Topic outline

  • 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. 

    • 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. 

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      About Your Facilitator Page
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      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]
    • CC-BY 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. 

  • Getting Started

     Checklist




    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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      Community Agreement Forum
      Students must
      Mark as done
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      Accommodations Request Form File
      Students must
      Mark as done
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      Pre-Test Assessment File
      Students must
      Mark as done
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      Training Experience Syllabus URL
      Students must
      Mark as done
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      Teaching Faculty Guide URL
      Students must
      Mark as done
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      Introduce Yourself! Forum
      Students must
      Mark as done

      Use this forum to tell us a little about yourself. Include your:

        1. Name and institution
        2. Why you decided to get involved in this project or what drove your interest
        3. Something you enjoy doing on your weekends

      If you wish, feel free to include a photo of yourself, your pet, or something else! I look forward to working with you all!

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      Sharing Space Forum

      This is meant to be a more informal space to share ideas, resources, opportunities, challenges, or whatever else!