OER Ethnographies of Work Training
Mary Gatta, Alia Tyner-Mullings, Samuel Finesurrey and Amy Beth
Introduction
Explaining the Assignment
Creating and Using OER in Classes
Confirm that sources have a Creative Common license
Keep track of where you are sourcing writings for your work
Make sure students know where the OER resource is located
Determine a plan for any student interaction with OER resource (reading, annotating, contributing, will resource be used just for your class or across classes
Downloading the OER
Click on this hyperlink to access the EOW Textbook on Manifold and scroll down the table of contents to find a section of a chapter, a whole chapter or multiple chapters that you could possibly convert for your course in Spring I. Then download the work as a Word Document. Copy and paste the text of the section you will work on into a new word document and read through it.
Answer the following questions for discussion post 2.1 of this blackboard module.
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 for discussion post 2.2 explaining the changes you made and why. Please also comment on at least two of the posts left by colleagues.