Week 4

Our workshop lines up perfectly with the Open Content section (pages 40-42) of the NMC Horizon Report Library Edition. We will discuss how to find and evaluate Open Education resources in our session, and we feel comfortable exploring ways participants can reuse and remix the materials they find.

We plan to use an emerging education technology tool as a hook to grab our participants’ attention at the beginning of the session. Prior to the session, we are going to find an appropriate Open Interactive Learning Material (ILM) that will demonstrate how effective these ILMs can be in capturing students’ interest and facilitating learning. Even though our faculty participants are voluntarily attending this session, we thought it was important to demonstrate how ILMs can be great tools to encourage students to interact directly with the material, and therefore learn. We think this will serve as a great motivator for our faculty participants to explore what Open materials exist in their discipline. Hopefully, it will also demonstrate some of the many different options for incorporating games, tutorials, etc. into their courses.

 

Beyond that, the other technology we will be using will be fairly standard. We will be using the Internet to search OER and IL M repositories and PowerPoint to outline our presentation.