Christian Friedrich in conversation with Catherine Cronin, open educator, open researcher, and Strategic Education Developer at the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Ireland. Feedback and comments are very welcome on twitter @HOOU_HAW or via email to [email protected].

Dr. Catherine Cronin is Strategic Education Developer at Ireland’s National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education where her collaborative work across the sector supports digital and open education, e.g. development of digital capabilities, use of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP), and development of enabling policies for digital and open teaching and learning. Catherine’s 2018 PhD explored the use of OEP in higher education. She is an active member of the GO-GN and FemEdTech networks and several advisory boards, co-developer of the Equity Unbound open curriculum, and co-chair of the OER19 Conference ‘Recentering Open: Critical and Global Perspectives’. A born New Yorker who has made her home in Ireland, you can find Catherine on Twitter @catherinecronin, at catherinecronin.net or via email at [email protected].

Catherine Cronin’s website and blog: https://catherinecronin.net/

Catherine Cronin on the team page at the National Forum: https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/people_item/catherine-cronin/

Profile on Mel Sharpe’s student blog: https://malat-webspace.royalroads.ca/rru0069/dr-catherine-cronin-an-open-voice/

Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast, Episode 152 (May 2017) https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/open-education-risks-rewards/

Cronin, C., & Roger, A. (1999). Theorizing progress: Women in science, engineering, and technology in higher education. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 36(6), 637-61. http://hdl.handle.net/10379/3807

#OER16: A Critical Turn – Catherine Cronin. https://catherinecronin.net/conferences/thoughts-on-oer16/

Be Bold. Embolden Others. – Catherine Cronin. https://catherinecronin.net/conferences/be-bold-embolden-others

Slides from Catherine’s talk at ICT in Education https://www.slideshare.net/cicronin/equipped-to-be-unsettled

Ireland’s National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/

Bonnie Stewart on Twitter https://twitter.com/bonstewart

Website of the #OER20 conference in London https://oer20.oerconf.org/

#FemEdTech on Twitter https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FemEdTech&src=typed_query&f=live

The Femedtech Quilt of Care and Justice in Open Education https://quilt.femedtech.net/

Chapter Marks

01:05 Catherine Cronin

06:49 Engineering Education

12:21 Women in STEM and Tech

16:25 Open, teaching, and activism

23:34 PhD: Open Praxis

30:30 Work at the National Forum

39:19 OER conference and FemEdTech