OER and Open Pedagogy Seminars
Introduction to Open Educational Resources
A fully remote course that combines asynchronous work with synchronous Zoom meetings and workshops. Faculty are introduced to OER, Creative Commons, Student-Driven Learning, Reusable Assignments, and common OER repositories
OER Development Seminar
A workshop for faculty who have participated in the intro course. Faculty develop multiple, student-driven assignments that use OER and principles of Open Pedagogy for a class of their choice.
HUM 300: Landmark Cases
A workshop to support faculty teaching HUM 300 to develop their course in alignment with the course learning objectives. Faculty design assignments that encourage students to draw connections between landmark supreme court cases and the humanities, as well as potential careers in law and justice
Active Learning with OER
A workshop series in which faculty from many disciplines share and create active learning modules that are categorized according to higher and lower tech options. Participants created text, video and audio based modules in which a key concept is broken up into shorter pieces that are punctuated by review questions and activities.
Remixing OER
A workshop series in which faculty from the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences identified existing OERs that they wanted to remix into a new resource for one of their classes. Faculty learned about and brainstormed new ways to simply edit and manipulate open sources, as well as engaging with the subtleties of Creative Commons Licensing.
Flipping the Pyramid: Critical Thinking, AI, & the Bloom Revised Taxonomy Seminar
In this seminar series, faculty read and discuss recent research and practices in AI and critical thinking that advocate for flipping the Bloom pyramid on its pinnacle. Participants share AI tools and applications that have been shown to be both productive and counter-productive in cultivating critical thinking. Faculty become more familiar with the Bloom Revised Taxonomy and share ideas for incorporating critical thinking activities in their courses.
Navigating Challenging Conversations in the Classroom Seminar
A seminar hosted by Criminal Justice professors, Alessandra Early and Nicole McKenna, who discuss strategies they researched and applied for facilitating safe and substantive conversations about potentially challenging or divisive topics.
