courses & Road Maps
By Ursula Pike, Associate Director, DigiTex Moving a face-to-face course online requires more than flipping a switch. There are technical and pedagogical trainings, course shells to be developed, syllabi to upload, someone needs to figure out how to deliver -- and possibly proctor -- an exam online, and what seems like a million other tasks. IT … Continue reading Meeting Change And Challenge With Compassion And Resilience
