Open Educational Resources

One of the webinars available through Intellus Learning's On the Open Road series.

From their website: "Faculty are continuously searching for textbooks and materials that fit course requirements and their teaching style. Before the availability of open educational resources (OER), faculty were restricted to commercial publications designed for broad audiences with general theories and concepts across a wide array of topics. Though these resources offer relevant information and supplemental materials, they do not always meet the needs and interests of faculty and students. Adopting and creating free, openly licensed resources (OER) offers faculty the freedom to reuse and remix materials that complement their teaching style and approach based on their discipline training, expertise, and knowledge of their students. In this webinar, faculty will learn about free open educational resources, benefits of going OER, and ideas on their use and application."

Register at: http://go.intelluslearning.com/Registration-180307-Going-OER 

One of the webinars available through Intellus Learning's On the Open Road series.

From their website: "Many instructors have embraced Open Educational Resources (OER) as a way to take charge in addressing the rising expenses that their students bear en route to a college degree. Framing the value of OER around textbook cost, however, is only recognizing one of the qualities that make OER such a valuable innovation. In this webinar in our On the Open Road series, participants will learn how OER may sponsor new pedagogical strategies, dynamic learning environments, and improved student outcomes."

Register at: http://go.intelluslearning.com/Registration-180413-Valuing-OER.html 

Materials from this workshop:

• Teaching with Wikipedia Resources (compiled by Jonas)
• Information for Instructors (WikiEdu): general information about incorporating Wikipedia into classroom instruction
• Teach with Wikipedia (WikiEdu): process of setting up a WikiEdu course site/assignment for your class
• Questions (WikiEdu): a discussion forum with numerous questions/answers re: using WikiEdu

Have you ever told your students that Wikipedia is not a reliable source for their research? After all, anyone edit a Wikipedia article! Regardless of our caution, students around the world turn to the site for information every day. With over 5 million articles in English, 30 million registered English language users, and 800 new article written and edited by 30,000 active English language editors per day, the online encyclopedia represents a major breakthrough in the open sharing of knowledge at the heart of education.

Why not flip the script and have your students contribute to Wikipedia themselves? Wikipedia's education branch now provides support for university instructors interested in having their students contribute their critical thinking, writing and research skills to the project. From WikiEdu:

Help students make a real-world impact through their work. In Wiki Education’s Classroom Program, university instructors assign students to write Wikipedia articles, empowering them to share knowledge with the world. Students research course-related topics that are missing or underrepresented, synthesize the available literature, and use our free tools and trainings to add the information to Wikipedia.

Want to know more? Grab your lunch and join library faculty Megan Watson and Jonas Lamb for an informal conversation on Friday, April 13 from 11:30am-12:30pm in CELT (Egan Library 103). We'll share our recent experiences editing Wikipedia in a class setting, brainstorm ideas, consider use cases, look at sample assignments, and discuss whatever else comes up. Participants can also join remotely by: 

• Google Hangout: Go to https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/alaska.edu/celt-wikipedia, or go to http://hangouts.google.com, click on Video Call, click "Start or join a Hangout," and enter celt-wikipedia as the Hangout name.
• Conference call: Dial 796-6600 (or just 6600 from a campus phone), enter meeting number 006515 followed by #, and enter attendee access code 2358 (CELT) followed by #.

Join us Thursday, November 8th from 1-3pm for this workshop. The session will introduce the openly licensed, free teaching and learning tools known as open educational resources (OER). While student savings and access are the most commonly mentioned benefits of OER use in higher education, more than a dozen published studies (Fischer, Hilton et. al, 2015; Hilton, 2016) have found a correlation between OER and as-good-or-better student outcomes, including increased course completion, higher grades and increased credit load. The 2018 Educause Horizon Report lists OER as one of the key trends accelerating technology adoption in higher education for the next three to five years.

Jonas Lamb from the UAS Egan Library will present an overview of OER in the higher ed and UAS contexts, facilitate discussion, and share best practices and success stories for using OER or low-cost course materials. So what can I do? What are UAS faculty doing already? What support services are available to help me reboot my courses using OER? What resources are available to help me think more broadly about open educational practices? What if I want to create my own OER? Anyone seeking answers to these questions are invited to attend. Participants will begin exploring OER in their teaching areas.

This session will take place in person at the UAS Sitka campus in room 230. The session will also be broadcast from the CELT classroom in Juneau (Egan Library 103), or you can join from your desk with one of the following options:

Join Hangouts Meet | meet.google.com/bhg-ggei-kqq
Join by phone | ‪+1 385-352-0486‬ PIN: ‪584 663 461‬#