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 …
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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 …
Aug 03
OERs; and So long and thanks for all the fish… (Is that copyrighted?)
Friends, I’m hustling to get my last bits done before heading off to Kenya for two weeks. I leave on Thursday, and I’m not close to being ready. So, this will piece won’t exhibit my usual flare for overly-dramatic and/or insanely hilarious posting. Briefly: I have been aware of Open Educational Resources through my teaching …
Jul 19
Crazy lil thing called “Assessment” or What’s in an Approach?
Approach?? I am constantly assessing my students in my classes: with every utterance from my students, I am assessing what they are saying, how they are saying it, their strengths, weaknesses, application of what we have focused on up to that point in the course, what they understand, what they don’t understand based on questions …
Jul 18
Are we really engaging our learners, or are they here for the doors it may open?
I have posted late, and for that I apologize. It appears my self directed learning has led me to enroll in a post masters certificate at Emory which is kicking my posterior in terms of time, commitment, and assimilation of new information in order to expand my NP scope of practice from age 12 instead …
Jul 18
Measuring how students become like their teachers
“Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.” Epistle of James 3:1-2. Years ago, I taught religion Union College, small, church- related college in Kentucky. We had about a dozen students who majored or minored in religion, and since …
Jul 17
Heutagogical Learning: Engaged Learned
After reading the article on self-evaluated and self-directed heutagogical learning by Blaschke (2012), and reading the feedback on how to engage students online from colleagues reviewing my syllabus draft, I realized I needed to focus my blog this week on learner-centered learning and assessment. I also was encouraged to try this in light of work …
Jul 17
Assessment in 5 easy steps
No I don’t really know how to do assessment in 5 easy steps. Just trying to think of an enticing headline. Sorry to disappoint. But now that I have your attention…. As an English instructor teaching composition, I would give very elaborate feedback on each writing assignment. Then I was always surprised when I met …
Jul 16
Learning Centered Strategies – for older professional students
Learning Centered Assessment Becoming a reflective practitioner is a course objective and learning goal for the DMin class that immediately precedes mine. I hope to build on it in my course, so I state one of my course goals as simply to “enhance students’ self-awareness as reflective practitioners.” This will involve a series of …
Jul 16
L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant Learning Experiences, and what’s also going on in the lives of our students
Assessment and integration…. In Creating Significant Learning Experiences (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass), L. Dee Fink focuses on integration in course design and assessment. He’s on board with the triangles we see appearing in the work of our assigned authors linking (1) learning goals to (2) teaching/learning activities to (3) feedback and assessment, however he contributes a …
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