Course Schedule

This is the schedule of topics we will cover this semester.  The readings and required materials are arranged by week below- make sure you review the materials thoroughly before each Thursday class. You can see the course schedule with dates by opening the first accordion.

Class #DateTopic
Class 1January 29Introductions to The Course & Each Other, and Syllabus Review & Revision
Class 2February 5OER: What R They?
February 12GC Closed
Class 3February 19License to Thrill: OER, Copyright, and Copywrongs
Class 4February 26Open Pedagogy
Class 5March 5Workshop: Accessibility & Open Platforms
Class 6March 12Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
Class 7March 19LabOER: Sustainability, The Scholarly Publishing Racket & Open Knowledge
Class 8March 26Other Opens: GLAM, Data, Science
April 2No Class- Spring Break! Get some rest, work on your book review, and begin to brainstorm ideas for final project.
April 9
Class 9April 16Book Review Roundtable & Topic TBD
Class 10April 21(Today is Thursday at the GC, so we have class). Final Project Workshop: Brainstorming, Discussion, & Planning
Class 11April 23The AI-lephant in the Room
Class 12April 30Topic TBD by class votes
Class 13May 7Topic TBD by class votes
Class 14May 14Show & Share of Culminating Works
May 21Last Day to Submit Culminating Work
The 5 Rs of OER- Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute
Illustration based on: D. Wiley, “Defining the ‘Open’ in Open Content and Open Educational Resources,” CC BY 4.0. Definitions adapted from: SUNY OER Services, “5Rs of OER” [Infographic], CC BY 4.0, from Introduction: The What and Why of OER
Different ideas of what makes a good OER

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Chart comparing Traditional copyright, Creative Commons, and Public Domain

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Open Pedagogy as defined by Hegarty (2015). Graphic of one circle with "Open Pedagogy" written in it, with 8 circles radiating out of it connected by lines. The 8 outer circles are labeled: People, Openness, Trust Innovation and Creativity Sharing Ideas and Resources Connected Community Learner-Generated Reflective Practice Peer Review Participatory Technology
Circle with the 5 Rs of Open Pedagogy: Respect, Reciprocate, Risk, Reach, Resist

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Facilitator’s Addition: Designing and Teaching Distance-Learning Classics 430: An Open Pedagogy Experiment

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Graphic organizer of The Universal Design for Learning Guidelines

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Accessibility Crash Course:

  1. Use accessible fonts and make sure any colors are high contrast
  2. Use Styles to Add Headings
    1. Use the styles hierarchically
    2. Once applied, you can use use styles for the outline, table of contents, and to easily make font/color/size choices consistently across a whole document
    3. Information & How-To use Styles
  3. Add Alt-text to images (how/why to alt-text)
  4. Make URLs descriptive links, not word salad
  5. Run Accessibility Checker in Microsoft Word (or other program/platform) and make any necessary changes (check the warnings as well as the broken)

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The landscape of open- a tree with branches for the various opens (open data, open access, open science, open government, open policy, open glam, OER).

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Facilitator’s Addition:

Open GLAM

Open Science

Open Data

  • Lauriault, Tracey P. 2022. “Looking Back toward a ‘Smarter’ Open Data Future.” In The Future of Open Data, edited by Teresa Scassa and Pamela Robinson. University of Ottawa Press.
  • Carroll Rainie, Stephanie, Tahu Kukutai, Maggie Walter, Oscar Luis Figueroa-Rodriguez, Jennifer Walker, and Per Axelsson. 2019. “Indigenous Data Sovereignty.” In The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons, 1st ed., edited by Tim Davies, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini. African Minds.

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To Prepare:

  1. Submit your Book Review as a forum post prior to class, and prepare a 5 minute lightning talk on your review.
  2. Bring an idea for something you want to make during our OER Sprint- a syllabus for a course you’d like to create, a project you want to put into an OER platform, or any other kind of OER you want to make during the sprint. The goal is to have something that you can share by the end of the workshop, so think small-to-medium. You might even consider creating something small to test the waters for a potential final project.

Resources

  • Please bring a brief proposal (or ideas for one or several, or a project-in-progress) for your Culminating Work to class.
  • The goal is to leave the workshop with at least a proposal and a timeline that you are excited about. Bonus if you can actually get started on working on the project during the workshop!
  • The first part of class will consist of discussing your ideas with a partner to refine what you’d like to do and give/get feedback.
  • For the remainder of the session, we’ll have 3 rooms open, and you can choose which you want to be in (& move between them as you like)
    • 1- The Library (quiet coworking)
    • 2- A Little Help from My Friends (discussion room, 100% Brandle-free)
    • 3- Help me, Brandle (discussion room with Brandle)
    • any folks who want an additional/different room can have one- just ask.
List of possible negatives from generative AI
List of possible positives from generative AI

Possible AI Negatives & Positives from The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future

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Facilitator’s Addition:

What the research shows about generative AI in tutoring

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Embracing AI Tutoring in STEM Courses

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For Further Inquiry:

picture of a a computer keyboard with a "Capitalism" key on it
Capitalism by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free

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  • Show and Share of Final Projects
  • Email Brandle any work you’d like added to the Hall of Fame page
  • Submit revised final projects by May 21!