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Tiffani Tijerina

United States

Dr. Tiffani Tijerina is currently an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her current work and research interests include open education, open pedagogy, ungrading, and instructional design. 

Through a series of grants from Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) and with a team of faculty at Kennesaw State University (KSU), Tiffani has been project manager for the highly-successful Open Technical Communication (Open TC) open textbook since 2016. Her continuous improvement work on the textbook and that of her co-authors resulted in Open TC winning the Open Reuse/Remix/Adaptation Award from OE Global in 2022. 

Tiffani has served the open education community in various ways. For five years, she managed ALG grant projects in several disciplines as an instructional designer at KSU. Following that work, she served as program manager for ALG where she expanded their instructional design, open pedagogy, and accessibility efforts. During that time, she also served on the steering committee for the Open Education Conference in its transition years to a community-owned conference, particularly focusing on ensuring the accessibility of the conference and developing its online social environment. She has published articles on her open education work, and she is the editor for the Pedagogy Opened: Innovative Theory and Practice collection published through the University of North Georgia Press.

Tiffani holds a Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University, an M.S. in Instructional Design and Technology from Georgia State University, and a B.A. in English from Kennesaw State University. Her dissertation research focused on barriers to OER in her field and was supported by an Open Education Research Fellowship from the Open Education Group.

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