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News about the AgShare project is officially out! It is on the homepage of MSU News and covered in external local and national news including the Lansing State Journal, Seattle Times, and USA Today.

This year our holiday party was graciously hosted by Mary Anne at her beautiful home. We enjoyed a great time of food and games (Christmas carol sing-off and charades)! It's always a blast hanging out with the MSUglobal gang!

All of us here at MSUglobal wish you a wonderful holiday season. It has been a fantastic year and we look forward to an even better one!

Open educational resources (OER) was the topic at vuDAT's November Breakfast Series. Cliff Lampe and Rick Wash from the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media presented really interesting information on openness, user-generated content, and motivation for contribution.

I gave a brief overview of the benefits of OER and some examples from MSU and elsewhere. Here are my slides with links to examples:

The International Review of Open and Distance Learning has just brought out a special issue Vol. 10, No. 5, 2009, edited by David Wiley and James Hilton III that focuses on openness and the future of education.
 
Dr. Christine Geith co-authored an article for the issue on Peer-to-Peer Recognition in Open Education http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/641/1389.

My Horse University and HorseQuest received the eXtension Partnership Award at the eXtension national conference in October 2009 for their collaborative work on:

• Free monthly webcasts
• An online monthly newsletter
• Joint abstracts/papers
• Federal Grant submissions
• Maintaining sponsorships

Regardless of their breed preference, riding style or location, equine enthusiasts can find happy trails with help from a new course by My Horse University and Source Interlink Equine Network. From selecting a trail horse to preserving the trail, “Trail Riding 101” offers expert advice on every aspect of this international past time.

Click HERE to learn more!!

On October 19, more than 200 sites around the globe will mark Open Access Week 2009. Research institutes, colleges, universities, and advocacy organizations everywhere will host events or wear buttons to express their support for free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research.

As part of the Rochester Institute of Technology's participation in Open Access Week, Dr. Christine Geith will be hosting a webinar titled "Teaching and Learning Unleashed Through Web 2.0 and Open Educational Resources." This webinar will be on Friday, October 23, 2009 from 1:30 - 2:30 pm EDT. This event is sponsored by The Wallace Center's Teaching, Learning, & Scholarship Services. A complete list and schedule of all the free events can be found at this RIT Libraries site.

For additional information, please contact: Marianne Buehler at (585) 475-5589 or Nick Paulus at (585) 475-7934.

Yesterday MSUglobal had its annual staff retreat that began with a DISC workshop in the morning and a mobile scavenger hunt and BBQ in the afternoon. At the DISC workshop we learned more about our styles and personalities and how to work with and communicate with each other more effectively. It was informative and lively and fun to see the different personality types.

For the mobile scavenger hunt, teams drove all around the East Lansing, Okemos, and Holt area looking for the objects on their list including a cocktail umbrella, pizza coupon, and car dealership flag, as well as taking pictures of an 85 year old person, a city official in front of a municipal building, a team member helping a stranger carry groceries to his/her car, and more! It was a crazy adventure that ended in a delicious potluck BBQ and a couple rounds of Bingo.

We had a wonderful time celebrating our year's successes and looking forward to an even better one. Go team!

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