This guide discusses copying all the content from one Blackboard Learn Ultra course into another or selecting individual items to copy.
This video covers using suggestions from Unsplash for Course Bannvers via Blackboard Learn Ultra's AI Design assistant.
The attached file is a course schedule or outline template in a Word document. It contains a table with columns for week, dates, topic, and activities/assignments. The table has rows for each week of a 15 week course, with dates, topics, and placeholder activities and assignments filled in.
The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational Resources (OER) to facilitate equitable access to their students’ course materials. This Faculty Showcase represent Open Educational Practices where faculty are sharing their "know-how" for adopting OER in their courses.
These open course materials are being utilized in an Online Teaching and Learning course for graduate students by Jim Thomas at Cal State East Bay. These resources provide students with a variety of ways to engage with a variety of free materials that are available through websites, instructor created content and our library databases . The main motivation to adopt free resources is to increase student success. The learning outcomes of the course are not be covered in any single textbook and this subject matter changes rapidly. Most student access these materials through our learning management system, Blackboard Ultra.
This book provides an updated look at issues that comprise the online learning experience creation process. As online learning evolves, the lines and distinctions between various classifications of courses has blurred and often vanished. Classic elements of instructional design remain relevant at the same time that newer concepts of learning experience are growing in importance. However, problematic issues new and old still have to be addressed. This handbook explores many of these topics for new and experienced designers alike, whether creating traditional online courses, open learning experiences, or anything in between.
Educational Pedagogy is an approach to education in which teachers develop teaching strategies and cultivate classroom environments that better support all students, especially those who have been disadvantaged in school and the outside society (Banks & Banks, 1995; Banks & Tucker, n.d.). We will be discussing how educators can view our classroom environments through a belongingness Lens.
This is a recording of an interactive panel at Creator Fest: OERTX Edition 2022, exclusively for Chief Academic Officers and Chief Instructional Officers, which features administrators involved in furthering OER work at their campuses and within their systems. The session includes a demonstration of a personalized institutional hub at San Jacinto College.
In the closing keynote for Creator Fest: OERTX Edition, OpenStax’s Founding Director Dr. Richard Baraniuk will focus on opportunities to innovate and problem solve as an educator. He will share his story about starting the precursor to OpenStax — Connexions — as a frustrated, early-career professor and describe how research into learning science can impact future generations of students. With an emphasis on the 2022 conference theme, Dr. Baraniuk will emphasize how an open approach can help our education systems move forward through the challenges we’ve experienced over the past two years, the ones we are presented with now, and what lies ahead.
You have designed your OER content, but that’s only part of the picture. You have that vision in your head of how that content should play out in the classroom: the collaborative work and associated grouping strategies, the prompting questions you plan to use in synchronous classes or discussion boards, literacy strategies for discipline-specific vocabulary, rubrics, and more. You have also anticipated student thinking and are ready to adapt to their unique paths through the lessons. Support future faculty in making your content come alive in their classrooms as well. Template provided for you to adopt or adapt to communicate your intended lesson design.
Open educational resources are built for and by a community of educators, librarians, support staff, and advocates who believe that education should and can be accessible, affordable, and equitable. The community doesn’t just make OER, it makes it stronger. In this workshop, Anthony Palmiotto and Sonya Bennett-Brandt of OpenStax will cover how to tap into community support when improving upon your OER and building entirely new resources. They will outline steps to take to set up recurring peer review and how to find feedback and help across the education landscape.
Megan Simmons, the Associate Director of Training and Design at ISKME, will walk participants through the fundamental steps of creating any new open educational resource. In this workshop, you will learn how to make a plan for your resource, get tips for overcoming the hurdle of getting started, receive an overview of helpful tools you can use when creating OER, and learn how to take an accessibility-first approach to resource building.
In this workshop, we will outline the different places and tools to search for existing OER and a few things you should keep in mind when evaluating whether or not a resource could work for your course. We will then look closely at the 5rs of OER — Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute. Our team will show you what adaptation and modification look like in practice and help you think of creative ways to make existing OER meet your needs.
This workshop is a part of The Peer Review Workshops category. In this workshop, OpenStax Editorial Director Anthony Palmiotto will introduce participants to best practices for being on both sides of the peer review process — as creators seeking feedback and reviewers giving feedback. Anthony oversees the rigorous editorial process that all OpenStax textbooks undergo, including extensive peer review. In this workshop, he will share the lessons he has learned and how they can be applied to all types of resource creation and revision.
This workshop is a part of The Peer Review Workshops category. In this workshop, OpenStax Editorial Director Anthony Palmiotto will introduce participants to best practices for being on both sides of the peer review process — as creators seeking feedback and reviewers giving feedback. Anthony oversees the rigorous editorial process that all OpenStax textbooks undergo, including extensive peer review. In this workshop, he will share the lessons he has learned and how they can be applied to all types of resource creation and revision.
Unlike other resources you might make for your courses, OER is meant to be shared and used by other educators. However, searching for the right OER can feel like finding a needle in a haystack for many educators. In this workshop, you will learn how to make your resource easy to find and use by educators across Texas.
Too often conversations about what affects students exclude them. OpenStax believes strongly in listening to our users — both educators and learners. That is why we're bringing students from across the country to Creator Fest: OERTX Edition. In this panel discussion, they will share their perspectives on when, why, and how educators and institutions should support the use of OER in the classroom. They will also share how OER has impacted their individual learning experiences and where they would like to see more open education practices across the college experience.
Dr. Harrison Keller, Commissioner of Higher Education for the State of Texas, and Daniel Williamson, Managing Director of OpenStax, will welcome all attendees to the conference. In their welcome, they will highlight the conference theme — Moving Forward — and explain what it means to move forward with open educational resources at the center of teaching and learning experiences.
One of the primary goals of attending college is to become a critical thinker. As students evolve into lifelong learning they will have to navigate an incredible amount of information related to their studies and personal lives. The ability to explore their world will be dependent on their research and information literacy skills. In fact, when employers were asked about the information skills desired in new employees, they “placed a high premium on graduates’ abilities for searching online, finding information with tools other than search engines, and identifying the best solution from all the information they had gathered” (Head, 2012).
Critical Thinking in Academic Research will introduce students to the techniques and principles of critical thinking. However, a commitment to lifelong learning is required for critical thinking, it takes more that a single course or reading a book. In order for students to develop their own arguments, they need to find supporting evidence. This text provides guidance on developing research questions and finding resources to answer the questions.
This guide explores the value of student workers in higher education institutions and provides strategies for effectively managing and integrating them into departments. It emphasizes the importance of onboarding, fostering an inclusive environment, professional development, open communication, focused skill development, strategic offboarding, and talent retention. By implementing these strategies, departments can enhance their performance, diversity, and alignment with institutional goals while providing valuable opportunities for student workers' growth and development.
This customizable Excel template provides a master framework to plan and organize learning activities for online courses. The template contains sheets to outline course modules, schedule weekly learning objectives and activities, plan assessments and assignments, and track student progress. Columns are provided to capture activity details like name, type, description, duration, assignments, and more. The template is fully editable so course designers can add or remove sheets as needed to match their planning process. By providing a structured planning template, this Excel file aims to help streamline the instructional design process for online learning. Use it to map out engaging and effective learning experiences for modern online courses.