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Customize Your Course Content With Open Educational Resources, Janelle Wertzberger
Customize Your Course Content With Open Educational Resources, Janelle Wertzberger
Janelle Wertzberger
This half day workshop provides an overview of the current open textbook and OER landscape, including information about copyright, fair use, open licensing, strategies for identifying open content, and models for compiling open content for class use. We will also devote time to hands-on exploration of existing open resources that could be used in your course or discipline. If you have been thinking about reworking your required readings and are leaning toward more open materials, this workshop is the perfect time to explore the possibilities. You will get the most out of this workshop if you come with a specific …
Winning Friends And Influencing People: Oer And Higher Education Affordability, Marilyn K. Moody
Winning Friends And Influencing People: Oer And Higher Education Affordability, Marilyn K. Moody
Marilyn K. Moody
Higher Education stakeholders, including students, parents, faculty, administrators, legislators, state higher education boards, trustees, alumni, and donors are all concerned about the high cost of education and its impact on students. Positioning OER within the broader context of college affordability creates interest in the creation and use of OER, as well as powerful allies for OER initiatives. Approaches and examples of how to communicate OER value for affordability efforts and influence these varied stakeholders will be included in this presentation. Portland State University and its use of OER and the creation of open textbooks in the context of university initiatives …
Anthropology 106: Culture Through Film Spring 2015 Course Materials, Katie Kirakosian, Virginia Mclaurin, Cary Speck
Anthropology 106: Culture Through Film Spring 2015 Course Materials, Katie Kirakosian, Virginia Mclaurin, Cary Speck
Katie Kirakosian
This packet contains course materials for the University of Massachusetts Amherst class ANT 106: Culture through Film. This 100-level Cultural Anthropology class was recently redeveloped through a 2014 UMass Open Education Initiative grant and is designed to experientially engage students in the learning process without requiring the purchase of textbooks, software, or any other course materials on their part. Through discussion of paired readings and films, students explore the basic tenets of anthropological theory and analyze the cultural construction of race, class, gender, and other social categories. In addition to completing a series of papers, in-class activities and weekly quizzes, …
Integrating An Opencourseware And Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett Shelton
Integrating An Opencourseware And Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett Shelton
Heather Leary, Ph.D.
This presentation was given at the 2009 Open Education Conference in Vancouver, BC. It shows how and why Utah State University chose to archive their OpenCourseWare. This was done in their Institutional Repository, DigitalCommons@USU. The presentation emphasizes the importance of the Open Education community to work with Librarians.