Public Teaching Faculty Training

Topic outline

• Select topic Welcome!

  Welcome!

  Description:

  The Faculty Cohort is a summer-long learning community, running from early June to early August and delivered synchronously and asynchronously online.

  In this learning community, we will explore open education, open educational resources, textbook publishing and related issues, technology, and impacts in terms of curriculum and teaching and learning. This will provide the foundation in terms of confidence and knowledge to begin working on our targeted course. 

  Cohort Goals:

  • Create a community by connecting cohort teaching faculty and librarian members from across the state in a supportive learning environment.
    
  • Improve your understanding of Open Education, Open Education Resources (OER), and the licensing that makes OER open. 
    
  • Be able to find and critically examine OER related to the targeted course of expertise for quality. 
    
  • Learn to approach curriculum design using open resources and practices, with consideration of universal design for accessibility, and an equity lens to improve course material. 
    
  • Provide introduction to open education and to the infrastructure for open publishing (Pressbooks) and open course design (Moodle template) and corresponding tools and skills.

  Instructional Technologies:

  Through this experience, participants will use Google Drive, Moodle, Pressbooks, a web conferencing tool (Zoom, Teams, or WebEx), and OER repositories.

  Schedule:

  The cohort activity consists of five two-week modules. Activities assigned to each module are available via this Moodle course. This training portion of the project will run through mid-August. 

  • Select activity Announcements

    

    Announcements Forum
  • Select activity Q & A Forum

    

    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. 

  • Select activity About Your Facilitator

    

    About Your Facilitator Page
  • Select activity Publishing Resources Guide

    

    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]
  • Select activity  This course and its contents are licensed un...

     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. 
    
• Select topic Getting Started

  Getting Started
   
  
  
  
  

  
  

  This module contains all the items you should review and complete before we begin Module 1. They will help ensure we have shared understanding and expectations as we begin this training, and that the experience is accessible: 

  
  

  Before beginning Module 1:

  1. Read and confirm in the Community Agreement forum the Community Agreement
     
  2. Complete the Accommodations Request Form
  3. Complete the Pre-test assessment: This will assess pre-training knowledge, skills, and interest and inform program design
  4. Review the course syllabus [LINK TO YOUR SYLLABUS]
     
  5. Read the Teaching Faculty Guide
  6. Introduce yourself to the cohort in the Introduce Yourself forum
  7. Check items off as you complete them using the checkbox on the right

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• Select topic Module 1: Understanding Open Educational Resources

  Module 1: Understanding Open Educational Resources
  

  Welcome to Module 1! In this module, we will gain a deeper sense of OER, the resources we will be using, adapting, and creating for our redeployable course following this training.

  Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash

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• Select topic Module 2: Finding and Evaluating High-Quality OER

  Module 2: Finding and Evaluating High-Quality OER
  

  Welcome to Module 2! Now that we have developed an understanding of what OER are and the permissions they offer, we will explore how to find and assess these materials. 
  

  Photo by Lindsay Henwood on Unsplash.
  

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• Select topic Module 3: Adapting OER

  Module 3: Adapting OER
  Welcome to Module 3! As we begin work on the redeployable course, we may decide to adapt existing OER to modify them. In this module, we explore what adaption is and reasons to to adapt content. 
  
  

  Photo by Finn Hackshaw on Unsplash.

  
  

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• Select topic Module 4: Creating OER

  Module 4: Creating OER

  

  Welcome to Module 4! In 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 training sessions over the fall. 

  Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash

  
  

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• Select topic Module 5: Developing Course Goals and Textbook Scope

  Module 5: Developing Course Goals and Textbook Scope

  

  Welcome to Module 5! In this module, we will begin exploring how to approach the course and textbook design process we are undertaking with this project. 
  
  

  Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash
  

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