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Contents
  1. Introduction

  2. Land Acknowledgement

  3. Accessibility Statement

  4. I. Digital Teaching and Learning Practices
    1. University of Lethbridge Research Study Invites your Participation: Exploring University Teaching During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    2. Blended Learning

    3. Five Critical Questions around Online Learning

  5. II. The Spectrum of Digital Teaching at the UofL
    1. 'A Stepping Stone' - open resources to support (UofL) educators in their emergency transition to online teaching

      Joerdis Weilandt; Brandy Old; and Kristi Thomas

    2. 'Transforming Traditions' - Integrating H5P interactive videos to learn Spanish grammar

      Dr. Luz Janeth Ospina and Joerdis Weilandt

    3. 'Embracing Open Education' - Honouring Students' Voices: Designing Course Packs for Graduate Level Courses

      Dr. Sandra Dixon and Joerdis Weilandt

    4. 'Open Access to Philosophy' - Philosophy 1000 Open Access Common Textbook Project

      Dr. Katharina Stevens and Dr. Michael Stingl

    5. 'An Enriching Experience' - The adoption of OER websites to introductory Art History classes

      Joerdis Weilandt

    6. 'A Learning Process, with a lot of Misfires and Avenues Explored' - ELI creates a shareable website resource for EAP teachers

      Joerdis Weilandt

    7. 'Make the Web Work for your Courses' - WeBwork question banks to supplement course resources

      Dr. Sean Fitzpatrick and Joerdis Weilandt

    8. List of U of L OER Grant Recipients

    9. ‘We Don’t Teach Content – we Teach People’ – An Education professor on finding the essence of good teaching (online)

      Dr. Lorraine Beaudin and Joerdis Weilandt

    10. ‘A Place for Rich Discussions’ – A Health Sciences professor on his enthusiasm for online teaching

      Dr. Mark Zieber and Joerdis Weilandt

    11. ‘Building the Ship as we Were Setting Sail’ – Interview with Dr. Rebecca Carruthers DenHoed

      Dr. Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed and Joerdis Weilandt

    12. ‘Teaching in Two Worlds’ – a Year into Teaching on the U of L Campus

      Dr. Pei-Chun Hsieh and Joerdis Weilandt

    13. ‘Cutting Edge’ – An online teaching pioneer in the faculty of education

      Dr. Marlo Steed and Joerdis Weilandt

    14. ‘Sparked’ – Chemistry prof writes her own textbooks to fit her courses

      Dr. Ying Zheng; Keith Aiken; and Joerdis Weilandt

    15. ‘Crossing Boundaries’ a conversation with the The Blackfoot Language Resources and Digital Dictionary project team

      Dr. Inge Genee; Rachel Hoof; Mahaliah Peddle; Russell Blaise; Myles Shirakawa; and Joerdis Weilandt

    16. ‘Combinations Proven to Work’ – A MATH prof finds it best to write her own OA book

      Dr. Joy Morris and Joerdis Weilandt

    17. ‘The Magic Pill’ – The Dept of Physics and Astronomy go Openstax

      Dr. Dan Furgason; Dr. Ken Vos; and Joerdis Weilandt

    18. ‘Pair Affordability with Academic Freedom – Open Textbooks for MATH students

      Dr. Sean Fitzpatrick and Joerdis Weilandt

    19. ‘Open the Door’ – A historian’s desire to use primary resources in the classroom

      Dr. Carol Williams and Joerdis Weilandt

  6. III. Resources for UofL Professors and Instructors
    1. Accessibility of Education Toolkit for Educators

    2. Active Lectures

    3. Authoring Open Textbooks

    4. Designing Multiple Choice Questions

    5. Easy H5Peasy: Interactive Teaching with H5P Technology (workshop)

    6. Faculty/ Instructor Guide: Create interactive and reusable online learning activities with H5P

    7. Teaching Diverse Learners

    8. Transitioning an Introductory Linguistics Course to a Fully Online Environment

      Mahaliah Peddle

    9. Hypothes.is for Collaboration

    10. Academic Writing Workshops

  7. IV. Resources for UofL Students
    1. Learning to Learn Online

  8. V. FLO (Facilitating Learning Online) - Series at the UofL
    1. Course Syllabus - FLO Design

    2. Orientation Section

    3. 1. Connecting Learning Theory to Instructional Design

    4. Module 1: Learning Activity 1

    5. Module 1: Lecture

    6. Module 1: Learning Activity 2

    7. 2. Setting Significant Outcomes

    8. Module 2: Learning Activity 1 - Approaches to Setting Outcomes

    9. Module 2: Learning Activity 2

    10. Instructor Feedback on Reflections in Week 2

    11. 3. Designing a Coherent Course

    12. Module 3: Learning Activity 1

    13. Module 3: Learning Activity 2

    14. Instructor Feedback on Drafts

    15. 4. Create your own Online Unit

    16. Module 4: Learning Activity 1 - Quality Criteria for Online Courses

    17. Module 4: Learning Activity 2

    18. Student Submissions: Quality Criteria and Progress Report

      Adriana Monteiro Lima

  9. Appendix

Digital Teaching and Learning at the UofL

‘Make the Web Work for your Courses’ – WeBwork question banks to supplement course resources

Dr. Sean Fitzpatrick and Joerdis Weilandt

Dr. Sean Fitzpatrick is actively promoting Open Education through many of his academic instruction endeavours. One of the projects he was steering last year, in in addition to customizing textbooks and recording open tutorials, was funded through the Open Access Learning resource fund. It allowed for supplementing questions into a homework question bank, that not only matches exactly what Sean teaches in his class, but can also be  accessed by all UofL Calculus I students for free.

See below for the update on the project.

What course is your intended resource for?

Math 1560, Calculus I

How far into the project are you?

Completed, as of August 31, 2018, although there will be some future tinkering.

How did/ does the OA learning resource creation go?

Excellent. The goal was to create a library of online homework problems that correspond to the OER textbook for the course. I was fortunate in that the Math 1560 textbook is a derivative of the APEX Calculus open textbook, and someone else had already created a question bank at another institution.

The existing questions were a little out of date, so most of the work consisted of going through those problems, one by one, updating and improving the code as needed. In a few cases we needed to make problems from scratch for a topic that was not already covered.

Do you have any recommendations for future applicants?

Apply now, before the fund disappears! And be picky about the students you hire.

What is needed to maintain your resource?

Not much. As the resource is used, faculty might discover typos, or bugs in the programming for a particular question. I can make those corrections as they arise. We might supplement with additional questions over time, since there are a few topics where we could use some more questions.

What license will you release/ have you released the resource under? Why?

We did not add a license. This was maybe an oversight. But the problems are written for the WeBWorK homework system and won’t work elsewhere, and most people using WeBWorK are willing to share freely.

Also, most of the problems are derivative works, and I don’t think there was a license included with the problems we based ours on. The license should be up to the original author.

If the resource has been put to use already, what’s the feedback from the instructors/ professors and the students?

I didn’t have any complaints from students! I don’t think we’ve surveyed them specifically on the homework questions.

As the primary user of the resource, I enjoyed having a smaller, targeted set of questions to choose from, instead of the main problem library that comes with WeBWorK. It saves a lot of time to not have to look through hundreds of problems to select a homework set.

Are you planning to measure the impact of the resource somehow?

Oh, probably. But first somebody has to find me some extra time.

Do you consider sharing the resources with the greater OER community in Canada? (BC Campus , for instance, has a repository for academic teaching materials that includes ancillary materials, where your materials could be made accessible)

Everything is already available on GitHub for anyone in the world who wants to use it.

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