Creating OER: The WHO and the HOW

Open Educational Resources Series, Session 3: Who is developing OERs? Who should be? How are they doing it? How can standards allow OER content interoperability? How can standards assure quality? How can I get started? How can I find the … Read More

Finding and Using OER: The WHERE and the WHEN

Open Educational Resources Series, Session 2: Where can you find quality OERs? Where are they distributed, and where and when should you use them? Are they easy to find? What kind of standards (quality, accessibility, licensing) are relevant and why … Read More

Defining OER: The WHAT and the WHY

Open Educational Resources Series, Session 1: What is an Open Educational Resource? Why is the OER movement growing in popularity so quickly? Why would you want to use or create OER materials? How do you license OER materials? In the … Read More

Lesson Plans, Multimedia Content and Interactive Whiteboards

At Shenandoah University, students in teacher education preparation programs are learning to create lesson content that are given to large and small groups of children on interactive whiteboards such as Smart Technologies’ Smartboard and Promethean’s ActivBoard. To create this content … Read More

Creating Clinical Case-based Activities/Lessons from a Template

The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio is using case-based learning activities to attempt to improve student satisfaction and learning outcomes for nearly-graduated medical students. Traditionally faculty distribute case scenarios in a handout-lecture-question/answer cycle. They have wanted and … Read More

MISSION SoftChalk: Secret Agents, Online Gaming and SoftChalk Training

Canisius College wanted to come up with an innovative, engaging, and custom way to train faculty to use SoftChalk. MISSION SoftChalk is based on the popular online game, Urgent Evoke. Participants enroll as agents and have to complete a series … Read More