Beyond Adoption: Teaching the Open Education Landscape
At the UT System Momentum on OER Convening, I kept thinking about what higher education too often skips: the moment before adoption. The part where educators need structure, not cheerleading; method, not mandate. In this post, I reflect on that experience and share openly available resources, including a mini-lesson series and the OER Tracker, designed to make OER exploration more rigorous, transparent, and usable across roles.
Close Enough to Wave To
Family has never felt simple to me. It has felt layered, unstable, sacred, painful, blurry, loaded. More like something I have circled than something I have stood securely inside.
The Uncomfortable Truth About Authenticity
Imagine it like this: no courtroom, no highlight reel. Just a quiet place at the end of the road, and little you waiting. They don’t ask about your titles or your output. They ask one thing, plain and devastating: Who did you become when you had the choice?
McGraw Hill’s “Buyer’s Guide” to OER Is a Marketing Brochure Wearing Academic Glasses
McGraw Hill’s “Buyer’s Guide” to OER isn’t a neutral comparison. It’s a framing device. I read it through care ethics and open education values, pulled the key claims, and annotated what’s missing: consent, privacy, academic freedom, and who the “ROI” is really for.
