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Presenter

Purdue University Global | What Face Do You See in the Mirror: Fostering Mindfulness and Leadership Through Self-Identity�

Dr. Carolyn Stevenson

FT Faculty

School of General Education

Department of Professional Studies

CStevenson@purdueglobal.edu

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Integrating OER into undergraduate and graduate capstone courses offers the opportunity to serve learners across disciplines. The Professional Studies degrees are competency-based, allow learners to craft their own individualized learning plan, and use OER as a cost-effective means for providing learning resources.

Overview

Purdue University Global | What Face Do You See in the Mirror: Fostering Mindfulness and Leadership Through Self-Identity�

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Outcomes for the Presentation

1. Understand ways OER can be integrated into Capstone courses.

2. Evaluate ways OERs create educational equity.

3. Discuss ways OERs can enhance teaching and learning.

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Two Pathways

Learners choose from two online pathways to your bachelor's in professional studies: a term-based program option and a self-paced, independent study option.

Let’s look are the options: https://www.purdueglobal.edu/degree-programs/professional-studies/bachelor-degree-professional-studies/

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Highlights of ASPr/BSPr Degree Programs

Learners are able to select courses and design a plan of study suited to individual professional interests. BSPr and ASPr highlights include:

Allows creation of a program that meets professional and personal interests
Offers flexibility in choosing elective courses in a specific program focus alongside required general education coursework
Applies to variety of career outcomes based on student interests
Offers flexibility through an Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) which allows for previously earned credit to be applied in a more flexible fashion, maximizing transfer credit .
Offers an affordable, monthly subscription model
Provides an opportunity for learners to earn a degree from an accredited institution at their own pace

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Target Audience

The BSPr and ASPr degrees are designed with self-motivated learners in mind and offers the opportunity to create a customized degree plan to meet learners’ individual professional and academic goals. The open degree program provides learners with the flexibility of learning through resources that come from within and outside PG, both prior to and during the course of the degree.

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Capstone Courses

The capstone courses (PR299/PR499/PR599) are the culminating experience for the Associate/Bachelor/Master of Science in Professional Studies. This course builds on the coursework completed throughout the program of study.

The capstone course provides students with the opportunity to integrate and synthesize the knowledge and skills acquired throughout their coursework in an original comprehensive project, and to assess mastery of the program outcomes.

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Capstone Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, learners should be able to:

PR299-1: Demonstrate mastery of fundamental concepts in a professional field of interest.

PR299-2: Evaluate information from multiple sources to provide solutions to problems in diverse professional contexts.

PR299-3: Develop long- and short-term plans for success in the workplace.

PR299-4: Apply data-driven approaches to making decisions and improving professional practice.

PR299-5: Chosen by faculty and student. *Based on student’s area of study, student works with Faculty Advisor to create a program specific outcome matching their professional area of interest.

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General Education Literacies Addressed in Capstone Course

GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.

GEL-8.03: Apply Critical thinking to formulate a logical solution to a problem.

GEL-2.02: Interpret data as they apply to a discipline specific situation.

GEL-3.01: Use experimental inquiry to inform problem solving.

GEL-4.01: Describe how personal experiences influence workplace culture.

GEL-5.01: Identify examples of human expression in society and culture.

GEL-6.05: Adapt research skills to discover and sort relevant sources to complete tasks.

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OERs and Equity

OERs help create equity in higher education by reducing the high cost of textbooks. Sources such as OpenStax, which launched in 2012, hosts just shy of 30 textbooks that are freely available and openly licensed, meaning anyone can download the content.

According to Williams (2021), “Besides relieving the pressure of students purchasing pricy textbooks, OERs assist in open education, curriculum design, curation and evaluation, and authoring,” (p.1).

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Video on OERs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrHt57wMf7k

Open Educational Resources: What and Why

This video provides a high-level view into what open educational resources (OER) are and why instructors choose to use or create OER. If you wish to develop more openness in your teaching, check out our other videos on Open Education, or our website for more resources.

Source: CTL at University of Alberta (2021, March 1). Open educational resources: What and why [Video file]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrHt57wMf7k.

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OER Resources

University of Pittsburg (2021). OER -Open educational resources: Big list of resources. https://pitt.libguides.com/openeducation/biglist

Campus Technology (2014). 16 OER sites every educator should know.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/07/02/16-oer-sites-every-educator-should-know.aspx

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References