This workshop is a part of The Peer Review Workshops category. In …
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 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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
We facilitate and develop lessons for Data Carpentry workshops. These lessons are …
We facilitate and develop lessons for Data Carpentry workshops. These lessons are distributed under the CC-BY license and are free for re-use or adaptation, with attribution. We’ve had people use the lessons in courses, to build new lessons, or use them for self-guided learning.
Data Carpentry workshops are domain-specific, so that we are teaching researchers the skills most relevant to their domain and using examples from their type of work. Therefore we have several types of workshops and curriculum is organized by domain.
What are Learning Theories? So what are educational learning theories and how …
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 …
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 …
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.
This resource provides pre-service or inservice teachers a guide to developing a …
This resource provides pre-service or inservice teachers a guide to developing a virtual learning curriculum. It provides teachers a guide on how to take existing lessons designed for a face-to-face format and revise them to be used in an online format. This resources fits a part of the Texas requirements for Digital Literacy training for teacher candidates.TEC, §21.001, 8 C ii
Interest, capacity, and support for creating more engaging and supportive learning experiences …
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 …
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 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 …
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.
Discussions are excellent ways to enhance student engagement, encourage critical thinking, and …
Discussions are excellent ways to enhance student engagement, encourage critical thinking, and increasing interactions with fellow student's ideas. This guide covers adding discussions, discussion settings, as well as analytics and grading in Blackboard Ultra courses.
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