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2024 CRAIG Recipients & Project Overview

• Bethanie O'Dell: English and Modern Languages

  • The creation of this new course will require the instructor, O'Dell, to review the content and direction of these texts as guides for creating a new textbook that introduces creative nonfiction as a written form (memoir), audio form (podcast), and video essay (video). This textbook will be available online in HTML, PDF, and eBook formats, hosted on the ESU Humanities and Social Sciences website, under the Create Writing program. We have a few OER projects already being built in this space so this text would be included there and marked to a wider audience via the ESU website.

• Brian Hollenbeck - Mathematics

  • "My goal for the "textbook" for MA291 can be best described as a collection of three toolkits. They can be categorized as mathematical, technological, and foundational. Specific resources would include lecture notes, classroom activities, homework exercises, and sample project. During the past 20 years I have developed some of these items already, but they are not organized or packaged well. I would like to create and collect all of these materials into a single pdf that could be used by myself and others. If time allows, I would like to create pre-recorded videos and website for easier distribution.

• Cecil Short - School Leadership, Middle and Secondary Teacher Education

  • I plan to create a textbook that directly aligns with the course topics, offering comprehensive coverage of assessment theories and practices. This resource will emphasize not only assessments of learning but also assessments for learning, fostering a deeper understanding of the role that reliable, valid, fair, and usable assessments play in the educational process.

• Eunice Sandoval Roman - English and Modern Languages

  • In the Fall 2023 semester, I started piloting the OER (Open Educational Resouces) text, "Espanol para hablantes nativos: Lenguoje and acci para hablantes nativos: Lenguaje en accion"  for my SA 314A/ZA Spanish Heritage coures in-person and onine. The overall experience of adopting this textbook has been positive and well received by the students for which I am interested in advacing to the next steop of the OER process by replacing my current textbook, "Galeria de Lengua y Culturo" with this OER text. The OER "Espanol para hablantes nativos: Lenguaje en accion" can be accessed online, and it is open for anyone to downlad the PDF version of the textbook.

• Dr. Hannah Kipfer - HPER

  • To replace the current textbook, Strategies for Inclusion (Liberman & Houston-Wilson, 2018), I envision creating a comprehensive digital platform infused with various resources including textbook content, instructional videos, case studies, scholarly articles, and practical activity guides. Thes materials will not be accessible through PDF/A and E-book formats on Canvas. Additionally, I will integrate multimedia elements to encance the learning experience, such as video deonstraition (e.g., how to modify equipment, instruction, etc) and interactive quizzes.
    The proposed resource will be central to the course, as it will cover the core content outlined in the course description, including common disabilities, legislative impact, and the responsibilities of adapted physical education specialists. It will also include practical components, such as lesson planning and assessment, aligning closely with the course learning outcomes.

• Michael Widdersheim - SLIM

  • I plan to create a podcast titled Research Philosophy and Design. This podcast will be posted to Buzzsprout, and it will appear on podcast directories, such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcast. The podcast will be recorded and edited using freely available mic and mixer. Transcripts and supplementary print materials will be posted to Buzzsprout. The trailer has been written (attached). Twenty-five episodes have been planned, and writing has begun on them. SLIM’s doctoral program is online and asynchronous. It part-time. Our students work full-time jobs and have families and other responsibilities. It is challenging to prepare them for the rigors of a dissertation project. Unlike face-to-face programs where students work in labs on site and are deeply involved in research projects, SLIM doctoral students sometimes reach the dissertation stage without research experience and without a firm grasp of what research is. Resources like podcasts offer students the possibility of thinking deeply about research while on the go. Podcasts are free for the students to access, and they engage students in a straightforward and down to earth way in manageable chunks. The podcasts can be streamed from their smartphones or web browsers. I believe a podcast format will reach students better than traditional print resources.