In order to increase student participation and foster a supportive learning environment, this post provides advice on how to appropriately include humor into online courses. 

Launching Digital Writing in the Elementary Classroom tells the stories of seven teachers who were willing to take risks and venture into new territory by integrating technology into their workshops in meaningful ways.

This video covers using the Blackboard learn Ultra AI Design Assistant to generate Learning Module images or generate image from unsplash.

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for classes exploring the nature of learning in the digital age. The genesis of this book is a desire to use OERs in all my teachings, coupled with the realization that the resources that I was looking for were not available and as such I needed to contribute in creating them. It is thus a small attempt to contribute to the vast repository of Open Educational Resources. When discussing learning in the digital age, most focus on the technology first. However, the emphasis made in this book is that it’s about the learner not just the technology. One of the things that is easy to lose track of when talking about learning in the digital age is the learner. Technology is important and it has significant impact but it is still about the person who is using the technology. Many people conflate learning in the digital age with technology in today’s age. This important misconception is common and results from our failure to examine our understanding of what “learning” really is.

Learning to Learn Online helps you prepare for online learning success by introducing you to the online learning environment and your role as a learner within it. As you come to understand yourself as an self-directed learner, you will also be introduced to effective learning strategies: time management for online learners, information management, professional communication, and reading strategies. Welcome to your online learning journey!

Library Carpentry workshops teach people working in library- and information-related roles how to:

Cut through the jargon terms and phrases of software development and data science and apply concepts from these fields in library tasks;
Identify and use best practices in data structures;
Learn how to programmatically transform and map data from one form to another;
Work effectively with researchers, IT, and systems colleagues;
Automate repetitive, error prone tasks.

An Overview of fair use when using preexisting media in new content creation.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT, has launched this "large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative." The website posts lecture notes, problem sets, and other materials from courses across the MIT campus. This section highlights MIT's undergraduate and graduate program in Mathematics. Courses are listed by title and include topics such as Differential Analysis, Linear Algebra, and Statistical Inference. The materials serve as valuable resources for educators, students, or anyone interested in learning more about these topics.

To increase student engagement, the Humboldt State University Library ventured into the realm of gamified programming, exploring several strategies with the goal of transforming library outreach and instruction. Our efforts range from simple outreach to highly structured information literacy instruction and workshops that use gamification to encourage students to engage with knowledge practices and dispositions outlined in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Using gamified activities in library instruction led us to create lesson plans that are purely game-based, including escape room drop-in sessions where students race against the clock to solve a series of puzzles in order to “escape” the room. This model aimed to promote collaboration and problem-solving skills through inquiry-based learning.

This is an assignment/project for an introductory-level OER Professional Development course for faculty, staff, and student workers at a two-year community college. The course consists of four in-person class meetings, each about 2 hours in length. Meetings include an overview of OER, including major OER platforms (OERTX and OER Commons), copyright, remixing, assessment, and authoring. Guest speakers are also incorporated to address applying for grants, authoring/revising resources, and engaging in professional training outside the college. The project involves 3 - 5 hours of work outside of class. Participants create and share a resource (course assignment, slides, podcast, training document, etc.) in the OERTX or OER Commons platforms, which must include an appropriate Copyright license (ideally CC BY) and a permalink.Image from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY)

This collaborative online document provides an expansive set of resources categorized into multiple sections that would benefit higher education faculty focusing on the integration of AI in education:

Introducing "Navigating the Digital Shift: An Introductory Guide to Online Teaching," a comprehensive mini eBook meticulously designed to facilitate professors in transitioning seamlessly to online or digital instruction. This invaluable resource serves as a beacon for educators venturing into the realms of virtual teaching, providing concise, practical insights coupled with actionable tools to navigate the digital education landscape effectively. Within its pages, professors will uncover a plethora of practical tables, user-friendly templates, and detailed checklists, each crafted to demystify the online teaching process and ensure a smooth transition. Whether you're a seasoned educator or a newcomer to the teaching profession, this guide offers tailored solutions, best practices, and innovative strategies to set up every new online instructor for unparalleled success. Dive into the world of online instruction with confidence, equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to create engaging, inclusive, and effective learning experiences in the virtual classroom.

As more and more classes include online discussion components, it becomes more and more important for instructors to understand the rules of etiquette that, when followed, help make the individual postings easy to follow, keep the conversation thread focused, and the overall discussion on-track.

Unregulated, an online discussion can quickly disintegrate into a tangled web of extraneous verbiage, rude language, and inconsiderate behavior guaranteed to derail the conversation.

The basic premise is that the etiquette expected of your students in online discussions is the same as that which you expect in a classroom. There is a problem, though: the absence of visual and auditory clues. In face-to-face discussions these clues contribute a lot of nonverbal nuances of meaning carrying an intangible amount of weight. It’s impossible to replicate these in an online environment.

To counteract that shift, to raise general awareness, and to assist you in enhancing the learning experience of your students, here are a dozen online discussion rules to include in your syllabus. Notice that most of them are just as applicable in face-to-face discussions.

Educational Technology textbooks that have a wide array of teaching-and-learning–related software and hardware that's increasingly being used in college and university classrooms to help facilitate collaboration in an active learning environments for students.

The Faculty Quick Start Guide is an outcome of a project by ISKME, supported by a grant from the Michelson 20MM Foundation, to conduct a study and develop a set of resources to accelerate OER use for distance education, especially the urgent shift to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. The Guide, created in collaboration with a selection of OER and online education champions across California community colleges (CCC), contains:

- Models and approaches to online learning, and to emergency remote learning in the context of COVID-19;
- How and to what extent OER fits into these models, and local and state-level supports needed for its integration and sustainability;
- Design considerations for integrating OER in online learning, including pedagogical and platform considerations;
- Curatorial practices, such as using OER curation tools and aligning curated OER to learning outcomes; and,
- Starting points and tips for colleges and faculty who want to initiate OER integration into distance education.

Tailored to faculty and campus administrators both in California and beyond, the Guide has the aim is to enable system-wide shifts to meet postsecondary institutions’ long term goals for distance learning, and faculty’s emergency plans for remote learning in response to the COVID-19 and potential future crises.

The Guide is also available as a PDF for download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17AXs30dZeLOrGeNBQ-ISc_OJXIxE9xtB/view?usp=sharing.

See the companion guide for administrators at: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/iskme-michelson-20mm-oer-campus-administrator-quick-start-guide-public/edit

This tool includes a collection of several helpful features that enable you to painlessly employ a variety of consistent and attractive stylings that can add visual interest and instructive context to your course content.