I wanted to express my thanks to all of you for participating in the smaller than usual Spring Cohort of the Open Pedagogy Fellowship! Professor Lili Grigorian turned out to be our only fellow. We appreciate Lili’s fascinating project, which will be a valuable contribution not just to her students, but to the OER/Open Ed landscape of content here at KCC and in the academic community worldwide. We also benefitted from the presence of past Open Pedagogy Fellow Professor Dmitry Brogan. In addition to our Fellows, present and past, we acknowledge the valuable, attentive and robust feedback that our student Sunny Parikh provided in both the Winter and Spring 2023…

While not an OER Fellow, I was grateful to have the privilege of inhabiting our Zoom space with as a you as the OER Librarian, a role and a skillset I’m still trying to develop and define. In short, I learned a lot this semester. I learned that we as librarians still have a lot of work to do in letting teaching faculty know we are here to support their pedagogy and their students–every step of the way. From my library colleague, Michael Kirby, I learned that librarians not only have a supporting role, however–but that we can also be fellows(!), alongside our teaching faculty colleagues. That Michael applied for…