This is an important topic to be aware of, though it also feels like a bottomless pit. My current strategy is to start with the students that are actually in my class and to try to accommodate the needs they share with me, rather than to try and meet all the imagined needs that these …
August 2014 archive
Aug 13
M8 UDL response
I was a bit surprised when none of the three UDL articles employed the techniques they recommended. David Rose and Jenna Gravel’s first suggestion was use multiple means of representation, followed soon thereafter by use different sensory modalities. However, a student with a visual disability would not have access to their article because the authors …
Aug 10
Introducing the Fabulous OERs!
What a great learning module! As a teacher of Academic Writing to international students, we push, pull, struggle, cajole, train, scare, practice, practice, practice how to incorporate outside sources without plagiarizing…. But this new-found knowledge of OERs creates a new dimension to the training of using sources! I had heard of Creative Commons, but I …
Aug 09
OERs: 4 ‘Rs,’ 3 Steps and 4 Practices
I was not very familiar with Open Educational Resources (OERs) before completing this module, but think understanding OERs is very important for all types of education, especially for future innovations. Hilton III, Wiley, Stein, and Johnson (2010) described a useful continuum of Reuse with increasing openness: 1) Reuse, 2) Reuse and Redistribute only, and 3) …
Aug 07
Time management run amuck
As I have studied OERs this week, I must say that I am thoroughly enlightened about the process. I never knew what I never knew to roughly quote from Disney’s Pocahontas. My biggest issue with OERs are the search engines and trying to find the appropriate material contained within the larger headings. Also using regular …
Aug 06
OERs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I posted in diigo (inadvertently jumping the gun) about how much I really liked MERLOT. I’ve used this site for years but never really, truly understood the significance and value of this resource until we started examining and discussing this kind of content in M8. I think it’s still my most favorite, and I find …
Aug 06
OER for Dmin community analysis class
In the past I’ve relied on our Pitts Theology Library staff to help me wade through copyright laws, Emory policies, Bb opportunities and constraints. This module has been helpful so I can be better informed and also equipped to search on my own for OER. I was grateful for the reference to Open Washington where …
Aug 06
OERs and Open Source
I have been familiar with the conversations around Open Source materials. I was not familiar with the websites where this week’s class material took us. I found the sources fascinating. I really like the Creative Commons website. When it comes to copyright, our Pitts library staff has handled the details of what we can use. I’m not …
Aug 06
OERs, Open Access, Open Sesame
I had heard about OERs before this module. I learned of Creative Commons (CC) several years ago and have been using CC images and videos in my online research guides (example) — though not using the proper attribution, I’ve learned. In addition, I sit in close proximity to the Scholarly Communications Office folks here in …
Aug 05
OERs are a great sources of images!
I am somewhat familiar with OER’s. The main way I have found them very helpful is for incorporating images into my classes. I often will use images—sometimes just to provide color, but more often as a way of helping students to see the varieties of ways a text can be interpreted. Artists make decisions about …
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