This session is the TLT Group’s first experiment with online office hours. We’re grateful that Gerry Hanley has bravely agreed to answer your questions in this format. We don’t expect a prepared presentation, but we’ll provide a few sample questions in advance that focus on the challenges and opportunities for improving learning and teaching with Open Educational Resources. He’ll do his best to answer your questions, recommend specific resources, and help solve problems facing you and your colleagues.
Hanley has been a leader in MERLOT and directly involved in several other valuable projects in this area. He is aware of recent pressures and trends in reducing the costs to students of textbooks and other instructional resources.
We hope this session will demonstrate how online open office hours can provide personalized help for faculty and academic support professionals.
*Almost like "Stump the Chump" from Car Talk
Sample Questions for Guest Expert:
1. ONLINE ASSESSMENT: How can I find open education resources (assessments, tests, proctored situations,...) that I can use with (require) my students to determine their grades in my own course ?
2. DIGITAL STORYTELLING: What Open Ed. Resources for digital storytelling will help my undergrad students improve their research papers in my department's lower level sociology courses?
3. CREDITS, CERTIFICATION: How can i find "open" course resources in that I can assign to MY STUDENTS as part of MY COURSE in which those students will receive grades and credits from MY INSTITUTION?
4. CHILDREN & VIOLENCE: What Open Ed. Resources might enhance my undergrad lower level developmental psychology course on the topic of Children & Violence?
5. EQUAL ACCESS: How can i limit my OER searches only to find course-related resources for which none of my students will feel “disenfranchised” because they have inferior access to teacher, books, etc. due to location, schedule, disabilities,internet access...)?
6. STATISTICS FOR HEALTH SCIENCE MAJORS: What Open Ed. Resources are available to help me develop a new online asynch course to enable undergrad health science majors to fulfill their statistics requirement?
7. LMS OPTIONS: How can I find OER that will be fully compatible with my institution’s Learning Management System (LMS) for online courses? Esp. modes of asynchronous discussion (online discussion boards, etc); Course resources available via: text, voice, video?
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