at City Tech
The shortlink for today’s PPT is: http://cityte.ch/102
Opening activity for 9/28:
https://goo.gl/forms/BqnrueNIcgcLIGMM2
OER critique questions:
What drew you to the site?
Who do you think the audience is? Why?
Of the menu items, which do you think would be most useful or used by the intended audience?
Hi everyone,
Here’s a copy of the seminar slides. Also including a digital version of the Accessibility Best Practices for the OpenLab handout. Please feel free to get in contact if you need help locating materials or if you have licensing and fair use questions. If you’re get started on your OpenLab site feel free to contact the OpenLab team with questions; their email openlab@citytech.cuny.edu. They’re always someone available to follow up with you.
Enjoy spring break and I’ll see you on April 13th!
Hi all,
Here’s a copy of today’s seminar slides.
Today we talked about how many different learning objects might be incorporated into your OER.
What about assigning an NPR podcast or an article from the Washington Post website? Great! All you need to do is include the links to them on your OER site. This way students are sent directly to the author / publisher’s publicly available version of the resource. It’s perfectly fine to assign free materials available on the web by linking directly to them.
The place to be cautious is with PDFs floating around on the web. Unless you see a Creative Commons license on that PDF, you’ll want to consider if it looks like it’s been posted by someone other than the copyright holder (copyright holder would be the author or publisher). It’s common for PDFs to be posted without permission from the copyright holder, in which case they’re copyright violations and are especially likely to be removed from the internet.
What’s interesting about finding public domain and Creative Commons materials to incorporate into your OER is the extra flexibility you have in how you can use them. Most Creative Commons licenses give you permission to remix and adapt the learning object to your preferences, although the somewhat more “restrictive” CC licenses, specifically non-derivatives, don’t permit you to modify but they do let you post and distribute the materials more freely. For instance, you can upload a PDF or Word file version onto your OER to ensure stable access to students.
We also talked about fair use and finding resources in your discipline. Be sure to reach out to us if you have questions about fair use and finding materials along the way. See you all next Friday!
Hi there- Thanks for such an engaging first seminar. The slides from the session are available to download (PDF).
Faculty! There’s a new CUNYFirst attribute for course materials that are zero-cost to students. Download this Word doc for directions on how to designate your class section with the “ZERO Textbook Cost” attribute.
Hi everyone,
Finally getting around to posting materials/discussion points from our third seminar. Here are the session slides and the rubric we used for the initial activity.
And a brief summary below.
A few points we didn’t get to cover because we ran out of time:
LIB/ARCH2205 Learning Places forum
Nora’s takeaways:
Likes:
-It’s the only way in OpenLab to create a threaded response where students are replying to one prompt
-Responses don’t get buried by subsequent discussions
-Prevents confusion if you also use OpenLab for formal assignment submission
Challenges:
-Lives on course profile so requires some explicit tech instruction
-No option for grading / replying privately as with posts
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Thanks for a lively session last Friday! Download a copy of the seminar slides (including agenda and content covered) and the “Evaluating Content for your OER” worksheet.
Following up on a couple of thoughts:
Great working with everyone last Friday. It was really interesting to learn a bit more about your motivations behind transitioning to OER. Some included the desire to integrate materials that are more relevant to students’ daily lives, to address textbook costs, to improve course coordination, and access to / dissemination of materials.
Slides from the first seminar are available here.
See the link to the Creative Commons’ search filter that Junior mentioned: https://search.creativecommons.org/
And below documents our notes as we considered what makes a successful OER.
Finally posting materials from our third seminar! Thanks for some great discussions – hope these resources will stimulate further inquiry/dialogue.
Card sort activity notes
Here’s a list of possible menu items generated while brainstorming-
About
Assignments (listed twice)
Assignments + Resources for assignments
Course outline
Course overview
Weekly course outline
Grading policies
Links
Modules
Policies
Readings
Reflective writing
Requirements
Research
Resources (listed twice)
Syllabus
Syllabus / Course outline
Tips for success
Plus Michael and Lisa’s notes on questions students likely want answers to:
-What am I supposed to do?
-When is it due?
-How am I doing?
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Following up here with documentation relevant to today’s seminar. Also, if you’d like assistance embedding a CC license into the footer of your OER site, see the OpenLab workshop/office hours and/or check out the resources on the “Help” tab on the OpenLab’s main menu.
The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at City Tech (New York City College of Technology), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.
