We hope you can join us for our final Teaching with Technology workshop of the semester tomorrow. We will meet in the Advanced Technology Lab (ATL) tomorrow (Wednesday) from 10:30-11:30. The ATL is located on the lower level of Shain Library, just on the other side of the stairs from the IT Service Desk. Free…
Category: Open Educational Resources
When Risks Pay Off in the Classroom
As we think about our courses, curriculum, and institution as a whole through the lens of full participation, we should not overlook the additional costs we ask (require) our students to bear in order to successfully complete their education. Textbooks are one such cost that I’ve written about recently. Last Wednesday, Joe Schroeder, Karen…
Great Online Teaching Resources! Or, what are OER?
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support…
Are students #TextbookBroke?
With the rising costs of textbooks (3 times the rate of inflation or over 1000% since 1977), more students choose not to or are simply unable to purchase them. You are probably aware of this phenomenon from recent articles in the Chronicle, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, NBC, or from the hashtag…
Workshop Recap: Technology Fellows Curricular Innovations II
Our second presenter at last week’s Technology Fellows presentations was Joe Schroeder from the Psychology department. Joe focused on two experimental changes he is trying this semester. First, instead of relying on a textbook, Joe has replaced the textbook with freely available online educational resources (OERs). The materials he selected, such as animations produced by…