/news-archive/tag/open-educational-resources/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:24:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/10/23/open-education-symposium/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:24:14 +0000 /news/?p=72382 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock researchers showcase benefits of using open educational resources in the classroom]]> University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty, staff, and students shared their experiences using open educational resources during the Open Education Southern Symposium held Oct. 1-2 at the University of Arkansas. The symposium, co-sponsored by the University Libraries and Global Campus, connected supporters of open education for presentations, lightning talks, and panel discussions. Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license, meaning they can be used freely. Educational materials like textbooks, curriculum, lecture notes, syllabi, assignments, and tests would be open to the public and could be used by students and faculty without cost. Carol Macheak, research and scholarly communications coordinator, said there is an OER Taskforce on campus that encourages 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty to consider using open educational resources as a replacement for textbooks and/or supplemental readings. 鈥淢any 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students cannot afford to purchase textbooks at the beginning of the semester, which means they are not able to read their assignments for the first 2-4 weeks of class,鈥� Mackeak said. 鈥淥ther students just can’t afford their textbooks, so they do without or they borrow and make copies or they buy an older edition.鈥� Edma Delgado-Solozano, assistant professor of Spanish, and students from the Spanish Introduction to Literature and Cultural Studies Class gave a presentation describing their development of materials for an OER textbook, the Antolog铆a abierta de literatura hispana. Students who participated in this project include Heather Rodriguez, Daisy Vasquez, Nallely Lopez, and Bryana Herrara. The textbook is the brainchild of Julie Ward, assistant professor of Spanish from the University of Oklahoma. The textbook is produced with student-generated content through the development of critical editions of canonical texts from Hispanic literature. The goal of this project is to crowd source entries including introductions, annotations in the text, and discussion questions of important literary texts in the public domain. Additional 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty and staff to present include:

• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Cori Schmidtbauer, instructional designer, 鈥淎pplying Instructional Design Strategies to Incorporate OER and Alternative Textbook Materials into Online Classes鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Robert Belford, professor, 鈥淒eveloping a LibreText and the Application of Hypothes.is Web Annotations to Enhance Student Learning”
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Brian Ray, assistant professor, 鈥淥pen Access, Open Development: Creating Local Educational Resources for First-Year Writing鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Amar Kanekar, assistant professor, 聽鈥淯se of Education Resources in a Quality Matters Certified Community Health Course鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Annie Childers, assistant professor, 鈥淥ER in Online Developmental Mathematics Classrooms鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Jim Vander Putten, assistant professor, 鈥淢ove to Active OER Learning: Applying Bloom鈥檚 Digital Taxonomy in Education鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Cole Williamson, research and scholarly communications librarian, and Carol Macheak, research and scholarly communications coordinator, 鈥淔aculty Incentives to Adopt OER鈥�

]]> /news-archive/2018/05/30/oer-grants/ Wed, 30 May 2018 19:02:39 +0000 /news/?p=70691 ... Open Educational Resources and Alternative Textbook Mini Grant Winners announced]]> Six faculty members have received聽糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Open Educational Resources and Alternative Textbook mini grants. The grants, sponsored by eLearning and Ottenheimer Library, provide up to $1,000 to innovative faculty who plan to integrate open educational resources, affordable course content, and/or open access materials into their online course content during Fall 2018. 聽 Open educational resources are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license, meaning they can be used freely, which can help lower classroom costs. Educational materials like textbooks, curriculum, lecture notes, syllabi, assignments, and tests would be open to the public and could be used by students and faculty without cost. Grant recipients will participate in campus presentations as part of Open Education Week in Spring 2019. Recipients include: Ann Childers, Assistant Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Mathematics and Statistics Amar Kanekar, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator – Health, Human Performance, and Sport Management Denise LeGrand, Senior Instructor and Mathematics Assistance Center Coordinator, Mathematics and Statistics Bennie Prince, Advanced Assistant Professor – Health, Human Performance, and Sport Management Brian Ray, Assistant Professor and Director of Composition, Rhetoric and Writing Daryl Tate, Assistant Professor, School of Education Photo of Ottenheimer Library by Benajamin Krain.]]> /news-archive/2018/03/05/grants-available-faculty-members-using-open-education-resources-online-classes/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:04:08 +0000 /news/?p=69628 ... Grants available for faculty members using open education resources in online classes]]> Grant applications are available for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty members who are helping lower classroom costs by offering alternative textbook material for online classes.聽 Applications for the Open Educational Resources Mini Grant are due March 30. To be considered for the grant, all materials must be uploaded to a Blackboard course shell by April 15. Open educational resources are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license, meaning they can be used freely. Educational materials like textbooks, curriculum, lecture notes, syllabi, assignments, and tests would be open to the public and could be used by students and faculty without cost. Winners of the grant will adopt open educational resources for an existing or new online class. Each winner will receive a grant up to $1,000. Last year, 10 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty members were awarded a total of $9,000 in grants funded by a partnership between the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock offices of Collections and Archives, eLearning, and Scholarly Technology and Resources. They will present their use of open education resources in online learning during Open Education Week March 5-9. For more information, contact Carol Macheak, research and scholarly communications coordinator for Ottenheimer Library, at cimacheak@ualr.edu. ]]> /news-archive/2017/06/16/open-educational-materials-grants/ Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:23:17 +0000 /news/?p=67318 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty members awarded grants for open educational materials]]> Open educational resources are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license, meaning they can be used freely. Educational materials like textbooks, curriculum, lecture notes, syllabi, assignments, and tests would be open to the public and could be used by students and faculty without cost. 鈥淥ur purpose is to provide and promote the use of pedagogical content that will assist online instructors with acquiring exceptional course materials, creative innovative learning through collaboration, promote student retention, and reduce costs,鈥� said Carol Macheak, research and scholarly communications coordinator for Ottenheimer Library. Winners of the will adopt open educational resources for an existing online class. Each professor will receive a grant of $750 or $1,500. Some of the professors will use the grant money to create open educational resources that will replace textbooks in their courses and save their students hundreds of dollars. A total of $9,000 in grants were funded by a partnership between the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock offices of Collections and Archives, eLearning, and Scholarly Technology and Resources. “OER is a growing method to allow students to have direct access to course material during the semester, especially in cases where the book is not available or the student lacks funding,鈥� said Dr. David Montague, director of eLearning. 鈥淭his tremendous student retention oriented collaboration between Collections & Archives and eLearning & STaR promotes discussion on appropriate OER content selection and even provides an Ottenheimer librarian to assist in that process.” The winners include:

• 听听听听听Amar Kanekar, assistant professor and graduate coordinator for the Department of Health Education and Human Performance
• 听听听听听Euchay Ngozi Horsman, assistant professor of rehabilitation counseling
• 听听听听听Bennie Prince, advanced assistant professor in Department of Health, Human Performance, and Sport Management
• 听听听听听LaVerne Bell-Tolliver, associate professor of social work
• 听听听听听Daryl Tate, assistant professor of instructional technology
• 听听听听听James Vander Putten, professor of higher education
• 听听听听听Kamran Iqbal, professor of systems engineering
• 听听听听听Jeff Carmack, assistant professor of nursing
• 听听听听听Neveen Shafeek, assistant professor of sociology
• 听听听听听Andrew Deiser, associate professor of Spanish

Grant winners will also participate in campus presentations, panels, and Open Education Week in spring 2018 to discuss how they have implemented open educational resources into their courses. ]]>