ISU Open Education Week, Feb 22-26, 2021
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are openly licensed so everyone has free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities: retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute.
ISU Open Education Week 2021 programs featured ISU Textbook Heroes who have inspiring OER success stories to share, and helpful tutorials from University Libraries and ITRC staff.
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Dr. McBeth is an advocate for open education who received a grant to transform his POLS 1101 class with an open textbook. In this talk, he'll share the details of his project, including the challenges he faced and the benefits he has seen, and how OER has enabled him to engage his students in additional courses and support their success. Dr. McBeth was recognized as a Fall 2020 Textbook Hero for his work.
Are you curious about OER that may already exist in your discipline? This session will present resources included on the Open Educational Resources Subject Guide created by university libraries, including demonstrations of major OER search engines and repositories. It will also include a discussion of open licensing and how to determine whether a resource is truly "open."
Dr. Robey and Dr. Stango were both awarded grants to adopt open textbooks in their introductory history courses, and extensively revised and updated their courses to work with their new textbooks. Join them to learn about their OER journey, including challenges they faced, the support they received, and the benefits to their students they’ve seen from OER.
Dr. Buder decided to adopt an open economics textbook during a major course redesign, and selected the free, openly licensed Principles of Economics textbook from OpenStax, which comes with a range of benefits to students, including ancillary instructor and student resources. Her talk will include a discussion of her project and demonstration of the textbook, as well as the challenges she faced and the benefits she has seen to her students. Dr. Buder was recognized as a Fall 2020 Textbook Hero for her work.
Librarian Catherine Gray became interested in authoring her own OER textbook for her LLIB 1115 Introduction to Information Research course when she realized that open textbooks can be continuously updated and improved. Through OER, Cathy saw the potential to give her students a customized textbook that would be helpful throughout their academic careers, even as library resources and citation styles change. The OER includes links to videos and discussion questions developed for the class. Join us to learn about her project and how she’s leveraging the benefits of OER to give her students the most useful and relevant text available. Catherine's textbook can be found at Bridging the Gap: A Guide to College-Level Research. She was recognized as a Fall 2020 Textbook Hero for her work.
By transforming the static OER materials into interactive content, you can provide a more profound and longer-lasting participatory learning process to engage your students. H5P is an open resource for creating rich HTML5 content in the existing publishing platforms and sharing seamlessly across any H5P capable site. The H5P activities will provide the students learning by doing and an opportunity for formative assessments as well. In this session, the presenters will demonstrate how to use H5P to create interactive content and embedded into various platforms.
Art instructor Amy Jo Popa received an OER grant and stipend from ITRC to revise and update the Introduction to Art 1100 course to use an open textbook. Join us to learn about her OER journey, including the challenges she faced, the support received, and the benefits to students from adopting the new open textbook.
Jonathan Lashley, Associate Chief Academic Officer from the Idaho State Board of Education, will give an OER basics workshop for anyone interested in pursuing an OER project or learning more about OER.