This Open Ed 2021 title caught my attention: “How To Involve Your Students In The Creation Of Open Resources For Their Own Use.” This 20-minute session was presented by Sarah Stokes, the OER Lab Manage, and Elita Partosoedarso, a professor, both at Ontario Tech University. Partosoedarso began by describing their stimulus for using OERs. In their case, a student mentioned the cost of the textbook. The cost of the textbooks for the anatomy and physiology course was ~$300 Canadian. Partosoedarso expected a comprehensive and consistent text with color diagrams for students and resources such as question banks. Adopting OER came with some student resource issues: Partosoedarso mentioned it was difficult to locate resources for students, for example. The solutions they came up with were student-generated questions and interactive resources. Each topic of the solution they came up with has a FreeQuiz and recorded lectures on YouTube all linked in the learning management system. Students had free access to practice questions and supplementary resources for each unit. For a class of 500, Partosoedarso created “a framework for collective creation of review questions.” The instructions Partosoedarso shared were very clear and students have the opportunity to opt out. I love this transparency and opportunity for every assignment. The rubric they developed is a “specifications-based rubric.” The student sample questions, Partosoedarso mentioned, were useful. Stokes then talked about developing H5P interactions. The learning goals were to create resources for active learning and engagement and provide students with the ability to gauge comprehension. Stokes mentioned that by adding interactivity, learners can check their knowledge and reinforce concepts. Students could retry the activities as many times as they wanted. Stokes also explained how the interactive activities are compiled into an OER resource. Stokes concluded that “Collective Creation of Resources is Possible.” I love the connections between engagement/learning and instructor expectations of what a textbook should include. Students are creating questions and resources that help them and other participants.
