Reducing Barriers to Increase Engagement: Supporting Student Success with OER and Open Pedagogy
Textbook and course material costs have increased wildly in the last few decades, outpacing college tuition, housing, and healthcare costs in the United States. As a result, many students postpone or do not purchase required course materials, which hampers their learning processes and impacts their grades. This workshop series introduces Open Educational Resources (OER), which are freely available and openly licensed course materials, providing strategies and tools for evaluating, adopting, adapting, and creating OER. It also introduces Open Pedagogy, a strategy for co-creating OER with students that supports authentic learning and active engagement. Participants are welcome to attend individual workshops or complete the entire series.
Stipend: $100
Learn more about the stipend policy and eligibility.
Eligible Participants: Tenure-Track Faculty, Non-Tenure Track Faculty and Course Instructors, Staff (AP and Civil Service)
Session 1
Locating and Evaluating Open Educational Resources
Register for this session by Tuesday, May 26
Discover how Open Educational Resources (OER) can reduce costs and support student success. This workshop will explore practical strategies for locating and evaluating OER to support your courses’ individual goals. Registration is required.
Outcomes:
Participants will
- Utilize OER aggregator sites to locate OER.
- Use publicly available rubrics to evaluate OER.
- Evaluate at least one OER and post a review on an OER platform.
Session 2
Adopting, Adapting, and Creating OER: Strategies and Tools to Support your OER Journey
Register for this session by Friday, May 29
Are you ready to explore adopting or creating Open Educational Resources (OER)? This workshop will provide guidance and practical tools to help implement OER in your classes, lowering costs for students while providing customized course materials. By the end of the workshop, all participants will complete an assessment of an existing OER, outlining how it would need to be adapted to meet the needs of one of their courses. Registration is required.
Outcomes:
- Discuss practical strategies to guide their adoption, adaptation, and/or creation of OER, including open textbooks and other course materials.
- Explore tools and software to assist in the adaptation or creation of OER.
- Complete an assessment of an existing OER and outline how it will be adopted into a course
Session 3
Open Pedagogy: Infusing Student Work with Meaning and Value
Register for this session by Tuesday, June 9
Open pedagogy is an authentic learning strategy in which students co-create meaning through the development developing an open educational resource (OER). Learn how to transform your students into active creators of knowledge with “renewable assignments” that have real-world impact. Registration is required.
Outcomes:
- Learn the basics of open pedagogy and how it can foster student agency, encourage collaboration, and increase equity.
- Select and adapt one assignment from their course to utilize open pedagogy to produce student-created OER.
