Week 2

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Exploring OER Repositories Workshop

1. Forward-Looking Assessment Formulate one or two ideas for forward-looking assessment. Identify a situation in which students are likely to use what they have learned, and try to replicate that situation with a question, problem, or issue.

This workshop will provide a relevant, meaningful situation for interested faculty to perform searches of major OER repositories to locate OER to enhance course content and subsequently engage students. In the training, faculty will have the opportunity to immediately apply techniques demonstrated via verbal and visual demonstration using hands-on, relevant searches for OER, subsequent evaluation of OER materials, and identification of licensing and application of appropriate attribution.

2. Criteria & Standards Select one of your main learning goals, and identify at least two criteria that would distinguish exceptional achievement from poor performance. Then write two or three levels of standards for each of these criteria.

We feel that simply completing all of the steps in this voluntary workshop is an exceptional achievement, because it shows the faculty members are interested in expanding their knowledge base and learning new skills. We don’t anticipate any poor performers in the workshop. The faculty will be able to see for themselves whether they are successful. They will have lots of immediate feedback, both from their peers and from the instructors.

Because OER repositories have differing levels of content for different disciplines, we are aware that some faculty members might not be able to initially find quality resources for their courses in some of the repositories. We are most concerned with exploring the type of resources that are available and making sure that faculty feel comfortable searching these various repositories.

3. Self-Assessment What opportunities can you create for students to engage in self-assessment of their performance?

The workshop will offer opportunities to share search experiences and results, while receiving instructor/ peer feedback on improving search strategies.

4. “FIDeLity” Feedback What procedures can you develop that will allow you to give students feedback that is: Frequent Immediate Discriminating, i.e., based on clear criteria and standards Lovingly delivered

Feedback will be immediate, during each stage of the workshop. We have a collegial, professional relationship with all of the faculty who will attend, and we will provide a warm learning environment. We will encourage them to contact us in the future if they need additional help or guidance.

Learning goals for course:

At the completion of this workshop, faculty members should be able to:

1.       Identify major repositories of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how to use them to locate learning materials to enhance content for their courses

2.       Conduct a search in each of the repositories for discipline-specific materials, applying demonstrated search strategies

3.       Identify types of OER and their potential to support student engagement

4.       Utilize useful criteria to evalutate materials found in OER repositories

5.       Evaluate ADA accessibility of OER materials found in OER repositories

6.       Develop a preliminary understanding of applying proper licensing and attribution to OER

Ways of assessing this kind of learning:

For this training workshop, successful completion of the hands-on activities will be a measure of these goals.

Formative Assessment: Upon completion of the training workshop, participants will be asked to fill out an evaluation to identify their perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the training. The results of this evaluation can be used to revise aspects of the training that are identified as ineffective or lacking clarity.

Actual teaching-learning activities:

Participants will practice search strategy steps which have been presented via verbal and LCD-projected visual demonstration of search strategy steps required to find quality OER materials.

Participants will receive immediate feedback throughout the workshop.

Helpful resources (e.g. people, things): 

Computer lab, technology for visual demonstration, computers for hands-on learning, peers to provide feedback, caring instructors.