Instructional Materials
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LEARN: What and Why
In any course, there are key subject matter content concepts and skills that students need to learn. After clearly defining your course learning objectives and key assessments (i.e. how they’ll demonstrate what they’ve learned), the next step is to choose the instructional materials and learning activities that will lead students to achieve the learning goals (Wiggins & McTighe, 2012).
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ENGAGE: How to do it
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- For live, synchronous lectures, Zoom is the platform commonly used.
- Schedule a Zoom meeting and practice Meeting With Your Class in Zoom
- For asynchronous lectures, you can use Echo360 or VoiceThread – which is a more interactive tool that allows for students to comment on and respond to the lecture with text, video, etc.
Open Education Resources
Open Educational Resources are educational materials and tools offered freely for anyone to use and—under some licenses—to re-mix, improve and redistribute. They include:
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APPLY to your course
Review your course, asking yourself:
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- Schedule a Zoom meeting and practice Meeting With Your Class in Zoom
- Request an Echo360 course, download Echo360 Universal Capture, and record a practice session
- Record a practice VoiceThread
- Add Library Reserves to your Canvas course
Explore the OER available on the UMass Library OER Webpage
References & Resources
The Council of Chief State School Officers. 2016, December 4. “What is OER?” William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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