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SUNY's OER Community Course: Multi-path Professional Development

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SUNY/Open SUNY
Thursday, May 30, 2019
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
HUM 2047

Speaker

Ms. Alexis Clifton
interim Director, TLC
SUNY Geneseo

SUNY's OER Community Course: Multi-path Professional Development

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Full Abstract

Faculty, library, and instructional design champions have collaborated through SUNY OER Services to develop a series of open professional development courses about OER and Open Pedagogy. The result is a shared learning journey that allows for individual work on readings, exploration of associated resources, conversation on forum topics, and group collaboration on learning activities. Our OER Community Course stands on the shoulders of excellent professional development resources already available, including content from Tidewater Community College, BC Campus, Open Washington, and Creative Commons.

Our course differs from those before it, however, in key ways:
* participants can dive deep in just the aspects of open that are immediately needed
* participants can participate singly or as a cohort
* participants improve the course as they take it, by completing open pedagogy tasks
* participants can earn Credly badges upon completion

While the immediate audience is SUNY faculty and staff, all source files and facilitation guides are available so that these can be repurposed for other needs.

This presentation will include discussion about the design and implementation of the course, observations during its early iterations, results, and analysis for future improvements. Discussion of attendees' professional development needs will center around how this set of materials, or the model used to develop it, might be adapted to suit other purposes.

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