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. 

    • 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]
    • 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. 

  • Module 2: Finding and Evaluating High-Quality OER

    Image of a person climbing stairs

    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.

    • Learning Objectives: 

      By the end of this unit, you will be able to: 

      • Identify major repositories with OER suitable for your teaching needs
      • Identify open materials that have been peer-reviewed or vetted by content experts
      • Describe one approach to evaluating OER
      • Identify OER that could be useful to the course you are exploring

    • To achieve these objectives:

      Complete these activities prior to the group meeting, checking off items as you complete them:


    • URL icon
      The OER Starter Kit: URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

    • URL icon
      How to Find and Evaluate OER URL
      Students must
      Mark as done
      • Watch video
    • URL icon
      Searching LOUIS OER Commons URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

      • Review materials on strategies for searching the LOUIS OER Commons site

    • Students must
      Mark as done

      Standards and rubrics can be useful for evaluation. 

    • Assignment icon
      Module 2 Reflection Assignment
      Students must
      Mark as done

      Complete the Reflection Worksheet.

      Once completed, use this space to upload your worksheet file. If your reflection is as a Google Doc, submit the URL in the Online Text field. 

      [set due date]


    • Forum icon
      Module 2 Discussion Forum
      Students must
      Mark as done

      Prior to the meeting, share at least one takeaway and one question.

    • Students must
      Mark as done

      Meeting [ADD DATE AND TIME]

      • Zoom/Teams/WebEx access link [LINK]
      • Running meeting agenda and notes [LINK]
      • Meeting recording [will be added as a link following the meeting]

      If you cannot attend this meeting, notify the facilitator in advance.

      Complete and check off module activities prior to the meeting.