Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness

"A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects."

This is one of the main reasons that I have a blog, which includes my reflections, information about what I've been working on, my CV, etc.

"The BCcampus Open Textbook Toolkit is your starting point on how to change education with just one textbook. It provides a list of our open textbooks, information and guidelines for adopting and assigning an open textbook."

Open textbooks listed by BCcampus OpenED from a variety of disciplines.

"Missouri State University (MSU) has implemented a flipped classroom model for its Introductory Psychology course, resulting in dramatic improvements in student learning outcomes and course completion rates."

Handy tip for clipping to Evernote from an iPad.

"Our aim is to help transform institutional practices and assessment strategies through creative solutions for developing alternative and additional honours and capstone projects to meet the needs of students from different backgrounds, different subjects and different kinds of institution. "

Brief article exploring: 1. What is adaptive learning technology? 2. What can it do in 2013? 3. What are it's limitations in 2013?

The home of free learning from The Open University Creative Commons licensed materials that can be used freely.

Great looking resource with a CC-BY-SA license on it. "In this online resource, the model used for course development is a project team-based structure. The framework still can be used by those who have a "lone ranger" approach to the course development process. All of the resources can be used as they are and are in development, based on the feedback received and ongoing research in the field. You can evaluate/modify your courses using the checklists provided in this module. "

"This guide contains advice on evaluating the services you offer to your users. The focus is primarily on digital/online services but set within the broader context of more traditional services, exploring the relationship between the two."

OpenStax has launched their "working groups" for participants to collaborate on and share resources related to OpenStax textbooks. It's free to take part and you may find something useful (even if it's a connection with a potential collaborator). There are groups for all of the OpenStax textbooks including the two Biology books, Principles of Economics, Introduction to Sociology, two Chemistry books, Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and several other subjects.

There are many gems in this brief piece, including the benefits of giving faculty the chance to fail, as well as a bit of an introduction to the tools Hypothes.is and Scalar.

"Moving from a disposable research essay to a Wikipedia essay carries several benefits: Students gain a sense of confidence in their knowledge by contributing to a source that they know and use. Students trade the audience of one instructor for a broad readership (one of the students this semester revised an article on Japan's military Unit 731 that got more than 70,000 views in just December) Students improve their digital literacy through a better understanding of Wikis a medium. Students learn about source authority, especially the increasingly common semi-anonymous and anonymous web sources which so often fill their bibliographies. Instructors trade a stack of homogenous research papers for a variety of formatted essays. Essays are subject to open-review on the web."

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR), a WikiProject whose objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope. The project scope includes women's biographies (real women, fictional women), women's works (broadly construed, such as their paintings, books, schools, conferences), and women's issues (such as health, activism, and so on). In November 2014, just over 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Since then, we have brought the figure up to 16.78%, as of 1 January 2017. But that means, according to WHGI, only 240,445 of our 1,432,907 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way.

Extensive list of OER via Sacred Heart University.

Produced by the Open Education Group for the Open Textbook Network. Good guide for those interested in getting started on research related to OER.

"These lists and links are harvested from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources list serve (http://cccoer.org ) conversations and a few other sources.  This is a work in progress and will grow as more suggestions come in."

"The Digital Polarization Initiative is an attempt to build student web literacy by having students participating in a broad, cross-institutional projects around issues of digital polarization. The primary purpose of this wiki is to provide a place for students to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in their Twitter and Facebook feeds. It's like a student-driven Snopes, but with a broader focus: we don't aim to just investigate myths, but to provide context and sanity to all the news - from the article about voter fraud to the health piece on a new cancer treatment."

"This site provides practical strategies to address teaching problems across the disciplines. These strategies are firmly grounded in educational research and learning principles."