Topic outline

  • Welcome!

    Description:

    The Librarian Cohort is a spring learning community and delivered in synchronously and asynchronously online. We will continue to use this space throughout all phases of the grant for information and resource sharing. 

    This learning community is intended to provide train-the-trainer instruction. Collectively, we will explore open education, open educational resources, textbook publishing, and related issues, technology, and impacts in terms of curriculum and teaching and learning. Through this train-the-train, you will gain the confidence and capacity teaching the materials to your faculty cohort. 

    Cohort Goals:

    • Create a community by connecting librarians from across the state in a supportive learning environment,
    • Provide introduction to open education and to the infrastructure for open publishing (Pressbooks) and open course design (Moodle template) and corresponding tools and skills,
    • Provide professional development to enable librarian leaders to apply their expertise and iterate on this training to share information to their faculty cohorts effectively, respond to participant questions, and lead work.

    Instructional Technologies:

    Through this experience, participants will use Google Drive, Moodle, Pressbooks, Zoom, and OER repositories.

    Schedule:
    Our cohort activity is structured into two-week module. The specifics of each module will be shared via this Moodle, with activities/readings to be completed prior to that module's Zoom meeting.

    Creative Commons attribution license This course and its contents are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network, except where otherwise noted. 

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  • Getting Started

     Checklist




    This module contains all the items you should review and complete before we begin Module 1. Before moving on, be sure to complete the following:
    1. Complete the Accommodations Request Form
    2. Complete the Pre-test assessment
    3. Review Community Agreement in the Q & A form and confirm your acceptance 
    4. Review the course syllabus
    5. Introduce yourself to the cohort
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  • Module 1

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    Welcome to Module 1! In this module, we will gain a deeper sense of our librarian leader cohort and of the project itself.

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  • Module 2

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    Welcome to Module 2! Now that we have gained a deeper sense of our librarian leader cohort and of the project itself in Module 1, we will dive more into the materials we will use for the leading faculty training. 

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  • Module 3

    Neon sign with word Open in center.Welcome to Module 3! This week, we will continue to deepen our understanding of open education and textbooks, and of how interactivity can be added to open textbooks using H5P. 

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  • Module 4

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    Welcome to Module 4! This module, we continue to develop our understanding of strategies we can use to support content creation and the accessibility of content. We will continue to explore these themes in depth through our librarian training sessions over the summer and fall. 

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  • Module 5

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    Welcome to Module 5! This module, we are working through the teaching faculty syllabus to collectively refine and strengthen it for your use this summer. 

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