13069

13069

General Session - Conference Presentation and Interactive Activity Only (40 minutes, no formal paper)

Alexis McMillan-Clifton, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, Washington, USA, amcmillan-clifton@tacomacc.edu Kristina Young, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, Washington, USA, __kyoung@tacomacc.edu__
 * Open Educational Resources meets Open English Courses **

The move to Open Educational Resources (OER) can be daunting for course developers in the lower divisions, but also offers huge advantages for advancing curriculum and lightening our students’ financial burdens. We are developing a sequence of three composition courses to be taught online, hybrid, or face-to-face for the English department at Tacoma Community College that use OER in place of traditional textbooks, and will share the challenges and rewards that this brings.

//Interactivity // • Guided by a sequence of Q&A activities, as well as providing hands-on application of some classroom techniques like Poll Everywhere, participants in this session will offer one another guidance with strategies for how to implement OER materials. • Participants will discuss the requirements that different kinds of classrooms need to address—what changes when the class is fully online, versus hybrid or face-to-face? • We will contemplate the thorny issues of copyright and ownership in a world where everything’s open to scrutiny and adaptation by others.

Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, All Audiences OER open english textbookless sequenced