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.

What are Learning Theories?

So what are educational learning theories and how can we use them in our teaching practice? There are so many out there, how do we know which are still relevant and which will work for our classes?

There are 3 main schema’s of learning theories; Behaviourism, Cognitivism and Constructivism. In this article you will find a breakdown of each one and an explanation of the 15 most influential learning theories; from Vygotsky to Piaget and Bloom to Maslow and Bruner.

The increase in quantity, quality, and diversity of OER has created substantial opportunities for increasing access to education. Many faculty, however, still report a lack of awareness about available resources, as well as misunderstandings about their potential for usage. Others have questions regarding quality, course-alignment, and sustainability/reliability of the resources. These concerns and potential objections may lessen the impact of carefully created OER. In this session we will discuss methods and opportunities for sharing and describing resources you have created. We will cover distribution channels, descriptive approaches, metatagging, and communication approaches and content.

Descripción del curso:
El "Manual de técnicas de laboratorio digital" desarrollado por el MIT, es una serie de videos diseñados para ayudar al alumno a prepararse para sus prácticas de laboratorio de Química Orgánica. Cada video proporciona una demostración detallada de una técnica de laboratorio, así como información y consejos útiles. Estos videos están pensados ​​para complementar, y no reemplazar, el manual de laboratorio del alumno y los guiones de prácticas. De hecho, se beneficiará más de ver los videos si ya ha leído sus guiones.

Interest, capacity, and support for creating more engaging and supportive learning experiences includes initiatives to adopt or even develop multimedia and other non-text resources for students. Growth in digital learning and teaching tools has expanded beyond text and static displays to imaging, graphing, and multimedia interactions. These offerings create tremendous opportunity for OER creators and users, and we have seen their impacts realized in a wide array of courses and course materials.H5P exemplifies perhaps the best attributes of OER. As an open source platform independent tool, H5P produces web standard interactive content laced with attribution and open licenses, but also in a sharable form prime for reuse and remix. That's all technically impressive, but for educators, the value it provides is the ability to embed in the context of learning managerial the kinds of practice activities that so effectively reinforce learning.This opening session is part “choose your own introduction adventure making use of the H5P Branching Scenario content type” but also an opportunity to first sample hands on a wide buffet of H5P examples in the subject areas of interest to you. A second follow-up session will explore more deeply.

If the opening session made you hungry for more, we venture next into direct experience remixing, editing, creating your own H5P content. Often these types of sessions expose you to the overwhelming array of content types, and just grabbing a random tool from the kitchen drawer is no way to learn to cook. We will start first with taking one of those samples from the tasting tour (or one from the shelf) and opening it up in the H5P authoring platform to modify and understand how it was made.

The Fall 2020 term served as a litmus test of how well the evolving course material distribution and selection process works for U.S. higher education. More faculty than ever before had to select and adapt their course materials, with less time than previous years to explore their options and make decisions.

This OER is a list of Discussion Questions for a PreCalculus course using the OpenStax PreCalculus Textbook. There are eight discussion questions included in the Word document which has the equations better formatted.

Comment enseigner les objets complexes en classe? Recourir à l’interdisciplinarité permettrait de les aborder de façon globale et approfondie en faisant dialoguer une pluralité de points de vue et d’expertises à leur sujet. Mais comment faire? Quelle approche pédagogique choisir pour réaliser l’interdisciplinarité en classe? Cet ouvrage collectif, né d’un cours de didactique à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, présente plusieurs approches novatrices, du préscolaire à l'université et dans diverses disciplines. Les chapitres décrivent les défis à la fois pratiques et épistémologiques associés à ces approches, dans l’espoir d’encourager les enseignants et les enseignantes à les adopter avec enthousiasme.

Equitizing Your Syllabus, Paula Talley, Executive Director of Program Development, Achieving the DreamThis workshop is an opportunity to be guided through a review process of your own course syllabus. During the session you will self-assess and revise elements of your syllabus by incorporating culturally affirming, welcoming, validating, and student-serving language. The session will provide tools, models, and support to help break down institutional and discipline-based jargon that can be elusive for students and incorporate expressions of care for students’ academic and non-academic experiences. Participants will be able to:

This resource serves as a resource for those engaged in exploring open at Oklahoma State University.

Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom (FAS: WoW) introduces you to the various aspects of student and academic life on campus and prepares you to thrive as a successful college student (since there is a difference between a college student and a successful college student). Each section of FAS: WoW is framed by self-authored, true-to-life short stories from actual State University of New York (SUNY) students, employees, and alumni. The advice they share includes a variety of techniques to help you cope with the demands of college. The lessons learned are meant to enlarge your awareness of self with respect to your academic and personal goals and assist you to gain the necessary skills to succeed in college.

Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom (FAS: WoW) introduces you to the various aspects of student and academic life on campus and prepares you to thrive as a successful college student (since there is a difference between a college student and a successful college student). Each section of FAS: WoW is framed by self-authored, true-to-life short stories from actual State University of New York (SUNY) students, employees, and alumni. The advice they share includes a variety of techniques to help you cope with the demands of college. The lessons learned are meant to enlarge your awareness of self with respect to your academic and personal goals and assist you to gain the necessary skills to succeed in college.

Table of Contents:

Part One: YOUR Solid Foundation

The Student Experience by Kristen Mruk

Practice, Practice, Practice by Dr. Kristine Duffy

Why So Many Questions? by Fatima Rodriguez Johnson

These Are the Best Years of Your Life by Sara Vacin

With a Little Help from My Friends by Paulo Fernandes

Part Two: YOU Are the President and CEO of YOU

Can You Listen to Yourself? by Yuki Sasao
Failure Is Not an Option by Nathan Wallace

Thinking Critically and Creatively by Dr. Andrew Robert Baker

Time Is on Your Side by Christopher L. Hockey

What Do You Enjoy Studying? by Dr. Patricia Munsch

Part Three: The Future YOU

Fighting for My Future Now by Amie Bernstein

Something Was Different by Jacqueline Tiermini

Transferrable by Vicki L. Brown

It’s Like Online Dating by Jackie Vetrano

Learn What You Don’t Want by Jamie Edwards

Results of Babson Survey Research Group's 2018 study of "Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education"