How We Teach This: Season Two - Connecting with OER

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Information Literacy User’s Guide: An Open, Online Textbook by Bernnard, Bobish, Bullis, Hecker, Holden, Hosier, Jacobson, and Loney. 2014. Open SUNY. Link: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/190

• Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog by William Badke. 2008 (new edition available 2017). iUniverse.

• Information Now: A Graphic Guide to Student Research by Matt Upson, C. Michael Hall, and Kevin Cannon. 2015. The University of Chicago Press.

• Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Association of College and Research Libraries. 2016. Link: https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework

• EBSCO Faculty Select. Available to all ESU faculty and staff at emporia.edu/library, select "Databases."

• Everyday Leadership by Drew Dudley. 2010. TED. Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership?language=en

Mentioned in this episode:

• EAT (Emporia at the Table) Initiative – www.emporia.edu/eat

• Pressbooks OER Platform – www.pressbooks.org

• ESU Copy Center

“As a student, I struggled at times going to the bookstore at the start of the semester and plopping down hundreds and hundreds of dollars for books - at the end, I sell back at one-tenth the price. As a teacher, that concerns me,” said Dr. Stewart Gardner, from the Department of Biological Sciences at ESU. Stewart shares his experience with using both traditional textbooks and open educational resources and why he prefers one over the other.

Dr. Kevin Rabas and Dr. Amy Sage Webb-Baza, from Emporia State University's Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism, discuss ballroom dancing, their reasons for adding Open Educational Resources (OER) into their creative writing courses, and express gratitude for the many resources available to help them with the transition.

Adapting a course from face-to-face to online is not an easy task. In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Moss from Emporia State University's Department of Psychology discusses how she implemented OER into her course while transitioning her courses online due to the COVID pandemic.

"A lot of my implementation (of OER) comes from using the mathematical community to find some good, open source or free text options. For the classes I'm using it in, I'm making videos to go on top of it. I will look at the material, and I'll (short) create lectures (with captioning)," said Dr. Thomas Mahoney, associate professor in ESU's Mathematics and Economics Department.