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Building From Where Students Are At:
Critical Digital Program Development
Ed Nagelhout
Elisa Cogbill-Seiders
Denise Tillery
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Goals for Our Panel Today
Describe our collaborative efforts to
1. create and maintain flexible curricula
2. gather, develop, and store relevant course-
specific and program-wide assets and open
educational resources
3. more accurately collect, analyze, measure,
and report the data of our learners in our
various courses
3. • How can we best align
course design, project
design, student
competencies, student
outcomes, and program
assessment?
PW Minor: Guiding Question
http://7-themes.com/data_images/out/58/6970065-finding-nemo-dory.jpg
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4. #1: A course is a conversation, not a static
reservoir or receptacle for content.
#2: Education cannot be compulsory. The work
of learning starts with agency.
#3: Best practices are snake oil.
#4: Outcomes should give way to epiphanies.
#5: Learning should not be structured to conform
to assessment mechanisms.
#6: In education, we rise and fall together.
What Critical Digital Pedagogy Can Teach the MOOC: 6 Theses
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Sean Michael Morris
and Jesse Stommel
http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/freire-
made-mooc-open-education-resistance/
6. • How can we best account
for different students with
different skill sets and
different experiences
when they enter the
program, and, more
importantly, when they
enter each course?
Guiding Question
http://7-themes.com/data_images/out/58/6970065-finding-nemo-dory.jpg
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Developing Course and Program Assets
Summer Research Project
1. Determine what kinds of open
access materials were available in
professional, technical, and
scientific writing
2. Create an initial catalog,
organizing the materials in a way
that would allow us to evaluate
the materials as quickly and as
efficiently as possible
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Developing Course and Program Assets
Books / Textbooks
Open Textbook Library
Wikibooks
Google Books
OpenStax College
LibriVox
Scholarpedia
Project Gutenberg
Open Research Online
opensource.com
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Developing Course and Program Assets
Images
Flickr
Multicolor Search Lab
Getty Search Gateway
Pixabay
World Digital Library
Multimedia
Jamendo
Wikimedia Commons
YouTube
HippoCampus
opensource.com
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Developing Course and Program Assets
Coursework/Curricula
The Saylor Academy
OER Commons
The Orange Grove
iTunes U
Multi-purpose
Digital Public Library of America
Public Domain Review
Merlot II
Internet Archive
opensource.com
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Questions to Start the Conversation
1. What happens when we assign a collaborative project
where one student has taken three required courses, one
student has taken one required course and two electives,
one student has taken one elective, and one student has
taken no other courses in the minor?
2. How do we develop assets that are accessible for
undergraduates at all skill levels? Can they improve student
agency? teacher agency?
3. How can we negotiate the tension between achieving
program goals for student-directed learning with some
students’ desires to have courses follow traditional teacher-
directed pedagogies?
23. If you have any questions
/ comments / concerns,
please contact us by
email:
denise.tillery@unlv.edu
ed.nagelhout@unlv.edu
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