OER LaBSS Training

Laura Fritz, Sarina Harty, Samuel Finesurrey and Amy Beth

Introduction

Downloading the OER

1. You will be altering an OER resource for your own course. Depending on how you think your course will be best served click on the link for the OERs designed to introduce students to Resume Writing, Cover Letters, or Interviewing. You can also choose to work with other resources found through the Big Interview, Job Search Tutorials, or College Success Textbook.
2. After clicking on the work of your choosing, download or copy and paste a section of the resource into a format that allows you to alter the material.
3. Look over the resource you chose to work on.
4. Answer the following questions.
1. What are you altering and for what course?
2. What did you like about this OER?
3. How do you feel the OER could be improved for the Guttman course you will be teaching?

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Altering Materials

Reflecting on your answers from discussion post 2.1, alter the OER you chose to work on in a way that you think will help you teach the material. This can be anything from updating examples to make them more relevant, breaking down the OER into more digestible segments, adding or changing hyperlinks, text or images to improve the students learning experience, or adding materials that you think will make the resource and course stronger.

Save the updated resource you altered in your preferred format (Word, PDF, PowerPoint, etc.) and upload it to the Blackboard site in the “Revised OER” assignment at the bottom of the Week 2 Module. The idea here is you will share the altered OER with us in the same format you would share it with your students.

Finally, write a paragraph explaining the changes you made and why.

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Additional Discipline Based OERs

Resources for Resume

• Resume Writing
• Best Sample Resume

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Resources for Writing Sample - Cover Letter or Personal Statement

• Crafting Cover Letters
• Writing the Personal Statement

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Resources for Interview/Elevator Pitch

• Career Planning and Personal Exploration: Interviewing
• Interviewing Skills

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Resources for All

• Big Interview
• College Success Textbook
• Job Search
• Center for Career Preparation and Partnerships
• Energy and Sustainability Internship

Additional Discipline Based OERs

Look through the resources on the previous slide and identify at least one more OER you may find useful for the course you’re teaching in Spring I or a course you may teach another semester. Focus on how you would alter that resource to best meet the needs of your classroom.

You are NOT required to alter a second OER.

Please comment on at least one of the posts of your colleagues.