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In the connected era, students will be most successful after college if they have a digital presence that promotes their unique abilities and strengths. Online instructors are poised to play a powerful role in the development of our students’ digital footprint. Students aspire to be like their instructors who actively model safe and professional use of digital tools and resources. Effective online teachers understand that engaging students in the web is an important part of becoming digitally literate and, as such, learning is not tied to a textbook.
My personal definition of Digital Citizenship: This evolving phrase is really about who we are, who we want to be, and the lasting impressions that we want to have on others in this ever-growing digital era.
Reflections
Reflections
Where I was.
Where I was.
When I first started teaching online in 2007, I used the traditional publisher textbook and build my course around the ancillary materials. My course was very basic with students reading the textbook, completing the end-of-chapter questions (on a Word document) and timed multiple-choice exams. I had no knowledge of Open Educational Resouces, Creative Commons licensing, accessible documents, or the biased associated with Internet searches.
Where I am.
Where I am.
The Digital Citizenship @One course is one of my favorites (and I have taken all of them)!! I am co-chair of the OER/ZTC Work Group at Saddleback College so I was already aware of Open Educational Resources prior to the course. I was also aware of algorithmic biased, but I had not consider if my students had algorithmic literacy. During the course, I created an Economic Debate discussion prompt that I now use in my current courses (see below).
Where I'm headed.
Where I'm headed.
The idea of non-disposable assignments was a light bulb. For years I required my students to complete work that had no life beyond our course. I am still brainstorming how this would look in my courses. I have already changed my essay assignment from a current event news article analysis to a State of the Economy project. This comprehensive project summarizes all of the knowledge students acquire during the term and provides them a document that they can share with family or friends. BUT, I still feel like it still fits into the "disposable" assignment category. While learning about open pedagogy, I was inspired to have my students write exam questions to add to bank of questions. This has resulted in a handful of awesome questions to add to my bank. I plan to continue utilizing this assignment so continue to build a bank of new questions.
Examples
Examples
I was introduced to Open Educational Resources in 2015 when Lumen Learning approached me to help edit and create content for content they were developing for Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. The idea that students could access course material for FREE was amazing and didn't seem real at first. I worked with Lumen in 2017 to update the content to include discussion prompts and assignments. I am listed as a contributor on both titles.
Question Creation
Question Creation
I am embracing open pedagogy by asking students to create exam questions. This assignment arose due to need - My course had been posted on the plagiarism website, Chegg and cheating was being a huge issue. I needed an entire new bank of questions so I turned to my students! They are very creative and used age-appropriate examples that I would not of thought of.
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