In this blog post, Dr. Christina Katopodis details ways to build flexibility into a syllabus by adding more "or" options to cater to different learners.
Focus efforts on deliberately building opportunities for your classroom community to emerge and flourish.
Students study aquatic organisms in relation to the environmental conditions of lakes and streams. The course develops substantial quantities of data concerning the local watershed. This data is used by community partners in many contexts.
This course on "Future Internet Opportunities" consists of 10 modules, which are related to the subject from technical, social and business perspectives.
Each module is available at introductory, basic and advanced levels.
The material is developed as part of an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership, and available for everyone to use, exploit and modify. The materials consist of a wide variety of materials: From Powerpoint slides, to interactive materials with videos and quizzes, assignments, and peer learning activities.
If you have found yourself searching for, adapting or creating materials for your heritage classes because of a lack of readily available commercial resources, this site is for you!
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This Instructor’s Guide contains the brief outlines of Chapters 12-21 as found in Concepts of Biology, though some underwent revision. Also, instructors will find detailed outlines of the text for use in lecturing, as well as structured outlines that may be used by students to take notes while reading the chapter or during lecture. All outlines are derived from the OpenStax text. Additionally, study guides that contain a variety of questions are provided for students.
This syllabus for an introductory course on critical theory, designed for students at Lehman College in Spring 2021, incorporates the works of Audre Lorde as a running touchstone throughout the semester. ENG 463/702, “Introduction to Critical Theory x The Audre Lorde Great Read,” was designed to provide students with an understanding of literary theory that could be implemented and practiced right away, enabling them to experience what it means to engage with public-facing humanities during a course-long semester on theory. Half of our sessions are seminar discussions of critical theory readings in the classroom; the other half is host to lectures, performances, and in conjunction with Activism in Academia, Lehman Envision ARC, Transformative Learning in the Humanities, The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, and The Grolier Club. This resource is provided by Olivia Loksing Moy.Olivia Loksing Moy is assistant professor of English at Lehman College, CUNY, where she specializes in nineteenth-century British poetry and poetics. She is the founder and director of The CUNY Rare Book Scholars and, since 2016, has organized the Activism in Academia symposium alongside Dhipinder Walia, Lise Esdaile, and the Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center.
What do we mean by “open” teaching? And how does “open” relate to “digital pedagogy”? This workshop will introduce the foundations of open digital pedagogy and provide examples from The CUNY Academic Commons, a WordPress teaching and learning platform used by faculty in a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses across CUNY.
Free practice modules for Spanish language educators
Introduction to Oral Proficiency Levels is a free open educational resource that can help Spanish teachers gain a foundational understanding of how to evaluate Spanish speakers. The resource includes 17 video-based practice modules designed to strengthen your understanding of the ACTFL Speaking Proficiency Guidelines and to help you evaluate the speaking levels of your language students.
Der Landesbildungsserver Baden-Württemberg ist die Standard-Plattform Baden-Württembergs für alles im Umfeld Schule.
The german "Educations-Server" of Baden-Württemberg provides a great variety of educational stuff. Well tested and approved for the teachers every-day-life.
All free.
This is a guide for faculty who are interested in converting their courses to OER. It briefly defines OER, and provides resources for finding OER materials.
This course is an introduction to the aspects of marine geology and oceanography that affect the environment and marine resources. Service-learning is an essential component of how students learn about the earth. We deliver part of the content of this course by arranging for students to solve a problem with a local community partner.
Our Course Conversion Workflow Document
A slide deck for a basic introduction to OER and copyright. To be used for professional development with faculty, staff, and administrators.
A slide deck for an OER and Open Pedagogy workshop. Feel free to make a copy in Google Slides and adapt away!
Carrie and Kelly’s OER grant project will create open materials for Math 098. Community colleges throughout Oregon have been planning and implementing MTH 098 since 2014 based on recommendations from the developmental education redesign workgroup. The course was created to provide a shortened, more appropriate path for students to take MTH 105 and earn an Associate of Arts Transfer degree. Some institutions, such as Clackamas Community College, include the added benefit of allowing for MTH 105 to serve as a prerequisite to MTH 243, extending the pathway for students.
Their goal is to create materials that:
- Are learner-centered
- Readily integrate group work and collaboration
- Create opportunities for students to make critical thinking a habit of mind
- Acknowledge and respect common anxieties, personalities, and professional goals of students in the “alternate pathway”.
Visit their public MTH 098 course on MyOpenMath to learn more.
The following open course for Organismal Biology was created under an Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Grant:
https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/biology-collections/14/
Included are four units containing a comprehensive set of learning modules with outcomes listed:
Biodiversity
Growth and Reproduction
Chemical and Electrical Signals
Nutrition, Transport, and Homeostasis
Intended for middle, high school, and early college classes, this learning resource takes a multifaceted look at 19th-century painting in France, as well as at the culture that produced and is reflected by that art. Organized by region, it provides a quick glance at the setting, history, and cultural life of Paris, the ële-de-France, the mountain areas of Franche-Comt and Auvergne, Normandy, Brittany, and Provence as well as in-depth examinations of more than 50 works of art. The packetŐs classroom guide includes activities that bring the music, literature, politics, cuisine, and artistic strategies of 19th-century France to life. Recommended for social studies, history, French language, and art curricula.
by Rebecca Salois, Black and Latino Studies Department at BaruchThis special episode is brought to you by the Transformative Learning in the Humanities Initiative at the City University of New York. As part of this initiative, I was invited to speak on the topic of podcasts and the classroom. This episode is my public contribution to knowledge based on the information I shared in that workshop.