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Using Authentic Assessment to Integrate Current Events Into Courses

Authentic assessments are activities, whether for marks or not, that involve students addressing “real-world” problems in a way that reflects activities they might engage in as a professional in the discipline. Authentic assessments can provide several benefits to both students…

September 15, 2020 in Assessment and Evaluation, General, Open, Remote Teaching, Undergraduate Rearch.

Canvas Commons Opens New Ways to Share Materials With Colleagues, and Beyond

As part of our move to the Canvas LMS, the U of S gains the use of the Canvas Commons. The Canvas website describe it as: Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share…

August 18, 2020 in Canvas, Copyright, Educational Technology, Open, Remote Teaching.

Why Open Educational Practices in Our Context?

In the previous post about open educational practices (OEP) at USask, I explained what they are. In this post, we will explore why so many people are already engaging in OEP, and why you should consider integrating these practices into…

July 28, 2020 in Instructional Strategies, Open, Remote Teaching, Undergraduate Rearch.

What Are Open Educational Practices in Our Context?

We have seen significant growth in the use of open educational resources at the U of S in the past six years. As of this fall, more than a dozen open textbooks have been created or adapted at by instructors…

July 28, 2020 in Instructional Strategies, Open, Remote Teaching, Undergraduate Rearch.

The Benefits of Using OER For Remote Teaching

Open Educational Resources (OER) have experienced a growing popularity at the U of S during the past six years, with more than 6,500 students using open textbooks and other OER instead of commercial textbooks. They’re free to use, easy to…

March 31, 2020 in Open, Remote Teaching.

Online Presentations and Poster Sessions Within Canadian Copyright Guidelines

We’ve had several instructors approach us about how to move their poster sessions and student presentations to a remote (online) environment. After extensive conversations with the Copyright Coordinator, Undergraduate Research Initiative Coordinator, and our Distance Education Unit, we felt it…

March 18, 2020 in Copyright, Open, Remote Teaching.

Online Homework Systems: How to Protect Student Privacy and Keep Materials Costs Down

Online homework systems (OHS) are online tools that can grade questions asked to students as homework, track formative practice, or assess examinations. Students can receive immediate feedback on the activities they complete using an OHS, providing students with a clear…

January 21, 2020 in General, Open.

First-time Thoughts on a Student Blog Assignment

[social_share/] By Yin Liu, Associate Professor, Department of English Why I did it In 2016-2017 I taught, for the first time, a full-year (6 credit unit) English course, “History and Future of the Book,” which is one of our Foundations courses…

September 19, 2017 in Assessment and Evaluation, Educational Technology, Instructional / Course Design, Open.

What’s a Z-Course and How Do I Do That?

[social_share/] As costs for commercial textbooks continue to rise, there has been growing interest at the U of S in open educational resources (OER). OER is not only free to students, but adaptable to make the learning materials appropriate for…

September 12, 2017 in General, Instructional / Course Design, Open.

Putting it All Together

[social_share/] In this blog, I pull together several of the concepts discussed in previous posts, such as Portals and WikiProjects, and consider how you can begin to develop course materials and assignments for a Wikipedia-based course. Let’s say, for example,…

June 21, 2017 in Educational Technology, General, Instructional / Course Design, Instructional Strategies, Open.

Wikipedia’s Ways of Knowing – Part 2

[social_share/] In the first part of this two-part piece, I discussed arborescent (vertical, discrete, hierarchical) and rhizomatic (horizontal, overlapping, interconnected) ways of acquiring and classifying knowledge, as well as the convergence of the arbor and the rhizome in modern knowledge…

May 30, 2017 in Educational Technology, Instructional Strategies, Open.

An Opportunity to Request Open Textbooks You Need

[social_share/] Many of the open textbooks being used at the U of S were found through the BCcampus open textbook repository. If you are interested in switching to an open textbook, but haven’t been able to find one for your…

April 12, 2017 in Open.

Wikipedia’s Ways of Knowing – Part 1

[social_share/] In my previous post, I characterized the subject categories in the Requested articles page as idiosyncratic and mused that they might be better based on the Library of Congress Classification system. As it happens, Wikipedia does map some of…

April 11, 2017 in Educational Technology, Instructional Strategies, Open.

Interested in Funding for your Teaching Innovation? Check out the “Innovative Teaching Showcase”

[social_share/] Sometimes, that example from a peer is just what is needed to help us move from thinking about it to doing it! As part of GMCTL Celebration Week, check out a wide range of teaching and learning projects undertaken…

March 29, 2017 in Curriculum Development, General, Open.

Creating Articles With Wikipedia’s ‘Requested Articles’ Feature

[social_share/] In my previous two posts, I discussed how instructors and students can use WikiProjects to select articles for editing in Wikipedia-based course assignments. In this post, I discuss the creation of new articles, using WikiProject Requested articles (WP:WPRA) as…

March 14, 2017 in Educational Technology, General, Instructional / Course Design, Open.

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