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. 

    • Page icon
      About Your Facilitator Page
    • URL icon
      Publishing Resources Guide URL
      This guide includes relevant resources to support various parts of this project. It will evolve as we add more resources. [Opens in new window]
    • Forum icon
      Announcements Forum
    • Forum icon
      Q & A Forum

      Use this forum to ask the facilitator any questions you have about the experience. I encourage you to post here instead of emailing me if it is a questions others may have. 

  • 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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    • Forum icon
      Module 5 Discussion Forum

    • Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
      1. Prepare approach for leading faculty training experience

      To achieve these objective:
      1. Review the Teaching Faculty Syllabus
      2. Mark changes and provide feedback, recommendations, critiques
      3. Share comments back using the Assignment Upload function by May 14th. 

      Be sure to check off all activities as you complete them in Moodle. 

    • URL icon
      Teaching Faculty Syllabus URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

      Make a copy (File > Make a Copy) or download (File > Download > Microsoft Word) so you can edit this document. 

      Please make comments in the document in some way. If you wish to use the comment feature, in Google Docs you can right click and select Comment from the menu. In Word, go to Review in the menu. Otherwise you can offset text you add by bolding or highlighting.

      Consider:

      • Is it well organized and readable / what could be improved?
      • Do the course goals and module learning outcomes make sense and are they sequence appropriate  / what could be improved?
      • Are the readings/videos adequate in content coverage, scope, and time investment / what could be improved?
      • Are the activities clear and do they offer an opportunity to practice skills relevant to this project  / what could be improved?
      • Are they any errors (typos, links), issues, or concerns?
      • Are there things you particularly like or find beneficial? 
      • Would you feel comfortable using this? In what ways would you or would you not? 

      Any comments or suggestions are very welcome!

    • Assignment icon
      Module 5 Syllabus Submission Assignment
      Students must
      Mark as done

      This is a space for you to upload your edited syllabus.  

      If you're using a Google Doc, please either download the file to submit it here or share the link in a Word doc or text file.