Presentation during the Michigan Colleges Online (MCO) OER Summit. Faculty OER adopters and creators share their experience about the OER grant they have participated.
Transaction Management in Database Management System
MCO OER Summit Faculty Panel
1. 5Rs in Action: Faculty
Engagement with OER
Regina Gong, Librarian and OER Project Manager (Panel Moderator)
Faculty Panel:
Dr. Sharon Hughes, Professor of Psychology
Dr. Arthur Wohlwill, Adjunct Professor of Biology
Anne Heutsche, Professor of History
Dr. Kari Richards, Professor of German
Christine Conner, Guided Pathways Coordinator, Adjunct Associate Professor - Fashion
MCO OER Summit, Kellogg Community College
September 22, 2017
2. MCO OER Grant
• Made available in fall 2016 to ALL MI community college
faculty
• Three categories: Adopt, Adapt, Create
• $67,000 total allocation for award
• Grantees notified December 1, 2016
• LCC received $27,500 of that amount involving 12
faculty
3. MCO OER Grant Recipient – Adoption Category
Dr. Sharon Hughes, Professor of Psychology
Richard Coelho, Adjunct Professor
Vaughn Vowels, Adjunct Professor
PSYCH 203 (Social Psychology)
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=74
4. MCO OER Grant Recipient – Adaption Category
Dr. Arthur Wohlwill, Adjunct Professor of Biology
BIOL 127 (Cell Biology) and BIOL 270 (Human Genetics)
http://bit.ly/2fkw1oa
5.
6. MCO OER Grant Recipient – Adaption Category
Anne Heutsche – Professor of History, Lansing Community College
Mindy Morton, Professor of History , Northwestern Michigan College
HIST 211 (U.S. History to 1877)
7. MCO OER Grant Recipient – Creation Category
Dr. Kari Richards, Professor of German, Foreign Language Program Faculty Chair
Dr. Stephanie Throne, Adjunct Associate Professor of Spanish
Sara Bostwick, Adjunct Associate Professor of Spanish
SPAN 121/SPAN 122 (Elementary Spanish I/II)
8. MCO OER Grant Recipient – Creation Category
Christine Conner & Anne Wojtkowski – Adjunct Associate Professors of Fashion
Andrea Bartlett & Samantha Bartlett – Adjunct Instructors of Fashion
FASH 100
Fashion Sketching
FASH 103
Fundamentals
For Fashion
FASH 105
Fashion Computer
Aided Design
FASH 120
Intro to the
Fashion Industry
18. Photo by Tiago Aguiar on Unsplash
• Z-Degrees in Psychology, Certificate in Foreign Language by 2018
• Z-Degrees in Transfer Studies possibly AY 2019
• Assessment & Efficacy Studies – COUP Framework ; Disseminate research
studies from Regina’s Open Education Group Research Fellowship 2017-2018
Award
• OER Course Designation in Student Registration System in the works
Our Road Ahead
Michigan has 13 Native-American reservations and the largest Native-American population east of the Mississippi River yet U.S. History books barely mention Natives except for pre-Columbian History and the Indian Wars of the late 1800s. Native people have had, and continue to have, a profound effect on U.S. History. In order to rectify this omission we propose to add a great deal of Native history to the regular narrative. The Native history will be integrated into the various chapters of both Openstax and Yawp in order to show cause and effect of native peoples on U.S. History through a combination of text, video, illustrations and other multimedia.
This project will produce interactive Spanish multimedia ancillary resources using interactive multimedia presentations, practice exercises with immediate feedback, etc. These tools advance student learning by providing real-time feedback and assistance to the students outside of the classroom, which enables them to master pronunciation, grammar, and advanced vocabulary much more quickly. Perhaps the most important component will be the engaging, tutorial-type resources that not only facilitate instruction of material but effectively permit student participation.
We will be creating a textbook with a workbook that covers the Principles & Elements of Design as well as historical silhouettes. The text can be used in the first 4 courses of our program and then as a reference text during the rest of the student’s coursework in our program. The project will include demonstration and tutorial videos in order to provide other delivery methods for student learning. We will create a text that utilizes sketches, illustrations, and graphics to aid in student exploration of the principles and elements of design, and historical silhouettes. The workbook will include assignments and projects that will require students to create their own responses.
Our Board of Trustees approved a resolution to support expanding and accelerating the use of open educational resources, or OER. The resolution designates $500,000 to recognize and reward successful faculty efforts to select, adapt and implement OER textbooks and supplemental materials for the benefit of students.
I created this research guide to create an awareness among faculty about the existence of OER, what and where to find them, and how you can use it to replace the traditional textbook and enhance your teaching in the process.
One of the barriers that faculty raise with regards to OER is the discoverability and quality of the resources. This research guide will hopefully address that. I’ve curated the best of the best so you need not go all over to find the materials you need for your courses. Go to the OER by Discipline tab to find materials that you might consider.