This document summarizes a panel discussion on developing partnerships between academic libraries and open educational resources (OER). The panelists discussed how their institutions partner with faculty to adopt, adapt, and create OER to reduce costs for students. They highlighted challenges like textbook companies pushing back and securing long-term funding. Panelists saw trends in statewide OER initiatives and K-12 adoption of OER. Data showed that OER can save millions for students over several years while maintaining academic outcomes.
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 1Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our first meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
This presentation is delivered regularly with faculty at our institution to discuss the possibilities of open education and open educational resources. I keep this presentation up to date, so please feel free to use it to share open practices and open pedagogy!
Last updated May 2014
Open educational resources: What are they and where do i find them?Amy Castillo
Presented at the Excellence in Teaching 2017 conference on February 10, 2017. Abstract: Have you ever considered using an open textbook in your class? How about open courses, quizzes, lab manuals, or other course materials? Open Educational Resources (OERs) are free and free to reuse resources or course materials that you can repurpose in your classes, including both written and multimedia content. There are OERs available for every subject matter and academic level. Tarleton librarians, Margie Maxfield Huth (Systems Librarian) and Amy Castillo (Periodicals & Electronic Resources Librarian) will discuss what OERs are, and how they can be used in the classroom. They will also show resources for identifying OERs that might be appropriate for use in your classes.
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 2Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our second meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
Trends and issues in open educational resources and massive open online coursesAva Chen
The Internet revolution has facilitated the concept of openness now more than ever. A number of current technologies support the paradigm of modern education in terms of creation, communication, and collaboration. Various open educational learning resources, tools, and pedagogical approaches are used in teaching and learning. Open educational resources (OERs) is one of examples that represent a global phenomenon in an innovation approach that promote unrestricted access as a possible solution for bridging the knowledge divide in higher education. OERs open up opportunities to create, share, and facilitate learning and ethical practice by creating, using, and managing by offering a wider array of educational resources among a greater diversity of global learners. Its trends and movements have become more prominent as not only a phenomenon but as a way of improving the quality of education. OERs alone are not sustainable on their own dimension. It has to combine concepts from different inter-disciplinary areas such as education for sustainable development and business perspectives. Therefore, this seminar focuses on the discussion of current trends, issues, and example of current global practices of OERs and MOOCs.
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 1Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our first meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
This presentation is delivered regularly with faculty at our institution to discuss the possibilities of open education and open educational resources. I keep this presentation up to date, so please feel free to use it to share open practices and open pedagogy!
Last updated May 2014
Open educational resources: What are they and where do i find them?Amy Castillo
Presented at the Excellence in Teaching 2017 conference on February 10, 2017. Abstract: Have you ever considered using an open textbook in your class? How about open courses, quizzes, lab manuals, or other course materials? Open Educational Resources (OERs) are free and free to reuse resources or course materials that you can repurpose in your classes, including both written and multimedia content. There are OERs available for every subject matter and academic level. Tarleton librarians, Margie Maxfield Huth (Systems Librarian) and Amy Castillo (Periodicals & Electronic Resources Librarian) will discuss what OERs are, and how they can be used in the classroom. They will also show resources for identifying OERs that might be appropriate for use in your classes.
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 2Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our second meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
Trends and issues in open educational resources and massive open online coursesAva Chen
The Internet revolution has facilitated the concept of openness now more than ever. A number of current technologies support the paradigm of modern education in terms of creation, communication, and collaboration. Various open educational learning resources, tools, and pedagogical approaches are used in teaching and learning. Open educational resources (OERs) is one of examples that represent a global phenomenon in an innovation approach that promote unrestricted access as a possible solution for bridging the knowledge divide in higher education. OERs open up opportunities to create, share, and facilitate learning and ethical practice by creating, using, and managing by offering a wider array of educational resources among a greater diversity of global learners. Its trends and movements have become more prominent as not only a phenomenon but as a way of improving the quality of education. OERs alone are not sustainable on their own dimension. It has to combine concepts from different inter-disciplinary areas such as education for sustainable development and business perspectives. Therefore, this seminar focuses on the discussion of current trends, issues, and example of current global practices of OERs and MOOCs.
Introduction to Open Educational Resources for New Teachers Michael Paskevicius
Slides presented to new teachers in our Bachelor of Education Program at Vancouver Island University. Provided an overview of the landscape for content creation, fair dealings, public domain, embeddable content, and Creative Commons
Library 2.013 MOOCs and Constructivist LearningValerie Hill
Librarians explore the rise of MOOCs and the need for information literacy in social learning environments. The recording is posted at http://www.library20.com/page/2-013-recordings.
Latest developments in open source educational materials including open textbooks. Special talk given to Douglas College Faculty of Science and Technology at their 2012 Christmas Luncheon.
We celebrated one year of OpenContent at the University of Cape Town in February 2011. This presentation ran at our anniversary event where we gave thanks to all of our open educational resource contributors.
Open Educational Resources:Strategies to enhance Networking and Collaborative...Ramesh C. Sharma
what are open educational resources, OER initiatives in Asian countries and in India. How WikiEducator can be used to create OERs, WikiEducator India chapter, WikiEducator UPE winners
What can Open Access offer me as a teacher?: A guide to Open Access and to ed...Stian Håklev
Presentation given with Clare Brett as part of Master of Teachers Tech Day at OISE, Oct 20 2010.
Abstract: Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER's) are terms being increasingly used in educational circles. There are a lot of free, well-designed and interesting curriculum resources out there for the discerning teacher to find and use in their classroom. This workshop will provide a tour of some of the key locations for finding such resources for k-12 teachers, as well as introducing you to the ideas behind Open Access in general, and a discussion of interesting new directions for lifelong professional development, such as the Peer-to-Peer university. The workshop will consist of introducing you to the terms and resources of Open Access as well as small group discussions on strategies and issues about using these resources in your classroom. This will be an interactive session, where your questions are welcome and will guide the kinds of materials we discuss.
Finding Open Textbooks and CA State OER InitiativeUna Daly
Presented by Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director, at the Mid-Pacific ICT 2013 Conference in San Francisco January 3rd.
The state of California recently adopted legislation to develop open textbooks for the 50 highest enrolled college classes and store them in a statewide repository. The goal of the legislation is expanding access to education by saving students thousands of dollars each year in textbook costs. A key component of this equation is the adoption of open textbooks by the faculty and staff who support students and their learning.
Come to this session to learn more about finding, selecting, and adopting open textbooks and OER to enhance student learning. Case studies from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources will be shared and an invitation to join their open and collaborative Advisory Board will be extended
The Learning Registry: Social networking for open educational resources?Lorna Campbell
This presentation will reflect on Cetis’ involvement with the Learning Registry and JISC’s Learning Registry Node Experiment at Mimas (The JLeRN Experiment), and their application to UKOER initiatives. Initially funded by the US Departments of Education and Defense, the Learning Registry (LR) is an open source network for storing and distributing metadata and curriculum activity and social usage data about learning resources across diverse educational systems.
Introduction to Open Educational Resources for New Teachers Michael Paskevicius
Slides presented to new teachers in our Bachelor of Education Program at Vancouver Island University. Provided an overview of the landscape for content creation, fair dealings, public domain, embeddable content, and Creative Commons
Library 2.013 MOOCs and Constructivist LearningValerie Hill
Librarians explore the rise of MOOCs and the need for information literacy in social learning environments. The recording is posted at http://www.library20.com/page/2-013-recordings.
Latest developments in open source educational materials including open textbooks. Special talk given to Douglas College Faculty of Science and Technology at their 2012 Christmas Luncheon.
We celebrated one year of OpenContent at the University of Cape Town in February 2011. This presentation ran at our anniversary event where we gave thanks to all of our open educational resource contributors.
Open Educational Resources:Strategies to enhance Networking and Collaborative...Ramesh C. Sharma
what are open educational resources, OER initiatives in Asian countries and in India. How WikiEducator can be used to create OERs, WikiEducator India chapter, WikiEducator UPE winners
What can Open Access offer me as a teacher?: A guide to Open Access and to ed...Stian Håklev
Presentation given with Clare Brett as part of Master of Teachers Tech Day at OISE, Oct 20 2010.
Abstract: Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER's) are terms being increasingly used in educational circles. There are a lot of free, well-designed and interesting curriculum resources out there for the discerning teacher to find and use in their classroom. This workshop will provide a tour of some of the key locations for finding such resources for k-12 teachers, as well as introducing you to the ideas behind Open Access in general, and a discussion of interesting new directions for lifelong professional development, such as the Peer-to-Peer university. The workshop will consist of introducing you to the terms and resources of Open Access as well as small group discussions on strategies and issues about using these resources in your classroom. This will be an interactive session, where your questions are welcome and will guide the kinds of materials we discuss.
Finding Open Textbooks and CA State OER InitiativeUna Daly
Presented by Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director, at the Mid-Pacific ICT 2013 Conference in San Francisco January 3rd.
The state of California recently adopted legislation to develop open textbooks for the 50 highest enrolled college classes and store them in a statewide repository. The goal of the legislation is expanding access to education by saving students thousands of dollars each year in textbook costs. A key component of this equation is the adoption of open textbooks by the faculty and staff who support students and their learning.
Come to this session to learn more about finding, selecting, and adopting open textbooks and OER to enhance student learning. Case studies from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources will be shared and an invitation to join their open and collaborative Advisory Board will be extended
The Learning Registry: Social networking for open educational resources?Lorna Campbell
This presentation will reflect on Cetis’ involvement with the Learning Registry and JISC’s Learning Registry Node Experiment at Mimas (The JLeRN Experiment), and their application to UKOER initiatives. Initially funded by the US Departments of Education and Defense, the Learning Registry (LR) is an open source network for storing and distributing metadata and curriculum activity and social usage data about learning resources across diverse educational systems.
Presenters: Erik Christensen, Natural Sciences Department Chair, South Florida State College and Melanie Jackson, eLearning Director, South Florida State College
Description: This presentation will showcase the dramatic benefits to improving student access and success through the integration of a variety of OER Web 2.0 resources into your class. The dramatic cost reduction achieved by replacing traditional textbooks with virtual OER materials, coupled with the ability to integrate a wide variety of other learning resources that can address a range of learning styles, are keys to improving student success. The recent redesign of AST 1002 Descriptive Astronomy at South Florida State College will provide a case study backdrop that will enable participants to get a first-hand view of the effectiveness of each. These tools are all student-friendly, mobile- and BYOD-capable, and many are already familiar with students.
2017 holiday survey: An annual analysis of the peak shopping seasonDeloitte United States
Holiday retail spending is bucking trends this season with only one-third of holiday budgets going toward gifts. Online spending is expected to exceed in-store for the first time. In addition to gifts for others this year, spending on experiences and self-gifting increased. Explore more consumer spending trends in our 32nd annual holiday survey. For more: http://deloi.tt/2yH1VAn.
Open Access Week: College of Du Page KeynoteUna Daly
Open Access Week keynote for In Service Day at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Choose Generation Open: Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources with Una Daly, Community College Director at the Open Education Consortium and Kate Hess, Faculty Librarian, at Kirkwood College, Iowa.
Why Should You Care About Open Educational Resources?Una Daly
OER Grant Opportunities for California Community Colleges
1. AB 798 Textbook Affordability Act of 2015
2. Achieving the Dream's OER Degree Initiative
3. California State Budget Proposal 2016-17 for OER Degrees
Oer Initiatives at SUNY'S Monroe Community CollegeUna Daly
Monroe Community College (MCC) is a regional open education leader expanding access to affordable education and fostering faculty innovation through the adoption of open educational resources and practices. In June 2016, MCC and four other SUNY community colleges (Clinton, Herkimer, Mohawk Valley, and Tompkins Cortland) were awarded a grant as part of Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative. In 2017. The SUNY system was able to provide additional funding for creating OER courses through a statewide grant. Librarians are coordinating the initiatives which include instructional design and project management support for the faculty teams who are building OER courses and a Biology OER degree.
Join us for this webinar to hear from Katie Ghidiu, MCC Interim Library Services Director, who oversees the OER projects and several of the MCC faculty who are participating in the SUNY OER funded efforts. She will share how MCC develops professional development opportunities and provides faculty incentives including release time and stipends to support this important work. She will be joined by Dr. Rollo Fisher, the director of Choral and Vocal Activities, at MCC who created a completely OER Voice Class last year, and is now using SUNY OER funds to create OER for four additional classes.
When: Wednesday, Feb 7th 11am PT/ 2pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Katie Ghidiu: Interim Director of Library Services, Monroe Community College
Dr. Rollo Fisher: Director of Choral and Vocal Activities, Visual and Performing Arts Department, Monroe Community College
OER Workshop for Coastline College Summer InstituteUna Daly
The Who, What, Why, Where, and How of Finding and Adopting High Quality Open Educational Resources
Join us for an interactive workshop on finding and adopting high-quality open educational resources (OER). The cost of a college education continues to rise dramatically and the high price of textbooks has been identified by students as a major barrier to achieving their academic goals.
Hear from faculty in California and other states who have adopted OER to reduce costs for students and enhance teaching and learning. You’ll get a chance to test drive searching for open textbooks in popular OER repositories and gain an understanding of what makes an effective open educational resource. Finally, we’ll brainstorm how to encourage other stakeholders at your college to support successful OER adoptions.
Bring a laptop or tablet and be prepared for some fun teamwork!
Presenter: Una Daly, director Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.
Community College OER Showcases: Washington’s OER Faculty Training and Lane ...Una Daly
Community College OER Showcases: Washington’s OER Faculty Training and Lane College’s OER Faculty Fellowship Program
This webinar starts at 11:00 am (PDT), 2:00 pm (EDT) and will showcase two innovative OER faculty development projects at U.S. community colleges in Washington and Oregon.
• Boyoung Chae, Program Manager of Open Education and eLearning, at the Washington State Board of Community and Technical colleges will demonstrate the public online faculty training course: “How to Use Open Educational Resources”.
• Jen Klaudinyi, Reference and Instruction Librarian, will give an overview of Lane Community College’s award winning faculty professional development initiative that incentivizes instructors to adopt OER.
OTC19: Zero Textbook Cost Degrees - Reducing Equity Gaps or Just Lowering CostsUna Daly
Twenty-six community colleges received Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degree implementation grants from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. Eliminating the cost of textbooks removes a major barrier to student access and learning. Grantees were also interested in how ZTC degree pathways can address the critical issue of student equity. With this in mind, the ZTC Degree Technical Assistance team has developed four major strategies to promote and measure the link between ZTC degree pathways and equity.
• Collect student outcome data for pathway courses and disaggregate by demographics to better understand the effects on all students.
• Develop the ZTC Degree Equity Champion network to provide a community of practice, coursework, and training materials to promote awareness among students and faculty and linkages with student equity and guided pathways initiatives on campus.
• Promote ZTC Degrees through summits, conference events, and marketing materials to drive awareness and build relationships with the statewide academic senate and the other public higher education systems.
• Develop a course that ties Open Educational Resources to Student Equity, and Guided Pathways to ZTC Degrees.
OER and the Economies of Sale - CAMEX 2014Charles Key
Higher education is experiencing a "crisis of cost." Open Educational Resources are positioned to be an important part of the solution. This presentation contains seven reasons that OER are here to stay and challenges campus stores to embrace the opportunity and drive OER adoptions.
Keynote presentation at the Aug 2019 conference, Open Education Texas: Policy, Practice, and Potential confere Focus on recent OER and Zero Textbook Cost Degrees in Texas and California.
A panel of Community College leaders from around the country shared their OER Projects at Lansing Community College's OER Summit Day, Sept 18, 015. Panel was moderated by Una Daly, Director of Community College Consortium for OER.
Speakers:
Jeff Janowick, Lansing Community College
Kari Richards, Lansing Community College
Tina Ulrich, Northwestern Michigan Community College
Preston Davis, Northern Virginia Community College
Quill West, Pierce Community College, WA
Lisa Young, Scottsdale Community College, AZ
Adopting OER for Pathways, Certificates, & CoursesUna Daly
A panel of members from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) will share how they are adopting OER for Pathways, Certificates, and Courses at their colleges. CCCOER was founded in 2007 and now composes over 250 colleges in 22 states and provinces. Members collaborate online regularly and in-person at conferences on best practices for OER adoption. This cross-institutional sharing of open educational resources, open practices, open research, and open policies provides a powerful OER advocacy network for community colleges. New members have immediate access to a community of OER practitioners and experts who can help them launch their projects more efficiently and quickly. Meetups at regional and national conferences provide an opportunity to share and promote successful OER adoption strategies of our members with colleagues throughout higher education. Audience participation will be welcomed.
Our eLearning Panel will be moderated by Una Daly, CCCOER Director and our panelists include:
Cynthia Alexander, Distance Education Coordinator and Faculty at Cerritos College.
Cynthia leads the Online Teacher Certification program at Cerritos College and was an early adopter of OER in her teaching. The Business management department has also been using OER for over 5-years and OER has spread to many other departments through early efforts on the Kaleidoscope project.
Lorah Gough, Director, Distance Education at Houston Community College
Lorah works with faculty to find and adopt OER and is working to highlight OER in the new HCC strategic plan coming out next year. Two OER committees and the library are all strong partners in this effort.
Cheryl Knight, Instructional Designer at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
Cheryl leads the Save 100K project; focused on saving students money so they can concentrate on success. Started with a zero text cost math course and expanded to several disciplines and all 4 campuses in greater Cleveland are now participating.
Jake McBee, Instructional Designer, at North Central Texas College
Jake works on the Rural Information Technology Alliance (RITA) grant, shared by a four-college Texas consortium, building OER-based curriculum for certificates in high-demand information technology areas including networking, mobile apps, and cybersecurity.
Lisa Young, Tri-Chair Maricopa Millions Project;
Faculty Director, Teaching & Learning Center, Scottsdale Community College.
Lisa is tri-chair of the district-wide Maricopa Millions Project started in fall 2013 with the goal of saving $5 Million for students in five years. In two years, they are over 90% to achieving the goals. Maricopa Millions is now planning for zero-textbook pathways in multiple disciplines.
Our eLearning panel moderator will be Una Daly, director of CCCOER.
OER in Repositories and Course Management SystemsUna Daly
Happy Open Access Week 2017! Open Access Week is an international advocacy event meant to highlight the benefits of sharing scholarly and academic work. This year’s theme is “Open in order to …” At CCCOER we are celebrating Open Access Week this month with two organizations that prioritize sharing OER through digital tools.
Join us to hear about how OER repositories and Open Course Management systems can support the development and sharing of OER within colleges and regional consortiums. Our speakers will share how Affordable Learning Georgia and the California Online Education Initiative develop and maintain digital tools to share open course content and academic work.
When: Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 11:00 AM PT (2:00 PM ET)
Featured Speakers:
Jeff Gallant, Program Manager for Affordable Learning Georgia.
Barbara Illowsky, Chief Academic Affairs Officer for the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative (OEI)
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Academic Libraries & Open Educational Resources: Developing Partnerships
1. Academic Libraries &
Open Educational Resources:
Developing Partnerships
ALA Annual Conference
Orlando, FL
Saturday, June 25, 2016
2. Academic Libraries &
Open Educational Resources:
Developing Partnerships
ACRL Program Evaluation
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ALA16ACRLeval
3. Panelists
Heather Blicher
Online Learning Librarian
Northern Virginia
Community College
Extended Learning Institute
Jeremy Smith
Digital Projects Manager in
Scholarly Communication
University of
Massachusetts Amherst
John Shoppert
Director of Library Services
Columbia Gorge
Community College (OR)
Moderator
Robert Kelly
Coordinator of Library
Services
Hutchinson Community
College (KS)
4. Quick Audience Survey
(1)Get out your cell phone (or other mobile device)
(2)Go to Kahoot.it
(3)Type in the game pin
6. “Teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released
under an intellectual property
license that permits their free use
and re-purposing by others.
-William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
8. What makes OER open?
The 5Rs
▷ Retain
▷ Reuse
▷ Revise
▷ Remix
▷ Redistribute
-www.opencontent.org
9. ▷ Free: Free to access online, free to print
▷ Open: Re-use, Revise, Remix, Redistribute
▷ Creative Commons: Free and open allows author
to share with others but retain copyright
What is an Open License?
12. Free vs Open Resources
Cost to
Students
Permissions
To Teachers
& Students
Commercial
Textbooks
Expensive Restrictive
Library
Resources
Free Restrictive
Open
Education
Resources
Free 5Rs
21. Access
Over 10,000 students have completed an OER course
Student Success
9% average increase of student success in OER courses
Affordability
Students saved $1,500,00 since Fall 2013
Outcomes
22. ▷ Achieving the Dream Grant
achievingthedream.org/
▷ OTN Campus Leader Program
(VIVA) vivalib.org/
▷ OER-based General Education
Certificate Program (online)
eli.nvcc.edu/oer/
▷ 2 OER-based Associate of Science
degrees (online) eli.nvcc.edu/oer/
▷ Zx23 Project (VCCS)
edtech.vccs.edu/z-x-23-project/
▷ zELI Open Degree Pathway (online)
lumenlearning.com/partner-nova-zeli/
24. The OEI is a faculty incentive
program that encourages
▷The creation of new teaching materials
and models
▷The use of existing open (free) information
resources
▷The use of library subscription materials
▷The development of open technologies
27. FACULTY SUCCESS STORIES
Carlos Gradil
● Animal Sciences 421: Fundamentals of Reproduction
● Cost Savings to date: $7,680
Miliann Kang
● Women’s Studies 187: Gender, Sexuality and Culture
● Cost Savings to date: $8,475
Hossein Pishro-Nik
● Electrical and Computer Engineering 314: Introduction
to Probability and Random Processes
● Cost Savings to date: $25,833
33. Talk isn’t Cheap, It Takes
Time
▷Administration
▷Faculty
▷Bookstore & Foundation
▷Student Government
▷Outside Media
▷Listservs -
Oerconsortium.org
sparc-liboer@arl.org
35. Student Assessments
Q: Would you take another course
using open resources?
“I loved that I got to use the articles
that we were asked to use, and apply
our knowledge creatively.”
CGCC OER course assessment
36. Build partnerships
OpenOregon.org grants funded -
● Community college collaborations
● K12 / CGCC OER development
● Oregon OER CC coordinator
Oregon HB2871- “The OER bill”
● $1.1 mil. Grant funding for
both 4-year & 2-year
institutions
● Oregon OER coordinator
● Requires designation of OER
classes in schedule
OpenOregon.org
39. OER Challenges
▷Lack of
awareness
▷Faculty: the
second wave
Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher
Education, 2014 is licensed under a CC - BY
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Report available at: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html.
40. OER Challenges
▷Lack of central
location of OER
▷Funding:
sustainability -
OER fee?
“veleta* Quijote y Sancho” by Jacinto Iluch Valero is licensed under a
CC-BY-SA 2.0 Generic License.
42. State-wide Initiatives
Zx23 Project (VA)
A one-year grant-funded
project to support the
Virginia Community College
System’s goal of creating zero
textbook-cost Degrees to be
available at all 23 VCCS
colleges.
OpenOregon.org
▷ Statewide community
college OER program
OR. HB 2781
▷ Funds 2-year & 4-year
college’s OER projects
Massachusetts Go Open
44. OER Trends - K12 OER
● #GoOpen K12 teams will develop a strategy for the
implementation of openly-licensed educational materials.
● Commit to replace at least one high school textbook with openly-
licensed educational materials in the next year.
● Document and share their implementation process.
45. OER Trends - Dept of Labor
Advantages to requiring a CC BY license on DOL-funded resources:
● Increases the impact, reach and scalability of grants
● Creates conditions for maximum potential value created from of all resources it funds, more
efficiency, and better stewardship of public funds
● Public has access to the education resources it funded
● Innovative and entrepreneurial uses of openly licensed materials are enabled
● Resources are available for reuse by anyone
47. 5 year data at UMass Amherst
Total Savings Over Time By College
College # of Students per college Savings per college over time
College of Natural Sciences 4,746 $818,168.50
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 1,248 $155,877.00
College of Humanities & Fine Arts 875 $117,727.00
College of Engineering 739 $133,722.00
College of Education 703 $74,283.00
College of Nursing 117 $15,900.00
Honors College 187 $7,835.00
Stockbridge School of Agriculture 275 $37,058.00
Isenberg School of Management 282 $7,682.25
School of Public Health and Health Sciences 175 $40,779.00
9,347 $1,409,031.75
52. 2016 ALA Annual
Conference Planning Committee
Chair - Robin Brown, Borough of Manhattan CC, CUNY
Lisa Eichholtz, Jefferson Comm & Tech College
Deborah Farber, Casa Loma College
Robert Kelly, Hutchinson CC (KS)
Katie Hoskins, Northern Virginia CC
Stephen Phelan, Maricopa County CC Dist
Ted Chodock, College of Southern Nevada
Cynthia Wetzel, Pearl River CC
Monica Lopez, Cerritos College
MaryAnn Niles, Middlesex CC
Samantha Hines, Missoula College - University of Montana
Ashley McMullin, DePaul University
53. Academic Libraries &
Open Educational Resources:
Developing Partnerships
ACRL Program Evaluation
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ALA16ACRLeval
54. Credits
Special thanks to all the people who made and
released these awesome resources for free:
▷ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
▷ Photographs by Unsplash
Editor's Notes
I will send panel a screen-shot of survey for feedback. HB
Open is important to faculty
Free is important to students