thinking outside the textbook: using oer grants to fund faculty innovation in teaching and learning
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Thinking Outside the Textbook:
Dr. Maria Gallardo-WilliamsDepartment of Chemistry
Will CrossNCSU Libraries
Using OER grants to fund faculty innovation in teaching and learning
$1,200Per student each year
65%Of students don’t buy
the book
$200,00Saved for students in our
first year
One Size
Doesn’t Fit All
“Teacher -proof”
Your materials
to support your teaching“Teacher at Chalkboard”
© Cybrarian CC-BY
Doing Something
Textbooks Can’t!“Students in Immersion Theater” © North Carolina State University
Grants to . . .• Hire a Graduate Student
• Pay for web design and hosting
• License images
• Pay for your time & expertise
Here to Help:
Anne BurkeUndergraduate
Instruction
Will CrossCopyright & Digital Scholarship Center
Kris AlpiVet Med
Sydney ThompsonAccess & Delivery
Services
Jason CasdenDigital Library
Initiatives
Josephine McRobbie
Libraries Fellow
Madison SullivanLibraries Fellow
Leverage Technology for Innovation
Underserved Communities and
Disciplines
New Ways to Teach and Learn
MICHAEL A. EVANS & DANIELLE BOULDEN
Alt-Textbook Project: Multimedia Design and Apps in
Instruction
Rationale• Graduate students enrolled in this distance
education course are obligated to spend approximately $200.00 on required textbooks
• Traditional, paper-based textbooks cannot fully serve pedagogies underlying the course nor ethos of online, connected, and participatory learning.
Course Context & Goals• Multimedia Design & Apps is a grad-level
distance education course (n=16)• Students are required to incrementally,
iteratively develop a working prototype • Focus more on design principles & practices
as opposed to development• Few resources available that capture design
process & iterative creation of artifacts
Why GitHub? • Engages graduate students in the collaborative writing of an
academic resource that serves well the pedagogy of connected, participatory learning as well as having the potential to reach an audience beyond the course;
• Establishes a precedent for understanding the learning dynamics, assessment challenges, and workflow complexities associated with a crowd-sourced, rigorously-researched scholarly resource in a a higher education setting; and
• Documents and formalizes the tools, processes, and products of academic crowd-sourcing to determine whether the solution could scale and sustain to future iterations of the course.
GitHub Workflow - Backend
• Step 1: Accessing document on Google Doc via Moodle
• Step 2: Running script editor to convert to markdown
• Step 3: Use GitHub Desktop to commit and synch
• Step 4: Use MOU to update readme files
• Step 5: Publish to Github Pages • Step 6: View on GitHub Pages
Next Steps
• Continuing to familiarize ourselves with the workflow for more efficiently publishing case artifacts;
• Make backend database publically available in preparation of next offering of course;
• Establish workflow for contributions from students, understanding potential costs of overhead in terms of class effort.
An alternative to Organic Chemistry Lab Technique Textbooks
Previous textbook: $250Replaced with student-generated video collection on an open access format: $0
S.M.A.R.T.• Student-Made Audiovisuals Reinforcing
Techniques • Short videos created by undergraduate
students to supplement learning in the Organic Chemistry Laboratories.
• Faculty supervision every step of the way
Effectiveness of Student-Generated Video as a Teaching Tool for an Instrumental Technique in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Journal of Chemical Education, 2015Jeremy T. Jordan, Melinda C. Box, Kristen E. Eguren, Thomas A. Parker, Victoria M. Saraldi-Gallardo, Michael I. Wolfe, and
Maria T. Gallardo-Williams
Questions
1. Do you feel prepared to take an infrared spectrum?2. Do you understand each step of the procedure?3. Why is it important to run a background IR?4. What does an IR spectrometer do? Why is it important?5. Handling salt plates requires the use of what safety equipment?6. Why is the above safety requirement important?7. What software is used in this experiment?8. Select the correct set of commands for operating the IR software.
Produces measurable gains in student outcomes
How to get S.M.A.R.T.• Follow the links from the lab e-books• Go to our website:
http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/octl/ • Go to our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr1PT0JducMG1-SP8hpt18A
• Scan the QR codes in any of our lab instruments
Next Steps
Resources & Acknowledgements
• GitHub: https://github.ncsu.edu/ • GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/• MOU (for Mac): http://25.io/mou/ • Google Docs:
https://www.google.com/docs/about/ • Google Script: https://github.com/mangini/
gdocs2md