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OER Biology Training

Karla Fuller, Samuel Finesurrey, and Amy Beth

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Introduction

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Downloading the OER Resource

You will be altering an OER resource for your own course. Depending on how you think your course will be best served click on either the link for the Biology OpenStax Textbook, Biology Labs or the Comparing Mitosis & Meiosis Activity. After deciding on the resource of your choosing, download it or copy and paste into an alterable format.

If you choose to work on the Biology OpenStax Textbook, please look through the table of contents and choose a section of a chapter, which you will paste or convert into a word document/powerpoint to work on.
If you choose Biology Labs please select a single lab activity to download.
If you choose to work on the Comparing Mitosis & Meiosis Activity, please watch the corresponding video and then download the assignment as a powerpoint.

Answer the following questions.

What did you like about this OER?
How do you feel this 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 paragraphexplaining the changes you made and why.

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Additional Discipline Based OERs