STEFANI ANDERSON, MEDANGIE NAPPER, MA, MS

Designing High-impact Courses with Open Educational

Resources

Roadmap for the Workshop

Brief presentation to lay the groundwork Demonstration of a courseTeam-based activityDiscussion

Setting the Framework

What makes a course “high-impact”? Meaningful, relevant content Alignment to standards Efficient preparation for students Clear goals and ways to measure achievement of the

goalsWhat is a “blended” and “flipped” classroom?

Anant Agarwal video (6:20) Delivery options FERPA considerations

Developing Learning Outcomes

How do you create good learning outcomes? Aligning to/representing standards Appropriate for the intended audience Clarity, measurability

Resources Robert Mager, Preparing Instructional Objectives Dick, Carey, and Carey, Systematic Design of

Instruction Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro, and Lovett, How Learning

Works

Assessing Outcomes

Aligning your outcomes to assessments High-stakes Formative State/National standardized exams Measurable verbs

Open Educational Resources

What are OERs? "OER are teaching, learning, and research resources

that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge." 

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Open Educational Resources OER Commons

Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative

Coursera Creative Commons Thinkfinity Khan Academy

CK-12 Open Course Library Utah State

OpenCourseWare UCET Email UEN Pioneer Library

Open Educational Resources

How do you incorporate OERs effectively? Alignment to and coverage of outcomes Interconnection

Activating prior knowledge Providing opportunities for application Formative data and remediation, if needed

Ensuring students can access and use the OERs Homework versus in-class use

Sample Course

Introduction to Art History

Group Activity

Working in small groups Select a course/module/activity for which you would

like to use OERs Define at least 2 measurable learning outcomes Search online for appropriate OERs

Whole Group Discussion: What were your findings?