OER 101: Getting Started with Open Educational Resources
- September 19 @ 2:00pm–3:00pm CST
- Online
In this webinar, attendees will be introduced to open educational resources (OER), free and openly licensed materials that you can adapt to fit your course’s needs. In addition to learning OER basics, participants will leave with a greater understanding of how to find, evaluate, and integrate OER into a course. This event will be recorded.
Leveraging OER in Tenure & Promotion: Practical Tips For Faculty
- October 17 @ 3:00pm–4:00pm CST
- 2030 Morrill Hall
Instructors who create or improve OER as part of their professional work deserve to be recognized for their contributions. In this workshop, attendees will learn how they can incorporate the impact and value of their work with OER into promotion and tenure reviews. In addition to being guided through examples from instructors who have already gone through this process, participants will receive tips on how to showcase the quality, impact, and importance of their work with OER.
Are Students Reading the Textbook?: Where Artificial Intelligence and Learning Science Meet
- November 2 @ 10:00am–11:am CST
- Online
Join Dr. Rachel VanCampenhout (VitalSource) for a presentation on research surrounding the effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) within digital textbooks in teaching and learning. The BookShelf CoachMe tool has been implemented and tested in select courses at Iowa State University, and was initiated from VitalSource’s award-winning research on the effectiveness of the “Doer Effect”, a Learn-by-Doing approach based on learning science that improves the overall study experience by helping students discover what they know and where to focus next. The reading and practice data from our study helped us answer the question “Are they reading the book?”