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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.
Reflections
Reflections
Where I was.
Where I was.
This is an area I have maintained some interest in for some time. I am fortunate enough to be on the same campus as James Glapa-Grossklag who has been an early and often advocate for open education resources and zero textbook cost courses.
I have also been concerned with my digital presence for some time. The digital presence class affirmed my suspicions and made me even more cautious with my own data but especially with my students data. I also now incorporate it a bit into the content of my social problems course.
Where I am.
Where I am.
I love using twitter to stay active with folks from @one and OER networks!
College of the Canyon's Sociology department has six completed open textbooks. My colleague and I are ever so slowly working on one for our Introduction to Criminology class. In the interim I revised it using ZTC materials even if they're not yet fully open.
I stopped using turnitin on most assignments because of my concerns over student's data and content privacy.
Filter bubbles is another area I am concerned with. I created an assignment to educate students about this dangerous phenomenon.
Lastly, much of my progress in this area has infiltrated into the other stuff as well. For example, I mentioned how I have students submit quiz questions that tap into their own experiences. I also use this as student generated content for quizzes. The questions get dumped into a question bank that the exams draw upon.
Where I'm headed.
Where I'm headed.
While I have participated in some hashtags through @one and maintain some important community connections through twitter (@RGWonser) I have yet to fully get my students involved in this capacity. I plan to incorporate this into an assignment or course at some point.
I'm getting better with licensing and open in general, but I want to really delve deeper into open content generation coauthored with students and openly licensed.
Going forward, I would also like to create an ongoing 'meme bank' that lives on after the course that students can refer back to.
Finally, while I do have some places where students can submit feedback about the course, I want to add some more. One at the end of the course to ensure I'm capturing things for future semesters but one in the middle of the semester as well to adjust as needed in real time.
Examples
Examples
I have been fortunate enough to be part of COC's ZTC and OER efforts. The sociology department has several textbooks we have either authored or edited to meet our needs.
The department and I even received this really cool award for our efforts. I am the current custodian of this gift. It sits proudly in my office.
The college's offerings are available at this link:
https://www.canyons.edu/academics/onlineeducation/ztc/textbooks.php
An Effort to Break Free from Filter Bubbles assignment.docxFilter bubbles is another area I am concerned with. I created an assignment to educate students about this dangerous phenomenon. I think sociology is a perfect discipline to address this phenomenon with. Especially as we enter the full swing of an election year.
I have students submit quiz questions that tap into their own experiences. I am starting to use these as student generated content for quizzes. The questions get dumped into a question bank that the exams draw upon. I'm still gathering them but hope to implement it in the Spring 2020 semester!
I mentioned the social problems assignment where I have students create their own solutions to social problems after conducting some research (consulting the guide about information literacy created by Mike Caulfield). This assignment gives students the chance to interact with one another and learn from one another. It also allows for practice of skills about information literacy and digital citizenship.
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