Jill Darling (she/her) is a Lecturer II teaching composition & rhetoric and creative writing at UM-Dearborn, and has long been interested in critical and student-centered pedagogy, equity, access, and inclusion. Her project as an Affiliate draws on these to explore Open Educational Resources (OER) and to consider the benefits of, and potential for, creating an OER text focused on essay writing. Darling has an MFA in creative writing, a PhD in American literature and cultural studies, and is the author of Geographies of Identity: Narrative Forms, Feminist Futures (Punctum Books), the chapter “From Expository Blog to Engaged E-Portfolio: A Student-Centered Pedagogy in Process” in Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media, a number of academic and creative essays, collections of poetry, and more. Links to writing and additional info can be found at jilldarling.com.
Jill’s Recent Blog Posts
Open Pedagogies in Writing and Statistics
I teach a variety of writing classes–comp 105 and 106, Intro to Creative Writing, upper-level essay …
Students as OER Partners
In 2021, with the help of student collaborators, Ben Wielechowski created the Open Educational Resou…
On Teaching Essay Writing: a landscape of Open Education Resources
I have been researching Open Education (OE) textbooks and resources for teaching an upper-level essa…
Have you heard about the Open Education Grants available for faculty and staff?
Did you know that you can get paid to learn about, find, review, adopt, and even create Open Educati…
Open Education: Some Insights and Resources from the 2021 OE Conference
As part of my journey to learn more about Open Educational Resources, I turned to the videos availab…
From Teaching for Equity & Inclusion to Reflecting on OER
Estimated reading time: 5-6 minutes During the summer and fall of 2021 I was fortunate to participat…