SI Happy Hour! (with Chrissy Spencer). How to transform your course from a commercial textbook to an open education resource 'OER' textbook.
Start time
June 11, 2021 12:00 PM
End time
June 11, 2021 01:00 PM
Presented By
Summer Institute for Scientific Teaching
Location
Online
Workshop Worth
2
Workshop Link
Description
** This activity is 2 points total with a *required* reflection.
NIST Happy Hour! (with Chrissy Spencer). How to transform your course from a commercial textbook to an open education resource 'OER' textbook.
NIST Happy Hour! (with Chrissy Spencer). How to transform your course from a commercial textbook to an open education resource 'OER' textbook.
Description
Textbooks are a hidden cost for our students, and not having a textbook doesn't sit well with most faculty and students. Open education resources are a ready solution with a few barriers: does the OER textbook match your learning objectives, is it accurate and well-written, is it a good read, does it have useful images and graphics? Chrissy Spencer will share a textbooks built by the introductory biology committee at Georgia Tech. We'll talk about the writing process, how to find support to do the work to author a textbook, what CC-BY-SA-NC means, where to source open-source materials from, and more. She'll present data her colleagues collected that show that we did no harm to student learning when we swapped out our well-edited but expensive textbook for content written and curated by the faculty teaching the courses.
Textbooks are a hidden cost for our students, and not having a textbook doesn't sit well with most faculty and students. Open education resources are a ready solution with a few barriers: does the OER textbook match your learning objectives, is it accurate and well-written, is it a good read, does it have useful images and graphics? Chrissy Spencer will share a textbooks built by the introductory biology committee at Georgia Tech. We'll talk about the writing process, how to find support to do the work to author a textbook, what CC-BY-SA-NC means, where to source open-source materials from, and more. She'll present data her colleagues collected that show that we did no harm to student learning when we swapped out our well-edited but expensive textbook for content written and curated by the faculty teaching the courses.
RSVP here with the CLSE and by using this link above. Following the workshop, email Erica Szeyller.1 to confirm your attendance for the full event time. If you were not able to attend the full event, email Erica Szeyller.1 to discuss the possibility of 5001 course points.
Reflection Prompts
Standard Required Prompts
This is a *required* reflection in order to get Bio5001 credit for workshop attendance. You can upload your reflection to the Workshop Reflection assignment on Carmen. Within your reflection, please include the event title, a short summary, and the reflection prompts.
- What did you learn?
- How does what you learn fit in to your prior knowledge?
- How will you incorporate what you learned into your teaching (including student hours, grading, recitation, etc.)?
Feel free to address these prompts in a way that is most applicable and useful for you. Some format options include: concept map, essay, or a new or revised assignment with notes justifying your changes.
