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Students Lead The Charge! Using Project-Based Learning With Pre-Service Teachers To Redesign A Curriculum Resource Center, Kieran Ayton, Karen Caparo Jan 2021

Students Lead The Charge! Using Project-Based Learning With Pre-Service Teachers To Redesign A Curriculum Resource Center, Kieran Ayton, Karen Caparo

Faculty Publications

Project-based learning (PBL) allows students to identify and find solutions to real-world

problems using inquiry-based learning. While increasingly used in the K-12 classroom, PBL has not had widespread adoption in higher education. With the exception of Correll and Bornstein (2018), very little has been written about using PBL to redesign college and university Curriculum Resource Centers. However, because PBL is primarily a K-12 teaching pedagogy, it is the perfect fit to give pre-service teachers the active learning skills they will need for their future K-12 classrooms. The skills developed through project-based learning teach pre-service teachers to become independent and resourceful …


Open To Support Accessibility And Inclusion, Dragan Gill Jul 2020

Open To Support Accessibility And Inclusion, Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

Presentation (slide, PDF format) about open educational resources.


Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2020), Dragan Gill Mar 2020

Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2020), Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Inroads To Open Access Publishing, Dragan Gill Apr 2019

Inroads To Open Access Publishing, Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

Presentation (slide, PDF) explaining open access publishing for college faculty.


But I Don't Use A Textbook: Open Educational Resources For All, Dragan Gill Mar 2019

But I Don't Use A Textbook: Open Educational Resources For All, Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

Presentation (slide, PDF format) about open educational resources.


Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2019), Dragan Gill Mar 2019

Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2019), Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Open Textbooks: Access, Affordability, And Academic Success, Dragan Gill, David Ernst Jan 2019

Open Textbooks: Access, Affordability, And Academic Success, Dragan Gill, David Ernst

Open Textbook Initiative

Slide presentation (PDF) about open textbooks and the cost of higher education.


Open Educational Resources Reimagining Access & Pedagogy, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb Aug 2018

Open Educational Resources Reimagining Access & Pedagogy, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Small State, Big Challenge: Creating A Community Of Practice For Rhode Island Librarians, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb, Daniela Fairchild May 2018

Small State, Big Challenge: Creating A Community Of Practice For Rhode Island Librarians, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb, Daniela Fairchild

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2018), Dragan Gill Mar 2018

Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2018), Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Beyond Savings: Empowering Faculty To Make The Switch, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb Nov 2017

Beyond Savings: Empowering Faculty To Make The Switch, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Using Object-Based And Open-Enabled Pedagogy For Authentic Learning, Amy Barlow, Dragan Gill Oct 2017

Using Object-Based And Open-Enabled Pedagogy For Authentic Learning, Amy Barlow, Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Opening Up About Open Textbooks: Accounts Of Real Work Around Oer, Dragan Gill, Andria Tieman Michney, Hailie Posey May 2017

Opening Up About Open Textbooks: Accounts Of Real Work Around Oer, Dragan Gill, Andria Tieman Michney, Hailie Posey

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Waking Yourself Up: The Liberatory Potential Of Critical University Studies, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Scott Leo Renshaw Apr 2017

Waking Yourself Up: The Liberatory Potential Of Critical University Studies, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Scott Leo Renshaw

Faculty Publications

This paper is designed as a conversation between Mikaila and Scott, one of the students who enrolled in the course the first time it was offered, in Spring 2014. Scott is now a graduate student in sociology. By developing a sustained, paper-length conversation about the course, we hope to provide a sense of the liberatory potential of critical university studies as a pedagogical practice.


Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2017), Dragan Gill Mar 2017

Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2017), Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.


Using Open Textbooks In Blackboard And Printing Options On Campus, Jack Mello, Dragan Gill Feb 2017

Using Open Textbooks In Blackboard And Printing Options On Campus, Jack Mello, Dragan Gill

Open Textbook Initiative

No abstract provided.